Absolutely beautiful and surreal. Like so many woven dreams and
breathtaking vistas and grand accomplishments... this game is everything
I hoped it would be from the time I first spotted the box to the final
credits. There is also no false advertisement in the title, as this is
an extremely long journey. After dozens and dozens of diverse characters
and locations and victories, you realize you have three discs of game
left to go through. I played this game for months, though not always at
the computer. I would get stuck on a particularly devious puzzle or plot
point and wouldn't play for a while, but found myself brainstorming
possible solutions all the time. There are many hours of dialogue and
monologue (April tends to talk to herself about whatever is on her mind,
which are often the same questions you find yourself asking) and most
of it has some comic relief, usually from April's understandable
cynacism (she does see and hear some very strange things).
If
you want an awesome adventure game that will stretch the limits of your
imagination and that will take for-freakin'-ever to finish, I highly
recommend this game, although you'd probably love it regardless.
- Some of the puzzles are entirely based on "hunt the pixel" --
success hinges on finding the one tiny pixel that's hidden behind
something else. I want puzzles to require intelligence and flexibility
on my part, not keen eyesight and infinite patience in moving the mouse
over the screen.
The game *was* good. The voice acting was excellent, the graphics were
pretty, and the characters were engaging. The story was also very good
(though some threads never got resolved, which was annoying).
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