Black Rainbow Mystery: Amazon Escape

A better re-arrangement on story and puzzle would make it better......

En ningún aspecto llega al nivel de los P&C de Telltale, por ejemplo. Pero está entretenido. Si lo compras en un bundle, perfecto. No me esperaba que tuviese una buena traducción de los textos al castellano, se agradece. Algunos puzzles son originales, y más de habilidad que de lógica, pero también es cierto, que cuatro o cinco de ellos se repiten varias veces.

Not worth of playing: - no hidden objects - puzzles are extremaly easy, you don't even think how to resolve it - history is not intresting - very short 2,5 hours of gameplay There is one innovative element and these are the arcade mini-games

A pleasant little point-and-click adventure with many mini-game puzzles. Note that it is not a hidden-object game (no hidden-object scenes). Nothing about it is amazing: the story is OK, the voice acting is OK, and the music is OK. Slightly annoying is that the graphics are all at a very low resolution, but they still do the job. Not that there are in-game achievements but they are not linked to Steam.

[b]Pros[/b] +60FPS +Nice visuals and scenery +Map with fast travel [b]Cons[/b] +Very easy +No real story/plot +”Ending” is bad +Repeated puzzles +Terrible voice acting +Short I debated both ways on this. On one hand it’s a straightforward adventure puzzle game you can spend a few hours on to relax. But on the other hand, it has a cliché story, bad voice acting, easy puzzles, etc. I can’t give this a thumbs up with the final score I give it. You’re dropped in the middle of a story, no explanation. You play as Helen, “the chosen one”, who must close a portal to prevent evil from taking over Earth. The story begins and ends with very few details. The puzzles you come across are very easy and they repeat the same type of puzzle multiple times. Move all the levers down, repeat this sequence, align shapes, etc. Strangely, there is no voice acting or any conversation for your character Helen EXCEPT the last cutscene where she says a few words. The other people you meet talk but you can only click “next” to move the conversation along. Now, the voice acting is terrible. It’s good for a few laughs because it’s just so bad. The scenery and art style are a strong point. It’s done well, high resolution and with [b]proper widescreen support![/b]. You wouldn’t believe how many other games like this are just full screen, so I was glad to see that. Gameplay is quite linear, with a lot of backtracking especially towards the last half of the game. However, there is fast travel to help you out. Black Rainbow has achievements, but only in-game for whatever reason and not in Steam. There is also an achievement that only unlocks when you finish the game on a difficulty lower than “challenging”, the highest difficulty. So, if you absolutely want to get every achievement, you have the play the game twice. Although, there’s no bonuses or incentive to do so. [b]Conclusion[/b] It does well in killing a few hours with some light puzzles. The cons move this to where I can’t recommend it. If you love the genre no matter, what you can give it a shot. It would be a turn off to everyone else [b]3/10[/b] Poor

good help function. a lot of locations. puzzles challenging but not difficult

해골을 하나 남겨 놓고 찾지 못하여 매우 안타깝다! 그렇다고 다시 하고 싶지는 않다. 두번이나 클리어 하였는데.. 스팀 과업이 아니고 게임내부 과업이지만 모두 클리어 하려 했는데.. 어째 두번째 플레이에 숨은 해골이 더 찾아지지 않는 것일까? 뭐.. 큰기대는 하지 않고 플레이 했던 지라.. 나름 재미있었다!

I was doubtful when I started but I son enjoyed the game, some of the mini-games were tough but I managed. Good game!

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It is what it is, an old casual point and click adventure with somewhat silly buggers plot. It's not long, or hard for that matter, but it was entertaining enough nonetheless in its silliness. I wouldn't recommend paying full price for it, but since I probably paid cents for it (Fanatical bundle), it was worth of that at least.