A great game, but it left so many questions unanswered.
The voice acting was generally great, the best were Victoria, and Claire.
There were a two characters that seemed a little wooden though, Victoria’s father, and her boyfriend. They were underdeveloped. After playing some of the prelude though, I discovered that there is actually a bit more to them. I recommend playing the prelude first.
In the ending I wanted to know more of what happened.. I wanted to give Vic a chance to talk to some people.
Some of the puzzles seemed way to cryptic. The door puzzle with the paintings as clues was exceptionally hard. The computer finale puzzle too was tough, though if you’d played the prelude you get clues for it.
Generally the puzzles were great though. The first one was very hard, but excellent, I wrote a computer program to solve it for me. The lock picking puzzle was alot of fun, I wished for more doors, but it was great they changed them every time.
In the sequal (there better be a sequal!) I want her to meet some people for coffee, I want it split over multiple days, and I want to see the prelude computer desktop game included and continued in the main game.
The game art was excellent, it’s rare to see a game so polished. The textures were really really great.
I wanted to know more about claire and her daughter.
I think Victoria went a little overboard with her boss, my suspension of disbelief was strained. Although maybe I just need a better explaination for why she was so sick of him. Maybe there’s more of that in the prelude.
I wanted to see Victoria’s own flat, I’m sure it would be real messy in contrast to her Dad’s house.
All in all this game is one of the best I’ve ever played. I think I really needed something like this, it sparks the imagination. Although if you find you self about to kill yourself over one of the puzzles, I recommend using a Hint website, one that doesn’t reveal it all. There was a puzzle that I was really stuck on. I checked the hint site and found that I’d already checked the same thing a number of times and just couldn’t see the thing I had to pick up.
this is the site I used: Hints.
