Enigmatis: Ghosts of Maple Creek
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10/13/19 02:47 PM
10/13/19 02:47 PM
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Reenie
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I just replayed this game that I first played in 2013. The second time around, I was still impressed by the complexity of the story and the way the game played out. It felt much more like a true Adventure than many HO-based games I've played. I enjoyed it the second time around, but I won't be playing it again. My quibbles:
First, the game had way too much HO compared to the current run of HOAs. This is probably due to its age, but I got tired of having an HO scene pushed in my face every other move. It got tiresome. Also, the HO scenes are a bit "mean spirited," in my view. By this, I mean that quite a few items in each scene are so well hidden by other items overlaying them that you can scan right past them without a clue that you saw it. This is made worse by the fact that many of them do not look like the object you are seeking. A "bowl" might turn out to be that coconut off to side. By the end of the game, I was increasingly aggravated by the whole HO thing.
Second, there is an above-average level of chasing your tail in this game, constantly being sent back and forth through many different screens to retrieve one piece of inventory that you knew you needed but the game would not let you take until you had done Task G-14 first. Not having a game map on the screen made all that backtracking tedious. Again, this is probably due to the age of the game. They all are better about this now.
I played three of the games in this series and generally felt that I got my money's worth. That latest one I played was Shadow of Karkhala, in 2017. My comment on that game applies also to this one: "Another good game with a good story, long and with some excellent and original puzzles. HOs tedious, repetitive and not fun, though. No replay."
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Re: Enigmatis: Ghosts of Maple Creek
[Re: Reenie]
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10/15/19 08:24 AM
10/15/19 08:24 AM
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Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 40,644 southeast USA
Jenny100
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Wow, how do you do that? Do you have an older computer they still will run on, aside from your normal machine? My old Myst game came on floppy disks, and I have no way to play it. Whatever game you're thinking of, it wasn't Myst. Myst was only released on CD in the 1990's. It would have needed something like 180 floppies. That amount of data wouldn't have fit on the tiny hard drives of 1993, so you couldn't have a full installation. You'd have had to constantly be swapping floppies as you played. Remember when CD's held more data than hard drives?
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