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(More customer reviews)The year is 1912.You are Benjamin Parker, a young cartographer.A local doctor has called you down from Scotland to Cornwall, ostensibly to map the coastline.Before much time has passed, however, you find he has something else in mind.There are mysterious doings at the lighthouse at Fetch Rock.Now, on a foggy night, the lamp isn't lit and everyone seems to have vanished.You must go out there, light the lamp and find out what has happened.Or so you think...
Dark Fall 2: Lights Out is a 1st person point and click adventure in the classic mode--meaning there's lots of exploration, lots of puzzling through mysterious clues to progress through the story and lots of freedom to go wherever your fancy takes you without worrying that someone will jump out and shoot you or that you'll trigger some timed activity for which you're totally unprepared.If this takes away the suspense for you, maybe DF2 isn't quite your cup of tea.Me, I was scared the whole way through.As in the first Dark Fall, Jonathan and company have done a huge job creating an eerie and startling atmosphere where menace seems to lurk behind every bend.Whispered voices call out to you in words you can't quite hear;light flicker and shadows pass at the edge of your vision;footsteps seem to follow you and someone breathes in your ear, but when you turn around there's no one there.Graphics were lovely, if a bit dark, and the use of sound was phenomenal overall.My one wish was that there had been subtitles, because some of the ghost voices said things I would have liked to hear better.
Gameplay was simple, smooth and intuitive.DF2 is a slideshow game--no 360 degree panning here, and I didn't miss it.Directional cursors took you where you needed to go and a smart cursor provided both zoom and inventory options.Both worked without a hitch, though in one or two cases hotspots were difficult to locate, resulting in some wandering around.Puzzles were mostly of the uncovering information variety.There is very little character interaction and a limited use of inventory.Several locked door puzzles were a bit irritating because the doors didn't stay unlocked after you solved the puzzle;you had to keep entering the combination over and over again. In general, I found the game on the easy side, although some early clues were quite nebulous and subject to varying interpretations.The one thing that bothered me was that there was an excess of things you could look at, even pick up and interact with, that didn't seem to have any purpose, either to give you information or anything else.Several times I thought, "That's going to be a puzzle later," only to have the whole business come to nothing.
Games are saved as text files in your documents folder and you can save as many as you like.WIth a full install, you don't even need the disc in your drive to play--always a plus in my book.
It's best to play DF2 without any preconceptions about what the answers are going to be.A plot twist about a third of the way through has caused some players to be disappointed.My one disappointment was not in the actual outcome, but in the fact that the ending was very sudden and didn't give much closure.I would have liked a better wrap up or ending sequence.
I took about 20 hours to get through this game and I found it very absorbing, though confusing at times.It didn't wow me quite as much as its predecessor, but it was still the best thing I've played in a long time.As long as Jonathan wants to keep making games, I'll keep playing them!
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A young cartographer Parker is sent to the Cornish harbour town of Trewarthan where he is to map the lethal rocks that have claimed lives through the centuries. A thick fog rolls in from the English Channel as the faithful light of Fetch Rock Lighthouse is plunged into darkness putting the lives of those at sea in peril. Parker may be their only hope. Armed with his compass charts and wits he sets off to uncover the mystery. Along the way he discovers that Fetch Rock and its lighthouse have a very sinister history?Is time running out? Or does it have an agenda of its own...Format: WIN 98ME2000XP Genre:ENTERTAINMENT UPC:625904406514 Manufacturer No:PCO40651MB
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