First of all, thank you Snooper! No RATS!! It made for a great game, and you have kindly told me the new Phantasmat will be fine too, so now I can really look forward to it! Love to you and Bunkie!
This game was terrific! The story was very easy to follow, absolutely no confusion. That's great, because I am an old lady and I like to understand the game as well as play it! Great graphics and zoom, decent cutscenes, beautiful scenery! It was fairly lengthy. There was a return (back) button, so you didn't accidentally exit a scene. The HO scenes were fun because you had to take extra steps! Nice balance of HO scenes and puzzles. The puzzles were quite diverse, and some of them were quite mind-bending! There were a bunch of beautiful posters to find for an extra achievement.
The inventory was labeled, and there was a labeled teleport map, with marked objectives. However, in the last chapter, my map didn't work. There was a journal, but it wasn't extremely helpful, and the strategy guide was just OK. The hint system did not ruin anything for you.
The reason I am taking off a star is because I had to tap extra hard and it was slightly glitchy. Also, the load time was not instantaneous when using the map, or when you closed the journal.
However, BigFish, this game did possess all the qualities we HOAG players love! Thanks for a fabulous game! More quality games please!