Looking forward to the next part!
Reviews for "a Grain of Truth"
mrudi responds:
if only the days could have 32 hours... :-)
The loading time for new screens is really annoying. Hate waiting up to a minute for them. Other than that though this was a great game, and an amazing story. Very well done!
mrudi responds:
You manage to finish it after waiting up to a minute for images to load? Wow. Thank you for your play and unusual patience. Usually it takes only a second/two...
it has been more than ten years and i still remember the first time i played this game, love how the game makes you take your time and discover every place from this wonderful and magnificent place. Hope one day to see a sequel!
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.
I played this game and the first.o make sure I didnt miss some crucial obscure click This story was less interesting and less appealing than the first. The navigation in this game was also less enjoyable than the previous game. This one has more options but instead of making it more enjoyable it makes things more complicated and easier to miss things. I didn't need a walkthrough for the first game, which was an enormous plus, but I did need one for this game because very early on I became stuck, and it was due to one or two skipped "examine" clicks on obscure items. Needing to start over and use a walkthrough step by step was a tremendous detraction to my enjoyment of the game. Walking from one end of the map to the other took twice as many clicks as it should have (click, then walk to, rather than just clicking to go to the next screen). The puzzles were a nice addition, but the cloud sorting was more difficult than it should have been, with the very specific order in which you need to remove the tiles. The fill in the blank questions were also more difficult than they should have been, with needing to find the words all over the map and then pick the correct combo. Hiding the inventory on a secondary screen was also a bad choice. The first game's inventory being constantly visible and accessible made interfacing with it much easier and also prevented you from forgetting about it.
All in all this game was "good" but not great. The first one was great.
mrudi responds:
Great you played the both. Thanks for opinion.