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(More customer reviews)The story line: you are an expert safecracker, the best of your kind, hired by Crabbe & Sons, the leading company in the field, to crack their latest safe in less than 12 hours. Your reward: heavy financial retribution, and perhaps... (no spoiler here :)
You start by breaking into the company (a nice old mansion in the London suburbs). From the beginning sequence onward, you just crack safes all night. It can get pretty addictive! My wife started cracking and couldn't stop until she was over. The puzzles are varied, a mix of ingenuity, mathematical skills, resourcefulness, and exploration (curiosity always rewarded). But you don't need to be a genius: all the hints are scattered in the game. Look at all the objects, take notes of the objects you cant't take with you, and walk around until you are stuck. it's then time to think about what you have, your next step, etc.
The game is very well done, despite a couple of bugs. the most annoying is actually common to other dreamcatcher games for the MAC PowerBook: they don't handle the trackpad very well, and you can't scroll your inventory (only beginning and end). Since it's in alphabetical order, and Key comes about in the middle, it's most annoying. But I discovered you can get around by clicking very shortly on the scroll buttons (tapping is hopeless; it always takes you to the beginning or the end).
The game is not that short, and you'll need to take a few pauses, and restart (unless you're a master safe cracker with an eagle eye). Most useful is to find the map of the house at the beginning of the game. Avoids to draw it by hand as you're walking along :) And since time is counted, you might want to save after each safe, and restore from there once you know how to crack the next one. Just avoids you to be short of time at the end. We did it loosely and had plenty of time still left at the end.
What I liked best, is that you can guess. Even if you have not seen all the clues, but guess how to crack the safe, you can go ahead. That means also you can redo the game without looking for all the clues (in case you forgot to save). And you can crack the final safe without having cracked all the other ones. Actually, we never got around to crack the jackpot safe (it's apparently random, and you can only try so many times). But we managed to guess the missing letter anyway. And some of the safes are really darlings: they'll make you laugh and feel good about yourself!
It's a great game, a great concept, and I'll definitely buy the sequel. So should you :)
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