ShanyGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 19 JUN 2003
Status : Online | I missed the Register sign as well. And what's with not being able to choose your own password?
After playing for a bit I can say that this website is an excersize in frustration. There are very few normal puzzles, there are a couple of badly done arcade games (even a pacman clone!), some pixel-hunt puzzles - they count the number of clicks you make, when clicking on 'help' adds 5 clicks despite the fact that 'help' only states the obvious and does not give a normal hint.
In most of the puzzles they are making things uncesserily difficult, sometimes by not giving full intructions, sometimes you don't get enough tries, in one puzzle you are supposed to click your mouse after a certain time - you don't know how long, but they also put an obstacle so that even if you got the time right you might fail that game.
But what really annoys me is that in most of the ganes you have to guess - you are given several picutres, out of which some were tempered with, not only do you have to guess which ones were tempered with, but you also have to point 'where' - and there's no indication.
Another puzzle has you dragging icons over a picture, those icons disappear quickly, and you can only see them properly when your mouse is over them, and if you managed to catch an icon and see what it is, then you have to understand it's meaning - which is not seen in the game - and, of course, the entire thing is timed.
Now I realise this is supposed to be an 'Experience', and it's made for art, and atmosphere and hidden meanings and all that, but if I'm not enjoying it at face level, why would I want to continue with this experience to find it's hidden meaning?
When you finish a game with a good score you get a video clip, but they seem to be just as annoying as the games.
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