Pahelika: Secret Legends

0/10

Whack

verbuggt langweilig und hinweise helfen net mal bei den sinnbefreiten rätseln

Sorry, but this game is really bad!

Okay

This is a cheap hidden object game. Nothing wrong with that per se. That being said, there's a lot of bad here: - the story beyond the intro is pretty much non-existent - the protagonist travels from puzzle room to puzzle room, but doesn't drive the story forward in any meaningful way, nor does he or the narrator have anything much of worth to say. - the puzzles are mind-numbingly easy, with some brute-force sequencing puzzles thrown in there as well as "guess the author's favourite philosophical answer to this question" guardian puzzles (that you can retry till you pick the right one). - difficulty aside, most of the puzzles don't break any kind of new ground in terms of clever design or inventive aesthetic. Some are averagely inspired, i.e. "not visually inventive enough" if that makes sense. - the bad-to-average environments don't really make up for the aforementioned lack of content. I bought this since I have some thematic interest in the sequel, but am not hopeful that it'll be all that fun after this one. Cannot recommend.