Reviews for a Grain of Truth

[CupCakeLover95]

first of all, before starting my actual review, I definitely want to recommend anyone to play the game in a pop up, preferably in full screen for the best experience

now my review:
I really loved the game, I also played the first trader of stories game, this one was even better in my opinion than the first one

I loved the music and artwork
I also loved how you can examine so many things, and although some of them might not add too much to the story it's fun, and it some words for the story game can be found during examining, so I like how you 'learn' those words during your adventure

I can however imagine that some puzzles can be confusing if you never played anything like it before (e.g. the cloud separating mahjong puzzle), I myself had difficulty with the story game, because I thought I had all the words I could get at that moment, but it turned out I didn't, and anywhere else in the story I couldn't really find anything to progress with, though consulting the walktrough, I found that I missed a word, and by finding that word, I also found another part which I could use to progress

so perhaps you should consider giving the gamer short instructions on the puzzles, and with the story game, perhaps it'd be nice to have to possibility to see what words you're still missing, so you know it when you need to search for more words

I also really like the fact that you can import a game, so you can continue playing on another computer, or even share the code with others, to show them at what point you're stuck

the eye-tool was also a big help during some scenes when I was stuck,

definitely worth 4.5 stars, add some puzzle instructions and a help tool for the puzzles and I'd make it 5 stars

mrudi responds:

Thank you very much for so detailed and positive :-) review.
It's so nice to find out that you like it - thank you for your time and effort!

Mahjong puzzle without hints and any instruction and words hidden in secondary dialogues and even monologues (without the possibilitty to see what me still missing) - these are our big sins. We learnt a lot from this and hope that next time, with our next adventure, we try to score full 5 :-)

[AlterFox]

Good Game. My only Issue is that i fond and used the projector and found the wiseman even measured the floating rock, now what?

mrudi responds:

Thank you.
Here you may find some answer (walkthrough):
http://jayisgames.com/archives/2012/05/the_trader_of_stories_a_grain_of_truth.php#walkthrough
or even on video tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHVIGFdYgME

[appy500]

okayy

[quita85]

great game! art, music, story and gameplay are not only beautiful but also coherent. I'll be waiting for other works from the same authors

mrudi responds:

Thank you - for a play and kind word

[neworleansdude]

Alright - I love the art and the music is fairly good as well. I can't play on this anymore because it's driving me batty! I will continue to play this game until I win it, but not tonight.

The Cloud Game puzzle is terrible. Where is the logic in how it works? I've tried that a dozen times now using different ideas and none of them work. So you can't go for the same sort of stone back to back...you have to uncover the layers...okay, I get that....

Maybe I need something more to be able to beat this puzzle....?

That early on in the game it's horrible to have a something that seems like it can't be solved.

I tried making sure it was (one of five) different symbols each time....Unless I need an extra block from somewhere later on in the game it's too cryptic.

This is a really good game, just frustrating as hell at the moment.

Also when changing 'pages' there is a bit of lag time....I understand the sorta grey screen going over and moving from left to right, but, it seems like for some stages it takes too much time.

Anyway it's a nice creation.

mrudi responds:

Thank you for review. Happy to hear you like the art and music.

Yes, we "little" overdo with the puzzle. Sorry. It's just a mahjong style puzzle. We assumed that every one know the rules - our big mistake.

And for the changing pages (locations) issue - we preloading images per location there. The game main preloaded load only intro and mainmenu - rest is loaded when we traver from location to location. It's a best solution? - no at all, but is quite good one. And if you have been in some location it no longer needs time to load.