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Your Standard adventure game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It worked on my notebook, despite its 32MB graphics card, so that was nice.
The game did indeed have an island, and I suppose you could call it mysterious. It also had monkeys which is always a plus in my book, and a female lead character (another plus). The story line was pretty good, but there was a bit of "hunt and click".
So, if you're looking for a standard computer game (first person like Myst), this one is fair.

A Decent Game But That Is All

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

You know the drill. Alone on an island, you search for/find/collect/combine/make things. That is the essence of the game. The challenge is to use your ingenuity to cope with your present circumstance. There are only two action sequences in the game. Both are arcade games. The first sequence you can and should ignore. It is a tedious waste of time. There is another way. The second sequence is essential to the game.

As you would expect, this is an inventory game. When I finished the game, I had over 50 items in inventory. This is due to the fact that redundancy is built into the game. At the beginning of the game, the screen displays a "health meter." You must find water and sufficient food to restore you to full health. You will have no problem finding more than enough food. What is left over remains in inventory. If you are dilligent in finding things, you will have enough items in inventory to solve several problems in more than one way. When the problem is solved, the other items remain in inventory. I never found a way to organize the inventory. There are simply too many items, and you are always discovering new ones.

This is not a puzzle game. Rather, there are problems to be solved. There is only one puzzle during the game. You can obviate solving this puzzle with your inventory. The important puzzles are stacked at the end of the game. There is redundancy here also.

The graphics are quite good and sufficiently detailed that it is not difficult to find things. I can remember only two instances where pixel hunting was required.

Those of you who are scientifically challenged will find a few rough patches. Scientific purists, on the other hand, will object to several features in the game such as a Maple tree in Fall color on an island with Palm trees.

All in all, "Return To Mysterious Island" is a game that will keep you interested, but it is not a game that you simply must keep playing.

Smart game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Return to Mysterious is a definite step up in quality gameplay from others I've recently finished--the action is totally non-linear (everything takes place on a small island) and there are multiple ways to solve every puzzle. Players can earn points for creativity and style, which makes the game replayable if you want to shoot for a higher score.

The reason for my deducting a star is because 99% of the solutions are based on finding and combining (and recombining) inventory items in novel ways to "build" something. OK, that's fine for a few puzzles and I appreciate the amount of thought the developers put into the game, but after a while it began to feel like a long (very long) IQ test. I don't care how gunpowder is made, I don't know how to make cakes out of birds eggs.

I was almost happy to see a slider puzzle.

What an Adventure Game Should Be

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Return to Mysterious Island is an interactive adventure game about a women who ends up shipwrecked on an island and must find a way off.

FUN and NON-LINEAR!
The best feature of this game is that it is completely non-linear. You can play the game in any order and there are several different ways to solve problems. This allows the player more creativity. The puzzles range from easy to challenging and I am sure there are still some things I did not figure to do the first time I played!

GRAPHICS/MUSIC
The graphics are pretty good, though most of the action is seen in cartoon drawings rather than in actual action. The music is decent too.

This is a great game for Adventure game for adventure game lovers!

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The best thing about this game is the way you can combine objects to make new ones. Then you can take them apart again to make a different object.The Adventure Company RETOMYSTISLAND Return To Mysterious Island [windows 98/me/2000/xp]

Excellent

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I personally found this game to be the most fun Adventure Game I have played, and believe me, I've played alot of them.

My favorite aspect of this game is the inventory interaction. Having to combined items to make other items was more fun than playing the actual game. I hope there is a sequel!!!!

Not what I expected

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I found the game somewhat boring and hard to follow. It was frustrating not being able to do things with the multiple tools I had in my inventory. While this is not my type of game, people interested in assembling things and making "experiments" might enjoy it.

Great fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm an adventure game junkie. I didn't know exactly what to expect with RTMI, but I have to say I was pleasantly surprised from the start.

The game has many variants in play options, so the replay value is high. As a matter of fact, as soon as I finished it the first time I started over again just so that I could try some other approaches to problem solving (and trying to maximize my bonus points).

The inventory system is great - which is important in this game as you'll be spending quite a bit of time there. The obvious puzzle style puzzles were engaging, although not difficult. The true challenge in this game is simply being as resourceful as possible.

Well rendered, lovely to look at and easy to move around in, my only complaint is that the game does seem short. (Of course, I always feel that way about really fun games!) That's truly offset by the fact that you can play it differently time and time again, however.

Absolutely Fabulous

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Terrific graphics, easy navigation, challenging variety of puzzles. My only complaint was that it wasn't long enough!

Fun game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Overall a good game. You will occasionally need to refer to a walkthrough (You can find one that some kind soul posted free online by Googleing the title of a game and "walkthrough".) However, almost all adventure/puzzle games are like this. Either you periodically refer to a walkthrough, or you get frustrated at some point where you are stuck and shelve the game.

Nice graphics. Some of the cutscenes are very simple, comic-book like drawings with sound. This sounds cheap, and I am sure it saved a lot of programming time as compared to computer animations, but it is really quite enjoyable. In fact, I think I liked it better than animated cutscenes!

Overall, a good game. I wish they had more adventure games like this. No blabbing, droning dialog that goes on forever. No endless reading of volumous diaries. Just problem solving and exploration.

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