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« Last post by bobdog on April 22, 2019, 07:25:31 AM »Man, this game is short!! Perils of Man clocks in right around 3 hours, which included at least 30 minutes or more in cut-scenes, including the whole finale, in which you walk around for 1 minute, and then it cuts into a 15-minute cut-scene where you never take the reins again.
The story premise is interesting: you play as Ana, a teenager who has been cooped up in your house for a decade since your father mysteriously went missing. Your mother, who claims to see his ghost on occasion, is afraid to let you out of her sight as all the scientists in your family – going back 4 generations – have all gone missing under mysterious circumstances. And you, as a teen, are only too happy to try and find an escape. When your mother provides a surprise 16th birthday gift that she found addressed from your father, that spurs you to try and solve those mysteries.
You must complete several point-and-click puzzles, find objects and install them in a new location, etc. – nothing extremely nonsensical, but some of the objects were more challenging to find. Eventually, you’ll make your way into a hidden lab and workshop, where you’ll reconstruct Darwin, a walking bird-robot that provides backstory, banter, and even a link with your great-great-great-grandfather Thomas. Thomas informs you that with special looking glasses, you can make an assessment of risks, and even travel into the past to change the fate of certain key disasters. You might even find your father!
Artistically, the game presents like some of the old LucasArts games, with a colorful but wonky style; i.e. extended lines, slightly off-kilter angles, cartoonish designs. I did have some significant difficulty in pixel-hunting key objects, such that I had to visit a walk-through to see what I’d missed. Later in the game, you are supposed to search an area, but the mouse pointer isn’t right on the mark; a catch-all “one-button highlight” would have been appreciated to show you all the areas where you can interact.
Another issue I had was in simple navigation. The screen is so “short” that you had to constantly click ahead of where you were walking, and you couldn’t speed up or instantly materialize to an exit by double-clicking. It was annoying enough that I noticed it and felt it was a waste of time.
After visiting two previous disasters, you finally come to the third and final disaster. At this point, you walk around for a few seconds, make the only decision possible, and then the finale cut-scene takes over. I felt the game was extremely short, and never really allowed me to connect with the more interesting part of the game – solving these disasters. But the game does actually discuss the merits of letting a few suffer in order to save the many, which was an interesting take.
Perils of Man is not a “bad” game per se, but it is woefully short. I’d only get it on a deep sale. 6.5 out of 10
The story premise is interesting: you play as Ana, a teenager who has been cooped up in your house for a decade since your father mysteriously went missing. Your mother, who claims to see his ghost on occasion, is afraid to let you out of her sight as all the scientists in your family – going back 4 generations – have all gone missing under mysterious circumstances. And you, as a teen, are only too happy to try and find an escape. When your mother provides a surprise 16th birthday gift that she found addressed from your father, that spurs you to try and solve those mysteries.
You must complete several point-and-click puzzles, find objects and install them in a new location, etc. – nothing extremely nonsensical, but some of the objects were more challenging to find. Eventually, you’ll make your way into a hidden lab and workshop, where you’ll reconstruct Darwin, a walking bird-robot that provides backstory, banter, and even a link with your great-great-great-grandfather Thomas. Thomas informs you that with special looking glasses, you can make an assessment of risks, and even travel into the past to change the fate of certain key disasters. You might even find your father!
Artistically, the game presents like some of the old LucasArts games, with a colorful but wonky style; i.e. extended lines, slightly off-kilter angles, cartoonish designs. I did have some significant difficulty in pixel-hunting key objects, such that I had to visit a walk-through to see what I’d missed. Later in the game, you are supposed to search an area, but the mouse pointer isn’t right on the mark; a catch-all “one-button highlight” would have been appreciated to show you all the areas where you can interact.
Another issue I had was in simple navigation. The screen is so “short” that you had to constantly click ahead of where you were walking, and you couldn’t speed up or instantly materialize to an exit by double-clicking. It was annoying enough that I noticed it and felt it was a waste of time.
After visiting two previous disasters, you finally come to the third and final disaster. At this point, you walk around for a few seconds, make the only decision possible, and then the finale cut-scene takes over. I felt the game was extremely short, and never really allowed me to connect with the more interesting part of the game – solving these disasters. But the game does actually discuss the merits of letting a few suffer in order to save the many, which was an interesting take.
Perils of Man is not a “bad” game per se, but it is woefully short. I’d only get it on a deep sale. 6.5 out of 10
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