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Katja wrote:
> "Craig Hulett" <First.Last@comcast.net> wrote
>
>>I can't even play it because of the bugged interface. The hotspots
>>don't line up with the items and the initial menu has split / doubled
>>up parts to it. The Load screen won't load *anything* because of the
>>alignment issues (meaning I always had to start from the beginning
>>each time) and "playing" the game was a PITA because I had to remember
>>to click down-and-to-the-right of where I thought I really should be
>>clicking.
>>I never made it out of the trenches before giving up. And seeing as
>>how the support forums are basically dead and no patch seems to be
>>forthcoming, I uninstalled it.
There are already two patches, one for installation on
computers with XP SP2 and another for after the game is
installed. Did the patch not help?
I don't remember any problem with the hotspots not lining up
and the menu looked normal. Might have been a driver problem.
> Oh, that's nothing - wait until items in your inventory start
> disappearing for no aparent reason forcing you to reload to get them
> back.
I didn't have that problem either.
> Even the main protagonist vanished once on me, now that I think
> about it.
I've heard of people having that happen on the spaceship.
I think it was something that they decided was triggered
by the order in which you do things.
> And places that you can not go with no indication as to WHY
> until you trigger something somewhere, we really love those don't we?
Well, it's not the first game that pulled that trick, and it
won't be the last. It isn't really a bug, just questionable
design.
> The pixel hunting was also hair pulling since the game is so dark.
This one looked no darker when I played it than any other game
that has night scenes. For some reason nearly all games require
me to brighten my screen from what I normally use for my desktop.
> Plus the voice overs were so pathetic it made me laugh
> out loud in more than a few places.
No one can argue with that.
Some of the accents sounded very strange indeed.
If they had more of a budget, they could have hired
English voice actors. But it's clearly a game that was
developed on a tight budget.
> I also gave up about two or three hours into the game, a
> complete waste of some perfectly good time.
I enjoyed it, except when it booted me to the desktop.
And I didn't like the save system. I like to overwrite
saves so I don't have to click through a bazillion of
them in order to load the one I want.
I can see why people wouldn't enjoy it if they encountered
all those bugs. But I just didn't see them - except for
being booted to the desktop.
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