Alida

List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $36.95

Features:

• Explore the island of Alida, searching for the missing Arin
• Explore beautifully rendered 3-D environments to solve this mystery
• Solve puzzles that range from simple to complex
• The original musical score sets the scene in this entrancing adventure
• For 1 player

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Alida - A Myst like experience [Posted on 2006-05-14]
Having gone through all of the Myst series, I was looking for a game that was similar to Myst. Alida has much of the look and feel of the earlier Myst series like Riven. I enjoy working hard puzzles, and Alida certainly has some very difficult puzzles.

The environment was complete with good sounds, some music, and excellent graphic rendering. The graphic rendering is not a real time 3d rendering, walk anywhere, do anything but is done in the slide show style.

There is a story line to Alida that explains why Alida exists and reveals the various protagonists. There is some limited interaction with people but they certainly make up the minority of the game play. For the most part, you are on your own to explore, discover, and figure out the mystery of Alida. I did get stuck a couple of times and resorted to some on line walkthroughs. One of the walkthroughs missed the logic point behind the solution and simply told you what to do . . . found another one that pointed me at the proper logical approach. All of the puzzle solutions were solvable in the end through proper use of clues. None needed to be done by trial an error.

Overall - I would recommend this game to anyone who enjoyed the Myst type games, wants to get away from people for awhile, be in a beautiful virtual environment, and enjoys a good challenge.

Stupid puzzles, more annoying than challenging. [Posted on 2006-12-21]
I play lots of adventure games. I'm smarter than your average bear. The puzzles were just stupid.

Here is an example. You look in a window, and an old lamp is flickering. You are supposed to count the flickers, they are a code. A code to what? Another, totally unrelated puzzle far away. How do you know this? You cheat and use a walkthrough.

The puzzles are so random. When you read the solution, you don't go "ah ha!" you go "What the heck?". With every adventure game, you sometimes have to go to a walkthrough to get unstuck. This game requires walkthrough help all the way through.

Too bad, the graphics were kind of cool, the idea had potential, it's just the puzzles that failed this game.

guitar? island? Who would of guessed? [Posted on 2007-01-03]
For me this game has been difficult. Difficulty feels so good when you solve the game. Really like this one. It has a little bit of everything in it. Guess who-guess what and how.

Amazing [Posted on 2007-04-24]
I really liked as much as the Original Myst! The place is so real and beautiful. The story is amazing and you will have fun with the puzzles, they are not difficult, but you need to find them out and finish all of them to see the end. And you will have a choice of ends. Really cool. You will have a lot to do. A lot to see. A lot to think. That's what I like when playing a game. I don't like fighting or knowing my life is in risk if I don't do something in time. I don't play games to be agitated. I love the challenge, though. And the sensation of fear around but not real. You will enjoy the scenario. It's a big game. Takes space on your PC. You like Myst, you will like Alida. A lot.

Very Difficult But Worth It [Posted on 2007-10-22]
This one took me a while, and humbly I admit, it would've taken a lot longer without help from hints/walkthroughs. The puzzles don't always appear logical, and many require a lot of running around and trial and error. I just finished it, and was pleased with the storyline and ending(s). This one required more observation and note taking than I've ever done, and even then at times I had no idea what to do with all the info I'd gathered! This is the most difficult game I've played so far. I had plenty of frustrating moments since many of the solved puzzles never gave indication that it was solved, I only had to move on to the next, and the next, etc. to finally get some kind of pay off down the line (or go back and try to figure out where I went wrong). But that's what kind of game I like- challenging and beautiful graphically.

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