Stay away, not worth your precious time. Vague puzzles almost/ incomplete clues or hints.

User Rating: 3.5 | The Lost Crown: A Ghost-hunting Adventure PC
I played this game on a couple of rainy days (which are not normal in Denver) and still couldn't get in the mood.


The CONS:
Horrible voice acting, the best sounding like they are reading; the lead character Nigel is by far the worst, overemphasizing and over stressing dialog the whole game!!! (Although nanny Noah, a supporting character sounded tired or possibly bored to say her dialog the rest of the "actors" were so bad i felt obliged to giver her KUDOS! )

character movement lethargic, moving like the classic zombies/ animaltronic speed. This "strolling" along with the unsynced talking makes me feel like i was playing a puppet (they look like them)

TONS of unnecessary backtracking, typical contrived hints system i.e. even though you have the items to get a clue, you CAN'T until you backtrack (a lot) to get some dialog; the traveling is so SLOW...!

awful character graphics

no scary atmosphere or tension.

dialog, back story. repetitive comments for certain actions take away from the game... (although i appreciate the spoof websites)

pacing of the game

can't skip the dialog if you start it by accident

Although the audio is overall superior to the previous dark fall game, most of the 'SCARY' sound fall flat in adding to the tension or atmosphere

95% of the game is in black & white, without explaining why the sparse misc objects are colored!?! (except the blue sky near the end of the game)

Awful reasons to limit your area of exploration I.E. won't walk down a couple of paths in the open beach because he "doesn't know where they lead to if anywhere", but the path you follow with the the saying "nothing ventured..." into a dark cave!!!

i agree with askelly35 & Swoosie's summary of the game.


Play F.E.A.R. or Clive barkers the undying, which are far better games.