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Summary: It was okay
Review: I kinda liked it at first. I love puzzle, gotta figure things out kind of games, but after a while this one got pretty dumb. The graphics are pretty 'archaic' as far as 3D animation goes now days. It's definitely not Titan A.E. quality. Some of the puzzles were impossible to figure out in my opinion. Like I said, it started out okay, seemed like a really intense story but it got pretty dull and dumb pretty quick.
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Summary: Great Game...
Review: I really enjoyed playing this game. The story is an intriguing one, centering around an old theme park and the entertainers who once lived there. At one point or another, each inhabitant had made a pact with the devil, selling their soul for personal gain. You play Marcellus Faust, who has been placed in the park in order to figure out whose soul goes to heaven, and whose soul burns in hell -- or at least that's what you think you're there to do. The game has seven episodes and each episode allows you to discover certain truths about each character. You do this through finding clues and solving puzzles -- some fairly complex, otherst a bit easier. All in all, they kept me on my toes. The graphics are pretty good and you move easily through the game. After episode two there is a built in hint mechanism you can use when you get stuck. The game is accompanied by a great soundtrack of various blues music, which adds a haunted atmosphere to the scenes. The game is rated Mature due to sexual content, etc. but personally I thought it was fairly mild.
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Summary: buy the seventh guest instead. or watch the movie "freaks".
Review: i sincerely regret the money i spent on this. the gameplay was awkward and way too linear. the graphics were malformed and irritating, with these huge pockmarked looking chins. bleah. i didn't bother getting past the second chapter. when i buy a game one of my requirements is FUN. while the ambience was nice, i don't find it FUN to go over and over and over doing the same tasks to find one stupid little thing. that's bad design. or to have to hover over a practically one-pixel area to find said item or hint. i recommend either encasing the game in concrete and dropping it in the ocean, or saving your money all together.
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Summary: Loved it, loved it, loved it!
Review: I thought this game was fabulous. I was totally immersed and when I finished I mourned having reached the end...the soundtrack is just as good as the game, ... Play this game!
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Summary: Don't they test these things?
Review: In SEVEN GAMES OF THE SOUL, you play the role of an elderly caretaker of an abandoned amusement park. You are approached by the devil with a task: witness the stories of seven individuals, and decide whether their souls will go to heaven or hell. It seemed like a fascinating premise, and I was eager to see how it would be handled in a computer game. I'll admit it's my own fault for not making sure the game would run properly under Windows XP. It doesn't. It will run, but it isn't at all pleasant. The animated sequences get stuck frequently, and the audio is choppy. It's a good thing subtitles are available for the dialogue, although most of it is nonsensical, metaphysical gibberish anyway. As of this writing, there is no patch to make the game XP-compatible. But operating issues are only part of the problem. The puzzles, if they can be called that, are so obtuse you'd have to be some kind of savant to be able to complete them unaided. There is absolutely no logic to them at all. At a later point in the game, you're rewarded with a demonic assistant, but the clues it offers are invariably for activities you've already completed. Apparently the clues are based on your physical location, not how far you've actually progressed in the game. Except for a couple manual tasks you need it to perform, it is useless. The graphics are fairly nice, but interacting with things is also problematic. Hot spots are frustratingly obscure and you can move over them a half dozen times before they register. Occasionally, they are misplaced entirely. There is one room you can't exit until you make a quarter turn away from the door and click on a blank wall. And I am currently at a standstill in my game because a drawer I need to open will not open. I have gone over every inch of that room to no avail. What good is a game that you cannot finish even with a walkthrough? SEVEN GAMES OF THE SOUL (or FAUST as it is referred to in the game itself) is a huge disappointment. It could have been interesting, but it getting through any portion of the game was torture.
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Summary: Greatest Game in Years
Review: It has been a long time since I was so obsessed with a game. This one has everything. You are Faust, the old keeper of an abandoned amusement park that looks like it was created by the Myst team - gorgeous. There are seven episodes in which you will collect clues and evidence. Will you save your soul in the end? Navigation is easy and the story will keep you engrossed for days. The music is the best of any game on the market. Everything about this game is great, from an easy load to the gameplay which is smooth in every way.
