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Summary: Entertaining
Review: I really liked this game. It took pleanty of time to play and the locations and graphics were good. The game got bogged down sometimes on how many times you had to go away and come back to the same person to move on, but all and all it was worth the time and effort. I hated the ending and really felt ripped off after investing alot of time into the main character I wanted some kind of redemption and continuation of the Gordon family line without the curse. I would have rated it higher if we found out why and how some of the people were killed and if the ending was better.
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Summary: very LONG game with a great story
Review: I really liked this game. The story is one of the best. Most of the time you just don't know what could be happening, so you want to keep playing for hours and hours. First, it took a long long time. I ususally finish the games so quickly, that it's not even worth buying them. But you do have to be very patient with this game. This is a plus for me. The ending was not as bad as many of the reviewers have said it was. I thought Syberia 2's ending explained A LOT LESS than this game's ending. The graphics are great, and the weather in the game is extremely realistic. Defiately buy this game. The only negative thing is that there is a lot of pixel hunting and long conversations, but it adds to the game.
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Summary: Great Story
Review: I really liked this game. The graphics and music are great. SOme of the movements are alittle slow going. Some of the puzzles are challenging, but not too challenging. I dont think you will need any hints or walkthroughs in this game, it is pretty easy to figure out what to do next. Fans of Syberia and The Longest Journey will really enjoy this. I think the playability is easy, and the interface is easy as well. I loved it. I dont think it has a great replay value, but the game is a decent length. It has 6 chapters and I would say approximatley 30 hours of game time. All in all I would highly recommend it. IF you are a fan of this type of game this one is for you!!!
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Summary: Absolutely BRIALLIANT!
Review: I simply dont understand the people who havent enjoyed this game. Simply for the fact that its one of the BEST adventure games to come out with counterparts like Longest Journey and Syberia.
If one is a True adventure game genre fan i cannot possibly conceive of why the game was not liked? Beautiful, relaistic graphics,Good music, excellent and not unsolvable puzzles and a terrific climax!!The game delivers much more than it promises!
I wish that many more of such games are made to keep up the adventure game genre alive.
If i had to give 6 stars i de think they werent enough for this game!Try it guys, its one helluva great game!
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Summary: Sounds better then it is
Review: I started playing the game, it seemed to me like it was dragging on and I got bored, with the storyline. There was nothing to keep me interested in this game.
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Summary: I found this game boring
Review: I waited so long for this game and was let down. You constantly have to go back and forth in the game for no reason, other than to waste time. The narrative is so lengthy I found myself skipping through it and the puzzles were not that challenging. I am looking forward to Cypher and hope it is not as disappointing.
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Summary: An entertaining diversion
Review: I'd have to say that I really enjoyed playing this game despite some flaws. The graphics are really well done even though it is raining through the entire second half of the game. It took me about four days to play this game (maybe four to six hours at a time) so you don't feel let down that the game is too short. It's pretty morbid with lots of dead bodies, a decapitation and a suicide. I'd have to say it's the first time I've seen a character vomit (well you don't actually SEE it) in a computer game. There are numerous locales, characters to interrogate and secret passageways to explore. Your character spends a lot of time in cemeteries and a morgue. There are also (unfortunately) plenty of situations where the main character can be killed off - SAVE OFTEN.Here's what I didn't like - the dialogue is somewhat stilted. It seems to take a lot of time for the characters to say their spiel and there is quite a bit of dialogue (but nothing on the scale of the Longest Journey). Even though the graphics are really well done, the actual characters are always seen from a distance so you never see their faces. This makes them seem a little wooden. Another problem is that you sometimes have to wait around to get a character to give you information that you asked for. Your character has to wander around and return at least two or three times before the other character has the info available. This seems quite a waste of time. The other problem is that some items need to be left-clicked on and others need to be right-clicked on. There's no rhyme or reason to this. There are probably a dozen or so puzzles and some of them really had me going for a while. Hate to say it but there's a slider puzzle and a maze but neither are too bad. All the puzzles are part of the storyline and not just tacked on as an afterthought. I would definitely recommend this game (after you get done playing Syberia II!)
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Summary: Tedious and too wordy.
Review: I'll admit right now that I didn't finish this game and that is part of the reason I regard it so poorly. The truth is that I just wasn't interested in the characters or the story. Also I think that the game is poorly designed and one point there was no way to continue. I had to get save from further on from a cheat site. Gloomy sets, morbid characters, no jokes and no female under 60. No thanks.
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Summary: wonderful escapism -- but nor for must people
Review: If you hated Myst, you'll hate this game even more. If you wish to escape into a land of ancient castles, full of decayed splendour, where everyone speaks with a brittish accent, then this game is wonderful -- despite it's flaws. I just look stood there and looked at the sceenery at first, and didn't mind when characters told me to "come back later" and i had nothing to do -- i just looked at the rooms and wished i could live in them.
