Live Novels: Jane Austen?s Pride and Prejudice
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Bad Deja Vu!
If I am not mistaken, we had another game with same story not long ago which was bad. Now I am trying to choose which one is worst. I am a big fan of P&P however Live Novels just does not make me want to spend time with one of my favorite literature characters, Mr. Darcey. The Game begins with hand drawn art work and unfortunately scenes load very slowly. This is a FROG/HO/Interactive Game which involves scrolling screen. I anticipate that many will not like this feature. There is a journal with a task list and no voice-over. I liked the music but it is on a loop and does get annoying after a while. Visuals and Graphics are poor and items are difficut to find. Hint system does refill quickly and there is only one mode of game play. No sparkles and HO scenes are easy to play. Not a difficult game but very tedious and uninspiring. Sorry, it is a pass on this. I prefer to go and re-read the book.
July 25, 2012
Not The Best, But Certainly Not The Worst
I didn't mind this game. Some parts were alright but others were just frustrating.
Good Parts:
Graphics were clear, modern and detailed.
Easy hidden object scenes. If you aren't very patient, like me, you'll love this
The hint refilled very quickly
I liked how to complete an object, you needed to find parts of it. Most of the time, I don't like this but it seemed to fit perfectly with this game.
OK Parts:
Would've liked a little more variation in the game, perhaps a puzzle or two.
Should've been some voice-overs.
Bad Parts:
The storyline was not interesting at al. Got bored with it very quickly. A comic set out with no voice-overs and hardly a proper storyline.
The scrolling thing. To find the majority of the objects, you needed to scroll to look around the room. I found this to be really annoying and time consuming.
While I won't be buying this game, I think people who enjoyed the novel or people looking for something a little different will like it.
July 25, 2012
Boring
This was another attempt to translate a classic piece of literature into a game. While it has been successfully done,as in Edgar Allan Poe's "Murder in the Rue Morgue", this attempt was a failure. It opened with cartoon-like drawings to set the story line, no voice overs, and proceeds to the standard HOS where you find the parts of an object then combine them. While the graphics after the opening scene are rather nicely done, the game play was not interesting enough to entice me to complete the demo. Sorry, this is a no buy for me, however, it might hold a begginer players' attention.
July 25, 2012
Played 8 minutes too long
This game is awful. You cannot move without being told "thats not part of, or that does'nt look like". Even the music got to me in that short time. A classic novel but not a classic game.
Certainly a no buy for me.
July 25, 2012
Much better rendition
When I saw this game I thought there must have been a mistake. Haven't we played this game some days ago?
It turned out that another game with a similar title was indeed released some days back and has met rather mediocre reviews.
This one though seems to be different.
Let's get the "bad points" out of the way first. You must be able to stomach yet again a Jane Austen's story. I'm sure at her time what she wrote about was revolutionary but today I find it boring. But that is just an opinion. I also found unappealing the interface of the game. An option to fix the inventory box would have been nice.
Yet the game looks nice. It uses the FROG style, the items are not too difficult to locate, the puzzles are varied.
I particularly liked the graphics, paintings fitting the time period of the story are used in the puzzles and I find this very nice. The music was also nice, fitting and unobtrusive.
So overall the game has sufficient game elements to encourage me to endure through and finally get in a roundabout way what the fuss is all about Jane Austen and her novels.
In that respect we can say the game succeeds in its purpose, as suggested by its title, to bring the novel to life.
July 25, 2012
It was so so
Not a game that jumps out at you and says buy me. It was a relaxing game but boring at the same time. You really need good observations for the hidden objects as they are very well hidden. A lot of dialog and jumping from one scene to another. Mrs Bingham is very like the film character and it is easy to follow the story if you have seen the film. Overall it was an OK game. The hour goes by very quickly and I didn't get to far as it took a long time to find some of the missing items.
July 25, 2012
Yawn, yawn, yawn !!
This game is a perfect bore. I quit the demo after 15mn, tired as I was of having to find bits and pieces of items that don't have any definite shape, are nearly invisible and perfectly irrelevant to the storyline.
How exciting is it, indeed, to search for shapeless thinggies to fix a ladder, place a valve on a fountain, look for beads to make a necklace, pieces of dress that don't look like anything, and many other goodies of like kind such as parts of a glass, or handle, or key and who knows what else, I ask you ?
Not my idea of an adventure and hardly a challenging passtime anyway.
The intro is ridiculously cartoonish, the cutscenes come up much too often, there is no voice-over so everything is in text form and too much to read slows the game down terribly, the rendition of the storyline doen't do credit to the novel, you need to scroll left and right all the time to get the HOs and use hints because you can't locate them.
As for the music, even though it is pleasant, it quickly becomes annoying as there is only one soundtrack that turns in loops.
The artwork is okay but I have seen better.
I have no idea whether the game includes any minigames and/or puzzles, and quite frankly I have no intention to buy it to find out.
Reading the book is a lot more satisfactory as, at least, it won't lull you to sleep as the game does.
July 25, 2012
Oh Dear!!
Boring, boring and boring! Great if you are not familiar with Pride and Prejudice and are still at primary school! Not up to the usual standard of Big F!
July 25, 2012
I really wanted to like it....
because this is one of my favorite novels, but it only took about 10 minutes to delete it. Poor spelling, slow moving, and boring.
July 25, 2012
A Snoozer ...
I loved the book and the movie; the game not so much. The game's story moves along at such a creeping rate that sleepiness descends.
Transitions between scenes are slow, and the image of a book appears in each transition, with pages turning rapidly. I wish the scene transitions were as rapid as the turning pages. :( Seeing the book once is fine. Seeing the book every other minute is annoying.
I'd say it's probably always a bad choice to model a game after such a beloved classic. And I wish the game were better but ... All I can tell you is, I now need a nap. zzzzzz.
July 25, 2012