Promising adventure that could've been great if it didn't end just when it was starting to get good.

User Rating: 7.5 | Alter Ego (2010) PC
Alter Ego has many strong points. It looks good and has a very nice and gloomy atmosphere. It has two different protagonists who both are fun to play. It has an interesting mystery that connects these protagonists. But what it doesn't have is lenght - or real ending.

The game is still worth to play. First you start off playing an Irish thief Moor trying to make it to America. Then you switch to a pompous detective Briscol that just starts his job in the town. Both characters are obnoxious yet lovable and it is always a pleasure to get to play the different sides: the criminal and the police. And then there is the murder mystery and the rumours of supernatural.

But then it happens. Just when you think this game is pretty damn good and you start to unravel the mystery... you get cutscenes, a couple of clicks, another cutscene and then your other protagonist has adventured for days on his own and just comes and blurts out all the facts to you. Then it's time for the short and unsatisfying finale.

I do hope we get the sequel some time, something to finish this up properly and possibly learning from the mistakes of the first game. Rushing the end is annoyingly usual in adventure games but in this case it's done worst than in most and I can understand that it drops the overall score a lot for many people. I never let the ending determine the score (only a part of it) so I rather keep this fun game with lots of potential above the average adventure market. If they fixed unfolding the mystery this game would be 8.5, added with proper ending - 9.0.