Luxor: Quest for the Afterlife

good fun

Where do I even start with this trash heap? Probably the worst Luxor game I've played yet, and most of them are not that good. WORST OF ALL, I STILL HAVE TWO MORE TO GO! The campaign mode is implemented in a strange way where you have to find 4 "canopic jars" and other artifacts on an open world map instead of the traditional stage/level system. There are a few issues with the overall design, but my main complaint is how the game is mean't to be beaten: I played through the ENTIRE GAME not finding a single canopic jar and didn't know what to do because YOU NEED ALL 4 OF THEM TO BEAT THE GAME. Little did I know, an artifact I had acquired pretty early in the game was supposed to help me find some hidden priests that had the jars. IF ONLY THE GAME EXPLAINED THAT MORE THOROUGHLY INSTEAD OF TELLING YOU TO WAIT TO USE IT, THEN NEVER TELLING YOU TO STOP WAITING OR EVER MENTIONING IT AGAIN! It gets better though, as once I used the artifact to find and defeat the first priest IT SAID IT WAS F'ING "DEPLETED" AND I AM NOT PLAYING THROUGH ALL THESE HORRIBLY DESIGNED, UNINTUITIVE, CLUTTERED, ANTI-PLAYER MAPS AGAIN TRYING TO FIND SOME WAY TO "RECHARGE" IT OR WHATEVER IT IS I HAVE TO DO. GUESS I'LL NEVER KNOW BECAUSE TO HELL WITH THIS GARBAGE! I mean holy-moly. I thought game franchises were supposed to improve with each new entry, but if anything, most Luxor games are about the same as or even worse than the previous ones. In Quest for the Afterlife's case, the devs focused to hard on making the game look good which results in cluttered, distracting messes of maps and performance drops from the over-use of special effects. The spheres you are mean't to shoot also behave strangely sometimes, pushing themselves forward quick as all hell for seeming no reason other than the player playing the game a bit too well. Its not fair and HOLY GOD THIS IS A CASUAL MATCH-3 SHOOTER GAME NOT A BIG BUDGET TITLE, LEARN YOUR PLACE FFS! THIS WAS ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS BEHIND THE COLLAPSE OF THE CASUAL PUZZLE GENRE IN THE EARLY 2010s. I WAS SO ANGRY I DIDN'T EVEN FINISH THE SECONDARY PUZZLE CAMPAIGN TO GIVE THIS GAME A FULL REVIEW. IDGAF ANYMORE I AM ABSOLUTELY TIRED OF THIS SERIES AND THESE TYPES OF GAMES IN GENERAL. The only thing most of the Luxor games made me realize, is that there a thousand reasons as to why this specific sub-genre of match-3 games died out while others didn't. In my opinion, GOOD RIDDANCE!

Among the various Luxor match-3 titles, this one actually tries to do something different. Instead of having a single path to follow you have to decide where to go in a quest to collect pieces of different artifacts as well as battling meddling thieves. There are multiple level modes which freshen up the usual experience a little bit, particularly battles where you have to be faster than the AI in making matches. Moreover, there are no lives so the coins can be used to purchase skins and power up the power ups. Furthermore, a separate and short puzzle campaign makes for a good chance of pace once your adventure is over. Nonetheless, the experience isn't free of flaws as your companion brings in voice acting that can't be skipped and makes for some mildly annoying waiting times. You may encounter glitches here and there as well as the "weaving" levels which I consider to be among the worst designed in the franchise as they leave you basically up to luck to beat them. This is because new scarabs block your way to older news until the very end and sometimes the scarabs like to go faster for no apparent reason. If you can get past that and appreciate the usual "Egyptian epicness" vibe that it's going for, then it's totally fine. Then again, there are probably better alternatives to this in the market nowadays.

Enjoyable game with levels to go up in, still has the original Luxor theme in the game which is what is done well, but you still get to play through levels that tell a new story! Which makes it interesting and sucks you into the game.

Excellent Luxor avec -attention!- la prise en charge des résolutions en 1080p ! Considéré comme un des meilleurs avec Amun Rising il propose une variation dans la campagne avec un chemin libre plutôt que linéaire. Mais ne nous le cachons pas : cela ne change rien au gameplay, vous êtes toujours là pour faire des combos avec des billes de couleurs différentes. Je l'ai trouvé plus dynamique et plus difficile que ses ainés, ce qui est à mon sens un bon point. Seul chose dommage : la diminution de nombre de niveaux "puzzle" que perso, j'adore.

かつて盛り上がっていたカジュアルゲームの界隈で、マーブルポッパー（シューティングタイプのマッチ３）というジャンルがあった。LUXORシリーズは、そのころ特に人気のあったマーブルポッパーのシリーズで、この「Luxor: Quest for the Afterlife」は、そのシリーズのなかでも最高傑作と言われているもの。 かなり古いゲームだけど、オプションからフルHDの解像度が選べるので、フルHDまでであればくっきりとした画面で遊ぶことができる。シリーズ中、フルHDで問題なく遊べるものは、この作品のほか、タイトルに「HD」と入っているもの、そして「LUXOR Evolved」があげられるけど、そのなかでこの作品がいちばんバランスがとれていて遊びやすいと思う。 まあ、より現代風にアレンジされた「Evolved」も面白いんだけど、あれはちょっと悪ノリがすぎて肝心のゲーム画面が見えにくくなってるから、Evolvedで遊ぶにしても、順番としてはこの作品のほうが先なんじゃないかなと思う。 ゲームの基本ルールは簡単で、うねうねと曲がったルート上をビー玉がずらずらっと流れてくるのに対して、砲台を動かしてビー玉を撃ちこみ、同じ色が３つ以上並んだら消える。消えた部分は間が詰まるので、詰まった結果また同じ色が３つ以上になればコンボが発生する。コンボが発生するとボーナスが発生して落ちてくるので、それを拾うと点数が増えたり特別なビー玉が撃てるようになったりする。一定の数のビー玉を消したらクリア、ビー玉の列がルートの末端まで到達してしまうとゲームオーバー。 ちなみにプレイ時間が短いのは、もともとBig Fish Gamesでさんざん遊んでいて、Steamで買いなおしたから。