Unfulfilled potential
posted by Calibus (CASTRO VALLEY, CA) Jan 20, 2012
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Unlike the Professor Layton series, Dr. Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights has you spend the majority of your time running around the city and listening to/reading dialogue.
At the 1-1/2 hour mark, I had only completed 3 puzzles. Not because they were too difficult, in fact that were pathetically easy. No, I only completed three puzzles because 1-1/2 hours into the game, assuming you take the first available quest, that is all the puzzles available.
The idea is to find Treasure Animatus or living artifacts. Unfortunately, this usually involves 10 minutes of wandering around the city "finding" clues. I put finding in quotations because the game does everything for you. You walk to your mark, talk to someone, and the game tells you where to go next. Eventually you will find an entrance to whichever dungeon you were looking for, all without actually solving a puzzle.
Once inside the dungeon, things just degenerate. You spend about 75% of your time avoiding the police that walk designated paths, about 10% actually solving door puzzles which are unimaginative, and the last 15% fighting the Treasure Animatus in order to subdue it.
The menu system is clunky and cluttered. The directors clearly think that the dialogue is fresh and funny when in reality it makes you want to strangle every character.
In conclusion, this game is only fit for the extreme masochist.
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