I picked this game up for $20 off the discount rack, and I feel that I got my money's worth. I grew up playing games like Sierra's King's Quest and this game made me nostalgic for those games. First the good things: The cartoon style 3D to 2D graphics were great, it would have been nice if the lips matched the voices but I'll attribute that to translation. The story was actually pretty interesting, it took a twist that made it much better than where I thought it was going. Now the complaints: The cutscenes looked awful. They would have been much better had they been done in the style the rest of the game was in. There was only one way to do everything, I would have much rather liked to have a multitude of different ways to accomplish each puzzle. Even if you knew what you had to do, sometimes you couldn't do it unless you did something else first. In one scene I knew what I had to do wit the coffee beans and I know how to do it, but I couldn't do it until I had offered them to another character.. it took me FOREVER to figure this out. It felt too short. Now maybe this is because we live in the age of the internet where the temptation to cheat is alot more readily available than it was back in the 80's. I felt that if the game had been longer it would have only been because I had to spend hours trying combinations of totally random objects and pixel hunting around the screen. Worse was the fact that some items would be useless the first time you tried to take them but if you tried again later suddenly your character would decide they were worth taking.. despite the fact that no apparent need had presented itself. Anyways, I would have a preferred a story with a length similar to FFVII. When I heard "A Road Adventure" I imagined there to be alot more locales. And in my opinion the game might have been better setup so that you might be able to backtrack further... I didn't like feeling like I was playing "levels." Rather than unlocking a new area, I was limited to playing in the new area, and my inventory reset.. it was as if I was playing 6 mini-games. I don'tr want to sound too negative. I like adventure games, and I hope that any more that come out will be better. This one had all the technical stuff right, but the gameplay was lesser than some of the games of old.
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