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| 2 SEP 2005 at 11:03am |
| Deleted User | I voted but removed my vote when I realized I couldn't see the results. Point&klik, could you change the poll?
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| 2 SEP 2005 at 3:14pm |
PoyntenklikSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 201
Joined: 25 AUG 2005
Status : Online | Ok, you should be able to see the votes now.
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| 2 SEP 2005 at 5:31pm |
| Deleted User | I gave it a 6. Those graphics were lovely, but the voiceacting was terrible and the story had big holes in it. It was also too linear for my taste.
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| 4 SEP 2005 at 2:18am |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Hmm....definitely what Betje said. Except I'll give it a 5.
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| 6 SEP 2005 at 11:29am |
Frank BPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | I miss the "haven't played" option.
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| 6 SEP 2005 at 11:43pm |
PoyntenklikSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Frank B (6 SEP 2005 11:29am)
I miss the "haven't played" option.
Then you can hardly rate the game can you.
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| 7 SEP 2005 at 8:03am |
Frank BPrivate Detective
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Joined: 10 JAN 2005
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Poyntenklik (6 SEP 2005 11:42pm)
Then you can hardly rate the game can you.
No, but it shows how popular a game is. I think the option should be included (it is there on all the other polls).
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| 7 SEP 2005 at 1:21pm |
AvatarPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Frank B (7 SEP 2005 8:03am)
No, but it shows how popular a game is. I think the option should be included (it is there on all the other polls).
It's also a polite way to include people who haven't played it yet...
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| 7 SEP 2005 at 3:09pm |
PoyntenklikSorcerer Apprentice
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Joined: 25 AUG 2005
Status : Online | Poll adjusted.
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| 8 SEP 2005 at 10:04am |
Frank BPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | [smiley=thumbs.gif]
(also, we cannot se the result of the poll if we don't vote, and we cannot vote if our option isn't there)
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| 15 SEP 2005 at 10:00am |
dragonuk44Sorcerer Apprentice
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Joined: 21 OCT 2002
Status : Online | did nt like the voice and the end so dissappointing
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| 15 SEP 2005 at 11:40pm |
trudysgardenSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 312
Joined: 19 JUL 2005
Status : Online | I gave it a 6 but kind of grudgingly. The voice acting was sooooooo bad, please, it drove me wild. Most of the puzzles were easy to medium and I thought they were well integrated. The graphics were pretty but that rain, rain, rain thing became like a torture (noticing that in NiBiRu too but at least the sun's out once in a while there) Some major holes in the plot but still an interesting plot. I for one kind of liked the ending in the sense that it left you wondering what the heck just happened and you could ponder that after you were done.
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| 16 SEP 2005 at 6:11am |
dragonuk44Sorcerer Apprentice
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Joined: 21 OCT 2002
Status : Online | just so quick and I sat there thinking that it
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| 16 SEP 2005 at 11:57am |
colpetSchattenjger
Posts : 1630
Joined: 12 APR 2003
Status : Offline | '7'.
It was one of the longer new games I've played, which I liked. The exploration part was satisfying. I didn't mind the voices, and the story was good enough to keep me interested. The graphics were well done, but indeed, it was a dreary world. I liked the linearity of it, sort of like GK games where you stay in a block until all is done.
I did find the puzzles too easy, and the ending had too many questions still unanswered.
Occasionally visiting Uru Live (KI 0063722 .&&
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| 21 SEP 2005 at 11:50pm |
HelenGuild Master
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Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | I gave it a 5, just didnt grab me, and then theres the voice acting.......... :
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| 2 OCT 2005 at 1:09pm |
| Deleted User | 6
PROS: -Good lenght
-Intriguing story (but...)
-Beautiful graphics
-Generally good gameplay
CONS: -The puzzle with the astrological signs requires you to already know what those signs are -which I found TERRIBLY unfair. I'm still pissed about the hours spent searching for clues ingame when I had absolutely no mean to find the answer. Oh well.
