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$10 off Sherlock Holmes - The Awakened on Steam
- Thread starter Hazelnut
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Shagnak
Shagadelic
Yeah, I was tempted. But I resisted.
I liked what I saw of the demo, seemed to be building to something nicely atmospheric, but then I gave myself a reality check and realised it would just join the long list of games I no longer have the time to finish.
Did you get it?
Anyway, it gets discussed a little in that Recommend and Adventure Game thread.
I liked what I saw of the demo, seemed to be building to something nicely atmospheric, but then I gave myself a reality check and realised it would just join the long list of games I no longer have the time to finish.
Did you get it?
Anyway, it gets discussed a little in that Recommend and Adventure Game thread.
Uz0rnaem
Scholar
- Joined
- Jan 12, 2006
- Messages
- 308
I have it. Didn't progress very far though. The game's minor flaws eventually formed one giant pile of annoyance, which I couldn't overlook anymore, so I just gave up. You walk too slow, you can't skip conversations, way too many events and seemingly logical actions rely on unrelated triggers and the laboratory minigames are just badly designed, with drawn out, non-skippable animations.
If you really enjoy the game's atmosphere, I guess you could ignore all of this and still have fun, but there was just too much wrong for me.
If you really enjoy the game's atmosphere, I guess you could ignore all of this and still have fun, but there was just too much wrong for me.
Looks pretty generic to me.
http://www.adventuregamers.com/article/id,730/
The Bad: Dull and lifeless environments; weak Cthulhu elements; predictable plot that stops feeling mysterious two hours into the game.
Yeah thats what I thought. Another one of those games that only gets a pass due to the low amount of adventures worth playing.
http://www.adventuregamers.com/article/id,730/
The Bad: Dull and lifeless environments; weak Cthulhu elements; predictable plot that stops feeling mysterious two hours into the game.
Yeah thats what I thought. Another one of those games that only gets a pass due to the low amount of adventures worth playing.
Uz0rnaem
Scholar
- Joined
- Jan 12, 2006
- Messages
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I don't think you can actually skip the animations in the lab (you know, the chemistry minigame thing). Neither ESC, nor the action keys did anything. But feel free to correct me, if I just missed something there.
I know these are only minor annoyances, but as I said, there are just way too many of them. I didn't even mention the sometimes laughably exaggerated voice acting, the documents in your inventory, with their tiny, unreadable font, or the awkwardly implemented text parser bullshit.
I know these are only minor annoyances, but as I said, there are just way too many of them. I didn't even mention the sometimes laughably exaggerated voice acting, the documents in your inventory, with their tiny, unreadable font, or the awkwardly implemented text parser bullshit.
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