The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

For a point a click you’d think they’d be aware of the “hit boxes” for certain “puzzles” , the tower key, and plaque is soooo bad I thought I had a game breaking bug. After looking at forums/ discussions I saw I was a millimeter off clicking the right plaque!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm not impressed, here's my breakdown: Gameplay: Endless dialogue instead of solving puzzles. Annoyingly, one also has to talk to certain people in order to activate puzzles and pick up certain objects. If not for that, it could be finished in no time at all, the puzzles are mostly easy. The constant flashbacks are annoying. There are artificial wait times when a dialogue ends until you can click again. I got the impression that they were trying to artificially increase game length, because puzzle-wise it doesn't offer much substance, and the map is also on the smaller size (which isn't bad per se). Nevertheless a beginner friendly game, completable in 5 hours. GFX/Audio: The graphics are appealing but the quality of the character animations decreases sharply towards the end. The music and sound effects didn't convince me, I soon had it on mute. The voice acting was ok. Story: The story creates tension through the obvious secret you are heading towards and manages to develop charm in some passages. However, other parts seem quite artificial, not to be taken seriously or were even off the mark. Most importantly however I found the ending tasteless and inappropriate. I'd even call it an anti-game. This CAN work as e.g. Dan Simmons Carrion Comfort shows but here it simply backfires. The script author blundered on this one. If not for this ending, it would be worth it's price