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Dizzying
This game might have had a lot of fun puzzles. Maybe the storyline was interesting.<
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>I wouldn't know. I was unable to play it because it used what was supposed to be a cool perspective. What I saw was a room that was almost constantly in spin. I couldn't even look at a single wall without it spinning me around. This made it impossible for me to play for more than 5 minutes, and even that was a stretch. <
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>It's too bad because I think it had the kinds of puzzle that I enjoy. But only if they stay still and let me look at them.<
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Mystery of the Mummy
I enjoyed playing the game although it was extremely dark and was difficult to see in areas. I adjusted the color on my computer and it made it easier but I still felt it was too dark.

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Very poor gameplay outweighs good graphics
This game was a huge disappointment.<
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>The packaging boasts "exceptional puzzles." They were exceptional -- exeptionally bad. And the puzzles were sparsely distributed among a game mainly consisting of painstakingly scanning the floors, walls, and ceilings of countless rooms in search of sometimes pixel-sized inventory items which you rarely even know you need. For example, there is one case where, I kid you not, you must find a hairpin on the stairs (because of course that's where you'd look for a hairpin) right after (and I couldn't make this up) an explosion has caused debris to fall everywhere on the floor. Where should the hairpin be used? To pick a lock? To poke a hole in something? Something else that follows the rules of logic? Of course not! You have to use it on a mirror to (in a manner never quite explained) extract a letter that was somehow behind the mirror. <
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>At best, it's an inventory game, rather than a puzzle or adventure game, and the inventory use is arbitrary and frustrating, rather than logical and rewarding. If you want puzzles, get 11th Hour; if you want inventory get Monkey Island. This game's only redeeming quality was the good graphics and a catchy Victorian/Egyptian soundtrack. The premise of Sherlock Holmes poking around Ancient Egyptian artifacts in a mansion sounds so promising. Unfortunately, Holmes' comments and the boring and convoluted plot miss that potential as well. I sympathize with the animators and recording artists who had to work on this terribly designed game.