Just Adventure's delightful Aya reveals her rather realistic review for Artematica's adventure-title, Martin Mystere: Operation Dorian Grey...
After I played the demo of MM, I was really excited and looking forward to playing the full game and I did set my expectations a bit too high. Now that I’ve played the full game, I wouldn’t say I was disappointed, but my overall impression was not what I was expecting. I did enjoy playing MM. Beautiful graphics and music, pretty good puzzles, along with one of the best puzzles ever created, interaction with almost everything and a good story with unexpected twists make up for the poor dialogs and the bad voiceovers. Unfortunately, all the problems that could have been eliminated, had there been some serious beta testing, prevent total immersion and take away from the overall image of the game. I hope that the NA version will have those problems resolved, and that there will be a patch for the European version – and this review will be revised when and if that happens. Till then, MM is still a good game, especially for 3rd person point ‘n’ click lovers who love a mystery, to whom it will definitely appeal.
Aya awards Martin an overall grading of B-!! |