07-17-2009, 12:46 AM | #1 |
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Return to Mysterious Island 2
Anybody else playing it? Only $6.99 for downloading a brand new game, that's what I call a bargain!
I was looking forward to visiting the lush island again and I'm not disappointed. The inventory system is still great fun, some of the puzzles are harder. Switching to playing Jap is okay, but he's far too humanized to be called a monkey, he even understands Mina's questions... |
07-17-2009, 01:03 AM | #2 |
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I finished it a couple of days ago and had a blast with it
Not sure I liked the ending though...
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07-17-2009, 01:08 AM | #3 |
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i really liked the first one. but i dont wanna sign up for YET ANOTHER download site to get it, i already have accounts for:
impulse, gog, gamergate, direct2drive, steam, adventureshop. its getting to be quite a hassle. |
07-17-2009, 02:15 AM | #4 |
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Too bad - because BigFishGames have the best customer service I've ever met.
Besides, you "don't" have to sign up for good - you can always discontinue right after the purchase with just a click
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07-17-2009, 03:49 AM | #5 | |
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The prices are on the other hand almost laugh - how do they do it? Maybe it's time for a download shop test/review/rating? |
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07-17-2009, 07:28 AM | #6 |
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I like that BFG stores a record of your purchases forever and you can re-download them any time you want.
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07-17-2009, 11:07 PM | #7 |
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I don't think the downloader is slow compared to others.
It's usually pretty fast for me - only had one or two instances where I hit a busy server, but that's it
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07-17-2009, 11:45 PM | #8 |
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I'm enjoying it so far. I'm stuck though and I really don't want to cheat and look. lol. =]
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07-18-2009, 03:05 PM | #9 |
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This one is definitely a must-buy on my list, but I'm unsure if whether or not I'll end up getting a membership at Big Fish. I agree with tastebud on this; so many accounts spread across numerous download sites, regardless of how awesome they are, can quickly turn into a hassle. I checked out Big Fish's website and the selection does indeed look great, complete with solid support and killer prices. So I could see myself turning to them and relying on their service for a while... until another similar service pops in with a new bunch of exclusive titles. It's like... it never ends. And before you know it, your games are all over the place.
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07-18-2009, 06:32 PM | #10 |
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It's an ok-game, though almost everything was taken from RtMI. The monkey business is an interesting feature, and the very Verns part of the game is great. Don't have any idea about the download though; we have the game in stores for about a month
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07-18-2009, 09:33 PM | #11 |
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07-19-2009, 12:06 AM | #12 |
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It's true. Even Microids and Kheops online stores don't have it yet.
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07-19-2009, 11:07 AM | #13 |
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Interesting. Where bouts do you live? I've yet to find it in stores myself.
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07-19-2009, 02:53 PM | #14 |
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It seems that there was already a russian release available that we didn't know of:
http://games.1c.ru/mysteriousisland/ However if you go on the fourth link with cirillic "gde kupiti"-"where to buy" you can see that it's not available at 1c online store. But english release is definetly only available at BigFish. |
07-20-2009, 05:23 AM | #15 |
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Well, I finished it and loved it. Pretty long game, much longer than the first one. I will replay it in the near future, if only to get a higher score than 700 and to find out
Spoiler:A couple of puzzles were too difficult for me. That tile puzzle on the beach, for instance. So many possibilities to arrange the tiles, I could not see the forest for the trees and I do feel that Kheops often makes it too hard to figure out the principle underlying their puzzles. But Kheops does make terrific games! About the ending... Spoiler: Last edited by Fien; 07-20-2009 at 09:59 AM. |
07-20-2009, 07:15 AM | #16 |
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I haven't finished it yet, so... I hate your second spoiler!!!
And for the first spoiler... Dunno. Tried many things on it, nothing worked. At least not yet. We'll see. I plan to replay it and make a complete list of points. An idea of putting those "sidequests" inside the game simply rocks. |
07-20-2009, 10:00 AM | #17 | |
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Sorry about that. I have deleted the words "no real spoiler".
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07-20-2009, 10:23 AM | #18 | |
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12-21-2010, 10:18 AM | #19 |
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I just finished this game, and I think it is one of the games I had the most fun with this year. It's much longer than the first one, as Fien said, and allmost all the puzzles are logical and can be done in more than one way. I like that a lot.
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