Mysterious Journey II
Mysterious Journey II is listed as the sequel toSchizm - Mysterious
Journey.. I don't think so. It feels very different. Schizm had two main
characters interacting with each other, an inventive organic world and scenes so beautiful
you didn't want to leave them.
Mysterious Journey II is leaner and more somber. As the main character, asleep
for 200 years in a space station, you awaken and are told that your are responsible for the
extinction of most of your civilization. The mechanical voice tell you that your first
punishment will be to be imprisoned in the space station as it falls to its destruction and
the other …. The voice breaks off.
Well, you manage to escape after solving a routing problem in one of the most beautiful
puzzles in the game. Puzzles -- there are many and there is no wandering about until you
solve them. You can save at any time and you should. Some puzzles change each time
you try them -- some will like that, some will not. I found that if I saved in the middle of
a puzzle, I could keep on working with the same one. There are lots of puzzles and I
found some to be hard -- or more precisely, tedious.
Back to the story. There are two remaining tribes left on the planet. One believing in
science and technology and the other in living within the confines of nature. In trying to
bring peace between them and discover more about how you effected this world, you
bop back and forth between the two very different environments. It takes some getting
used to. This is a big game. The three CDs are loaded onto your computer and will take a
couple of GB.
Reviewed by: Editor - 09/04
Ages: Everyone