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Legend of Lotus Spring (Jewel Case) | List Price: $19.99
Discount Price: $2.09
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Platform: Windows NT, Macintosh, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
Brand: Dreamcatcher
Binding: CD-ROM
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
A Stinky Flower [Posted on 2003-04-23]
Game produced to appeal to a specific audience - namely teenage girls with nothing better to do with their time. That is fine, and may be benificial as the monotany may force them outside, away from their monitors. Repetitious and tedious. Buy if watching grass grow adds excitement to your life.
Though Clunky, One of the Best Older Games [Posted on 2005-10-05]
I am a Myst, Atlantis, Syberia, Egypt II gamer (with even some Nancy Drew thrown in to play with younger friends; and a little Tombraider), and to this day, Lotus Spring remains as one of the most enjoyable & educational games I've played. I never traded it in. It stays in my collection. If you want to go back over the older games and you are a female gamer, try this out. It is clunky, but if you have patience, you'll enjoy the story and graphics. Most guys I know think it moves too slow and won't finish it. But I think gals age 12 to 80 will get through fine. Who wouldn't want to observe Koi fish in an oriental pond, then try to figure out how to "play them" to get to the other side?
Despicable. [Posted on 2005-11-23]
A dull game that consists mainly of meandering. Puzzles are simplistic, yet unintuitive. Rewards consist of cut scenes featuring a courtship. The game is strongly targeted to women. To the extent that women are maudlin simpletons, it should appeal to them. For my part, I found it a bit insulting.
Boring & Insulting to It's Targeted Demographic [Posted on 2006-07-21]
The genius developers that produced this train wreck invested a lot of time and money in the myth that women don't play computer games. Their solution? Create a game that is the technological equivalent of a picture book - lots of pretty shiny things to look at and none of the challenges that real gamers - men - like. Oh, and it also helps to turn the cursor into an adorable naked baby.
Every time you move the mouse around, the baby turns to show the direction you are going...and to remind you of what the developers think your real purpose in life is.
Navigating the game is annoyingly non-intuitive, for a game that is supposed to appeal to beginners (i.e., women). The chubby baby turns you left, right, forward, and back...and each way you turn the scene changes so much that you can't really tell where you are. You can only move several steps at a time, so you can't explore your surroundings fully.
Challenge is non-existent in this game. The puzzles aren't really puzzles, but more like toys you can play with.
The characters in the game appear occasionally in flashback scenes that are flat and uninspiring. Their interaction includes no dialogue, as I recall.
As for the story, there really is none. You are entering this garden long after the romance between the two characters has ended. There is nothing to achieve, nothing to win, no obstacles to overcome, no puzzles to solve, no real story to unravel. Nothing.
Absolutely the only good thing about this game is that the design of the garden is beautiful, but the graphics are so simple and unsophisticated by today's standards that you wonder if this game is for very young children...until you look at the box again and read that it is indeed supposed to appeal to you, an adult woman.
Use it to prepare kids for a trip to Beijing [Posted on 2008-04-14]
Sure, this game may not be top of the list, based on its plot flaws and lack of real challenge. Nonetheless it's a great tool for getting your kids interested in Chinese history and culture if you're headed to China soon. The setting for the game was painstakingly recreated from historical information about the Old Summer Palace (Yuan Ming Yuan) in Beijing. After playing the game, your kids will be much more interested in visiting the palace ruins while in Beijing. Buy it for its historical and cultural value, play it long enough to learn a little, and don't expect too much.
Reviewed by Barbara Strother, author of Moon Living Abroad in China (Living Abroad).
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