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Great point and click puzzle game with a good story.
Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood is a great point and click adventure game and the first I ever played that lasted an impression on me.
You enter a strange park called Ravenwood, where all sorts of strange and unusual things take place. Right at the start, you see a camper with strange claw marks on it, indicating that some beast or monster is lurking somewhere in the park. You discover that some sort of weird preacher dude is behind the mysterious events in the park and decide to investigate it. On your research, many horror elements and plot twists surprise you and the overall composition of the story is just great.
The game also includes a little bonus adventure called The Redeemed Memories, which is a little prequel story followed by the main game and its adventure.
This is one of the many great games from Artifex Mundi. It is also the first I ever played, followed by Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride and Nightmares from the Deep 3: Davy Jones. This installment in the series remains my favorite because of the dark and horror like atmosphere the game has. The other games have some sort of rescue mission, while this one focuses on solving a mystery and keeping you in the dark (and mist) most of the time.
Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood plays the same as other Artifex Mundi games. You follow the story, discover hidden items that you can use to create tools or to open mechanisms, find objects in hidden-object puzzles and try to figure out where to go to next. You got many areas to visit, each with their own obstacles, puzzles and items to find. You explore, tying together pieces of the story in order to unravel the mystery.
The mechanics are fine and responsive, you click and click and need a keen eye to separate the various backgrounds from actual objects you can find. You can use hints if you are not certain what to do next, but it is far more fun to just figure it out by yourself.
Graphically, the game looks just as fine as the other games from Artifex Mundi. It is that soft shader style artwork that looks beautiful and enhances every game, each with their unique theme. For this reason, this game is dark, misty and grim, exactly how it should be.
The ambient music plays a great role in this too. It lets you know that you are on a quest to unravel all the mysteries and weird things that happen in Ravenwood park.
Like the other games, my only complaint is that the hint button is too large and cannot be hidden. This matters, when you want to complete the game without any hints. Any miss-click forces you to start the whole game again and does not offer any retries.
I have to say that Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood offers the most challenging puzzles of all the games so far. Many times, I was not sure what was expected of me and in one case, I even needed to lookup a walkthrough. It is challenging but a little frustrating at the same time.
Overall, I had a good time with the game. The story was interesting and fun, the puzzles challenging and original, the soundtrack is wonderful, and the overall feeling of the game is just great.
Definitely recommend Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood.… Expand
