This is an adventure game with exploration added to the mix. Meaning, aside from puzzle solving, a great deal of the game is finding your way and explore hidden sections to collect non-essential collectibles, the shards being the most important as it leads to a handy feature - which I won't reveal.
As you progress the storyline unfold itself via animations without dialogue (cool done)This is an adventure game with exploration added to the mix. Meaning, aside from puzzle solving, a great deal of the game is finding your way and explore hidden sections to collect non-essential collectibles, the shards being the most important as it leads to a handy feature - which I won't reveal.
As you progress the storyline unfold itself via animations without dialogue (cool done) and paintings depicting the history of the lost civilization you are exploring. The puzzles you solve usually gains you more shards, which together they form a glass door which will lead to said handy feature. The puzzles are fairly easy actually. Some require more time than the other, but you don't need cheats to be honest.
You do need cheats though (walkthrough) to find hidden objects. It's kinda annoying. I never liked the good old "pixel-hunting" adventure games and I don't like hidden hard-to find spots to find one or the other object. I'm in it for the intellectual challenge combined with enjoying a story. I'm the person who totally absorbs a storyline in games like these.
A final criticism, aside from the hard-to-find exploration part, is the graphics. Though pretty for sure, it's not optimized at all. My GTX 680 handles it well, but the programming is obviously not optimal. For example there's a little lag and on high end cards 60 FPS is still not reachable for all. Also, the game isn't good at preloading. AS soon as you walk around the hard-disk gets busy. I mean it's rattling like a maniac until you stand still. This game is not good for your HDD lifespan. That's for sure.
So performance and the exploration part are bad, the somewhat simple puzzles, though so much fun, are a bit easy and I wouldn't mind more of them with more inspiring rewards. But there's compelling good stuff in it: the story-telling is beautiful, the puzzles are more accessible to more high-school level students but aren't insultingly simple (some are lol). The environment is beautiful as well and the music is spot on: the music is calm and kicks in when needed. There isn't useless artsy noise going on all the time.… Expand
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