At times beautiful, artistic and imaginative while at other times buggy, annoying and frustrating!

User Rating: 4 | Paradise (2006) PC
I completed Paradise but not without a whole lot of swearing, keyboard pounding and cheating.


My swearing and keyboard pounding are unfortunately directly related to game's bugginess. There were defective cursors that wouldn't change into the right activity, conversations that didn't happen when they're supposed to, lock ups requiring reboots and on and on...

But it's such a pretty game and I loved the creatures that were introduced. The animations were great, especially the gazelines... I'd love to own one of those things...

Sad to say the game is a very uneven effort... parts of it were really well done and other parts downright sucked. The guy/gal that programmed the creatures is brilliant whereas the guy/gal in charge of the conversation logic needs to be fired.

And Benoit's story? Again a lot of potential, he's created a very interesting Africa but the plot was weak, weak, weak and it ends all very abruptly leaving room for a sequel, I guess.