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Summary: Um... ok?
Review: So I'm an experienced adventure gamer. I love the technology's ability to weave story and game into one... but this is just ridiculous on many levels. The storyline leaves you questioning the integrity of the composition process, suggesting many writers instead of a closely-knit collaboration. The visuals are great for their time... but humans would have been better represented by movies. The landscapes draw you in, the furniture is well done, and the soundtrack is absolutely FIRST RATE. Almost worth buying for the classic tunes. Almost. The ending was relatively unsatisfying, and the puzzles were too straightforward.
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Summary: Satan can have my soul before I'll play this again.
Review: The game sounds like it would be cool- you wander around an amusement park and deal with the condemned. Well, it's not. The graphics are out of date, the voice acting sounds like a badly dubbed movie, and the point and click puzzles make no sense. Also, you're in an amusement park but you can't interact with the rides. I could forgive all this if the story was good. Instead, the storyline is just a bunch of weird events strung together. For example, one of the "sins" you have to deal with is a scientist who gets offered immortality. He says no so you pile little rocks around his house and leave. And that's IT. Also, the puzzles are so illogical they're impossible to solve. It took me 15 minutes to figure out I had to get to the secret passage behind the refrigerator by lifting the fridge with a complicated rope system and a teddy bear. Yup, you lift a refrigerator by using a teddy bear as a counterweight. I just pointed and clicked on everything to solve the game. It took 4 long hours where I kept shaking my head and saying "WHAT'S GOING ON?". The only good thing about the game was that some of the FMV's were fun to watch. They didn't add to the plot, but they showed some creepy images. If you want a good adventure game I'd go with The Longest Journey. I just wish I hadn't wasted my 20 bucks on this one.
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Summary: Utterly pointless!
Review: There is absolutely no point to this game WHATSOEVER. None of the seven episodes are connected at all, and the ending leaves you wondering what the hell just happened! I needed a walkthrough to get through this incredibly obscure game. Even though the music was good, and the animations were fairly well done, still, don't waste your time or money.
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Summary: Who stole the rest of my game?
Review: This game begins very nicely. It's a fun premise, having to go back in time and learn about peoples lives that are in the balance between being really good and really bad and then helping to decided what happens to them. Even more fun is the Devil, or Mephesto, is going to "help" you and the game does a great job at the begining creating a feeling that he's after more than he says and that you are somehow at risk as well. Then it goes down hill. Don't get me wrong, there is some fun game play here, it just missed so much of what it could be, and falls prey to some adventure game conventions that I hate and I feel have lead to the decline of the genera. First of all it's 1st person perspective...I HATE THAT! Adventure games are called interactive fiction for a reason. It is much more engageing to watch your character move around and explore things than to get a camera's prespective. I know this was the format for "Myst" and that sold a bizillion copies, but that was 1994 and it was visually new. It's not and it lessens the story telling aspect of a game like this. The idea of a wize old black man from Mississippi as your hero is great...then we hardly ever get to see him. Which brings me to another point. There is no character interation in this game. Every so often you get a cut scene, but you never get to ask another character a question that gives you insight and information to further your quest, alow for us to get to know our hero better and suck us into the world of the game more. Some of the puzzels are quite nice, but some are a bit random and there is no information in the game as to how you should find your way through some of these, you just have to guess, trial and error or go to a walk through. I have no problem with useing walk throughs, the way I see it is I paid money for the game to enjoy it, not be frusterated by it so at a certain point I will turn to one. I was just dissapointed with how random some of the puzzles seemed to be. I guess the biggest disapointment was the ending. I don't want to spoil it, but it changes the opening premise totally and suddenly Mephisto is your harmless, charming buddy. All the reference to tricks and deciet and twists vanishes into thin air and suddenly we are playing the ending to what seems to be a totally different, and much less intersting game. So, after all of that why 3 stars? Like I said, it does have some very nice moments, it is visually very nice and the MUSIC. If nothing else they made wonderful use of music for mood and period. One of the nicest features of the game is the Juke Box feature that allows you to play any of the music from the game. I sometimes open the game just to play the music.
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