Alter Ego

Alter Ego

As any fan of a mystery is something that says there is nothing more satisfying than presenting a gain surprising and shocking. Unfortunately, there is a corollary of this disaster: poor finishing insult the reader and makes the story that preceded it hollow and hypocritical. Although the point and click adventure game Alter Ego is involved in its history with some horrible crimes, crime seem the most hideous crime is its own story. After a very slow start, the story seems to finally be together, to pull the rug from under you with an ending so abrupt and incomplete you feel like you've just read a novel with the last two chapters torn out of it. The end result is a story that makes the average episode of Scooby-Doo looks like a sophisticated thriller will throw your hands up in disgust.

Alter Ego is easily overlooked and puzzles that can be solved with a bunch of clicking at random and offers no relief to a wet and unfinished adventure, fans of the genre, even to avoid.

You play as two different characters during the course of this "mystery". Timothy Moor is a thief Ireland to join the robbery of a man with the man who pays his way in the U.S.. Detective Trump is a by-the-book detective in New Plymouth, in England, where the funeral of a suspected murderess is not over chain of murders terrorized the population. Alternating two, you slog through the cemeteries, laundries, and sewers, combining inventory items, and clicking on objects in the environment to move the story. And the story is quite slow. As Moro, you can spend most of the game completely unaware that there are still a mystery in a secret palaces and crossbows control. Like Trump, talking to a couple of suspects and investigate the crime scene, it's boring, but at least it seduces you with a couple of tangents choice.

Alter Ego will unfortunately nothing to resolve these outstanding issues. The paths of the two characters do not even have to cross two thirds of the way through the game, and thus does not exploit the potential of a story told from two perspectives. The events just before the passage of these footpaths, including a sequence that puts you in total darkness, seems to imply that something exciting is finally about to happen after hours of busywork. Instead of simple puzzles to get even easier, you can not control a single character, and important facets of the mystery is completely set aside or explained away in a little hasty dialogue. Where there should have been a highlight, there is a 15-second speech, precious little to clarify where he should have been a conclusion that there is a cinematic past that might be trying to establish a successor, but rather makes the entire game feels like a wasted effort, you have learned and accomplished absolutely nothing.

In addition, Alter Ego does not communicate a lot of excitement, but at least there are sparks of personality. Briscol temper his anger explode and sometimes is used to good effect in some scenes in a church. Brogue's mother lent him a certain charm, although the actor playing the thief is too laid-back, sometimes it needs to communicate the terror and consternation. But the environments, while attractive, are not in the atmosphere enough to make tensions. The cemetery is beautiful, but there is very little animation in the environments, lighting is often flat, and character models tend to be engulfed by darkness. Many of these missing cause suspense comes from the thin sound design. Silence can be exciting, of course, but Alter Ego is not creepily quiet - it's just quiet. Moody music and sound effects could have helped lift the player in the history fails, but the silence is not scary.

When the story is stale, the puzzles are just annoying. None of them require brainpower. There is no environmental test of logic, no intelligent solutions to problems on several levels, and no need to pay close attention to subtle clues. If you are unsure of what to do, just click on everything until something happens. This is especially disappointing considering to fill the shoes of a detective. Many adventure games, still life in the chain of the last games of Sherlock Holmes, have mechanisms in place to simulate intelligent crime scene inspection and examination of evidence. In Alter Ego, play as Detective Briscola is like playing as a Moor. Of course, getting a pair of tweezers, a brush and a magnifying glass, but are used sparingly and only too obvious. Briscola Journal is nothing more than a repository of images that do not click, and a game as it is in the adventures of another mystery.

There are countless old point-and-click game that surpasses Alter Ego in almost every way, from puzzles to sign. It is not only a testament to the quality of these games, but the failure of Alter Ego to provide an experience worth it. Although the meandering mystery attracts you, attempts to terrible game to end the story of a second way, and its total failure to make any sense of closure, very well drive you to drink. And if you play these games and hope for some puzzles puzzles to test your intelligence, you will be deeply disappointed by the cliche-click anywhere tasks do not require as much as a single brain cell. So if you come for the story and puzzles, Alter Ego is sure to let you down.

What are the secrets of the port lonely grandmother? What goodies could be hidden in the trunk of Trump in the office? Who was this man known to locals as the white beast?

This is the story at its most putrid, and is an insult to the intelligence of anyone who sticks with this murder mystery hopes of closing.

Rather, it is only a thin piece that makes this adventure seems to end.

In addition, several objects or items that you can interact with the precursor solutions of the future that never comes. Clicking on an outing, which means that you may be able to explore a rich widow mansion - but it never happens. Clicking on a safe holding a gun, but you never download and use the gun. And yet, you come away with the feeling that Alter Ego was designed as a long struggle, but unfortunately was never completed.