Customer Reviews

The Inquisitor [Download]

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The story is the strongest part of this game - I'm now curious to read the original novel, but it's only available in German. Sympathetic treatments of Inquisitors aren't exactly cliché, and the characters are interesting and well developed. However, the story overshadows the game, and the impatient will soon tire of the long story screens and lack of action.

As an HOG, it's about in the middle - there are some dark screens that make the search a bit difficult, and some of the 'find the difference' parts get very obscure. (One 'difference', in the pond scene, had me randomly clicking for ages in the area identified by the hint - I was tempted to take a screen shot and do a pixel-by-pixel overlay in my graphics editor.) Some scenes are very well drawn, however, and the objects are period-appropriate (no hot dogs or pineapples).

The minigames aren't terribly difficult (though I had to go to a hint site to find out *how* to play the last game). There is also a cheat code to skip through the slider game if you hate these as much as I do - I can't say whether or not it works, since I didn't learn about it until after I'd got through that part.

It's often not clear what you need to do next or whether you need to find a tool in order to progress to the next part. The final scene is very difficult to figure out - the hint will indicate one thing, but you find that you can't go there, and when you close the secret door and click on the wall, you get a message stating '#####'. I thought it was a bug (and maybe it is), but at that point, I did have everything I needed to solve the final puzzle.

The time actually spent playing is fairly short. Authenticity and story get high marks, and the game transitions from one room or place to another quickly. However, there's just not enough game in the game.