![]() ![]() Decent to play through, but with room for improvements. It took me around 7,5 hours to play through Shardlight, and while I liked it, I would only call it average overall. The voice acting is once more of decent quality.įinishing the game unlocks some extras, like a few concept arts and bloobers from the voice recording. It just didn't grab me as much, although there were some great moments here too. Comparing it to other Wadjet Eye games, it was lacking the compelling characters the Blackwell series has or the thick intruging atmosphere of a Primordia. The premise is quite interesting, yet a lot of stuff goes unexplained and it demands a lot of suspense of disbelief in some parts. But during the final, you can choose between three different endings, and while it is a bit tiresome to click though everything again, one can try all three from the last autosave. There are some smaller decisions to be made, but they don't have a bigger effect. I also found the puzzle around the chalkboard pretty early in the game weirdly obtuse.Ī special gimmick is Amy's crossbow, that can be used for shooting, although she is often out of ammo. There were a few instances, where the game went over my head, and some trigger seemed a bit unrelated and out of the blue. Areas and items are rather limited, and many things are resolved through talking with the right people in the right order to trigger something new. That being said, I like the look of their games. And the portraits during dialogues are beautiful, but often look like very detailed drawings, on which a filter was put on, to make it look pixelated afterwards. ![]() Personally I think, the backgrounds tend to look a tiny bit blurred. Shardlight has Wadjet Eye's typical pixel artstyle. ![]() While doing such a job, Amy Wellard comes into contact with the resistance, trying to overthrow the aristocracy. ![]() While the rich live happily ever after, the common folks has to take on dangerous jobs to get a lottery ticket, in hopes to win a dose of vaccine. In a world destroyed after a not further explained bombing, people suffer from a disease called Green Lung. Seems like it released a while ago already, but only made its way to GOG now.įinally I came around to play Shardlight, another game from Wadjet Eye, that's been on my wishlist for ages. I also left some impression in the game's OT.ĭon't know if he played it yet, but KnivesAndCoins wrote he bought it a while back in this thread. The enviroment is beautiful and the puzzles are fun, although they could have been a bit more challenging at times. They don't do anything fancy here, but there are some nice easter eggs to be found. If you are familiar with Lovecraft, you pick up on things pretty quick. While having her completely silent would be stupid as well, this is the other extreme, that seemed a bit excessive. Often she reacts to notes you pick up, before you even have time to read the text yourself. Not even the tiniest thing goes without some sort of comment from her. Nora is the opposite of a silent protagonist. In rare cases there are some shortcuts to unlock, but there is still a lot of walking to do, what can be a bit exhausting. Still the puzzles themselves are always entertaining.Ī bigger problem are the quite long ways one has to walk back and forth. I even found it a tiny bit too easy in this regard. Nora's notes and her reacting to everything helps to push the player into the right direction on top. Overall the puzzles are on the easy side, except for one or two more challenging ones. In first person Nora examines the island, always taking notes in her notebook. It also offers a FOV slider and the game didn't make me nausea. There can still be some light stutter here and there, but overall it ran pretty well on my humble rig. Upon release the performance was said to be really rough, but luckily most of it got patched out. The island is a real nice setpiece, with vibrant colors in a light chellshade look. So now Nora herself tracks the footsteps of her husband to find him, bringing her to a beautiful island full of mysteries, with a light Cthulhu touch. Hoping to find a cure, her husband set out on an expedition, but the crew never returned. Myst-alike + Lovecraft universe + tropical island = Call of the Sea.ġ934 - Nora is suffering from an unknown disease, which already killed her mother. ![]()
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