03-23-2007, 01:52 AM
Wow. Leave it to aquaMat to out-aquaMat aquaMat! This mansion is so...weird. I don't know what to say, I've only made it a few rooms in.
Momma always said that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all, so... :-X
...OK, that was probably meaner than what I was going to say.
From the few (~10) rooms I've seen, this mansion is the epitome of the aquaMat style--it's unlike anything else out there (in a bizarre way). It's full of devious (and sometimes unfair) traps for the unwary. It frequently forces you to search for hidden clues just in order to continue. It often penalizes you for leaving a room without making clear it was going to do so.
I'm showing a pretty strong negative slant here, so let me be absolutely clear: aquaMat's mansions seem technically excellent on almost every level. I just don't enjoy his style, and given the punishing difficulty of all of his mansions, I haven't been able to force myself to complete any of them except SPoG.
I'm willing to put in the effort to try and like it on the hopes that it will reward the investment with a sense of achievement or something, because fun it is not. Still, a musical analogy is apt for this mansion. Some albums (and bands) take a while to grow on you. The first few times played a CD of one of my now-favorite bands (the Squirrel Nut Zippers), I was thinking the whole time,
Or will it be like Pearl Jam, who, having released two stellar (and one pretty good) albums at the beginning of their career, have been cranking out mostly-unlistenable dreck ever since? I tried really hard to like post-Vitalogy Pearl Jam, but I just couldn't. I'm still saddened by this...
Ahem. Sorry to get off track. Anyway, aquaMat, I'll try to keep my opinions to myself in the future as I have in the past, but, having a rather loud mouth, was unable to silence it on this one. And, after all, I've only played ten rooms (and died...twice...); maybe I'll get into it eventually.
Momma always said that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all, so... :-X
...OK, that was probably meaner than what I was going to say.
From the few (~10) rooms I've seen, this mansion is the epitome of the aquaMat style--it's unlike anything else out there (in a bizarre way). It's full of devious (and sometimes unfair) traps for the unwary. It frequently forces you to search for hidden clues just in order to continue. It often penalizes you for leaving a room without making clear it was going to do so.I'm showing a pretty strong negative slant here, so let me be absolutely clear: aquaMat's mansions seem technically excellent on almost every level. I just don't enjoy his style, and given the punishing difficulty of all of his mansions, I haven't been able to force myself to complete any of them except SPoG.
I'm willing to put in the effort to try and like it on the hopes that it will reward the investment with a sense of achievement or something, because fun it is not. Still, a musical analogy is apt for this mansion. Some albums (and bands) take a while to grow on you. The first few times played a CD of one of my now-favorite bands (the Squirrel Nut Zippers), I was thinking the whole time,
What on earth did I just buy?But since I had spent the money and couldn't get it back, I tried to like it. And, with time, began to recognize how truly wonderful their music is.
Or will it be like Pearl Jam, who, having released two stellar (and one pretty good) albums at the beginning of their career, have been cranking out mostly-unlistenable dreck ever since? I tried really hard to like post-Vitalogy Pearl Jam, but I just couldn't. I'm still saddened by this...
Ahem. Sorry to get off track. Anyway, aquaMat, I'll try to keep my opinions to myself in the future as I have in the past, but, having a rather loud mouth, was unable to silence it on this one. And, after all, I've only played ten rooms (and died...twice...); maybe I'll get into it eventually.