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Summary: very disappointing
Review: Loved the look, hated the gameplay. I thought the UI was difficult and frustrating. It's too bad because the game seemed so promising.
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Summary: Confusing and Boring
Review: Story and puzzels seemed illogical. Many pictures were very dark. Many items were hidden in very difficult to find places (far bottom of a screen and too hard to find). Had to jump from one world to another with little rhyme or reason. I did not enjoy this at all.
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Summary: Oh...this is really BAD
Review: Dear Fellow Adventurers: <rant>I've been a gamer for almost 20 years (yup - since before BBS!) I went out and purchased a new SoundBlaster sound card, and lo and behold...out pops a freebie of The Crystal Key, so I figured, I'd give it a chance. I can honestly say that it was a waste of time. Seems to me that it probably took a weekend to write the script for the plot and very little imagination went into the puzzles. All in all, it gets a -10 from me </rant> just sign me "disappointed"
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Summary: the Crystal Key
Review: This game is VERY VERY DARK I thought a bit harder than usual..
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Summary: Yuck
Review: Save your money and go get a root canal. I do believe it would be more fun. The only reason I gave it any stars is that you have to, otherwise I think it rates, say, a swift toss in the garbage. I had to turn up the brightness to its maximum setting just to see the lousy graphics. Of course then the colors were all washed out. The puzzels are few and far between. When you do find them, they are extremly easy. When you win, all that pops up is a screen telling you that you won. I kind of like a little more imagination than that, in my games. Also I tend to like games that take a while and tax me. I started this one at about 9am on a Sunday and wrote this when I finished at 2pm. No, I did not just sit there and play either, I managed to clean my apartment also. Like I said at the begining, save your money or buy a different game!!!
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Summary: A waste of money, a waste of time, a waste of 120mega bites
Review: I'm sorry, I just could not get into this game.I'm not even going to talk about all the bugs in this game, that would take forever and I can only use 1,000 words anyway, so i'll just say this: There's no replay value - sure, you can play through the game once, but what do you do with it after you've beaten it? - and there's nothing to keep you interested in the game if you're stuck on a puzzle. I have to say, I think the only reason dreamcatcher makes games like this is so they can sell strategy guides. Basically, what i'm trying to say here is if you only get the chance to play 10,000 video games in your lifetime, MAKE SURE THE CRYSTAL KEY ISN'T ONE OF THEM!
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Summary: Profound waste of money.
Review: All right, so it's going to be a while before we find something equal to Myst and Riven. I can accept that. In fact, I was expecting that. However, even without those two comparisons, The Crystal Key falls flat. The graphics, while beautiful, are confusing and overdone. It seems like if they spend countless hours designing these environments, you should have more freedom to explore them. No such luck. If it's nonessential you can't go anywhere near it, and if it's essential, it's too dark to see even with my monitor's brightness turned all the way up. The puzzles have a faint logic to them, sure, but it's convoluted logic at best. I had to resort to a walkthrough site at the beginning of the second world, and for almost every puzzle after that. The recorded messages make sense only in the context of someone there to tell you what's going on. All in all, it's either too set up or not set up enough, and not worth playing even at the low price.
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Summary: Not worth the time and the money
Review: Pass on this one. Game is buggy and conflicts with Quick Time. No help from the DreamCatcher web site and you can forget customer support. Even when the game does run, it's not very interesting and some of the places are so dark, you won't even see the puzzles. The company has a well-deserved reputation for shallow, half-baked games. Spend your money elsewhere. There are far better games on the market. Gets one star because system does not allow none.
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Summary: A Big Letdown
Review: I bought this game because I had finished Myst and Riven and was hungry for a new adventure game. I spotted this while browsing in the store and thought it looked similar to MYST/RIVEN and would keep me occupied until the Miller brothers came up with more Myst sequels. That will be the last time I ever buy a game without checking online reviews of the game. While the graphics and puzzles are pretty good, I found the plot and characters two-dimensional. I also had a technical problem with one of the puzzles and had to download a patch that solved it for me. Gee, how fun it that? Dreamcatcher should've known better than to release a game with so many bugs in it.
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Summary: Crystal Key
Review: Pretty good game. I would probably even play it again. I do usually cheat by getting walkthroughs for any pc games I play, but even with the walkthroughs, it still had some tough, challenging spots.
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