-A dead end without feedback.
-The story is in fact a little crappy, not to mention predictable and full of plot holes.
-The animations are awful
-The voice acting is awful
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| 7 NOV 2005 at 11:42pm |
Mr. WrecksSpace Cadet
Posts : 118
Joined: 5 OCT 2004
Status : Online | I rated it a... well, I rated it low, anyway.
Terrible voice acting, horrible character animation, plot holes the size of Texas, dead-ends and uneven static graphics: some were great and others were shoddy.
BUT, I would love to live in the mansion. Great atmosphere, besides the whole dead people thing.
I'm glad it's over.
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| 8 NOV 2005 at 12:09am |
AvatarPrivate Detective
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Joined: 3 JAN 2004
Status : Online | I gave this a 9 - I loved everything about this game except the ending (plot-wise.) Otherwise, well done!!
My goal in life is to be as good of a person as my dog already thinks I am.&&&&The measure of civility in a society is not how it treats those that are loved, but how it treats those that are hated.
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| 10 NOV 2005 at 8:48am |
| Deleted User | I played this game for a week before I got bored walking slowly back and forth the same screens over and over and over in order to say the right thing to unlock the boring conversations.
Games like this ruin adventures for me. Kill the boring conversations. I've had enough conversation threads and anymore like this or Moment of Silence and I'm going to quit buyng games and get a dog instead.
I rated it a three.
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| 9 APR 2006 at 9:47pm |
WimliGuild Master
Posts : 3259
Joined: 14 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | Just finished it last night! I liked it, though it's far from perfect. I gave it a 7.
Good:
- great atmosphere
- beautiful backgrounds and art work
- interesting story
- lengthy gameplay
- overall nice puzzles
Bad:
- horrible voice acting
- ugly character animation
- a few too many locked-door-find-key puzzles
- giant plot holes (Spoiler Alerteg: Would have liked to learn more about Robert's experiments. Also, it's definitely a missed chance that the makers didn't tie those experiments in with the main plot line. And also this: if Samuel was the killer, then who killed William? Samuel wasn't yet around Black Mirror castle when that happened.)
Overall I had lots of fun with this game, some frustrations aside. So generally a good game, just not the great game it could have been.
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| 5 SEP 2007 at 6:08pm |
JehaneSpace Cadet
Posts : 128
Joined: 15 MAY 2007
Status : Online | Black Mirror came very, very close to de-throning Gabriel Knight as my favourite game of all times. Very close indeed. The ending spoiled it all for me. I loved this game, it had me glued to my computer for days, I just couldn't stop investigating the mystery of William's death and the mystery surrounding the old castle. The graphics are stunning and left me open-mouthed. The puzzles were fair and not too tricky though I must admit that it took me a while to solve the planetarium-puzzle. Or the puzzle in the chapel that opens a secret passageway to Marcus' grave. These puzzles took their time but they were, after all, solveable. I loved the settings as well; they were very inventive, had great atmosphere (the morgue, anyone?) and all in all I'd say Black Mirror is one of the finest games ever made.
Why only 8 points, then? As I mentioned above, the ending spoiled the game for me. It was too short, too "What the hell is going on now?", it left me with too many questions like who killed William. And on replaying the game I found that some parts are highly illogical: So the five keys are there to _open_ the Black Mirror and that's why they've been distributed over the whole land so no-one can reopen the mirror, right? At least that's what William's diary says. So Samuel goes ahead in search of the keys - to _close_ the mirror. I know, keys can open _and_ close something but since William had specified these keys would only _open_ the mirror I was a little confused. One thing I didn't like about the game was running to and fro like a maniac; now and then someone would tell you to come back later but the game gave you nothing to do in the meantime. All you could do was wander around and hope that whatever the guy you talked to before was doing for you was finished. That was not necessary. So 8 points it is, then
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