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Reviews for "Escape THE GAME"

Outstanding! Very nicely plotted. A good little nostalgia trip with decent graphics and scenic music and sound. I liked the self-awareness and touches of humor. It's worth replaying to get all three endings, they are quite distinct! The real trick is finding both the "cheating" and "beating" methods of solving each puzzle.

A bit of a shame about the lack of voice-acting, though I suppose the cheapness was part of the charm. Voice acting can add a lot to the atmosphere of a game if done well (Beneath a Steel Sky springs to mind, in this genre).

My major reservations? Dialogue, though witty, goes on too long, and there is no way to skip through the reams of dialogue (particularly in the first room) when you replay. More complexity to the tasks might have been nice but then it would have been a longer game (I quite like a good minigame puzzle and this game didn't really have any). There were few interactable elements in any scene - a nice escape from pixel hunting, but I quite enjoy clicking on random objects or places and getting a wry description even if I can't use the thing. A little more of that descriptive dialogue wouldn't have gone amiss.

Nothing that would make me give less than five stars though. Top stuff.

Muja responds:

My bad, I admit this game contains lots of dialogues. That's also one reason why there's no voice-acting, the other being that, you're right, a good voice-acting can change a game for the better, but a bad voice-acting can change it for the worse, as well.

In short, it's hard to make a good quality voice-acting for so many dialogues and so many different characters... without spending a small fortune!

But I'm glad you liked the game despite all that, thank you for your nice review!

OMG! A game tagged as Point'n Click Adventure that is a REAL point&click adventure! I can't believe it!
Moreover it contains:
multiple endings,
puzzles that can be solved in many ways,
references to games I well know,
humor (even if I prefer serious stories).

Well, I'm not an "influent video games critic", but i give you five stars! ;)

BTW Thanx for the italian language option, and, above all (PSEUDO-SPOILER ALERT) thank you for allow me to kill Simon!

Muja responds:

Thanks a lot!
Every single reviewer counts a lot, whether he's influent or not :D

And lol, you're welcome, but Tymon did it pretty much all on his own

Thanks again!

P.S. The reason this game has italian language, too, is because I'm italian. That's also why it lacks "more popular" languages - I can't speak them :P

i could not stop laughing. Webos a ti!

Muja responds:

That's great! thank you for the review!

My mind is blown. Each ending is unique and twisted, and I just love seeing the dwarf cry.

Muja responds:

... Poor dwarf. All he wanted was a sword. Lol.

So you got all three endings? That's great, I'm glad you had fun with the game!
Thanks for your review!

Uh, man, that was GREAT!

However... It is still possible to swap statues even without debugging the troll.
And about these phials... If you give Rincewind tears, then you cannot make a "cheating" ending, which I think isn't right. Moreover, if you give Rincewind tears or yawn before you duplicate phial at merchant, you cannot finish game at all. To prevent such things, I'd suggest that Rincewind should accept ingredients only according to order - bug wing first, yawn and tears afterwards. Or that phial will be "respawned" somehow...

But, first of all, that really was GREAT! Thank you a lot for it!

P.S. And there was the only chest in point&click games which you SHOULDN'T EVEN THINK OF TO OPEN IT! He-he-he...

Muja responds:

Thank you for your kind review, and I'm glad you had fun!

But I have to correct on a few things:
- you'll get the "cheating" ending even if you cheat only ONE trial;
- Most of the puzzles have different solutions

So, even if you give Rincewind the dwarf tears *before* duplicating the vial, you can still get the cheating ending, and you can ALWAYS finish the game, doesn't matter which solution you pick.

For example, you don't HAVE to collect all ingredients to become a wizard. You can always try to talk with the other one, and do as he asks.

P.S.
I'm always very glad when someone gets one of my references.
We've got an avid Discworld fan here ;)

Thanks again!