Looks great but...
I think I'd really like the game if it didn't have the time limit. Made me lose interest. I guess I just think a point and click is about being careful and thorough...and not necessarily a race...
Reviews for "Icescape"
so as much as id love to give this game a full 5 stars, i cant.
1. restarting every time you die
i understand this isnt a long game, but when youre thrown into a game, with a time limit, and given little instruction on how things work, it gets very annoying having to start from the beginning all the time.
2. the timer lengths
the only puzzles that had the timers were the last 3 in the game. the pressure pipes, the fuses, and the safe. all 3 of these were just straight up annoying and infuriating. it took me several attempts to complete the pipes because the timer was so short it kept telling me i had failed when i completed it just in time. i didnt finish the fuses because i didnt have them all but same thing, not enough time to really do the puzzle. now the safe is why i had to stop playing. that "puzzle" was aggravating at its finest. 5 seconds to get a very specific number on a very not specific dial. 5 seconds seems like plenty enough time, till its not. the timers have no mercy on if you got it just in time.
3. story??
i didnt really get much of a story from this game at all. now i wasnt able to complete it, but even then i should understand more than what the game gave.
this game is a "wave the mouse and pray" game. not my style, but i can appreciate the time and effort it took to create it.
not so great......
the storyline was simple and the "challenges" were simple as well but the pipes i couldnt figure out what to do and i could get any of the pieces to move.
dissappointment
usually youre games are good but the timers are too fast. after the first try on the pressure valves it wouldn't let me place anymore in the next few tries.
Why doesn't the login information work?
Why does the password for the computer not work at all? I have tried every possible combination of capitalized and lowercase letters for the password and login (though when you find it, it looks to be all capitalized, which is what i tried the first few times). Then, after my twelfth try, the item that has the password disappeared! I give up: this game isn't worth finishing, with this on top of the time limit that's far too short unless you've played through the game a few times before reaching the point at which you froze to death. Nice set up, but it's so frustrating it goes from being a game to being a task.