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9 people found the following review helpful:
Curses, lagach, December 21, 2010I'm of an age so I remember playing adventure games on 8 bit computers... I was bored and discovered google's "Twisty" app for android and thought I'd give it a go. It comes with Curses pre-loaded. Without a walkthrough and lashings of hints I'd have got nowhere. But even with a heavy dose of cheating and a poor input device the game is still totally absorbing.
I would have given it five if I thought for a minute that anyone had actually completed this game without external help.
Still I suppose it's a little like cryptic crossword clues.. the more you do it, the better you get.
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12 people found the following review helpful:
Grr, May 27, 2010Okay, I tried to like this game. The writing was good, and the concept seemed simple enough- but I just couldn't quite get into it.
I got annoyed right off the bat by some poor implementation. When you enter a room, a key falls down in a crack in some floorboards. Your heart sinks as you wonder how you're going to get it back.
But you can't refer to the key, crack, floorboards, or floor in any meaningful way. Can't examine them, look at them, etc. Is that key not important, or is this under-implemented.
Then I find a map I'm looking for in a glass demijohn.
>HIT DEMOJOHN WITH WRENCH
The demijohn is made of something like industrial-grade chemistry glass. You kick it and hurt your foot.
I found this odd considering that HIT [something] and HIT [something] WITH [something] must be specifically programmed seperately.
The writing was good and I wanted to get into it, but I found myself frustrated by these. (Granted, I didn't expect breaking the demijohn to work, but kicking it and hitting it with an object should definately be seperate). The other reviews on here make me think it gets better, but these two things happened right away, and I played this twice and tried to like it, but couldn't.
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12 people found the following review helpful:
Curses, December 2, 2008(Warning: This review might contain spoilers. Click to show the full review.)Curses is an interactive fiction game with tons of atmosphere, great room discriptions and a lot of puzzles. Although some of the puzzles are harder than others most are logical and can be solved by using your mind.
There is one puzzle in particular which may confuse the player. When you get to the part where you are in the tomb in Alexandria, after you have opened the burial chamber, it says to put the sceptre in the first socket and turn it to "si." You should turn the sceptre until it lands on "si." Then you put the sceptre in the second socket and turn it until it lands on "huth." Then the coffin will open, and you can continue with the game.
You can get five extra points by either hugging or giving the chocolate biscuit to Aunt Jemima. But you must do this before ending the game or else the bonus points will be lost in four turns.
Note: you can only get bonus points in Curses Release 16.
Although this game is older than others, it is one of my favorites.
If you have any questions or need a hint, email me at:
jeopardy93@hotmail.com
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21 people found the following review helpful:
A long lasting puzzle-fest, September 1, 2008This game is a puzzle galore. It is long. It is tough. It is great.
Starting from your mansion's attic, you simply have to find a Map of Paris, for your soon-to-be holiday trip. Though what this game does, is show you how a simple task can become incredibly arduous. You'll discover family memorabilia, curses, and travel time (and not only that). *Only* to find that blasted map. Nevertheless, don't let this banal task deceive you: Curses is full of atmosphere, and the stories you'll discover around your mansion - and around your ancestors - will totally capture you.
Again, this game is long. Both because it is big (very big, almost huge), than because the puzzles are so tough that you'll spend ages wondering how to solve some of the most difficult ones. But if you take notes (and you'd better - and you'll also want to draw an accurate map), you'll find that all the puzzles are quite logical, and this is extremely good for a puzzle game. The only drawback is that some of the logical deductions/connections you'll have to do are so hard that they're almost impossible, and maybe they might've been implemented better (but this doesn't mean they're badly implemented).
Al lot of the stuff you encounter is not considered (you might well find a table in a room description, and get a "you can't see such thing" message when examining it). But, for once, this is no drawback, because it allows you to concentrate on the important stuff.
On the bad side, sometimes Curses can be really frustrating. It is easy to get stuck (tough puzzles, remember?), and also to reach an unwinnable condition, because a lot of what you do is irreversible, and you might not be prepared. Though, if you pay attention and save often, you will catch the wrong actions soon enough.
Overall, if you are a puzzle lover, you HAVE to play this game. This will be a real challenge, and if you can complete it without any walkthrough, go out and buy yourself a prize: you're a genius (sadly, I was not, and had to recur to some help in a few of the most difficult situations).
If you don't like puzzles instead... well: go away ;-)
One last note, about a thing which is always given as expected, but which I'd like to point, for such a complex IF: this game must've taken many months of development, then more months of debugging, and IT'S FREE!!! A bow to Graham Nelson, and to all the makers of huge IFs out there.
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