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Originally Posted by zoecastillo
I also bought Dark Fall The Journal a long time ago - I played Lights Out and Lost Souls - enjoyed both of those - but I was new to the genre when I started The Journal and like Amerzone got stuck early and just stopped. I'll take advice again - should I give it another whirl?
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I think you should definitely give it a chance. I've tried to play it after I've played "The Lost Crown", but I couldn't force myself to look at it, as it does look rather bad on nowdays PC monitors. But, I've finally installed it couple of days ago and finished it yesterday. I must say that I'm glad that I've once more passed "don't judge the book by its covers" test, which was also the case with TLC. I remember, that when I saw grey skies / blue grass, following by Nigel's duck-walk, I said to myself: nah, it seems I'll skip this one. But when I've started to play the game, I've learned an important lesson, which importance I've confirmed again by playing "Dark Fall: The Journal".
A few words about the game itself. Now that I've finished it, I can concure with the reviews which emphasizes the "labour of love" factor when talking about DF: TJ. You can definitely feel this when playing the game. Like all Boakes games so far, it shines the most when it comes to story and atmosphere, but it also features a lot of interesting and well-thought puzzless. Technically, this game is certainly ruff for today's standards, but this don't affect it's artistic value.
All in all, I think that I will now finally finish "Dark Fall: Light's Out" too.
