The Saint: Abyss of Despair

A mild recommend when it goes on sale; you can get it for less than a dollar. If not, avoid; it's not recommended. It's mostly serviceable, but not without its flaws. The story is your typical supernatural, mystery fare with a nonsensical premise coupled with dreary, extraneous exposition that frequently have no meaningful impact to the plot and deadpan dialogue/voice-acting. The HOGs are decent; hitboxes can sometimes be a bit wonky but serviceable for the most part. Minigames are alright too; most are quite intuitive on what you need to do to solve them, bar a few which are extremely tedious (clear solution but requires a lot of legwork to get to it). A lot of backtracking but no map; some interactions only appear after certain triggers so you will spend a decent amount of time checking locations.

Nice story and easy. Quite short too and straightforward.

10/9 Super game +Musick +Art Nice achiviments...

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Mildly recommended. I enjoyed the game, but there are much better HOGs out there. Let's cover the good, it has nice graphics, some decent interactive segments and puzzles and an interesting atmosphere. It feels pretty polished, has a clean interface, decent hidden object scenes and a low asking price. Unfortunately, the overall story is decent but there are a few questionable scenes, bad character actions, silly requests made of the player, etc. The voice acting is not very good either and there are issues with the voice volumes for some characters making you have to read the subtitles to understand what is being said. Despite these negative points and the short length (2+ hours), its worth playing for HOG die-hards.

Good little game. A couple of HOGs had two of an item. A Bag and a Hat. Sometimes things would not respond properly.

while some of the puzzles are good and art is ok, it doesn't save progress and had to replay it from the start. I was not a fan of some of the voice acting and the cut scenes I found boring to sit through.