Play this for a few hours to fill your discontentment meter

User Rating: 2.5 | Next Life PC
I am disappointed.

Well, maybe it's because I had my expectations too high for this game. You see, I expected this game to be... enjoyable and captivating, how all games should be, however it's just barely appealing.

The widescreen implementation is terrible - with black bars on all sides. Yes, both vertical and horizontal. This peculiar aspect affects the gameplay experience in a negative way (you will agree once you actually see how bad it looks in widescreen).

Once you start the game you will undoubtedly notice that the terrible voice acting and ridiculous dialogs are present in abundance within the game. Also, the spoken words do not even match the text displayed on the screen on the screen at that time.

After playing for some time you'll see that the riddles are extremely simple, thus being reduced to just going from one place to another, back and forth - which is a very ponderous and boring process. This is a design flaw, as the player wants to be part of the story and solve some puzzles, not travel from place to place and wait for the character to reach various destinations, over and over again.

The game is all flash but no substance, despite all (dilettantish) efforts to make it an interesting game. It has very nice graphics but that's about it. The story, puzzles, character movement, voice acting, dialogs, etc are the game's downfall.

PS: If you manage to play until you finish the first two days from the story, you'll find yourself dealing with a very stupid puzzle (one which goes against the "adventure game" spirit, if you ask me). By this time you are probably very bored and will choose to uninstall the game.

Fail.