First time player here. Can't say I play for nostalgia reasons, just wanted to see what this Titanic game has to offer. Surprisingly, the game feels alright and runs smoothly on Windows 11, with no frame drops or lag, and the save works well so you don't need to finish in one session.
The game begins at boarding and ends when you survive after the sinking. The bonus unlocks after completion, a nice 5-minute gameplay segment diving into the water, checking different rooms of Titanic as the captain gives dialogue on how and why the Titanic sank - message system ignorance, high speed, bad shipping route, unheated rivets, bulkheads... Nice for players who are interested in learning a few facts (And let's ignore the age of the captain).
The game is fully voiced and sounds good, yet some plot points don't stand up to scrutiny, like how the captain can be so relaxed after the hit, how the little boy boarded alone, a scientist created a one-way mirror and hidden in the ship, and decipher an Egypt thing? Not to mention to go against the captain’s decision to damage the engines, use a pot of potatoes in the food lift to crash a box. Those went a bit too far.
Some puzzles are reasonable, like creating a temporary fire extinguisher using baking soda and vinegar; putting dust on the pin panel for a code; picking up ice bulks to break the glass for a fire axe, then using it to break the medicine locker. Some puzzles are half reasonable and hard to figure out, like in order to join a curling stone game on the deck you need to pour water on some food in the kitchen, leave it to freeze, and make one curling.
Other puzzles are not reasonable, like you can control the water level of 3 different rooms through a panel, for the badminton bat to float so you can pick it. How is it possible to control that, and why can a badminton bat float on water? And your husband still sleeps soundly after hearing that ugly noise when the ship hits the iceberg; There's a weird puzzle where you need to click the right direction at crossings, otherwise you return to the starting point - I had to skip this puzzle, it’s supernatural and I don't see why the devs decided to add it here.
As a hidden object game, many times you are asked to find various items, which turn out to be randomly selected. Recent games prefer you spot a weird item in a picture, and usually that’s the item to click. However, in this much older game, every single item looks very suspicious and doesn’t blend in at all. For a time, it asked me to find "Japan". I was so confused I thought I’d be looking for a flag because there was a U.S. flag, it turned out to be a Japan map somehow embedded on the ground. But I didn’t get anything related to Japan after it, so the hidden objects part has no necessity to what you will be given.
Near the ending you are asked to make a choice, to assist your mother for medicine or your husband for a lifeboat. I didn’t hesitate for my mother, because the medicine is located somewhere in the lower deck, less risky for a guy to find a lifeboat. In the end, the husband[spoiler]died without much information given[/spoiler], and the game doesn’t allow me to go back for another option.
Overall, this game is about a fictional story of a real tragedy. Not a bad game, if you are curious go for it, this game is on sale almost all the time.
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