Lost Horizon and General Update
I'm not feeling well (And I have a dentist appointment on top of that later today. Fuuuuu), so I might keep this brief. I finished Lost Horizon yesterday. It was a pretty long game. It's like a wannabe Broken Sword game. The characters are OK, but let's face it, they're not George and Nico. That being said, I did enjoy playing this game.
It takes place in the 1930s during a time when the Nazis have risen to power. You play as a smuggler named Fenton Paddock (You know it's an adventure game character with a name like that), and he's tasked with finding his friend Richard who has disappeared, and he's joined by Richard's niece (If I have that right), Kim. Little do they know that Richard has made a discovery that could change life as they know it, and it's something the Nazis are very eager to possess as well, which we can't let happen. The game has you traveling all over the world, so that's pretty cool that you get to visit all different locations, and of course solve puzzles on the way. Most of them are inventory puzzles. I think only a few were of the mechanical variety. They're usually not hard to solve and are mostly logical, except sometimes the logic is convoluted. On the few occasions I did get stuck, it was because I missed a hotspot. Yeah, even with a hotspot finder. Granted, I did play this game on my phone so everything was smaller, so sometimes it was a challenge to see all the objects. However, the animation and graphics are nice, except for a couple glitches and also the dialog was not in sync with the characters lips. The sound I had a little bit of an issue with. Again, it could have just been my phone, but the sound and music would sometimes overpower the voices making it hard to hear the characters speaking. If not for subtitles, I wouldn't be able to understand them. And as it is, I had to turn the volume way up on my phone to hear everything. As for the story, I actually thought it was really good, even if not entirely original because of the similarities to Broken Sword and Indiana Jones. However there are moments with long cutscenes, and long dialog conversations, usually between chapters. I was like just get on with it already! Yes, even for me because I usually don't mind a lot of dialog in adventure games, but this was too much even for me.
So while there are a few flaws here and there, I did have fun with this game as a traditional adventure. It wasn't the best adventure I've ever played. I doubt it would even be in my top ten, but it wasn't the worst either. It had all the right elements, even if it wasn't executed perfectly. Here is a screenshot. An underwater temple you get to visit. Fenton can hold his breath as long as Guybrush Threepwood I think.
I've decided I would go ahead and play the sequel: Lost Horizon 2 in spite of the lower review on Adventure Gamers. Maybe it's not as bad as they say.
And a little general update: Of course Valentine's Day was on Thursday. My dad wasn't around that day as he was on a business trip in Florida, so we didn't have crab legs that night as we usually do. But he did bring me home some chocolate coins on Friday. And my mom got me Ghiradelli assorted chocolates in a heart shaped box. I might have preferred something else, but I'll take it. I think that's it. I might be forgetting something, but oh well.
It takes place in the 1930s during a time when the Nazis have risen to power. You play as a smuggler named Fenton Paddock (You know it's an adventure game character with a name like that), and he's tasked with finding his friend Richard who has disappeared, and he's joined by Richard's niece (If I have that right), Kim. Little do they know that Richard has made a discovery that could change life as they know it, and it's something the Nazis are very eager to possess as well, which we can't let happen. The game has you traveling all over the world, so that's pretty cool that you get to visit all different locations, and of course solve puzzles on the way. Most of them are inventory puzzles. I think only a few were of the mechanical variety. They're usually not hard to solve and are mostly logical, except sometimes the logic is convoluted. On the few occasions I did get stuck, it was because I missed a hotspot. Yeah, even with a hotspot finder. Granted, I did play this game on my phone so everything was smaller, so sometimes it was a challenge to see all the objects. However, the animation and graphics are nice, except for a couple glitches and also the dialog was not in sync with the characters lips. The sound I had a little bit of an issue with. Again, it could have just been my phone, but the sound and music would sometimes overpower the voices making it hard to hear the characters speaking. If not for subtitles, I wouldn't be able to understand them. And as it is, I had to turn the volume way up on my phone to hear everything. As for the story, I actually thought it was really good, even if not entirely original because of the similarities to Broken Sword and Indiana Jones. However there are moments with long cutscenes, and long dialog conversations, usually between chapters. I was like just get on with it already! Yes, even for me because I usually don't mind a lot of dialog in adventure games, but this was too much even for me.
So while there are a few flaws here and there, I did have fun with this game as a traditional adventure. It wasn't the best adventure I've ever played. I doubt it would even be in my top ten, but it wasn't the worst either. It had all the right elements, even if it wasn't executed perfectly. Here is a screenshot. An underwater temple you get to visit. Fenton can hold his breath as long as Guybrush Threepwood I think.
I've decided I would go ahead and play the sequel: Lost Horizon 2 in spite of the lower review on Adventure Gamers. Maybe it's not as bad as they say.
And a little general update: Of course Valentine's Day was on Thursday. My dad wasn't around that day as he was on a business trip in Florida, so we didn't have crab legs that night as we usually do. But he did bring me home some chocolate coins on Friday. And my mom got me Ghiradelli assorted chocolates in a heart shaped box. I might have preferred something else, but I'll take it. I think that's it. I might be forgetting something, but oh well.