Customer Reviews

Crime Stories

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

The graphics are beautiful. However, the plot/objective of the game is a bit confusing and the dialog is horrible. I can only guess it was translated from something else into English by someone whose first language is not English.

Personally, I find it annoying that I can click on things that have no effect on the game. It's a time waster and makes the game a bit frustrating when trying to complete a task whose solution has nothing to do with what has come before or any type of logic.

Overall, it's an okay game once you understand the game environment and that the conversations/dialog often won't make any sense.

This game was obviously taken from another language. The dialogue is strange and, at times, oddly stilted. You are a rich detective with the oft-mentioned name Martin Mystere (get it? nudge nudge!).

Your mission is to find the reason behind another crazy-wealthy academic's (aren't they all rolling in the money) murder. Between many strange noises (eg., Mh! Mn?), you will travel to far away lands and get clues as to his death and what he was researching. Many of these clues are not useful. Some are just tedious. Overall, the game is pretty frustrating.

I've been playing adventure games for 25 years; I'm definitely patient with older technology. But this game stretched my patience beyond endurance. The storyline is ridiculous and the problems you have to solve are annoying and tedious--not at all engaging or thought-provoking. Dialogue is a mess--poor scripting, bad translation, generally awful voiceover work (except Erika), and bizarre presentation. Dialog is broken into pieces (even within sentences) and then is recorded in those pieces. Resulting in. Stilted dialogue that. Grates. A seemingly endless monologue in the middle of the game had me clawing the walls; around that time I realized that this game was too painful to play. Adventure gaming should not be a test of your tolerance of poor storylines and bad presentation. Please, love yourself enough to pass this one by. (Oh, and why the "heh, heh, heh" in my title? Because all the characters laugh like that in their dialogue. Over and over. Creepy.)

This game started off alright. The fact that it's obviously been translated from another language into English didn't bother me at first. Neither did the characters' constant odd random utterances during dialogue. Actually, some of the dialogue translations really made me laugh. Much of the time I knew what they intended to say, but they didn't phrase it quite right.
But after a few acts, first of all, that got annoying. I wanted to know what's going on, and parts of the dialogue practically don't make any sense. Also, apparently there is a bug in mine... not that there aren't many others... such that I cannot finish the game. I am in act 6 and am stuck, and I went online to get a hint, and after looking at several websites saying the same solution and trying it in my game, my character still insists the action is irrelevant. So I guess it ends there for my characters.
Also, the game is really poorly edited. I understand they are translating from another language. But there is a such thing as spell check button. Also, sometimes the colors of the dialogue subtitles were for the wrong character. There is even one point in the game that I found, where you are controlling one character but the voice is of another!
The graphics aren't that good by the way. Not at all. Wherever Martin walks, he looks like he is having a seizure and walking at the same time. Either that or he is shimmying and just sucks at dancing.
Please don't get this game. It wasn't put together particularly well. It was marginally fun up until I got stuck, but it's not worth the money.

Definitely pass on this game. It was so tedious that I couldn't fight my way to the end. The dialogue was absolute pants and moved at a halting, tedious speed to match up exactly with the subtitles so that- there awkward- pauses between- phrases like that kid on Malcolm in the Middle. The main character looked like he was limping when he walked, which might explain why in the heck he walks so SLOW between locations. Frequent black screens lasting several seconds between locations and insulting outfits on the women in the game complete the idiocy. Probably the worst point and click I've ever played.

This game is not worth $19.99. It was terrible. I play these type of games all the time, and I've never had such a bad time with a game.

The dialogue was horrible. It was corny. There were times the words came up, but there weren't any voices. The clues didn't even give you any idea what to do next, or where to go.

The graphics were something you'd see on the old nintendo, I didn't like how slow the characters walked, and how by clicking twice they wouldn't speed up like in other games I played.

So I've read all the previous reviews and can agree with people that the dialogue has some issues from time to time. I'm guessing like everyone else that's because it was translated from another language, but honestly it is not so bad you can't understand it, plus it's pretty funny from time to time, but not all that bad at all. I love games like this where you have to do one thing in order to do another and find clues, run back and forth, search crime scenes, question people, etc. etc. So this game was definitely right up my alley and I LOVED it!!!! It's a perfect combination between challenging, but not too hard so that you get frustrated. I am obssessed with the Nancy Drew series so someone gave me this one for Christmas while I waited for another new ND and it was certainly a great gift.

My ONLY real complaint about it is I like games that have a logical conclusion. I'm fine with the supernatural stuff and ghost stories and creepy atmospheres and rumors of hauntings and things of that nature throughout the game, but ultimately it ends up being someone behind all of it and there's a logical plausible conclusion...not in this game however. I won't spoil the ending by any means, but it's something so far-fetched and obviously unrealistic that it made it hard for me to get excited about having solved it. I was expecting something different in the end, but otherwise the game itself was GREAT and I would highly recommend it so long as you don't mind a very crazy and unrealistic ending.

Also a side note....for everyone who said they wish you were only able to click on the items and clues you needed then what fun would that be?? You'd just move your mouse around and the two things that lit up were exactly what you were looking for and you'd be done. The game would be over within the hour at that rate. I like having to work a little bit to find what you want. Plus they don't just throw you out there with nothing, even though you can click on a bunch of useless items it's still fun to snoop through people's things and they DO steer you toward your goal and what you're hunting for so you aren't completely lost. I will say though that if you've never played a game like this the controls and movements and inventory list, etc. does take a little getting used to, but you'll have it figured out in ten minutes tops. Best of luck to everyone and I think this game is fantastic!

I bought this brand new for $20 and am throwing it away. I don't want to give it away or sell it to prevent someone else from having to sit through the torture. I was hoping it would be something like the old Sierra game "The Colonel's Bequest" but this was horribly opposite of any adventure game I've ever played. Don't waste your time or money.

I liked this game, it probably wasn't worth the $20 I paid for it new, but it was fun. Yes the dialog was a bit confusing, but it was fun to search for clues and solve the mystery.

As a big fan of CSI and Law and Order, I thought this sounded like a good game I could continue that fascinated with. How wrong I was. The fact that you have to do sixty steps just to get to your car keys when you first start the game was a big omen. The graphics are nice to look at and the detail is amazing, but I wish they had spent more time actually planning the game better and not putting so much detail into every step.

Oh and the dialogue. Wow. I think my cats can think of better dialogue and their's consists of meows.