This is a great puzzler game. Unfortunately, as noted by other reviewers here and on other fora, the motion can be nauseating for a subset of players. I've been a casual gamer since the mid-80s and have never gotten sick from a game before; nor have I ever been prone to motion sickness (I've ridden choppy seas on ferries with everyone hurling around me, while managing to keep myself together). The first day I played this game, I started feeling like I wanted to vomit within 30 minutes. Not realizing it was the game, I continued playing for several hours, taking enough breaks to stem the nausea, until I eventually threw up. It wasn't until I played a second and third time and noticed the nausea return that I made the connection to the game. (Having ruled out food poisoning, I had previously concluded that the vomiting must have been caused by a brain tumor.)
Something about the way the camera moves ... it's choppy and abrupt, and when you spin your character around, it's either too fast or too slow, depending on your settings ... it all culminates in a dizzying effect.
Changing some settings seems to help. For example, I changed the camera POV to "over the shoulder" rather than "first person", and I also turned off the "View Bobbing" control. In addition, I avoid "running" too much in the game, and sometimes I even close my eyes while spinning the character around. That all seems to have prevented another vomiting episode, but I still get mildly queasy playing this game.
And yet I keep playing, because as puzzlers go, this one is superb; right up there with standouts like Myst, Jewels of the Oracle, and 3 in Three. It doesn't spoon feed solutions to the player, which I appreciate, although a few more clues would probably be welcome. The ontological bantering with a computer character can be a little tiresome and didactic, but it's at least thought-provoking and never boring.
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