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Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poe's The Premature Burial 
Step into Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poes The Premature Burial , where Julien has hired the world famous Detective Dupin to investigate the sudden death of his beloved Victorine. After her passing, Victorines husband, who she has no love for, has her buried incredibly quickly, making Julien uneasy. Become Detective Dupins assistant and use your Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure talents to unravel the mystery!
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Game System Requirements:
- OS: Windows XP/Vista/8
- CPU: 1.4 GHz
- RAM: 1024 MB
- DirectX: 9.0
- Hard Drive: 613 MB
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A Wonderful Story
Third in a series of Dark Tales games, this is one of the best. Quite long for a standard edition, and very captivating in mood and storyline. Although this is a well known tale, as are most of Poe's stories, this one will captivate you with how it is told adding a new and refreshing angle. No longer are you a spectator, or mere reader, this time you are part of the story. Filled with intriguing puzzles, and beautiful hand-drawn scenery, this game will keep you playing!
November 16, 2011
Almost As Good As The Rest
GAME COMPLETED SEVERAL TIMES
The third in the Dark Tales series, this game, while I love it, is my least favourite. It has all the really good stuff that you?d expect from this series, and a few unexpected, but it is somewhat frustrating to play.
The movie-like, exciting and intriguing opening scene lets you know straight away that again we?re take a leap forward in terms of gameplay.
So, of course, we have been promoted to M. Dupin?s associate, as he introduces us in his beautiful new lip synced voice. With the title comes a considerable increase in the amount of time and effort it will take to solve this mystery.
This macabre story is quite a bit more complex than the previous ones and so takes quite a bit more in the telling. Still, you must venture out on your own with no map or hint button.
The puzzles continue to be easy, relatively speaking, but only sketchily described. Likewise, making your next move is pretty well left up to you for most of the game. Somehow I always manage to overlook some small but crucial item and end up having to reach for the walkthrough. I find this game less intuitive than the others.
Another innovation, collectibles, has us keeping one eye open for roses along the way. Tip: It?s worth your while to find them all.
Little nagging things are wrong with ?Premature Burial?. Weird names for the objects on the list. Using a knife to cut a rope that ?will be useful later?, but which does not end up in inventory.
A sudden change in the black bar hints to full on hand-holding three quarters into the game. And a couple of weird little side quests. They all make for a more confusing game than the others in the Dark Tales series.
But I still think it is an excellent game, and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good story told in game play.
April 5, 2013
No hint button so more challenging
ERS has adapted another Edgar Allen Poe story into a game & as ever it has sublimely beautiful artwork in the main scenes; it is the little touches I like, a ribbon tied to a door blowing in the wind, a little bird hopping about. The artwork was let down by some badly drawn items in the Hidden Object scenes & there were some odd choice of names in the list of things to find.
The usual type of mini puzzles crop up & these were reasonably easy to solve & in addition there are 33 roses to collect; I always love having this type of extra.
The story is set in France & the music suits the location, the background sounds are also excellent as are the voiceovers. The dialogue is clickable for those who prefer to skip through.
There are two modes of gameplay; in easy the hint recharges at 1 minute 15 seconds & there are sparkles to mark H0 scenes & areas of interest. In the harder mode the hint is 2 minutes 30 seconds & no sparkles, just the odd glint very occasionally.
It took me around 4 hours to play; without a hint button I had to think more about where to go & what to do which made the game very interesting. You do get a notebook that gives some clues. Good story & satisfying ending, now I know why I collected all the roses
November 27, 2011
pros and cons list - good game not great
ERS knows their formula and have stuck with it.
That is a positive and negative thing for them. While this game is good the formulaic style leaves me a bit bored, I know what to expect and I get nothing new or exciting. But that is ERS for you- you know what you are going to get. Which is why I don't give any of their games an A as you have to do something out of the ordinary and push yourself to do an exceptional game instead of giving us a good solid B game.
pros - collecting roses nice touch for a SE and if you get all the roses makes the game plot at the very end slightly better
- romantic plot
- couple of medium puzzles, they usually have all easy puzzles
-no sparkles on my setting
cons -
- I just don't like their washed out graphics which they love
- A bit glitchy - sometimes the 'eye' wouldn't pick up on a HO scene and had to be very accurate on a non accurate area (ie at end there was a big expanse of grass for a HO scene but if you didn't hover over it in the exact spot you wouldn't know there was one)
- Also had to exit the game to get one of the puzzles working
- The junk pile hidden object scenes - all of their scenes were this way. While a couple of items in it is interactive most other DEVS are at least doing a few non junk pile HO scenes as well as being interactive (ie doing something in a scene to reveal an item)
- puzzles are always on the easy side with ERS they need some more that are a challenge. If I pick a harder setting to play then the puzzle should be harder as well.
