Shadows: Price For Our Sins

2013년에 나온 작품임을 감안해도 화질구지가 눈에 많이 띄는 편. 퍼즐의 난이도는 어렵지 않은데 설명 없이 대뜸 풀라고 하는 경우가 많아서 힌트를 보려고 (?)를 눌렀더니 그냥 답을 알려줘버리는 얼탱 없는 경우가 자주 나옴. 또 아무리 숨은 그림 찾기 게임이라지만 퍼즐 하나 풀고 숨은 그림 찾고, 이야기 한 번 듣고 숨은 그림 찾고, 아이템 사용하고 숨은 그림 찾고.. 숨은 그림 찾기의 비중이 너무 과함. 한글 번역 퀄리티 자체는 나쁘지 않은데, 행렬 처리를 어떻게 한 건지 모든 문서에서 마지막 부분이 잘려있고 일부는 아예 화면을 튀어나가서 알아볼 수 없는 것도 있음. 두 세 문장마다 하나씩 글자가 깨져서 ?로 표시되기도 함. 버그도 꽤 보이는 편인데, 다행히도 게임 진행이 막힐 정도의 버그는 없지만 힌트를 써도 표시가 안 뜬다거나 맵에 진행마커가 사라진다거나 하는 등의 자잘한 것들이 많이 보임. 스토리 전개 자체는 점점 진실이 드러나는 구조라 나쁘지는 않은데.. 계속 같은 패턴의 반복이라 지겨운데다 엔딩이 허무하게 끝나버림. 다른 게임이었으면 보너스 챕터로 악역이 어떻게 되었는지, 혹은 비하인드 같은거라도 보여줬을텐데 그런 것도 없음. 전체적으로 만족할 만한 부분이 한 군데도 안 보였고 천원이라는 가격에 구매했음에도 불구하고 돈과 시간이 아깝다는 생각만 드는 작품.

I love horror in all forms and have played a few horror hidden object games. This is probably my favorite one. It has a good number of characters, a story from the past that gets told gradually, a clear goal in the present, and a premise that's pretty out there (in a good way). You have to do a little work to get all the cutscenes to display, some of the puzzle instructions are wrong, and the ending sequence is a letdown that doesn't even acknowledge the villain in the present day. There's a gooda mount of variation in the puzzles, and some of them are reasonably challenging. (I only see in black and white, so I had to have help on some that involved color. That dessert sudoku puzzle near the end took me a good couple of hours! I found it to be an engaging game, specifically as someone who likes horror, and would recommend getting it when it's on sale for less than a dollar, as seams to happen rather frequently. By the way, I had previously received the downloadable version of the game from a giveaway and could never get it to work right on Windows 10 or 11. The Steam version works just fine, other than having to make adjustments so later cutscenes display.

少し足りない感じ。 良いところ ・雰囲気が怖い。 ・所持している全てのアイテムが左右にマウスを動かすだけで見渡せるのがとても便利。 ・はじめはまったく分からなかったが持ち歩いている木盤に欠片をはめ、アイテムを獲得していくのが楽しい。 ・矢印を押して悪魔のマークに当たらないようゴールを目指すパズルは簡単で、塩の瓶をつかったものは少し難しかったが、いずれも面白かった。 以下疑問点 ・ハンマーを使うように言われるが、後に手に入れるまったく同名のアイテムでないと解決できない。ハンマーがあるのに使えないと不具合かと思ってしまう。 ・極小さな部分をクリックして布や紙をめくらないと発見できない時がある。これはぎりぎり難易度と表現してもいいが、知力というよりマウスを劣化させる努力。 ・日本語化だけでもありがたいので翻訳に厳しくしたくはないが、靴と言われれば三足、ナイフと言われれば三本あるのに特定の一つだけが正解となっている。それならハイヒールと折りたたみナイフとしなければ他の二つでも正解となってしまうはずなので、物の名称は正確にお願いします。この種類のゲームの場合は結果に大きく作用する。また別な場面の物探しだが、頭蓋骨も骨です。 たまに探すべき物が、隠れ過ぎていて、それだと判別できず、見つけても…そうなの？と感じて喜べない。 棒に服を着せる時には…服を着せて頭を乗せるだけよ…と言われるが、それだけではなく別な物も二つ使わなければならなかった。嘘をつかないでほしい。 あるパズルでは、形や大きさそれに色が同じでなければなりません…と言われるが、明らかに色が違うのに正解扱いとなるので大きさまで違うように見えた。凝った綺麗な絵をつかったパズルなのに惜しい。 あるパズルでは、コマを正しく配置して下さい。同じ模様のものを周囲九マス内の縦と横にはおけません…と言われるが、？マークを押しても何の説明もなく白紙で、しかも九マス内に八個以上置けない理由も、同じ模様でもないのに置けないものがある理由もまったく意味が分からず、この種類のゲームで初めてスキップした。

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☑ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandparents ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Only choices ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely but sad ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short (6-7 or so hours) ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☑7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 Great game play, its a hidden/find objects, puzzles as well as story telling mode. I enjoyed this game, Graphics are poop for release date 21 March 2013. But over all I recommend, reading is somewhat required to understand whats going on, but not needed to simply play the game.

This is an oldie, but goodie game. Good story, with hard HO scenes and puzzle,s but admittedly kind of repetitive and a bit clunky, but not bad. Really, enjoyed it and found it kind of cheesy fun. I didn't play it on Halloween, but I can see this as a good October game. It's also long, so good bang for your buck. I think it's pretty fun if you don't mind old school HOPA with an interesting enough of a story.

I really like the game, but there seems to be some bugs. Especially with the party scene and the end scene, i just got blackscreen there. Also some coloured words in the HOS are not right. Still a really nice game, that doesnt seem to have subtittle sadly. The style is nice and the mechanic with the board is something i always love in HIOs. All in one i really liked the game. It is a bit pricey though. 15 bucks would be the max id buy it for. Apart from that i can really highly recommend it.

Game has some bugs with not playing the movies after major story beats. Occasionally the widescreen button will cause the mouse to be locked into a much smaller area of the screen. Some puzzle instructions are unclear or plain wrong.

Yes, if you can tolerate or even like an over-the-top Gothic and fako-religious narrative. I think the art is fine, and the puzzles are OK; it's just that the plot relies too much on Gothic, supernatural themes, like all the dead family members you have to somehow reclaim through your good works. It's a plot that gets in the way of the game, as far as I am concerned. Oh, and there too many puzzles, in addition to hidden-object sequences. I finally got so bored with trying to make them work that I pressed the Skip button over and over.