Category: Games

  • Game review: “Black Mirror”

    “Black Mirror” was released in 2004 by the small Czech developer “Future Games” and was a rather unexpected success. It is said that Samuel Gordon, the protagonist in “Black Mirror”, was inspired by nobody else than Johnny Depp. If you add to this the mysterious story, riddled with some supernaturalness here and there, the style…

  • Game review: “Lost Horizon”

    Game review: “Lost Horizon”

    Well-elaborated Indiana-Jones-like story that takes the player from Hong Kong across the Himalaya and Morocco right to the heart of Nazi Germany. Special finesse at the end: You control two characters located in the same place, but in different times. I wouldn’t exactly say that the puzzles are “bad” – but for hardcore riddlers like…

  • Adventure reviews

    I have decided to start a new category here. When I was six years old and we got our first computer, I began playing adventure games almost immediately. Since then, other genres have rarely had a chance with me. But there’s one kind of adventure games that I like the most, namely those with fairly…

  • “Atlantis: The Lost Tales” on Windows 7

    We’re writing the year 1997. Small Ginchen is about fifteen years old, when “Cryo Interactive” release the first game of the “Atlantis” series. We had a PlayStation 1, and someone gave us a few games for it – including “Atlantis”. It wasn’t particularly comfortable to play an adventure game with the control pad, but I…