Hi Suren,
Thanks for the description of the game. I often have sluggishness with
the inventory. Imho the developer should implement that will allow you
to go BACK as well as forward through the menu system. Also he should
possibly limit the USE system a bit because now you have to search
really long till you find the item that you want to use your other item
with.
I have not really gotten far yet because i am stumped with some stuff
but the initiave and the audio is great, now just hope that bugfixing
will occur.
Greetings, Anouk,
Op 03/03/2013 17:14, Søren Jensen schreef:
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/
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