Hi. I forgot to mention all the controls in the game: A single tab with 3 fingers is cancel, and a single tab with 4 fingers is the tutorial. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: [email protected] Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/
Den 03/03/2013 kl. 17.14 skrev Søren Jensen <[email protected]>: > Hi all. > > Here comes my text review of the game. I'm sorry for my bad spelling, but > english isn't my first language. :) > > The Inquisitor is a point and click, or, menu driven audio based adventure > game. The controls are described in the game, but I'll briefly go over those > anyway, because I'll discuss some navigating issues which don't makes sense > if you don't know the controls: > Single tab with one finger: Select next item. > Single tab with two fingers: Choose the selected item. > Swipe down with one finger: Inventory. > Swipe left with one finger: Notebook. > Swipe up with one finger: Map. > Swipe right with one finger: should tell you your mission, but that won't > work for me. > Drawing a cross: Hints, but that won't work for me either. Well, I hope it's > just me who are doing it wrong though. :) > > First I wanna tell the bad things about the game, which I really hope will be > fixed in an update: > I find the controls extremely clumsy and annoying. When going through the > menus by tabbing once with one finger, the game chooses randomly in the > menus. That means if you are counting the menu items, you'll find that the > game choose a menu item which you didn't expected, and other times it > randomly jumps over some of the menu items, and you have to keep pressing 15 > or 20 times until you finally have found what you're looking for. > Especially in the inventory, I find the game to automatically pick an item > which is done by pressing once with two fingers, when I only press with one > finger to go through my inventory. that's bluddy annoying, especially when > having more than 10 items in the inventory. > Pretty often, I find the game to crash randomly when going through the menus. > It just closes, and I'm back on the home screen with VOiceover turned off, > and I found myself opening random apps. Not a good thing. :) > Having all that said, I haven't tried to reinstall the game because I will > then have to start from scratch, but I'll consider doing so if I'm the only > one who have those issues. > > Now, to the great stuff: > > The game is really good, and it have a great story. There are many puzzles, > and I find the difficulty level to be pretty high, because there are used > many english words, which I find pretty difficult to understand because > english isn't my default language. the game is full of cutseens, and some of > them are very long. The audio could have been better, but the music is > awesome. The voiceover of the main character is awesome, and sometimes pretty > creepy. :) > The developers says that there's 6 to 8 hours of gameplay, but I think I've > played it more than that, and as I'm writing this, I'm only half through the > game. > All the areas are very well described, and there are many things which just > fits nicely into the game, but you don't have to use. That makes it harder to > solve the puzzles, because there are many combinations. > In some puzzles, the game kind of plays automatically which I have mixed > feelings about. I'm not sure, but it seems as you can easily miss some > important cutseens, because you might expect to do the puzzle manually, but > then the game does that automatically, so you might end up pressing the > screen, which might skip some cutseens. That means you sometimes have to wait > a few seconds to see if the game is loading or if you have to do the puzzle > on your own. > > Conklution: > > Is the game worth the price? Now I'm a gamer, so I'll say yes! :) > Thinking of how much narration the game offers, the full translation in three > different languages, all those long cutseens, lots and lots of puzzles, > minigames which I haven't seen yet and the upcomming graphical versions, I'll > say the game is very much worth the price, especially when those issues are > fixed. But if you're not into puzzle solving and clicking through a menu to > play a game, it might not be for you. > > I'm really enjoying the game, and I'm looking very much forward to see what > the developers are going to release in the future. > > Best regards: > Søren Jensen > Mail & MSN: > [email protected] > Website: > http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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