Reviews for Eddie's Lament

[manic-prophet]

Walkthrough - Kinda

I found it interesting that this was made the assumption that the player hasn't any knowledge of zombies.

Zed games get an automatic 10 then I drop the score depending on the content.
(-1) for voice. Irked the bloody hell out of me.
(-1) for length (lack thereof).

If you get sick of the narration - and trust me you will, simply click on the screen after reading the text (refer to djfug's post)

Important things to click on:

Laptop:
-Acquire memory stick
Drawer:
-Acquire paper clip and cough drop
Bathroom:
-Click on reflection with cough drop
-Click on cabinet lock with paper clip
-Acquire crowbar and penguin
(Thatperson364: that looks like an image of an empty hallway)
Window:
-Acuire car keys
-Click on window with crowbar
Raven:
-Click on raven with penguin
-Acuire shotty
Basement:
-Click on fusebox with memory stick
TV:
-Acquire headshot knowledge
Door:
-Kill Lenore
SUV:
-Click on SUV with car keys

[yourfriendlygamer]

>,>

I love zombies so so much but this game was ok...it could be better and longer but blah it was pretty good

[ChronoNomad]

I don't know why this game has been voted down so much. Fundamentally, it's not a bad little Point 'n Click. In my opinion, the biggest negatives are the relatively short gameplay and the particularly over-the-top poetry recitations. I was really hoping that the latter would improve after using the cough drop, but...no such luck.

The game itself obviously isn't meant to be an intensely scary horror fest of zombie apocalyptic proportions. What I do like is how the game doesn't take itself too seriously, and in fact leans more towards overt silliness than anything else. The rhymes are somewhat kitschy, but since everything needed to more or less conform to the rhyming scheme of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven," I think you did a pretty good job overall.

In conclusion, I personally believe that this game deserves much better than its paltry one-star rating. I find it really hard to believe that it's been voted down so mercilessly just because of the not-so-pleasant gravelly voice reading the lines of poetic verse. Well, maybe people just don't care for poetry anymore, and maybe the game idea is just too radically different from what people expect and/or want. Or maybe you were just another victim of zero bombers. Either way, I maintain that this game deserves a hell of a lot better that what it's gotten from the voting populace.

[pepperace]

As I was browsing Hamumu's games
I came upon a familiar name
"Eddie's lament", a game I'd played
And had fond memories, all things said

So I sat and started fresh
To view this horror/poetry mesh
The voice acting was a bit off
And nothing was notably tough

But all in all, twas rather fun
I'd for sure play another one
Even with its minor flaws
I still give it a round of 'plause
Quoth the rater: Star count 4

[djfuq]

Game was cool

I like PnC games and the edgar allen poe style was really cool at first ... but after a while you just turned it into a family guy joke by dragging that last word longer and longer everytime. By half way thru the game i just read the rhyme then clicked the voice away.... if not for that i would've gave it a 10