The 11th Hour

Grade A FMV, but the music kind of gets in the way of the actual gameplay

Argh I loved it. I've been a huge fan of the original 7th Guest and have played through it many times over the years since it's original release. I bought and owned the 11th Hour when it came out but for some reason never played through it. I think I was too busy playing Quake or Twisted Metal. Can't remember. Finally playing it now immediately after a fresh play-through of the original, I think the puzzles in this game are actually superior to the ones in the first. They are super challenging in all of the best ways. I only had to cheat once, on the furniture puzzle, after failing for about 5 hours. It's just a really well designed brain twister that I didn't want to give up on but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that puzzle is not easy. All this is not to say the game is great by anyone else's standards. What I didn't like were the new riddle based treasure hunts around the house, which ask you to decipher a frequently impenetrable word riddle and then find the item in the house that the riddle is referencing. There are dozens of these stupid things and they will extend your play through by many hours and leave you stuck countless times unless you use the hint system, and even then you'll spend a lot of time backtracking through the house trying to remember where you last saw the thing the riddle is referencing. Also, the video production of this game is miles beneath the original. Somehow, practical filming in real world locations instead of imposing the characters into a digital rendering of the house in a ghostly manner knocks the quality of the scenes below B level tier, well into the realm of something that looks like a cheap porn. The endings are also terrible. But if you can look past all this, the poorly acted scenes have an amateur Twin Peaks charm to them, and despite how unintentionally hilarious they are, as a continuation of the first game the actual story is really interesting, despite it's execution. (spoiler) Several guests from the original game played by their original actors make small cameos, insinuating they were all killed and their souls are now trapped in the house, which is super cool for fans of the ambiguous outcome of the original game (end spoiler). Technically, the game runs fine in Windows 10 so I can't knock it for that, but it was one of the more stubborn games to play in Bazzite and on my Steam Deck that I've come across. On Steam Deck the transition videos play way too fast and their's no music. On Bazzite everything plays at the correct speed but there's no sound whatsoever. These problems persisted no matter what version of Proton I tried or what dependencies I installed. In both cases I ended up pointing SCUMMVM at the game files and played it through that which worked but I hate extra steps. Would be nice to see Nightdive give this release some more attention.

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There is an impossible puzzle in the game that cannot be beat! Whats worse is that there is no solution to beating it at all (not even an Ai can find a solution to this impossible puzzle)! Its just like the impossible Chess Ai system on every Apple system! Because of this, the game is impossible to 100%, let alone beat! So save your cash on this one, it ain't worth $5 of pure rage & suffering!

Classic & Thrilling Puzzle Game

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The puzzles are poorly explained and sometimes really difficult, sometimes just plain stupid. [spoiler] There is a riddle where you have to have to get two equal numbers on an old cash register by adding up numbers and pressing them, however simply getting the right sum is not enough, no, you have to press [i] specific [/i] numbers to solve the puzzle [/spoiler] Other times you have to solve a puzzle in a set (but never mentioned) amount of moves. The "clues" that the game gives you as to where to go next are beyond far-fetched and often not even helpful. I bow my head to anyone who managed to finish this without ever looking at a guide. On top of that the game runs as you would expect of a 30+ year old game. It crashes, controls are wonky and it does not like high framerates. Although, looking at the forums and other reviews, i seem to have had a lot less problems than others. Also, the only options that it has are high- or low-definition FMVs. Nothing else. No display/graphic options, not even a volume slider.

this is the best game, no, best thing in the conceivable universe, our lives are incomplete if our eyes haven't been blessed with the 11th hour. I pity any living organism who hasn't experienced the wonders of this holy, divine game. Playing for 15 minutes has now given my life meaning.