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The Lost Crown (PC)

After finishing The Dark Fall trilogy as well as the Barrow Hill games, this was my next stop. I wish I didn't save it for last, or maybe I was glad to because my god this game is soooooooo slow. Only one game comes close to this slowness and that is Syberia. I hated that game and I want to hate this but. It is admittedly a good mystery when the mystery is happening. Of course this is also an adventure game and so it has to have alot of adventure game shenanigans. Events that trigger only when you talk to someone. Items that aren't pickable until that trigger comes. Mindless backtracking and pixel hunting. All standard fair for a game like this to have come out back then but the most unforgivable aspect for me is the inability to skip dialog even on repeats. The scenery is great but you'll be backtracking and revisiting most of them and thank god teleportation to already visited areas exist but the pacing is still very deliberate.

I put this game in AGES ago and I don't even remember half the plot each time I resume it. There's wayy too much exposition going on and I mean I can appreciate when a game is trying to settle you in and breathe life into a town with all its mysteries and secrets. But this is just way too deliberate for my tastes. Syberia had its pointless screens and slowly animated puzzles and at least this game has depth going for it as well as the true slow burning horror that creeps into you and unsettles with nothing but sounds and ambiance, very rarely relying on jump scare tactics.

I think I'm done with this guy's games. There's some recent ones though like TLC Halloween or that new Dark Fall game which has nothing to do with the trilogy. I might check them out someday but it's not a priority.

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