Jack the Ripper - Letters from Hell

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  1. slider1983
    Mar 22, 2020
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    It’s 1888 and ambitious London journalist John Bert needs a new story to help his flagging newspaper. Bert hits upon the idea of following theIt’s 1888 and ambitious London journalist John Bert needs a new story to help his flagging newspaper. Bert hits upon the idea of following the trail of infamous serial killer Jack the Ripper who has been terrorising women in Whitechapel. Faking letters from the Ripper in order to get interest in his newspaper Bert soon realises he’s done his job a little too well when he becomes the main suspect in all the murders! Help clear Bert’s name before Scotland Yard arrest him or worse...the killer himself arrives to make Bert his next victim...

    With a title called Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell (2009) you’d expect to be playing an interesting HOG. Like Frankenstein: The Dismembered Bride (2009) developers Mzone Studio and Solilab however use a famous character without any care or ambition. The game is over before it begins; that is if you can get through finding/clicking badly coded items and nonsense puzzles which include clicking twenty sheep on screen or putting a long list of graffiti back on walls in the order you took them off a couple of puzzles before. Try to put a camera tripod together in a shadow; one false click and you start again. Or take part in the police constable’s memory questions which if answered incorrectly could land you in jail, that’s as fun as it gets folks. Even if you take into account how stupid someone would have to be to fake being a serial killer the awful puzzles and badly animated hidden object scenes pretty much kill the whole game right away. Like Frankenstein this game also got an Extended Edition which while obviously extending the game length does nothing to make it any more fun. I mean the game’s developers still couldn’t be bothered to deliver an ending. It’s just sad as the developers took an interesting piece of history and botched it.

    Letters from Hell is an unfinished, rough mess. It’s got an interesting concept and a thrilling history badly handled. It’s a game that is both extremely short and lacking any ambition. The whole game just feels half-hearted and any attempt to engage with the infuriating gameplay makes it a chore to sit through. Did the developers just not care? Someone tell Jack I’ve found a new means of torture.    … Full Review »