Just finished this, p. cool overall, but not without problems, definitely.
What I liked:
- The graphixxx. Those backgrounds were really fucking great, the storyboard cutscenes were coolio as well.
- The story is p. gripping and going through it is enjoyable. Unfortunately the 'main culprit' is pretty obvious for a longer while, I'd say, although his motive stays mostly unclear.
- Good music at times, although forgettable at others.
- It never spirals into any ridiculously corny romance between Sam and Styles, despite the premise being good ground for it (thank God).
- Cool scientific/paranormal dichotomy that makes you wonder till the end wtf is actually going on.
- Cool idea with the Daedalus Club rebuses.
- Rabbit.
What sukd:
- Rushed ending. The game never really dragged out and another chapter would have been really cool, especially if it could omit I BELIEVE I CAN FLAAAAAAAAAH
- The magic tricks are a neat gimmick, but only that, a gimmick. They are hardly 'puzzles' or anything, considering that to perform each one you just follow instructions from the book.
- The chapters with Styles and their lack of obviously set goals. In almost every chapter I'd get stuck for a longer while and run around all the levels trying to click on EVERYTHING because action x would trigger previously unimportant item y to action ("OCTOBER 21 STUDENT, DAVID!!!!", poof! A small diary that is only described as 'that's old' suddenly becomes usable. Same thing with the damned computor showing the weird brian activity, and some more others).
- Too easy all in all, only times I got stuck and had to check a walkthrough was in situations related to the previous point. All the puzzles and stuffies were pretty obvious, most of them from the getgo. Only a couple needed some extended fiddling. Although I can appreciate that they were all very logical.
But all in all it was pretty cool and well worth the 15 potato dollars I paid for it