Lighthouse: The Dark Being

The Good
Wanted to try what's the difference between ordering a game from an online store, or directly from a developer. Surprise, surprise, Sierra even supported my country on their site, kudos for that, no doubt. Yeah, those were the times, paid $10 bucks for the game, and another $35 for the shipping, lol, only had the next day shipping option, lol. Still, the fact itself makes this game that more precious to me.

I'm totally in love with 3rd-person point-and-click graphic adventures, or at least there definitely was a time when I was, but couldn't stand any 1st-person one after my dreadful experience with Myst game. This game elevated my trust and lowered the fear, but it still proved this perspective makes the games that much harder.

The atmosphere was totally amazing, and the graphic was truly great. What few characters there were present left a solid impression and no need for any more. Ambient sound was cool, much on par with short themes they used for Gabriel Knight games. The game starts rather interesting and the whole setting was great. Then, of course, the fantasy takes the upper hand in all this and the more you progress, the less fun the game looks like, especially story-wise. From totally suspenseful and igniting plot to silly idiotic conclusion.

It's fantastic that game literally doesn't let you get stuck, there is solution to every doing, you can undo it one way or another, there are many ways to achieve same goals, although if you slip past the easy ones, you'll really have to think hard to find an alternate solution to your problem.

The Bad
Well, generally I never seek for things that I don't like in the game unless they present themselves up to the point of becoming frustrating and irritable. Since it's been a while, can't think of any except perhaps that this game, much alike many other 1-st person adventures, can be just as hard. And of course, to ruin such a fine story premise by going nowhere near brilliance is a real shame.

The Bottom Line
It has a fine covers ;) Probably one of the best looking design, right after ever so beautiful "Of Light and Darkness". For those who like 1st-person frame stepping adventures, this is no short of a delicacy, but I couldn't never understand how come such adventures can ever be so great until I played "Blackstone Chronicles".

Like certain Sierra's games from that period, game can be played under Windows' window which is great as you can do some stuff around, like browse online, then play a bit, then type something, then play again, and so on. Could be a bit more fun if the image wasn't consistent with its own resolution leaving black frame on higher ones than the one it's been using.