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Emp, this is a well written review. I gathered that the game was atmospheric, the puzzles were mostly great, but that the game rarely put your life in real danger, and there were incongruent intrusions which weakened the stew overall. You paint a vivid picture, which is something I haven't seen in a review in awhile.

Well done.

I don't have to prove I'm refined - that's what makes me refined!

Thanks for the catches, Masters. I caught the or/of just before you posted this (and added the s on surronds a little before that for some reason). I'll make the edits now.

I'm glad the points I wanted to establish were made. I appreciate the feedback.

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Great review. Been a while since I walked away from one with such a completele picture of the kind of adventure game. Sounds like I'd enjoy this one, in fact.

"Deep in the earth I faced a fight that I could never win. The blameless and the base destroyed, and all that might have been. -- GK"

I know I told you my feelings on it, but I will now declare to the world that I, too, enjoyed this review a good deal.

I don't have to boost my review resume because I have a real resume.

Thank you, both. It's not a bad game, but the settings are just odd. Poor Martin would get random AIMs at odd times of the day while I bemoaned such happenstances as the bloody crocodiles.

Sash: Maybe I'll slip the game in with the next tourney prize you'll undoubtly win at some point.

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Ha. Yeah. This was a good review. For a minute, it seemed like you could actually die in a graphic adventure game. I've never heard that before.

But yeah. I liked this one. Though I've honestly never read Bram Stoker's novel and feel like a loser for it. I bet I'm the only one here who hasn't. I did ssee the Van Helsing movie, though... but because I didn't read the book, I didn't know he was the protagonist or whatever. I like how you went about explaining this, though - that the book and this title aren't really connected. I do have to ask, though, does this just take a whole new spin on the novel, substituting the old plot/time frame for a new one, or does it take place before?

[Eating EmP's brain] probably isn't a good idea. I mean... He's British, which means his brain's wired for PAL and your eyes are NTSC. - Will

I don't see an error in the first, but thanks for the catch on the second.

As for the setting, it takes the ideas of Stoker's story and then weaves its own; it's not really connected strongly to the original at all and, in the fates and actions of the characters the two media shares, it can in no way be mistaken for a pre/sequal.

It's not a bad old yarn, but there are very clear spots where you can see the gulf between the differing authors understanding of the settings. Only one of them had to shoehorn a game around theirs, I suppose.

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Sash: Maybe I'll slip the game in with the next tourney prize you'll undoubtly win at some point.

Works for me. One of these days I need to take a critical look at my PC collection and start giving away some of the, dare I use the term, chaff.

"Deep in the earth I faced a fight that I could never win. The blameless and the base destroyed, and all that might have been. -- GK"