Review of Moebius: Empire Rising by millenia

I am quite a die hard fan of Jane Jensen and I definitely enjoyed her newest game, but I have to admit it has some flaws which clearly makes it inferior to the Gabriel Knight series for example.

Jensen excels making flawed but likable characters and handling their relationships in very interesting and engaging ways. I think in this story the friendship between the two main characters was actually the main focus, and the trademark paranormal plot played only the secondary part. The plot itself was pretty good too though, but not worth 5/5 score like the relationship is.

What made me substract from the overall score was mainly the puzzles. While Malachi’s deduction puzzles were usually fun enough, the game had some inventory puzzles varying from quite bad to good. Personally I dislike (immensely) all kinds of fetching tasks - luckily there weren’t that many, and most of the time the game flowed forward quite nicely.

The graphics of the game have received a lot of criticism but they work well enough, backgrounds actually being quite beautiful here and there. And while the animation is rather awkward, especially in the beginning of the game, it’s not horrible by any means. Voice acting in this game I quite loved, especially Malachi.

I would definitely recommend this game to any adventure fan with slight warnings, mainly: don’t expect it to be Gabriel Knight.

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Time Played: 5-10 hours
Difficulty: Easy