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[CataBina]

Frodo, on 22 Aug 2010, 10:12 PM, said:

CataBina, on 22 Aug 2010, 06:12 PM, said:

I'll also send a WT along - the only one which will exist of this game :-)

Excellent!  

Thankies

Just sent the whole pack off  

[CataBina]

Well, great to see that all my reviews have made it :-)

Another question: Are you planning to review "The Silver Lining", KQ fan project by phoenix online?

Greets
CataBina

[Frodo]

Glad to have your reviews on site, CataBina  

And yes, I plan to review The Silver Lining.  Chapter 1 was a bit disappointing, cos it was so short.  But Chapter 2 is wonderful.  

[CataBina]

Frodo, on 27 Sep 2010, 12:17 AM, said:

Glad to have your reviews on site, CataBina  

And yes, I plan to review The Silver Lining.  Chapter 1 was a bit disappointing, cos it was so short.  But Chapter 2 is wonderful.  

OK, so you do it, that's great. Otherwise I would have offered my help, but I don't find the game all that wonderful. The textures  of the characters seem a bit low-res on close-ups, their movements aren't as flawless as they should be, some of the voices sound just strange, and above all, the narrator got on my nerves pretty soon so I was happy that there was a "turn narrator's voice off" function :-)

The dialogs are endless and sometimes of no great use, and when I heard Shamir talking about dreams becoming reality and the balance, it reminded me a lot of "The Longest Journey" and its prequel "Dreamfall" :-)

Yet, the backgrounds are beautiful, and so is the music. And there's certainly a bit more to discover than in Episode 1 which wasn't only too short but consisted of nothing but 30 minutes (which felt like hours!) of cutscenes inbetween which you had to change your outfit and collect three items.... I also liked that you can let Graham die quite a few times and put all (??) the death scenes into a video :-)

[Frodo]

I read that other people have found Narrator's voice irritating as well, but I didn't find it that bad.  

[CataBina]

Frodo, on 27 Sep 2010, 02:43 PM, said:

I read that other people have found Narrator's voice irritating as well, but I didn't find it that bad.  

Well, she's certainly not as irritating as Virginia Capers in Gabriel Knight 1 (who would really be hard to top! :-)), but I didn't like her snappy, sometimes arrogant tone. In an adventure, I want to experiment and, if taking a wrong turn, not being sarcastically snapped at by the narrator. Plus, she did far too much self-propaganda for my taste  

[Frodo]

Added The Journey Down to the list.  

[Frodo]

Added Snakes of Avalon to the list.  

"A dark comedy point & click adventure game about alcoholic incapacitation and people obsessed with murdering their other half. It mixes the style and atmosphere of Hitchcock suspense films with a surreal game world inspired by the best cult trippy movies. It also takes place in the infamous cheap bar Avalon."


So who wants to review this game?  

[Frodo]

Added King's Quest III Redux to the list.  

Who wants to review this beautiful game for us?  

[Frodo]

Added Cyber to the list.

[Darthhelmet]

I will review ThreeOhFours ~airwave~ I fought the law and the law one

And will do a few more as I go.

[Frodo]

Excellent!  Thanks very much Darth.  

Look forward to seeing your review.

[Frodo]

Added Sacred Line to the list.