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[IMG News]

Inside Mac Games has posted a new review of Nordic Games' The Book of Unwritten Tales Deluxe Edition. The humorous point and click homage to the fantasy RPG genre features 20 hours of gameplay, multiple heroes with unique skills, and over 150 mind boggling puzzles to solve.

Here's an excerpt:

To tie pieces of the story together, there are also several video sequences. The sequences are well done, and often very entertaining. And, like with a good novel, you the player learn more of what is going on than do the characters in the story. However, even though you are controlling the characters, there is nothing you can do to warn them. Again, like a good book!

I found references to many popular sci-fi and fantasy stories, as well as a few pokes at videos and even the older paper and dice D&D games. I am sure there were several that I missed. It is all done in a tasteful, “tongue-in-cheek” manner and just adds to the overall enjoyment of the game. Some are subtle, such as those that occur as the game loads, others blatant, as with a nod to Star Wars, or the complaint about MMOs never listening to their players.

Read more at the link below.

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[Wumpus]

MGS user review. Wonder how true this is lol:

The plot is fine, the dialogue is very clever. But the puzzles are incredibly tedious. INCREDIBLY tedious. This games moves slower than a republican offering food to a dying child. The characters mosey along, even when they claim to be on an urgent mission. The pace is absolutely ABSURD. If you click on an item, the character will very, very slowly walk all the way around it in a full circle before picking it up. It is MADDENING!!

[Hansi]

Wumpus, on 09 October 2012 - 01:50 PM, said:

MGS user review. Wonder how true this is lol:

The plot is fine, the dialogue is very clever. But the puzzles are incredibly tedious. INCREDIBLY tedious. This games moves slower than a republican offering food to a dying child. The characters mosey along, even when they claim to be on an urgent mission. The pace is absolutely ABSURD. If you click on an item, the character will very, very slowly walk all the way around it in a full circle before picking it up. It is MADDENING!!

I second it, they do move infuriatingly slow but now slower regularly, but you can double click or click and press space IIRC to skip the moving animation.

I perplexed by the fact that most people reviewing this game don't mention the lackluster ending that was obviously cut short in production and just meant to finish things up quick and easy.

[Cougar]

Yahtzee reviewed the game recently and he had the same complaint that the puzzles were incredibly tedious, and are of the irritating "combine x random object together in an illogical fashion" type.