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- Average Rating:2
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- First Review:August 8, 2013
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The Secret of the Nautilus
Unlock the secrets of the famous Nautilus submarine in this exhillarating Hidden Object Adventure game!
Overall rating
2
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5
3 of 4 found this review helpful
A very poor re-release
PostedAugust 8, 2013
JonasBecsan
Skill Level:Beginner
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Puzzle
Fun Factor
2
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
2
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5
Level of Challenge
1
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5
Storyline
3
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5
I played the original version of this game, the one from 2002. The game did not get well received back then either. I did, however, like it when I played it for the first time. It had a nice mysterious atmosphere and music. The storyline isn't the greatest and some puzzles just didn't feel logical.
All in all it was a nice experience for me and I replayed the game many times. I was one of the few lucky people getting the game to work on windows 98 and windows XP. The game would not run on Windows 7, which i found reasonable and it didn't much matter as I had played through the game many times.
Then I discovered that Bigfish was selling a new version of the game, which I thought was pretty cool because this meant the game would work on Windows 7. I didn't expect the game to be much updated in graphics or gameplay, given how old the game was.
There are changes from the original, some are improvements and some has made the game worse. The improvements are the inventory, as before you had to pick and object up and place it in the inventory yourself, which was kind of annoying. In this new version the objects gets placed in your inventory automaticly when you pick them up like in Return to Mysterious Island.
Other changes are that now puzzles, objects and pathways are marked with cymbols which makes them easier to find. I understand that this is an improvement to the original because of the blurry visuals resulting in and endless pixel hunt, but it also simplifies the game too much. Most puzzles are also simplified and some are removed alltogether. Even though some of these puzzles were not logical to begin with, removing them makes the game quite short. Unlike the original there is no thinking required anymore, (which I think is an important part of these games) because you can easily get through the game just randomly clicking on every cymbol there is. I did not buy this version, I only tried the 60 min. trial, but that was enough to almost finish the game as a result of the simplified puzzles.
The controls are quite bad. In the original it was a standard 360 degree panoramic where you would look around panning the cursor. This is the case in the new version, but the annoying thing is that you have to hold down left click whenever you want to look around. It should have been kept like the original.
The music is changed to where it would play. I love the music in the game, because it gave it a nice mysterious atmosphere that fit well to the exterior environments. Now the different music tracks plays in different locations than the original. Now this only seemed weird to me because I'm used to the original, but it just fit the locations better in the original I think.
Considering the price is only 3 dollars I guess the game could be worth it if you have not played the original, then it MIGHT be longer than it felt like for me. I am not gonna buy it as I think this is a really poor re-release.
The Secret of the Nautilus, disliked by most when first released has been ruined in this version, making it even worse, (objectively speaking, as i liked the original). If you want to experience this game at it's best i reccomend trying to get the old version and install it on an old PC with windows 98.
I don't recommend this game.