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Adventure Game Scene of the Day - Saturday, 26 March
Did someone, other than Karlok, play Darkstar: The Interactive Movie? What is actually wrong with it?!
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It was crawling with bugs, that’s one thing that’s wrong with it. I didn’t finish it, watched the remaining cut scenes to see what happened storywise.
But whenever someone mentions Darkstar, like now, I think of the tremendous amount of money and effort the indie developer put into his one-man project for over ten years, and I feel very sorry for him. It was such a big, ambitious FMV project, with fairly well-known actors too. Not a bad game at all, I liked the story. Just not enough people interested in that kind of game, plus awkward controls and too many bugs.
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I bought the black box version of the game with all the goodies, including the movie and the T-shirt, but I haven’t played the game yet. I do wear the T-shirt. 
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I did played it, Diego, and it is a good game but with a few bugs and one thing, for me, one big let down: no subtitles. Since you cannot control individualy the volume for speech, music and sound, the speech is too low for my taste and you miss a lot of what is going on in the game.
I played a part of it, the first two hours or so. I didn’t like the gameplay all that much. I have no love for games where you need to find a hidden switch behind the stasis pod you wake up in, because it opens a locked door on the other end of the ship (with no indication that the two are related at all - miss the switch and you’re stuck, find it and press it and you’ll never know what it was for).
I quickly turned to the strategy guide to watch the story play out (and to see all the deaths), because I DO have some love for cheesy MST3K sci-fi. But after a while I figured it would take me too long as there’s just no fun in rigidly following a step-by-step guide, and I gave up.
There’s something to like there (especially for MST3K fans). Unfortunately it was wrapped in the sort of game I dislike severely.
The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark: it scares you witless but in time you see things clear and stark. - Elvis Costello
Maybe this time I can be strong, but since I know who I am, I’m probably wrong. Maybe this time I can go far, but thinking about where I’ve been ain’t helping me start. - Michael Kiwanuka
I played a part of it, the first two hours or so. I didn’t like the gameplay all that much. I have no love for games where you need to find a hidden switch behind the stasis pod you wake up in, because it opens a locked door on the other end of the ship (with no indication that the two are related at all - miss the switch and you’re stuck, find it and press it and you’ll never know what it was for).
You almost talk as if you weren’t aware of Rule #3 of Adventure Gaming: Always check behind doors.
(Along with Rule #2: Pick up Everything as well as Rule #1: Newspaper under door + Pencil in lock = Key!)
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