LarissaBanker

I know more verbs than winfrotz

I would like to know my motive before playing a game. Isn't that the point? Not in this game. Instead I was described a situation, that is it. The scene was of two friends; my character and his friend Rob who was driving my car trying to find girls. Supposedly I could not drive my car because I was too intoxicated. So I had to go from there, no clue or hint of what to do. Finally the game gave me three scenarios to choose from and I picked the one about finding those girls.
All of a sudden I was an astronaut on some planet. Don’t know why or what I was doing there. I walked around that whole damn planet only to find a seed pod and return to the ship (which was really hard to find).
Then I am in a house where my daughter, Alley, is drowning. So I try to tell this game to get me out of the house and it does not understand what I am saying. I’m trapped watching my daughter die then some other character named Gabriel or something saves her.
Back to being the astronaut…this was the best part. I’m coming back to earth, land in the ocean, and I am stuck in an underwater castle. I find a shovel. Now I am thinking seed/shovel there’s a connection, finally. This is where the best part is; there’s a staircase leading out to the ocean’s surface. OK, climb staircase right? Nope. Wrong. The staircase is slippery and is not relevant, the game tells me. I am trying to figure out all sorts of ways to get on this staircase and all the verbs I write it doesn’t understand. “Go up” is the phase I needed to use and took me five minutes to figure out.
This is where things get too complicated because then here comes another scene with my character in a hospital bed. Then it returns to the astronaut on an island. I find a chest of dirt. Last scene I was in was the mother/daughter one and the mother telling Alley to come inside.
All I wanted was to plant that seed pod in the dirt but I could not. Also I did not know what to do with the last scene. So and hour and ten minutes into the game and I give up.
The game was intriguing but it took me too long to figure out what to do in each scenario. Even telling the game what to do took forever. I always used the wrong verb or it was unnecessary to use that command. It is an interesting game because I woke up still wanting to know what I should have done and how it was going to end. Maybe I’ll give it a try again…when I have three hours to waste.