Adventure Deal worth a try for someone looking for Adventure in their game
I enjoyed my romp though the first in this trilogy. It's a super simple adventure game control wise. Left click to use, and right click to change how to use. And off you go. I found all but two puzzles to make sense. Something, with the items I had picked up or information given, that I could make a logical jump to the answer.
Here is where we divide the adventure gamer camp. If you are the hardcore Myst type of puzzle solver then this isn't your game. BUT if you enjoy the story behind the adventure, with control of the progression of the story via your sleuthing and problem solving skills, then this game is perfect for you.
I love a good puzzle, but with the advancement of games I can get all my puzzle solving jollies out of any number of pure puzzle games.
When I play an Adventure game on the other hand, I want to be engaged with the adventure, feel like I'm apart of it, am in control to some degree and am challenged by the puzzles. I don't want to be stopped by them at any point. I think the illogical, very hard to solve, game stopping puzzles run people away from Adventure games. Just like a First Person Shooter that puts you against a Boss with only one weakness, but never tells you what it is. Hours later you give up.
That being said, I think this game does a good job of keeping the puzzles more to the light side, keeping the game generally moving forward and you accessing more of the story as you go along. There isn't any real ground breaking stuff here. The voice acting is over all good, with a few rough patches. The music seems a bit out of place in quite a few areas to me, like they were trying to match a sound style instead of the setting for the scene, but it doesn't distract from the play. The art direction is great, it all flowed well in that area. And the story is enough to keep you interested until the end, but can be a bit predictable at times. (Don't come expecting a "The Usual Suspects" type of twists and you won't be disappointed).
I enjoyed this Adventure Game, and recommend it to adventure game fans. There are only a few times you'll have to break out a walk-through (oh freeze the battery to restore it? Missed that one in my Chem lab I guess),