Lost in Time

The Good
Game puts you in a role of Doralice, an unlikely heroine who just happened to inherit a place to have a peace of mind. A fine manor near the coast with great view. But such free stuff rarely come without a danger up the sleeve. Apparently someone is making attempts on your life. Who, what, why... let's just leave this place and forget all about the inherited mansion, is it really worth all this trouble!? Maybe not, but Doralice is a woman who wants to get to the bottom of a problem.

Graphic in this game is absolutely beautiful featuring live footage as well as pre-rendered one in which movement is mostly animated. It's rather cool to see something pre-rendered and good looking from such time. As you arrive at your manor and find a way to get in, your problems will soon stretch to time traveling situation where you'll have to save yourself from an evil plot against you ever being born.

Story is not anything special, but the game's puzzles are so great that you will greet the fact Sierra's name come along with a game that put you in no need to use any sort of walkthrough for it. The game features live-actors which is quite something, but their acting is really funny as well as voice-overs, adding just a one big plus to an overall amount of entertainment. I'm by far one of the last people to praise an adventure game that uses 1st-person perspective, but this game just deserves to be mentioned... I dunno, maybe there's just something nostalgic about it, but it's a cute step through time that delivers no hard puzzles to face.

The Bad
Hmm...

The Bottom Line
From the great cover art to in-game ambiance and setting, this game is a true marvel that feels more like a parody of some sort. It's probably not meant to be that way, but using the technology of the year that spawned it made it that way. This is probably the earliest 1st-person adventure game that I can think of as calling it a good one.