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Summary: Evil
Review: ..., I played and enjoyed this game. The story is cool and the graphics and sound are excellent. If you like the occult, satan and stuff like that, and you are an adventure gamer, I recomend this game.
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Summary: A dark journey through your mind
Review: ...Since the very beginning of the game, your character meets many different people and through dialogues the story of Necronomicon begins to develop. You explore a dilapidated house, an alchemyst's laboratory, search for books in a large library, summon a spirit. The puzzles are very intersting but extremely complicated. Nevertheless if you sum up all the information you have and take notes, (and through a bit of experimentation) the puzzles are solvable without a walkthrough. There was this moment when I had to make a potion but I haven't got any clue how to do it, and I had to choose two bottles of about 20 available and mix them. However, once you start thinking logically you will realize that the possible combinations are limited, since the variation of the pots is limited (although that is not immediately obvious). The process through which you summon the spirirt from the past provides exciting puzzles, which I rarely have recently encountered in an adventure game. I disagree with the other reviews, which criticize this game for its lack of reasoning. Logic dominates, but if you like the easy-3-hour-gameplay-plus-the-constant-assistance-of-areliable-walkthrough, then this game is not for you. The thrill this game provides is in its making you think deeper and make logical connections in order to solve the puzzles. The game is challenging and patience is a key factor in enjoying the game as a whole. Necronomicon has nice graphics and a dark atmosphere that often thrills you as you walk in dark corridors in search for a lantern (almost a hint :-)). The interface of the game is a point-and-click type, typical of the Dreamcatcher adventure games, and sometimes even provides hints telling you that you should use an item at the particular situation. Well, some people will hate me for this review, but I hope others will make use of it in a more beneficial way. I strongly recommend Necronomicon, even though I have not already finished it.
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Summary: Dreadfully obscure and difficult
Review: After playing Dracula, I was interested in seeing what other games Dreamcatcher produced, but after playing Necronomicon, I'm thoroughly disappointed. The game is utterly obscure and complicated, and almost impossible to defeat without the help of a total walkthrough. Combining random herbs and potions to create a mixture would have been impossible had I not been going directly from the walkthrough. The game has 2 filler mazes that simply fill time that the programmers could have made to flesh out the story, which was terribly written. I barely followed it at all. The ending was very disappointing. There is a "good" and a "bad" ending (actually, the bad ending was cooler) because the good ending leaves you feeling like, "that's it?" Although the graphics are fairly well done, the cut scenes can be long and boring. The music is nothing to write home to mom about. I don't recommend this game unless you simply buy it to follow along with the walkthrough and enjoy some of the pretty graphics. Don't waste your time or money.
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Summary: Excellent, but misunderstood game
Review: Although this game does indeed have it's flaws, what game doesn't? Every game has problems. The reason this game had so many problems is because Dreamcatcher misjudged its audience. The target was, H.P. Lovecraft buffs like me, people that are interested in the occult, also like myself, and finally, those who like these types of games.Here's where the first problem starts. People who play these kinds of games, although they are all great thinkers (they have to be), that range is in fact so broad and vague, that too many people won't get it. There are several big, recurring complaints about this game. One, it's too hard. This game is very hard, yes. But, if you are a bit educated in the occult, it will not be nearly as difficult. One thing many people fail to realize about this game is that some of the secrets and puzzles in it are based on real occult information! Much of it is rather simple, like astrological signs and the like. However, when you have to perform the spirit summoning spell of Eliphas Levi, there is a complicated process that you have to go through. However, I will vouch for the difficulty complaint be saying that there not enough hints to nudge you in the right direction. Like the salts room, for example. There are about 8 long aisles lined to the brim with shelves jugs and pots full of ashes on. You're looking for one particular jar - there are no tips as to its location anywhere in the game! Better yet, there's one point in the game where you have to mix a special brain fluid. Once again, the chemical shelf is lined with all kinds of chemicals, with no clues to the mixture. The only way i solved this puzzle was through trial and error - long trial and error (i'm too stubborn to use a walkthru). All that aside though, this game is VERY good. And keep in mind, Lovecraft fans, it ISN'T directly based off any of his stories! Instead, it takes certain elements from various stories and meshes them together (very well, i might add). Stories such as Charles Dexter Ward, Nameless City, Dunwich Horror, etc. are used. Even one of the houses is designed directly after Strange High House in the Mist. So Lovecraft fans fear not - you'll get your fill! Just not in the way you might imagine. I highly recommend this game to anyone that doesn't mind having to do a bit of research into the occult world to fully understand what's going on. Either that or look at a walkthrough.
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Summary: Unpleasant beyond belief
Review: Being an H.P.Lovecraft fan I bought this game with high hopes and initially was happy with the excellent pictures. My brief euphoria, however turned to frustration and then anger when I had to turn the brightness up to the max on my monitor and still couldn't see anything during the dungeon part of the game. I could just imagine the game's designers sitting around saying "Let's make it even darker! That would be really fun!" Even with a walkthrough I had a terrible time manuevering around and eventually the boredom took over, and I got rid of this turkey. Save your money or read some H. P. Lovecraft books instead. I will never buy another Dreamcatcher game again.
