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I can understand adventure fans finding the gameplay underwhelming, which would certainly detract from the experience. I don't think the word/object gameplay is a total stroke of genius or anything, but it served the narrative perfectly in my opinion. But if you don't enjoy the gameplay, you don't enjoy the gameplay. Simple as that. I think I was intruiged and maybe more pleasantly surprised than most because I'd never played a hidden object game before, so that type of game was completely new to me.

I'll certainly be buying their next game, too. It'll be interesting to see what they improve upon and how they respond to fan feedback and things.

I can't believe you can buy full adventure games at bigfishgames.com for $6.99. Obviously there's the $6.99 subscription fee, but still, you get a free game with that and $14 is still pretty cheap to play games like Syberia. It's a good service for playing games that you're not going to play again.