This is a short fun game. It kept our interest, was easy to navigate, had good voices, and acceptable graphics. The puzzles were not hard, but took some thought, and they moved the story along. It's a great way to pass 3-4 hours.
This game is short, only took about 6 hours total. It started out to be fun-good story, graphics, voices, puzzles, etc, but about half way through, it went bad. The story became muddled, puzzles became tedious and a weird bug happened-I mistakenly walked down from the tower when I shouldn't have & couldn't get back up! So I looked at a walk-through to see if I could get out of this situation and that's when I realized that the version that I purchased here isn't the same version sold elsewhere. This version doesn't have all the puzzles spoken about in the different walk-throughs I read. Maybe if I had the full game, it would have made more sense. Then I saw that there was a Load Game option, and just reloaded an earlier saved game (the game has a Continue Game option, so I never had to Load a game). The worse part was the ending-it was a big let down-way too abrupt. It's getting harder & harder to find good non-violent Adventure Games!
I had problems with this game right from the beginning. When I first ran it, it was in a 3" wide box & was too small to play. So I had to change settings on my computer to Open in Low Resolution. That fixed it. Game play started out fine, was interesting, but the navigation left much to be desired. I played with the hot spot option on, but sometimes the hotspots weren't shown. The story was interesting and moved along, but as time went by, the puzzles got more confusing. They just weren't logical or intuitive. The worst was the colors/numbers, in the crossword grid, where you had to draw, on paper, the crossword grid & put all the numbers found into it. How would anyone know that? Thank goodness I found a walkthrough! If you find everything, there are 2 different endings, if not you have a few options that give you the same ending. Like I said, it was fun to play up to a point, then solving puzzles became ridiculous!
The graphics & music are very good, but the story was a bit weak. Playing the first half of this game was wonderful, puzzles were interesting and fun. But as the game progressed, the pixel hunting bacame tiresome and the puzzles became harder. The sliding, circle painting puzzle in the cellar, took hours. Using the on-line hint, didn't help-it didn't work. You should just try to understand it and figure it out. One of the puzzles on the top of the tower was hard-you have to know binary and be good at math to solve it, but it was better than the sliding, circle painting puzzle. If you collect all the non-story enhancing items (coins, toys figures, photos) at the end, you get a bonus puzzle & room. Don't get me wrong, most of the time, it was fun to play, but sometimes very frustrating too!
We are great fans of the Tex Murphy series & when we saw that this older version was re-released, we had high hopes for it, as we've played all the re-released King's Quest games & enjoyed them. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have been upgraded at all. It seems, all they did was made it play on the new computers. The graphics are crude & pixelated, the words are hard to read, the videos break-up, freeze, & are blurry, the sound breaks up often, and there is no info on how to exit the game. You have to remember that in the old days, Ctrl Q was the way to exit a game. We believe this was a great game in its day, but it is wat too cumbersome to play today. It is not worth the $6 we paid for it. Needless to say, we are not finishing this game.
We had no problem playing this on the Mac Book Pro with El Capitan. We're not finished with this game yet, but had to write this review because we just finished the part where Wilbur goes back in time into a text adventure game. It was absolutely fabulous! They did a great job of transitioning from text to today's graphics. We started playing text games in the 1980's with our kids, then to the Space/King's Quest games, Myst & onward, so this brought back so many memories. The humor in this game is great, especially when they make reference to Star Wars & other movies/games. The writers are brillant! Wish I had more time to play it, but growing old isn't always easy. We'll hopefully get back to it soon. Thanks to the developers for this one...keep them coming!
This is a prequel to the first Book game. It unfolds how Critter & Nate meet and become friends. Again, lots & lots of humor, very creative, interesting puzzles, unbelievable graphics, especially in the Arch-Mage tower. Gives a nod to Star Wars in the professor's cave. A true adventure. Can't wait to play the last one.
This game was very tedious. The story and characters were weak and predictable. The game was basically completing tasks that had nothing to do with the story. The trap the mice puzzle had to be done 4 different times, which became boring after the 2nd time. Some of the puzzles were not explained very well and there wasn't a way to repeat the directions. So after the first time you opened the puzzle, you had no directions. If you had to leave the game and came back to a puzzle, you're out of luck. The driving the car on the map was extremely funny, kept on crashing, but it became annoying after awhile. It was just a tedious way to get from one place to another. I thought using the GPS, which appears on the bottom of the screen, would help, but it didn't. All in all, it's an OK game.
