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Summary: Live at the Haunted House
Review: This game was an addicting challenge. Once I started I was obsessed at getting to the very end. I did all the puzzles by myself but it is very easy to go on-line and get the answers from a number of websites. The game that has me the most obsessed is Microscope one. It still gets the better of me every time I play it. But any way this game gave me hours of enjoyment and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to play live at the haunted house.
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Summary: My favorite game when I was little!
Review: This is a great game if you like to solve puzzles. Some puzzles are really easy, but others are immpossibly hard. If you get stuck you can easily get a hint either from the book in the games library, or from searching the internet. I really love this game and would give it 5 stars if I hadn't already done it, now I'm going through it again trying to get to the puzzles that I never solved myself but the ones I did solve the first time are sooooo much easier even if I don't remember the answer. One plus is that compared to the older version for DOS, the new one for windows goes much faster and you don't have to wait a long time for things to move around (like yourself or the puzzle pieces)For the people who said that they couldn't hear the characters speaking over the music:
All you have to do is go into your computers music settings by double-clicking on the speaker at the bottom right of the screen. Then make sure that the WAV sound is set louder than the midi sound.
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Summary: Amazing!
Review: This is one of the most amazing games I have ever played. This game was originally released in 1992 or 1993 and for it's time, it was way ahead in terms of graphics and story telling. Hell, it still has better graphics than some of the games that come out now. For me, this is the game that made me want to buy a computer which I did less than a month later. It has very challenging puzzles and some comedy along the way as Stauf adds his comments to either the path you choose or your success/failure to do a puzzle. If you like action, this is not your game. If you like solving puzzles, unraveling mysteries, and a game that makes you use your head, this is it. One of the best games of all time and the best puzzle solving game ever. But don't take my word on it. Get this for yourself.
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Summary: Okay puzzler
Review: This is the kind of thing that turns people off of adventure games, but on it's own terms it's okay, a puzzle game in adventure fancy pants. The haunted house atmosphere is too silly to take seriously. I wouldn't spend much for it, but if you can find it cheap (and if you like puzzles) you'll have fun with it.
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Summary: board! BOARD!! BOARD!! BOOAARRDD!!!
Review: To be honest this game is boaring to me. It's not creapy, I guess in its day it was scary, but not by today's standard baby!
I bought this game and 11th hour at the local dollar store. It looked creapy but it wasnt. The only thing that was enjoyable about this game was the puzzles, they are very puzzling, and you'll be obsest with trying to solve them, my faverite was lining up the queens on the chess board. But its not scary, if you want scary buy Cleave Barker's Undying.
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Summary: board! BOARD!! BOARD!! BOOAARRDD!!!
Review: To be honest this game is boaring to me. It's not creapy, I guess in its day it was scary, but not by today's standard baby!
I bought this game and 11th hour at the local dollar store. It looked creapy but it wasnt. The only thing that was enjoyable about this game was the puzzles, they are very puzzling, and you'll be obsest with trying to solve them, my faverite was lining up the queens on the chess board. But its not scary, if you want scary buy Cleave Barker's Undying.
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Summary: A-Haunting We Will Go ...
Review: Trapped in the haunted mansion of the mad toymaker, Stauf, with no memory of your past, you must seek out your past ... your purpose ... the fate of the six murdered guests, long ago ... and the seventh guest. To begin with, this is *not* an action title. With this game, you can give your flying fingers a rest. Everything's connected with puzzles, and there are no time limits (though you may wish there were when you hit your twentieth dead end in the Maze and hear Stauf say, "Feeling ... lonely ... ?" again ... ). Puzzles, puzzles, puzzles. A profusion and plethora of puzzles in prodigious plentitude. Switch puzzles, slider puzzles, card and coin puzzles ... even the old game of Jump-Away. (Played with knives on a pentagram, mind you ... )And with each puzzle solved (the game can even solve them for you) you learn a little more about what happened on that long-ago night. The puzzles range from, "Okay, this is tricky", to "HELP! ". But with all the walkthroughs out here on the 'Net, plus the hint book in the library, you'll muddle through eventually. Graphics: This game is beautiful. The knives, the cards, the house itself ... everything is in fully-rendered 3-D, with remarkable shading and texture. Mind you, this takes some computer time ... the Minimum Requirements list a Pentium 133MHz. My P100 made it, but the MIDI tended to stall sometimes. Sound: Speaking of MIDI, this game is loaded with it. Eerie, haunting refrains accompany most of your actions, while screams, moans, and eerie footsteps whisper in your ears. I've worked in a professional haunted house ... these guys are GOOD. That said, the voice acting is a hash. Most of the actors are almost laughably bad, playing a gam-ut of emotions that result in an almost campy atmosphere. Note I said "almost". Stauf has the biggest part in the game, and he knows how to work it. The actor really leans on it, but the character is a dyed-in-the-wool villain anyway ... he can take it. The children, on the other hand ... . You'll have to hear it for yourself. It's chilling. On the whole, a solid game, with few flaws.
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Summary: Great when it was released, but now...
Review: When The 7th Guest was first released in 1993, it was pretty much just a CD-ROM showcase: "Look what I can do." Further technological advancements, though, haven't proven kind to The 7th Guest, but the game remains as good now as it ever was. It's mostly an series of puzzles and brain teasers with only the barest thread of a story (and not always a clear, sensible one, at that) to connect them. Some of the puzzles, however, are pretty good, and the game has a wonderful, creepy style that infects every puzzle with an energy that definitely sets The 7th Guest apart from most other puzzle games. If you know what you're getting yourself into, there's no reason you can't enjoy The 7th Guest today.
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Summary: Great when it was released, but now...
Review: When The 7th Guest was first released in 1993, it was pretty much just a CD-ROM showcase: "Look what I can do." Further technological advancements, though, haven't proven kind to The 7th Guest, but the game remains as good now as it ever was. It's mostly an series of puzzles and brain teasers with only the barest thread of a story (and not always a clear, sensible one, at that) to connect them. Some of the puzzles, however, are pretty good, and the game has a wonderful, creepy style that infects every puzzle with an energy that definitely sets The 7th Guest apart from most other puzzle games. If you know what you're getting yourself into, there's no reason you can't enjoy The 7th Guest today.
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Summary: If you like chess...
Review: When this game first came out it was outstanding. We have come along way since then. The story is very weak. There are way too many puzzles closely resembling chess. The piano puzzle is overdone and the Basement maze is from hell itself-even with hints. The scenes are gross but fun. It is fun watching the scenes unravel eventually. It is a nice house.
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