Red Comrades 3: Return of Alaska. Reloaded
This game is AWESOME! If you liked any of the monkey island games or any old school point and click/combine you’ll love this game. It has a different feature of detaching items you have previously attached so you have to really think about it. It’s a long game at least several hours as you change areas so much. It has extremely funny humor that is thrown in here and there and funny situations. If you like point and click games then you need this one for sure! 9/10!
– Real player with 17.0 hrs in game
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It’s not a bad game, much better than the second part, but not great either, I feel like at some places it was a cent short of a dollar, and some non game breaking bugs were left in the game.
With some places the puzzles made sense but even when you figure out the solution there was an iillogical way to actually apply it, for example
! the puzzle with the magnet where you had to shoot it with the bazooka, clicking on the magnet with the bazooka didn’t work, yo had to click with the bazooka on one of the players in the room with the magnet And some puzzles made no sense at all, like the way you had to get rid of the dog.
– Real player with 15.4 hrs in game
Nancy Drew®: Danger by Design
Look, I love Nancy Drew games… most of the time.
This was not one of those times. The ending was random, anti-climatic, and had an annoying twist of having to fight someone. (Which requires both crazy dexterity and memorization.) Most of the side-plots get zero resolution.
There’s also a timed event that occurs while a conversation is going on. Time limits are always stressful for me, but I get it, it’s Nancy Drew. There tends to be at least one in each game. But while listening to chatter? Ugh. No. Just… no.
– Real player with 13.4 hrs in game
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This one is bad; one of the worst ones I have ever played (the other one being Secret at Shadow Ranch, I would not get that one either, if I were you. If you want to know why, check out my review on the Secret of Shadow Ranch, because there are a bunch of major problems in that game too). The puzzles in this game are just mind boggling; they make no sense, and are really frustrating, because most of them come without any tips or clues, leaving you to figure it out on your own.
One of the most infuriating parts in this game is where you have to develop photos in a dark room; and when I say dark, I mean pitch black. You have all the trays with different liquids, to place the photos in, but then you have to switch the light off when you do that!! Apparently, the red lighting in the room damages the photos, so you have to work in complete darkness, feeling around for the trays to put the photos in. It’s so easy to knock bottles of fluids over, which somehow causes an explosion (??), then you have to take a second chance.
– Real player with 12.3 hrs in game
Nancy Drew®: The Silent Spy
Overall, I’d give this one a 7.5/10! I liked the story and the puzzles were a good level of difficulty, perhaps it was on the medium side. Some of the characters were great, some were alright. The setting of this game was a good one as well, however there weren’t that many places to explore. I’m glad that the “chore” type stuff in this one was super minimal - barely there at all. I also liked that most of the resources you needed were with you most of the time.
One of the weaker points to this one was that there was a lot of repetition in the conversations with the characters. I think Nancy asked the same questions like 10 times. But because I liked most of the characters enough, it was not unbearable, and you can skip through them. It also felt like a relatively short game compared to some others.
– Real player with 14.6 hrs in game
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Scotland. Secret agent themed brain teasers. Scotland. Archery. Need I say more?
Seriously, if you are a long time Nancy Drew game fan, this one hits all the marks, not to mention it’s a rare and responsibly told foray into Nancy’s canon and they do such a good job with the story. The game flows well and there always seem to be something to do, even in lulls
(of which there were few). It has a good range of puzzles, ranging from fun, to medium to challenging (for me these are always the ones where you simply use association and intuition to put the clues together, and ultimately solve it using trial and error). Be warned there is a lot of text/letters to read and lots of dialogue.
– Real player with 10.5 hrs in game
Mahjong: Magic Chips
Laziest mobile port possible.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Mahjong: Magic Chips is a port of a mobile mahjong game to PC, complete with in-app purchases and artificial game limiting through timers and lives. 3/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-cnzwLgo3w
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Deponia
♪ Huzzah! A fun and cool game! ♪
I don’t typically play point-and-click games, but I find the Deponia series worth the playthrough.
Let’s get cons out of the way. There are cons, but none of them bother me. As with any of the Daedalic Entertainment games I’ve picked up, solutions AREN’T straightforward and puzzles - while fully doable - can be frustrating. You become better at figuring out Daedalic’s zany solutions the more games you play, but there’s something to be said that Deponia isn’t bad with a walkthrough if you just want the humor and storyline. (At least you can choose to skip puzzles so you don’t get stuck!) Last, while the English voice actors are DOWNRIGHT WONDERFUL and I do play this game with the dub (I almost exclusively watch/play subs, for reference), there are occasional English spelling errors for the text that you’ll see, and some audio glitches where spoken lines are accidentally repeated. That, plus a few glitches in animation, are really all that’s the pitfalls - which again, aren’t collectively bothersome to me.
– Real player with 44.8 hrs in game
A Review of the Deponia Trilogy as a whole:
More info on BrokenCartridge: http://www.brokencartridge.net/deponia-trlogy-a-retrospective/
Score: 4.5/5
I will not be covering the story in complete detail because there is a lot you should experience on your own while playing through the game. The story in a brief few sentences is that you play as Rufus, an egocentric self-centered slob whose only goal is to leave his trash heap of a planet to go to the city in the sky. The world that he lives on is called Deponia, a planet littered with trash. All of the rich folk moved up into the city in the sky, Elysium some time ago. During one of your endeavors you knock an Elysium girl off of an Organon cruiser. Throughout the first game you try to use her to find your way onto Elysium, only to end up finding out that the Elysians plan on blowing up Deponia! The second and third games are mainly spent trying to stop the Organon from doing this devilish deed while figuring out their motives along the way.
– Real player with 21.9 hrs in game