We really enjoyed this game, as we recently learned a bit of Norwegian for our visit to Norway. The language was similiar, so the language game was a breeze & a lot of fun! We earned lots of money, but forgot to spend it on gifts for Ned, got caught up in the game & only got him one gift. The story and charaters were interesting. The graphics & voices were great. The puzzles were sometimes hard, but really fun to figure out. The song was really pretty. We recommend this game to anyone who enjoys a good non-violent adventure game.
We enjoyed playing this game (on Junior level) because it was not the same old ND mystery, but it did have a task list, which was helpful. (The hint system was no help at all!) For most of the game, you have the ability to switch characters and speak to suspects, getting a different slant on things depending upon who you are. The letter swap game at Scoops was lots of fun, and was a good way to kill time waiting for a suspect to leave the area. The map used to travel to different places with your car, was enjoyable because you could go to places, not needed in the game play, with cute results. The graphics, sound & game play were all very good. The puzzles were not hard at all, most were fun. The timed ending maze was a bit tricky, but fun. The game had a satisfactory ending and wrapped up well. Enjoy!
We played this game a few years back when it was called Cognition Director's Cut 4 pack. This is a true adventure game! It has everything you want in a game-good story, graphics, characters, etc. The only problem I had with it was that the 4th episode was too violent, as you had to fight a guy, which is not what I expect to do when playing a game. But don't let that stop you from getting it.
This was an interesting game to play, lots of electronic & binary puzzles. It was better than OK, but not really GREAT! The characters were good, especially Ryan, but the story could have been better. This is the fifth Nancy Drew game we've played and we're beginning to see they are all very much alike-simple story with limited scenes. This doesn't mean it was easy-far from it. The puzzles were challenging and some are timed. It was just missing something. We do recommend this game-even though the story is a bit on the light side-you will have fun playing it. But it would be so nice if they wrote a more in-depth story, with deeper characters, and more scenes to explore. It had a good ending & wrapped up the story well. If you let the credits run though, at the end, there is a very cute Gummy Bear stick puppet play to watch.
This was fun to play, and had a good story. The music, voices, graphics & puzzles, all were very good. Some puzzles were harder than others, but all were workable. Only wish Nancy could repeat the instructions. But you really need to play it in the dark. Some of the screens were extremely hard to see in normal light. Played at night without lights, it's fine. We think this is one of the better Nancy Drew games, but we really haven't played that many. Fun to play!
If you haven't had enough of Egyptian Adventure games, this is a fun one. As you play, you really don't know who the "bad guy" is. Great music, graphics, voices, story & game play. You get all the clues you need while playing, but they can be tricky. Enjoy!
We played this game way back in 1997 & loved it then. It is a great mixture of graphics and live action. Tex is a character that you will hate & love! Acting is great, and it's really a fun game to play.
We played this back in 1994 and we liked it then. Tex is a bitter dectective with many problems, but when you get to know him, you get to like him. This is not the best Tex Murphy game, but it is good fun. Acting is great and you may even see actors you know from the movies. If you like detective stories with humor and some twists, you'll have fun with this one.
We played this game back in 2002 on a PC and thought it was the best game ever. Good story, humor, great graphics (for the time), voice acting, etc. We hold every game we play up to this standard. Don't know what the Mac version is like, and with the passage of time and new tech, it may be dated. But being that we started in 1986 playing text adventures, this was an outstanding game!
Sorry to hear folks are having difficulty playing this game. We played it in 2004 on a PC and liked it very much. It's not as good as the original game, as it seemed darker and more serious, but it is still a great game. My Mac OS doesn't meet the minimum requirements needed, so I can't replay it. I still have the PC discs, but no longer use a PC. Hope they get the bugs out, because it really is fun to play.
Don't know why I never played this back in the day, but am so glad I got to do it now. This is a true adventure game-great story, voice acting, graphics & humor. The game includes the graphic novel, which fills you in on the background, but it makes sense not to read it until your in Day 4 or 5. It has a built in Hint system and a look back at the original game, in Gabe's journal. It was just weird not having use of a cell phone, which makes sense, being it was created 20 years ago. If you like adventure games, play this one.
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