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Summary: Yes, it's perfect !
Review: First of all I don't have the pc version of the game but the ps one version, I would actually recommend the playstation version to bye for those who have one, rather than the pc version. On to the game. After having played and successfully completed the two Dracula games I bought this one with an exspectation of high quality graphics and lifelike characters, just like the dracula games.
And I was satisfied, it's a fantastic story, with alot to offer on a cold winters night, it shines of darkness and dispair.
William Stantons life changes in every aspects as his childhood freind Edgar visits him. Edgar seems almost panic and breifly tells a bit of his lately doings, and then he gives William a strange prism, but what William doesn't know is the horrific secret that lies behind the pyramid...and so his journey through darkness begins... William experience some strange conversations around the town pawtuxet, but without really getting anywhere...what is he to do?...find out for yourself...keep your mind clear...or else! You'll visit some creepy places from the well room where diabolic creatures hides in the wells waiting to strike at you to the downbroken laboratory of the alchemists chambers to the torture room...keep your sanity clear or loose your mind... Darkness is closing in on you...
What are you to do...?
can your expose the occult experiments of the alchemist...?
Can you find out the true meaning of the Necronomicon...?
It's all up to you... An ancient darkness is awaken the souls of the damned are alive,
The names of the doomed are standing on the shelfs,
as light seems fading...seek the wisdom of the machine
Keen is the brain who tells of the past, of the alchemist using the doomed souls of the cast...passed seems the past, but as long as he walk...you'd better keep on talk...to the machine... That was a little help from my side, solve the riddle and you will understand the true meaning of it.
Experience a beautiful detailed world with many unresolved issues, unlock the secrets of the Necronomicon.
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Summary: Necromonicon
Review: I do not recommend this game for the following reasons: Too complicated to get through without a cheat guideline. Disappointed with many of the scenes. I would have liked to be able to explore the upstairs of the first home, but was unable to do it. I became bored too soon with this game.
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Summary: good game,very creepy and pretty hard
Review: I enjoyed necronomicon.At times it was hard to hear the dialogue because the people either mumbled or talked to fast or soft.The graphics were good and the puzzles were not easy.The only thing i had to have help with was the correct urn.I just guessed any urn would due.I thought it was funny that in the town other than the fisherman nobody ever answered a door when i knocked.It is creepy like the 2 dracula games i played.Necronomicon is certainly harder than dracula -resurrection and a little bit harder than dracula-the last sanctuary.I thought the documents were complicated.If there is a negative to the game it is the overcomplicated documents.overall a good game.
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Summary: really awful
Review: I picked this game up because it was cheap and happened to be one of the few adventure games I didn't already own. It was a waste money. This most awful computer game I've ever played. The storyline is boring and confusing and the graphics and voice acting are terrible. It's an excruciatingly slow game to get through, not because it's hard, but because it takes forever to get from point A to point B and then you have to listen to some awful dialogue for a while. The puzzle I had the most problem with in the game was the one where you had to light torches in a dark tunnel. You can't go on to the next stretch of tunnel until you light the torch in that area, and it's impossible to see anything. I was reduced to searching the screen with my cursor until I could find a spot where the game would allow me to use my matches. It wasn't hard to figure out what I had to do, but actually doing it was another matter. Save youself the frusteration and boredom and buy some other game. Whatever else you might get, it'll probably be better than this game. If it's worse, you have my sympathy.
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Summary: Delightfully Creepy
Review: If you're a big fan of H. P. Lovecraft, you may feel with good reason that this game uses his writing as little more than a context for standard role-playing conventions. But, it does manage to give a few chills as you wander deeper and deeper into the action. And, bring to mind some of the shiver-producing moments experienced while reading Lovecraft. I nearly jumped out of my chair at one point when my phone rang. The game had brought me so deep into the action and the sudden unexpected noise caught me while I was expecting something to suddenly appear in the shadowy view on my computer screen. This game has good atmospheric components. Ambient sounds fit the environments well. And the background music is very good -- never overwhelming but never boring either. As for danger, there are very few risks involved. However, when you do encounter a tricky situation, you'd better be prepared. And, as the game progresses, the chances for a bad end due to a poor decision are greater. That's to be expected. Playing with dark magic and reviving the dead -- I call that serious business! You'd better be certain about what you're doing. A couple of drawbacks as far as I'm concerned -- there seems to be a little too much "wander and find" activity at some stages of the game; and, secondly, the in-game animated videos are not always the best quality...but they do what is needed to advance the story. This game has some of that old New England creepiness which we saw in "The Blair Witch Project". So, if you liked that, you should give this game a try.
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