gay
It's a pretty sick game, but not finishing it is weak. Why not get someone else to help you finish the series?
Reviews for "The Ambridge Mansion-Day2"
...quoth the raven 'nevermore'...
this game is not as good as the first, you lost the... ambience of raw fear, it was... too bright, it was as creepy as Poe's poem 'the raven' (reason for the summary title) if you were to try again, id say, "don't try too hard, just try to do the same thing you did while making the first..."
Ugh
OK!
I've played both games, so far both have the same great flaw; no finish line.
Also, the first puzzle piece of this one is stupidly hard to find, like really, who would think there's an AXE there?!?! WOW!
Sounds were outright creepy, I'm not exactly easy to scare, so I have to admit the shadows were rather simple, its like being attacked by black paper cut-outs.
However, the atmosphere is superb, just like in the first game.
Don't make me point out again that there's no finish. Ugh.
the 2nd one
I almost feel like a dick for reviewing this after not spending the requisite time to see it through. I just came back though, and as you've got 3 reviews, I thought I'd give you my thoughts.
What I did: I started the game, looking round all the rooms. Tried clicking on everything, no response... after a few rooms, I got really frustrated and started using the 'tab' key to work out what was clickable.
Carried on, room to room, kinda getting lost... eventually, just as I was thinking of closing it, I found the book that sent me to the 'real' game. I collected maybe 5 items, then was killed after clicking on a spooky-looking thing.
Closed window. Restarted. This time, was killed in the lab/greenhouse.
Decided I probably wouldn't play it again.
++++ The effect with the monsters shifting in/out of the shadows is fairly effective.
+++ Slightly disturbing sfx.
-- There's a few doors that I just wouldn't have seen had I not used the tab.
------ I just hate the way that I died that 2nd time. I feel that there was nothing to suggest I shouldn't have done that - the whole game seems to be based around clicking around to pick things up. So to kill us after opening one door seems unfair. It's something I couldn't have really known before the fact. I had no clues to suggest I shouldn't have opened that cupboard door. So it just seems like an annoying random killing, which we only get past by prior knowledge.
---- Text at start is a terrible colour. Dark red on a dark background? It needs more contrast!
+++ Some cool design of monsters.
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It seems like a lot of work's gone into this. I love the noises and could have maybe gotten lost in the atmosphere. But the lack of interaction at the start and the randomness of the deaths (particularly the 2nd one) just made me feel that the game wasn't really trying to let me have fun.
I felt as if it was boiling down to too much play-by-rote and trial-and-error.
jimgray responds:
Why did you have to close the window to restart? The game should take you to a continue screen and you restart with no penalties. As for the picking things up and dying thing that's part of the genre. You're supposed to beat the game by clicking on things and trial-and-error. However, I know a lot of people don't like the genre, unfortunately.
Graphics :/
..The 1st game was way better, the graphics were more clear. :/ I didn't like this one.