Serial Killers & Art
User Rating: 10 | Still Life PC
Few words first, BEST GAME EVER!!!! Ok myself being a biiiig serial killer fan, I found this game perfect. The value of the game is not puzzle-wise, but rather Story wise, and Mystery wise. The game is partially about Jack The Ripper, taking place in modern time and the ripper's era at the same time, the story is very catchy the events are very mysterious, and u can't help getting deeply immersed, this game reminds me a lot of 'From Hell' the movie, if u liked it or similar movies, u will love the game, I also recommend seeing it b4 playing for extra enjoyment. Basically if u like this type of thing pursuing serial killers, but not like the CSI type, or the strict detective type, but rather the two of them combined together. The Music is Perfect!, and thats that, orchestra like stuff in videos, the intro song is freakin awesome, very very matching with the opening. And a killer piano track in certain parts of the game, I haven't seen a better music that matches a game like this. So now, the puzzles, unlike most games, the puzzles here are very very easy, but u have Main Puzzles, don't remember how many, but not that much, those main puzzles are hellishly hard, other puzzles in the late game are mainly moderate to easy, but as I said before its not about the puzzles, this game's main attribute is story and events sequencing. Which NEVER I repeat NEVER leaves u bored, and the story never gets weaker, it gets stronger by the moment, and consequently u will find yourself more and more immersed into it. The game also have a very surprising element, which is ART, not very related to the game, but for those who appreciate art (not big art fans, but just ppl who appreciate it, like myself), will find it very appealing, and the mix between Serial Killer, Sophisticated Music, Killer Art, And very minor poetry I can't think it can ever get any better than that. Although the game is a sequel to post mortem, playing post mortem is anything but required. And the investigation that took place in post mortem is completely unrelated to still life. The only similarities is the detective (since you play as the detective from post mortem during the game flashbacks), and few locations that were featured in post mortem. Other than that I don't see another connection. That was purely my opinion, I think GameSpot are lacking at rating adventure games, it is very obvious through out many underrated and similarly overrate adventure games here, I don't think they appreciate or understand the genre, because gaming is one thing, and the adventure gaming scene is something very separate, adventure gamers are like evolved gamers community -hehe-. Other people giving it bad scores are definitely rating the puzzles, and taking it only from the pure adventure point of view, not weighing the story and such.
