fantasy

I waited for months and months for this game to be released.

When I first started the game I wrote off the absolutely abysmal character voice overs as "something I could deal with" and anxiously looked forward to the puzzles. What a complete disappointment. The dialog was difficult to listen to, again and again. If you went back to see if something was new.. and it wasn't.. you got the whole original speil again. The puzzles were either way too easy.. or not intuitive at all.. a bunch of try everything until it works. They also had to be done somewhat in a particular order. If you guessed that you needed something early etc, you couldn't do it until the game was ready. I was all ready to finally get to a "new" place when I realized I had finished the game. Even if this game is in the "bargain basement" box for $2.. forget it, it isn't worth it.
This is a perfect example of everything *not* to do for a game of this type..

Oh.. there were a couple really neat graphics.. but look on any review site and you can see the couple that are worth bothering to see.. and you can't traverse them so what you see there is what your going to get in the game

Sturgeon's law states that 95% of everything is crap. I think he was optimistic - for every Hamlet, there are bezillions of sitcoms; For every Ring Cycle, there are several cubic yards of mindless MTV pap.

And for every Myst, or Syberia, there are far too many games like Crystal Key 2.

Crude and muddy graphics, pointless story line, endless exposition, and illogical puzzles based on the tried and trusted technique of 'search everywhere until you are frustrated; talk to everyone many times over; try everything in your inventory, in combination if necessary'

No redeeming features, as far as I can see....

Don't you just love a game that has technical problems right off the bat. I installed this game without any difficulties and the game would not launch. So I uninstalled the game, disabled my anti-virus, and reinstalled the game. Still would not launch. So $20 completely wasted because I cannot even start the game. I wrote technical support for the Adventure Company - we'll see if they even bother to respond. They didn't the last time I wrote them about a completely different problem with another one of their games.

I ended up having to get a new video card in order to play this game. Although, I'm sure it will come in handy for future games it was a complete waste of money regarding this game.

I hated this game and I admit that I could not even finish it. The graphics were absolutely terrible, bad enough that it made gaming more difficult since I often couldn't make out what I was looking at. I attempted to play this game right after playing Syberia II. I don't expect every game to look as beautiful and detailed as the Syberias but this game looks like something that could have been produced 10 years ago.

The other thing that drove me crazy was the music. For some reason the game had a jazz-like soundtrack. That would be fine if the game took place in New Orleans or Chicago instead of some planet elsewhere in the galaxy.

I do my best to finish games (after all who wants to waste the money) no matter how bad they are. I just couldn't do it with this one.