- opening with broken down mode of transport (and there have been a few carriages in games) it just gets old and a bit predictable and boring
January 6, 2012
A mostly solid HOG adventure
I am pretty fussy as to what I spend my money on and I would say this was fairly typical of the genre. That said, I like ERS games and for the most part this one was well worth the purchase, at least the SE version anyhow. Using no hints, skips or walkthrough, the SE version took about 5 hours.
Artwork, sound, and voiceovers were typical for ERS - which is to say pretty decent. Story was nothing too deep but held together til the end. The more of these you play, the harder it gets to find one which is truly original and worth your time and money.
There were the usual localization issues with some hidden items just NOT being what they were labeled to be but since there seemed to be no penalty for tons of clicks you will eventually find them all. No hints were used.
Puzzles were middle of the road. Nothing too challenging.
I always like to play on hard/ expert mode and in this case, lack of sparkles to indicate there is an HO scene present can lead to missing some and requiring a lot of backtracking and pixel hunting to find an item you will need to progress later on.
Overall a pretty nice HOG adventure.
November 15, 2011
No hint button no buy
I love to play ERS games but now with all the going back and forth in the games I at times need a hint. I donot like going to the walk through just to see what to do next. So now if there is no hint button I do not buy.
November 18, 2012
Another Outstanding Allan Poe
The third is so good and challenging as the other two. It does not happen in all serial games.
You feel inside the very good story, plenty of puzzles, with awesome and crisp graphics, nice sound, great atmosphere and amazing characters.
I love the irony and charming of comments in certain scenes !
January 7, 2012
Best one yet
Out of the 3 Dark Tales series this one is by far the best. I liked how when you were searching for hidden objects that you had to do certain sequences of actions to find an object. The answers to the puzzles were not outright done for you like in The Back Cat story. The puzzles did require some thought, but were easy enough to do. The story was good and I liked how there was spoken dialogue this time. I thought it was kind of funny that the dective spoke with an American accent when the setting took place in France. I liked the backgorund music to the game. The drawings were much better than the previous 2 Dark Tales stories. It felt like more thought was put into this game than the other Dark Tales stories.
November 22, 2011
Brilliant crime detective game
For lovers of crime murder mysteries, the Edgar Allan Poe games are the most enjoyable! I love how the detective looks at you as if you are actually there in the game.
There are different challenges, not just hidden object, so the game keeps you entertained for longer.
Enjoy it as I did.
November 14, 2011
Premature? Just at the right time!
I thought this was a fun game. I enjoy games which aren't overwhelmed with HOS and this was not. There were many and at times they came in clumps, but not too many. There was a storyline that moved well and was interesting and I didn't think the HOS interrupted the progress.
Some of the other puzzles in the game were a little too easy...or I just got really lucky on my first attempts. My criticism of some other puzzles isn't so much about their difficulty but about the directions. There needs to be more clear instruction about what to do (I don't mean solving the puzzle for me). I was often left wondering what the designers meant by their instructions and resorted to the walkthrough to figure it out.
To it's credit this game did not have the annoying back and forth that many do. When you get to one area there is usually a real purpose and you're there for a little while. Of course there are exceptions but they are few.
I thought the scenery and artistry were beautiful in this. The music was constant. At times there were sound effects or musical interludes which seemed meant to underscore the suspense but I thought they missed the mark...I couldn't tell what triggered the "there's something exciting and scary happening here" music and it didn't really fit. The regular sound track could be a little annoying because there is relatively little change to it throughout. Still, it really gave a very nice European feel to the setting.
All in all, a well designed, fun game which I thoroughly enjoyed.
July 20, 2012
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