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Customer Reviews of Return To Mysterious Island

Good graphics, bad play
I borrowed this game from my sister and pretty much did it all in a few hours. Thus, first off, this game is short, it is a series of actions you must figure out and complete in a semi-certain order. Not a lot of room for independence or exploration. This game also is limited - it takes place on a small island with too few screens. Finally, I couldn't even finish it, because at the very end (I won't spoil!) it was basically impossible for me to be fast enough to do one of the required tasks. So I stopped and uninstalled. <
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>Great graphics, but probably not worth the money. I think this is a Myst wanna-be.

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Tightly constructed, decently executed
Similar engine to the other Jules Verne game "Voyage", this game also places emphasis on item finding and management, offering a ton of things to search for and fiddle around with to come uup with the solutions..Unlike voyage, it seemed to make a little more sense and have a little more releveance to the plot of the game...Nice design, but not designed enough, as you finish up too soon for a proper game's value.. The little time that you do get to spend on this mysterious island does have it's upsides however, and is well worth it for the hardcore adventure gamer.

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Short But Worth the $$$
As many other reviewers have noted, this game is very short. However, I found it compelling, easy to navigate, and in short, a lot of fun to play. To give you some context, I was a big fan of adventure games back in the Sierra and Monkey Island days, but haven't played any in the past 5-6 years (ever since first-person gore-fests took over the world). <
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>These days I like the Nancy Drew series, but Return to Mysterious Island was a really nice break from the Nancy Drew format. RtMI is pleasing to look at, has great music, and not too much pixel-hunting: most items are in plain view, and the ones that are "hidden" usually require looking up at the sky or down on the ground, as opposed to scanning the area in front of you in super-slo-mo. <
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>The inventory puzzles are fun and at times challenging. You can definitely finish the game without figuring out uses for a lot of your inventory items, but according to one walk-through I read after I finished the game (and was still being haunted by questions like "what the heck was I supposed to use X for?"), all items in the game are useful ones. <
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>I think it's great that there are many different ways to attack the same problem. For example - how to start a fire? So far I have found around 9 different ways to do so, using different combinations of my inventory. <
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>In summary, I only paid $10 for this game, but thoroughly enjoyed the 10 hours I spent playing it.