Reviews for a Grain of Truth

[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.

[AlmightyKhunt]

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.

[nbomb]

it's a nice sequel but the first game seemed faster. i am of native american blood so i find this game extremely interesting as it has great storytelling in it and i am a writer. it could use a smaller file size to speed up scene shifts but all in all, it looks great.

mrudi responds:

Thank you. Nice to hear that you like the story and the way it was told (even if little too slow)
And yes, better preloading it's a must for the next one.

[DoodleBin]

Beautiful artwork. Loved what i played.

Unfortunately, the twice i tried playing, it crashed. I'm using the latest version of Chrome, on an Intel Imac. Hope to see more work of this standard in the future. :D

mrudi responds:

Good to hear you like it. But it's sad that it crushed
The game use autosave - thanks to that we should be able to continue even after so ugly thing happend to us. But in that way or another - I'm sorry - game shouldn't crush.

Unfortunately I took right now a trip myself on intel macbook in chrome and it worked great.
I hate when it work for me and no for other player.

[Suna-Amun]

I'm So upset! I think It's a good Concept but i can even get past the Mahjong Cloud phase. I think It's a good game but you should offer hints, or help.

mrudi responds:

yes it little hard (our fault) in that place, but most part is quite easy and pleasant.