- Publisher: The Adventure Company
- Release Date: Jul 25, 2003
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If you love a good mystery and want to feel your skin crawl, Dark Fall is your game.
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It won't change the way adventure games are designed, like Myst did, but it is gripping and well-crafted.
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A very well-designed ghost story from a very promising developer, and well worth the purchase for suspense and first-person fans.
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Does a great job in captivating its audience in a rich storyline and direful locales. However, with its slow-paced game play and unpolished effects, it fails in its attempt to raise adventure PNCs from the grave.
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Computer Games MagazineDelivers good, slow-boil tension wrapped around an interesting mystery in an atmospheric setting. [Dec 2003, p.95]
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Eschews the normal audiovisual glitz in favor of something truly rare in computer games: a deep and compelling story that is worthy of a good novel.
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It's driven by the sort of maddening adventure game logic that had a hand in killing the genre. But there's no denying this is part of what defined the genre: clever (and often implausible) solutions from some weird corner of the brain most of us never exercise.
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Breaks no new ground and puts too much emphasis on puzzles, but its meticulously detailed world and paranormal detective story generally keep things entertaining.
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PC GamerHardcore adventurers will undoubtedly seek out Dark Fall, if only for the atmospheric journey. No surprise there - nor is there any in the game. [Nov 2003, p.119]
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Most of today's crop of gamers will be left disappointed by the point and click game play, static environments, and the overwhelming amount of text to read.
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The crucial fear-factor is missing, the sense of fight, flee or die that makes survival horror so effective.
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Cheat Code CentralIt's full of puzzles, investigations, exploration and the supernatural but there's a lot less action in it than you would expect for an action game.
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The repetitiveness of the locations is where it falls apart. The audio doesn't have any excuse however but is in desperate need of one. The sound effects are low quality and even distract from the game.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 24
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Mixed: 10 out of 24
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Negative: 5 out of 24
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JeffT.Sep 7, 2003Beautifully woven narrative, evocative sound and atmosphere combine to make this a true adventure gamers feast. Made by ONE person, pure genius.
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BradG.Apr 20, 2005
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