Beta Thread

JustTheFacts wrote:Yes, Bad Omen has got everyone talking!! And holding their breath!

The forum I get this from mentioned that those links seemed to work for some but not for others. So, I guess you're one of the 'others'. I'm sorry, I didn't see any solution to the problem, but I'll go check it out.

JustTheFacts wrote:Limits Of Sanity (: Paradise Island)
Collector’s Edition

Release Date: 2014
Developer: Blam!
Interesting & Original Story****

BASED ON BETA

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Well, we don’t get too many stories where the asylum/hospital we are trying to escape is still functional, and everyone is still alive. So already my interest is piqued.. The opening is not especially dramatic but it looks and sounds good, so we are off to a good start.

SIGHTS & SOUNDS
The graphics are very good hand painted style, colourful, sun washed and clear. The cut scenes are handled very well, and the acting is very good. HOPs lean slightly more to the realism style, and that is also good.

The narrator’s voice and the music both are strongly evocative of the 40s (and big bands), an era favoured by the ‘gumshoe’ private detective. The voiceovers are excellently acted, but there is no attempt at lip sync. There are some pleasant tropical island background sounds as well.

WHAT’S HAPPENING?
The game certainly feels like a whodunit. Your father returns from a ‘rest cure’, only to keel over into an irreversible coma after signing away all his assets to the health spa where he’d been staying. Something... shady is going on! And now you find out your sister has gone to the island herself to find out the truth. Time to put on our super brother cape and go to the rescue.

Everything on the island that is the hospital’s grounds seems normal enough on the surface, until you spot your sister trying to escape, and the consequent shut-down of the entire island. Why was she running away, and why were they trying to force her to stay? Well, we’ll find out part of the answer the hard way, when we get inside the doctor’s office!

GAMEPLAY
The gameplay is fairly traditional. We have HOPs of the interactive list variety, but less of them than there are puzzles. And the puzzles are mixed. Some are simple enough, others are fiendishly interpreted versions of familiar puzzles, and one was truly evil. This last I suspect will be the signature puzzle of the game and turn up again. So it may be important to see if you can solve it, or are prepared to skip! There are achievements which you will be unable to get if you do.

We carry with us an interesting assortment of junk, of the I-don’t-know-what-it’s-called era, where very old-fashioned technology is used. Superseded sci-fi, perhaps? Anyway, you know what I mean. We have a cassette tape player and later a video player that looks like an antique, ditto the handheld mobile-like gadget that we can read our notes on, and a radar map. All today’s technology as I imagine it would look like if it had been invented 50 – 60 years ago.

The map flags places where you have something you can do, but you can toggle that off from the options menu. And you have 3 levels of difficulty. The hint is directional, and along with your gadgets, you also have a task list. You also get casual assistance from the only trustworthy creatures on the island – a lemur and a parrot. But they aren’t necessarily there for the duration.

CE BLING!
Beta edition, so little information here. Achievements, placed on a tropical beach and including both performance and story achievements. Collectible ‘island currency’ (35 x  paper money), don’t know if there will be somewhere to spend them, certainly not at the moment.

COMBINED IMPACT
I like this game. It is refreshingly bright and cheerful despite the subject matter, it has a general feeling of ‘newness’ to it. The gameplay is nothing we haven’t seen (except some of those nasty puzzles), but it is nevertheless different. I wouldn’t say it is going to win any awards, but we will gain RE-wards, by playing it.

I recommend this game!

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Tried this one, Loved it !!!!!   7 days to find sister, get rid of crazy doctor, get off the island.  Can't wait for it.