erigby's Profile
Stat Summary
- Average Rating:4
- Helpful Votes:174
- Reviews Submitted:3
- First Review:November 19, 2011
- Most Recent Review:December 6, 2011
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erigby's Review History
Death Under Tuscan Skies: A Dana Knightstone Novel
Journey across Italy as best-selling novelist Dana Knightstone in Death Under Tuscan Skies: A Dana Knightstone Novel!
Overall rating
5
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5
54 of 69 found this review helpful
Go Forth And Buy!
PostedDecember 6, 2011
erigby
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
This is the second game in this series I've played and it's just as beautiful and entertaining as Death At Fairing Point. The artwork is astonishing and a pleasure to gaze upon.
All the characters are believable, including the narrator and the plot has been polished to perfection. The soundtrack is a duplicate of the first game but works really well with this story,too.
Fast recharge hint/skip buttons, very good ambient sounds, and interesting, challenging puzzles round out this amazing offering from Boomzap.
Trouble is, now I want to move to Tuscany....
I recommend this game!
Awakening: The Goblin Kingdom
After overcoming the Dreamless Castle and Moonfell Wood, you have come to the rugged, mountainous snow-peaked Goblin Kingdom!
Overall rating
4
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5
93 of 115 found this review helpful
Third In The Series
PostedDecember 6, 2011
erigby
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Just passing through on my way to the umpteenth consultation with the WT for this game. (Guess I should have bought the CE after all.)
The Goblin Kingdom is everything the first two were, only harder. Same lilting music, same gorgeous artwork, same cute little pocket dragon, intriguing characters, and an engaging plot. That's the good news.
The bad news is those puzzles are everywhere you look and guard everything you need to get to. Some are within the realm of my intelligence (STD, pipe connections, match 3, ID 2 of a kind, puzzle pieces to reconstruct, tangrams) but there are a lot of those spin- the- wheel- and- everything- shifts- position type puzzles (like the one in the storeroom with the safe and the gem collection mini game at the train station).
Let's just say I'm getting very well acquainted with Ran, the wise and deferential hint owl and setting fire to anything encased in ice with the pocket dragon. Unfortunately, Ran's hints dried up at the maze behind door #2 at the tavern, and that's why I'm on my way to the WT to end my current misery.
The object searches are few and far between and I would hazard a guess the game would have been 18 hours long if more had been included, with me at the controls anyway. This is a well-produced game that has so much going for it, but I just wish they had toned down the number of puzzles a little bit for a better balance. (I mean, do we really need 3 untangle-the-wires in one mini game to extract a bolgin coin?)
Still, it's a beautiful game and except for puzzle overload, one that I've enjoyed playing so far.
I recommend this game!
Azada® : In Libro Collector's Edition
Save the three worlds contained inside of a magical book in Azada: In Libro! Stop a dark magician from conquering Azada!
Overall rating
3
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5
27 of 38 found this review helpful
Based on demo only
PostedNovember 19, 2011
erigby
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
After waiting for what seems like years for Azada 3, the best word I can come up with is: underwhelmed. If you're looking for similarities to the first two games, look elsewhere, b/c the only connection I saw/heard was Titus and Azada which I've, apparently, been pronouncing wrong all this time.
True, ERS standards are alive and well in this game, including full screen, good voice overs, excellent artwork, intriguing plot, 3 levels of play, glitch-free playing so far (somehow they've eliminated the drag time present in all their other games) and, mercifully, a new musical score from ERS.
It's still being called a HOPA on the game page, but there aren't any HOS, at least in the demo. The puzzles, which set the first two Azadas apart from other games of this genre, were fun but not very challenging and wasn't incorporated to mesh with the storyline as in the first two games.
Bottom line? I like the game, b/c after all it is Azada. But, now don't laugh, it just doesn't have the charm and intimacy the other two possessed. Will I buy it? Sure. Just not the CE.
I recommend this game!