Conclave is the next addition to the long standing CK2. It adds a lot of wonderful and what feels to be necessary complexity to an already complex game.
GOTY edition, with 2 great character packs, new amazing story and quest and many more is something i wanted for a long time. You will love characters, storyline and game play!
This is one of those games that takes a fairly simple premise and expands it into a short but challenging puzzle game with a surprising amount of depth.
Gameplay is simple: connect dots of the same color to make them disappear, satisfy an objective unique to a given level to advance. What's impressive is how many different objectives 2DEngine.com came up with using a limited range of tools. Ranging from simple objectives such as get a high score to more complicated objectives such as keep a stream with multiple choke points flowing for 5 minutes.
The aesthetic is simple, colored dots and silhouette containers.That and the simplistic menu design are reminiscent of Flash games, but it doesn't have much impact on the game. Music's not bad, it seems to get louder when you get closer to failing an objective, but not much to write home about.
Overall, it's a decent game, there's a couple hours of quality gameplay, maybe a little more if you're into score attack.
If you are an older, slower Star Trek fan, this game is a good one. It is a turn based game. Graphics are great. There are some choices to be made as you amass points in 5 categories. Good choice at the beginning is ENERGY and then METALS. Credits are good and sometimes hard to come by. My favorite WONDER is the Dual Command, which allows two actions per turn. Explore them all and learn your best ones. SCIENCE upgrades are both offensive and defensive. I go with offensive first and push the Torpedeo and Engine options. Some battles can take a bit of time to finish and if you are not strategically placed, you may lose Star Systems. Larger size games with fewere opponents are somewhat easier to play. Many ways to play and win and lose and learn.
This is a dark game in hellish surroundings filled with dramatic love. The story is pretty original, a demon and the hero wants to save a loved one. I was hoping for a twist, but no. Despite that and despite the technical problem that forced me to close and reopen the game every 45 minutes, I liked it. It felt good helping tortured souls.
The artwork was nice and detailed with clear graphics. Good sound and mostly good voice overs, but they didn't succeed so well with the lip syncing. The hidden objects are very easy interactive lists, some are revisited. The mini games are mostly not that hard. There is a directional hint and the jumpable map shows available tasks and the morphing objects. The bonus game takes place at the same time by a different character in both same and new locations. It was something new to me and I liked it.
I didn't experience this game as scary although it appears to be. There were no jump scares or such, only a dark environment with skulls etc and a demon lady who threatens you. Anyway, demons, hell, red colour, tormented souls and love... If you like that, try the game.
Anna's Quest is okay. It doesn't have the comedy or personality of the Deponia series in my opinion, but it's certainly a nice little story that starts to gain some depth by the final chapter. It definitely held my interest, but I'm a fan of these point-and-click adventure games. The telekinesis bit is a nice twist, too.
The visuals look quite cartoony, which I guess matches the style of the game, but are nothing too spectacular. Some games I occasionally find myself sitting back and enjoying the beauty and/or originality of the illustrations. Not this one. It's pretty much stock standard stuff.
Depending on how puzzle-adept you are, you're probably looking at a lifespan of maybe 5-8 hours of gameplay. I got stuck once, but most things are generally pretty logical. I finished the game in a weekend of sporadic playing (a couple of hours here and there over two days).
The voice of Anna was a little irritating to me, which is a pity because, as the main character, she has most of the dialogue. I also note some of the more unusual words in the game were mispronounced a lot depending on which actors were hired. For example "wyrd" was pronounced either like "word" or "weird". Not a big issue, but distracting.
All in all, Anna's Quest won't win the adventure game of the year award, but it definitely falls squarely within that nice safe mid-range area of quality. And that's ok by me. Because I bought it on discount.
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