Give me back my time! Ok, it wasn't even much time I have "lost", but after
that ending I'm just furious with rage. Oh, the pointlessness. And
don't get me started on the money I've spent. I will try to give it
back tomorrow and say that my PC couldn't run it...
Lost is without a doubt one of the best written and most intriguing
series out there and season four contained some of the best moments I've
ever had watching TV. But this has nothing to do with Lost: Via
Dum**ss. When I read the first reviews I didn't want to believe it. I
thought you had to review it from two perspectives: as a gamer and as a
Lostfan. Sure, it would be a bad game, if you had never watched an
episode. You shouldn't bother with playing it, because the game requires you to
have at least some knowledge about the Island. But I thought that
Losties would just love it. I just finished the game and it was so
incredibly disappointing that it inspired me to write my first review
ever.
I'll start with the (few) good things: Apart from the graphics which
are fine (most characters look like the actors and the Island is
beautiful), the only good thing about the game is the main character. I
can't remember how often I've played a game with the amnesia scenario
and it has been done better but the history you get in the flashbacks
fits with Lost. He has flaws and finally overcomes them which is just very
lostlike. At least that's what i thought before I saw the ending.
**spoilerrant**
Whoever made this game (and I hope neither Cuse nor Lindelof had
something to do with it) found this nice trick so you don't have to
bother with the question if it's canon or not. Afterwards,
everything is questionable. There's absolutely no point in the whole
game: Amnesia (cliché but ok) - You find out something about the past
of the character (that's just how those games work)- everything you
just found out was a dream?!? And it's not like in the movie "Identity"
where at the end you realize that something really cool just happened and have to watch
the movie again, no! Everything you did, everything you learned is
redundant. And when I saw the plane crash over Eliott I thought it had
something to do with a timerift. Now that would have saved the game.
**end of spoilerrant**
The gameplay is just as pointless as the story. It consists of mostly
running. And then there are two different kinds of puzzles: "finish
that sequence" and some minigame where you have to put different fuses
in a panel to blah blah blah. Both are way too easy. No
adventureelements, no real multiple choice dialogue, no sneaking and
definately no good action. You pick up stuff all over the island so you
can trade with sawyer. But the only things you'll ever need are a lamp,
max four cans of oil for it and the gun. Don't buy any ammo. I only
shot two guys. Two!! I bought 90 rounds of whoopie! So the tradesystem
is broken as well. At least the controls work. With a Xbox360 gamepad that is.
What made the game even worse was that they tried to put as much famous
quotes from the series in there as possible. It just feels so forced
and phoney. Which leads me to the voices. The characters whose actors weren't available were done by standins. But I think you already
read enough about how ridiculous they sound. The music although is ok.
So let's sum it up: graphics are good, music is ok, voices bad,
gameplay none, story none, replayvalue -1. This is nothing but a piece
of bad merchandise. A total ripoff. Don't buy this game. Don't even
rent it. Heck, don't even download it. I only gave it more than one point because of
its graphics and it's bugfree (yay)
