tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66804573809830029832011-04-21T22:58:32.988+01:00Reviews of adventure games, old and new, commercial and freeware.Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005668834167657442noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680457380983002983.post-91146575995918586142008-01-13T22:12:00.000Z2008-01-13T22:40:54.458Z

I must begin by saying that full 3D is a very bad idea for adventure games. Being a genre which relies on skills of observation and logical thinking, rather than twitch reflexes, 3D is too much. It quite literally makes me ill. Every few steps, you are constantly scrutinising your surroundings for clues, rotating and panning the camera to check every angle. Actions which we can do quite naturally

Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005668834167657442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680457380983002983.post-19369314010622129272008-01-11T21:03:00.000Z2008-01-11T21:37:50.554Z

If there is a platform so ideally suited to the point and click adventure game, it is most certainly the Nintendo DS. And the Phoenix Wright games are a fairly decent example of this. The graphics are quite pretty for all the size of it, looking somewhat similar in style to the Broken Sword games, using anime style character art which blends fairly well together.Now I can't say I'm hugely

Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005668834167657442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680457380983002983.post-62797174956996242942007-12-28T20:09:00.000Z2008-01-11T21:40:28.350Z

I rather dislike the term 'Myst clone'. Though it is generally used as a a derogatory term for a poor imitation of a genre defining game, it bothers me to have so many pieces of trash mentioned in the same breath as Myst (yes I like Myst, shush!).And Aura lives up to this definition pretty well. Beautiful scenery and a slew of mechanical puzzles, and little much else of note. There is little

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