In most games it gets annoying walking around the same places over and over, saying the same things to the same people. not here, for two reasons: one, you can't click on something twice or pick the same non-essential converstaion topic twice. Only the needed things remain click-able. and two, it is a pleasure to walk around here.
But other than that, it's not really a *game* as such. more of an interactive movie, or something. I wasn't able to hurry things up at all when i figured out something Samuel didn't. Puzzles that could have been hard wern't, because they included hints next to them, and the puzzles that *were* hard were stupid -- like to get a guy's keys you have to distract him and he just happnes to leave the keys in the door. Like that would ever work!
And the ending, gloomy and fitting as it was, didn't explain *anything*. Most of the "mystery" you go around trying to solve does not get solved, which is a bit annoying. But what really gets me is that I don't know why my character performed the black mass and what he had hoped to accomplish with it or anything! I did notice that there was an eerie green light associated with the evil brother -- that fact never actually got used in the game past a certian point. Also this big thing full of symbols in the castle flanked by 2 green lights never got used iether -- save for the character to remark on that the symbols are familiar. I was certian that thing was going to turn and open to reveal something visually stunning! But no.
It's as if the head writer of this game quit (or met some dreadful end?) in the middle of making this game so they never made it like it was supposed to be made! Either that, or it is a deliberate cliff-hanger -- in which case i really hope the sequel explains all that really cool but rather pointless occult stuff my character had to go through.
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Summary: Intriguing; a Milder Terror than Dark Fall
Review: In the eternal wait for Syberia II to emerge from its deep hibernation in Dreamcatcher land, I researched and indulged in the new games Dark Fall and Black Mirror. I liked Necronomicon (although I cheated my way through the alchemy bit), so I thought either of these two would work for me. Dark Fall is great, but my nerves are too bad to be scared out of my chair every 2 seconds. Black Mirror provided a a slightly less nervewracking ambience, and thus something I felt a little more comfortable sinking into and getting lost in. Samuel Gordon is a late 20th century descendant of the landed British aristocracy. To that end, he is a little bit of a jerk, but not annoyingly so. I kind of like his aristocratic, mysterious way. Not that I'm an imperialist--under ordinary circumstances this kind of story might irk the flip out of me. But I think this game is at least partially aware of the problematic notion of the landed aristocracy. The wealth that is represented in the game is decaying; the castles are in disrepair and the Gordon family seems almost anachronistic. That Samuel left Black Manor 12 years before attests to his at least marginal disregard for the privilege. But he still acts like an aristocratic jerk sometimes. Because the game doesn't make him a flawless hero, I like it. Samuel comes from, not surprisingly, a long line of Anglo Gordons. His grandfather has just died, under less than auspicious circumstances. Samuel's departure from Black Mirror Manor 12 years before is as well under less than auspicious circumstances. Upon returning to the Manor for his grandfather's funeral, Samuel discovers that his grandfather, William Gordon, had been on the verge of uncovering a deep, longstanding curse on the Gordon line. Samuel will pick up the trail of his grandfather's research; you will spend the majority of your time tracking down this curse. The game is 3rd person, which is personally my favorite. While I believe it important to identify with the main character, I think the storyline is preserved more successfully if the player can see the character with which she is identifying. Samuel is a British Johnny-Depp looking 30-something man, which doubtless lends something to his appeal. Some reviews have commented negatively on the voice acting in Black Mirror. There is some room for improvement, I would agree. But I have heard much worse--Watchmaker, for instance takes the award for the all time worst voice acting. Black Mirror's voice acting is credible and engaging enough. Samuel sometimes sounds like a bit of a dweeb, but this is mainly, I think, because he has to think out loud for the player's benefit. The sound ambience is delightful, and the graphics are crisp, clean, and rich. The pace of the game is somewhat slow, but this is what I was looking for, after the flatlining I did playing Dark Fall. If you prefer a bit more pace and bit more adrenaline, Black Mirror may not be the game for you. The puzzles are durable--they're not especially hard, but they are not especially easy, either. I got stuck in pixel hunting some, and did find a nice walkthrough for a few spots. There is a good deal of inventory work, but it makes sense on the whole. If you're looking for a game that permits of the "I haven't moved my arms and legs in several hours so now I can't feel them" experience, Black Mirror may satisfy. It's got several chapters, and it is easy to get lost in it without getting terribly frustrated. Be warned, though, that there are a few spots with timed puzzles; if you don't figure it out in time you'll get a cut scene panning across Samuel's grave marker. These aren't terribly frequent, and they aren't usually a terrible surprise if you've saved your game fairly often. I recommend Black Mirror for its storyline, pace, graphics, and sound. It kept me happily occupied while I wait for Syberia 2.
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