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| 14 JUL 2005 at 11:19am |
Chris.Schattenjger
Posts : 1842
Joined: 8 MAR 2005
Status : Online | I really enjoyed this game, but it's mostly very easy except for a few particular puzzles
I didn't think there was anything wrong with the character models, and I thought that the voice acting was good (except for the "howdy y'all" American accents in Prague). The ending was inexcusable, though. I gave it a 7.
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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| 14 JUL 2005 at 11:57am |
colpetSchattenjger
Posts : 1630
Joined: 12 APR 2003
Status : Offline | It's taken me a while to define my tastes to the point where I don't automatically buy every published Adventure game. Even then the temptation is strong
However, I know what I like to play, and unfortunately Still Life is not really appealing to me. So, in defiance of my BAAGs ( see GB for explanation ), I will not be getting this game.
Occasionally visiting Uru Live (KI 0063722 .&&
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| 14 JUL 2005 at 7:56pm |
ElfstoneGuild Master
Posts : 5892
Joined: 4 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Doesn't sound too cheerful so far.
[b]playing[/b]: Destination Treasure Island (done in two sittings, but it's nice), Syberia (ho-hum), Dracula: Last Sanctuary (on hold)&&[b]reading[/b]: even more study papers&&[b]listening to[/b]: [url=http://www.last.fm/user/Brax82/]this and that[/url], plus [url=http://www.musicovery.com/]Musicovery[/url]&&[b]TV favorites[/b]: (currently) Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Journeyman (cancelled! grrr...), Heroes&& all-time) 24, Stargate SG1, X-Files, Lost, House
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| 15 JUL 2005 at 4:55am |
Mr. WrecksSpace Cadet
Posts : 118
Joined: 5 OCT 2004
Status : Online | Eh, I liked it. It was interesting, graphic, fun and, although a bit easy, paced very well. Some voiceovers were pretty horrendous, but if you like the 2D/3D mix style gameplay, this executes fairly well.
Try the demo before you write it off...
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| 15 JUL 2005 at 4:44pm |
ShanyGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 19 JUN 2003
Status : Online | I liked it. I gave it an 8.
A very interesting story and some good characters.
Voice acting and dialogues were great half the time, vut the rest of the time you would talk to characters that talked like a poorly voiced cartoon.
Puzzles were either inventory or mechanical, and were pretty mediocre.
It could've been much better if the company had more time and money to work on it .
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| 17 JUL 2005 at 7:49am |
Jenny100Guild Master
Posts : 3510
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | I gave it an 8. The overall impression I had of it was better than the sum of its parts. It's too bad Microids ran out of money and time and wasn't able to follow through with their original ending:
http://forums.adventuregamers.com/showpost.php?p=143605&postcount=55
http://forums.adventuregamers.com/showthread.php?t=8038&page=3
I'd have liked to see that ending.
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| 3 AUG 2005 at 2:31am |
HelenGuild Master
Posts : 3436
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Not a spectacular game but very enjoyable for me, I give it an 8.
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| 19 NOV 2005 at 4:56am |
tmalusIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 11
Joined: 19 NOV 2005
Status : Online | Just finished it. To me, it's only worth a 6.
No ending. Some annoying trial-and-error puzzles (***Spoiler Warning***especially making gingerbread man >).
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| 29 NOV 2005 at 1:17pm |
BunnyFuFuSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 270
Joined: 11 FEB 2003
Status : Online | I liked the game, but the ending was rushed and unsatisfactory. A lot of potential was lost, so I only rate it a 7.
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| 11 DEC 2005 at 12:24am |
RobDSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 382
Joined: 30 NOV 2002
Status : Online | I give it an 8. It's a gorgeous game with a dark interesting plot. But I felt that a couple of the puzzles
were badly designed. It's too short and the ending is incomplete.
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| 29 JUL 2006 at 10:42pm |
WimliGuild Master
Posts : 3259
Joined: 14 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | I just finished this one last nigth and grew more and more dissatisfied with it as the game moved on. It started out really interesting, with an intriguing story and a cool main character. But things went wrong as far as gameplay is concerned. Sometimes the main character would just blatantly spill out what you had to do (in conversations, plenty of 'I'm going to X to do/ask Y), at other times you were completely left in the dark about which location to visit to trigger a cut scene that would progress the game. Very uneven! Apart from that, the game was extremely linear at times. You already knew what to do, but the game wouldn't let until you had something else first. There also wasn't that much to do, except for the usual get object A to get B to get C, and so one. The real brain teasers were sometimes so horribly integrated into the plot they merely seemed there to avoid the label interactive movie or to lengthen gameplay (idd, the awful cookies baking puzzle comes to mind, and I'll throw in the laser puzzle as well). The story provided some nice and unforseen twists at the start and the game started strongly on a narrative level, but soon turned sloppy, uneven and eventually evolved to a disappoining conclusion that had 'haha, you'll never see a sequel, gotcha sucker!' written all over it. And to conclude the negative points, I also disliked the interface, where you first had to place your character on a certain spot, hope for an icon to appear and could then highlight the object out of your inventory that you wanted to use, instead of the other way around (select object, click on place where you want to use that object). Still, on the plus side, the game had plenty of eye candy, filled from start to finish with gorgeous cut scenes that were highly cinematic and some of the best I've seen in an adventure game, in any game for that matter. The music was another big plus, always fitting the occasion and location perfectly. As far as the voices are concerned, they were ok in my book. I've heard better, I've heard worse.
So, all in all, this game gets a 5/10 from me, mainly because of its uneven and disappointing gameplay.
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| 19 SEP 2006 at 6:25am |
MarkGuild Master
Posts : 3803
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Location: US, Georgia
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Wimli (29 JUL 2006 10:41pm)
So, all in all, this game gets a 5/10 from me, mainly because of its uneven and disappointing gameplay.
Isn't that odd, Wimmy. Because on January the 24th of this year (2006), I voted the same way: a 5/10.
Although Still Life had moments of brilliant and lovely Adventure gaming goodness, I found it to be a miserable game in general.
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 22 SEP 2006 at 10:59pm |
WimliGuild Master
Posts : 3259
Joined: 14 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Mark (19 SEP 2006 6:24am)
Originally Posted By Wimli (29 JUL 2006 10:41pm)
So, all in all, this game gets a 5/10 from me, mainly because of its uneven and disappointing gameplay.
Isn't that odd, Wimmy. Because on January the 24th of this year (2006), I voted the same way: a 5/10.
Although Still Life had moments of brilliant and lovely Adventure gaming goodness, I found it to be a miserable game in general.
Ah, great minds think alike. 8-) Still Life did have an interesting story to tell, but had some serious gameplay issues. A missed opportunity really. :-/ That's probably what's most sad about it, it really did have the potential to be a great game, it just didn't happen.
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| 21 JUL 2007 at 1:34am |
zediculusIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 2
Joined: 21 JUL 2007
Status : Online | I am half way through playing the game and will continue through although..... this game has absolutely zero gameplay, its so linear that they may have just aswell taken away the game controls and just let the thing play like a video.
I have voted three, I have only given this high a mark because the graphics are extremely pleasing and the storyline is actually quite intriguing. However and not to harp on but this games puzzles are few and far between and then quite simple, the objects to pick up and combine are so unimaginative (wow I made a cup of coffee) and pointless, the conversations are simply clicked through you have no control of any line of dialogue.
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| 28 OCT 2009 at 11:05am |
| Deleted User | Fun and atmospheric, though agree it was on the easy side. I guess I'm in the minority as for the ending though since IMO, thought it was okay. This game gets an 8 of 10 from me.
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