RHEM I SE: The Mysterious Land

An einigen STellen funktioniert es nicht wie es soll.

Where to start... First, the technical issues. The full-screen mode doesn't work, the game gets stuck somewhere between my two screens and doesn't respond to commands or mouse clicks, forcing me to kill the game. And as if that wasn't enough, it changes my screen resolution and I have to go through the options to fix it. It's annoying, but I tell myself it's a very old game, so I just have to deal with it. So I launch the game in window mode, and the game is reduced to a small square in the middle of my screen, but I can use the Magnifier to zoom in. It's not ideal, but it works. That said, when I close the game, there's a 50% chance that the resolution change mentioned above will happen anyway... The game itself offers interesting puzzles that are challenging enough to be interesting but not so difficult that you get stuck. Unfortunately, I think that's the only positive aspect of the game... There are clues for some puzzles, but they are scattered all over the map. Some are accessible long before you can access the puzzle, while others can be found by searching beyond the puzzle in question. As a result, none of the clues helped me because one was discovered after I solved the puzzle, and the others were already ancient history (discovered at the beginning of the game), so I didn't even make the connection with the puzzles and solved them without them. In fact, these clues wasted my time at the beginning as I tried to see if they were useful, when they were actually for later. This is one of the few games where the clues are more like obstacles to the progression... There are lots of little frustrating things, like controls that don't stay in place and have to be reactivated, clues or signs that stay lit for just a second and have to be reactivated over and over again until you've memorised the information. Or worse: a machine that prints out sheets of paper with information essential to progress, which the character hastily crumples up and throws in the bin, instead of keeping them in their pockets! The game has an inventory where various items are stored, so why not these papers? And finally, the worst aspect of the game: navigation and layout of the areas. I was sold a puzzle game, but no, it's primarily a maze walking simulator, training you in spatial visualisation and memory of places. You spend your time going back and forth in all directions all the time, which is exhausting. Then your path is blocked, so you have to activate a control, but then you have to remember to reactivate it preventively, predicting that you'll have to go through there later but in the other direction. And if you haven't thought of that beforehand? No problem, it's just 10 minutes wasted making a big detour (while activating the various controls needed to pass through, once again). There was a moment when I realised my problem with the game: when a clue was hidden behind a door, but the door had to be closed to see it. I understood that there was a clue there, but I had to waste 10 minutes going back the way I came and reactivating/deactivating everything to close a bloody door, before going back the other way and reactivating/deactivating everything again?! I choose to waste 30 seconds on a search engine to get exactly the same information without having to move around in the game. And that's when I decided to give up. Rhem is 20% puzzles and 80% wasted time, it's like having to do chores, it's tiring and boring. And unfortunately, Rhem does not offer beautiful environments, a unique mysterious atmosphere or beautiful music like other games, so there is nothing to motivate you to stay a little longer.

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Great game. One of the best adventaure games I played. Great puzzles, not too easy, not too furstrating - requires thinking. Graphics and audio is very old style - just the way I like it.

I enjoyed this game more than Myst. The puzzles are tough but fair, and are integrated into the environment unlike a lot of other Myst clones- the solutions are all dotted around the world for you to find. There's almost no story, and your reward for beating a puzzle most of the time is to simply reach a new area with more puzzles. As long as you make notes (everything that looks important is important) you won't need to look anything up. By the time I was done I'd filled 20-30 pages of a notebook with barely-legible doodles and codes, and it was satisfying when something I'd written down several pages ago suddenly clicked and made sense.

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I haven't played much of this game yet. But I have to ask: Is the "I" in the name really necessary? We already know it's the first game of the series. Why not just call it "RHEM Special Edition: The Mysterious Land"? I have to consult a walkthrough at times, but it is otherwise a fantastic "spiritual successor" to Myst.

It might be the worst Rhem, but that's high praise for the series.