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Morpheus | List Price: $49.95
Discount Price: $23.99
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Platform: Macintosh, Windows
Brand: Piranha Interactive Publishing
Binding: CD-ROM
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Not Very Interesting [Posted on 2002-04-20]
The graphics of this game were very good. However, this is one of the only strong features about this game. The story line had so much potential, but was enacted in a very lame fasion. The dream sequences good have been a lot better, and if there was a climax, I missed it. The puzzles were not very challenging, and the ending was weak. I would spend my money elsewhere.
stable game with interesting storyline [Posted on 2002-12-12]
I played this on a PowerMac G4 and it was incredibly stable. I'd even leave the game sitting overnight, come back in the morning and start right back up without a sputter; also, shifts to audio and visual cutscenes were very smooth. The story is interesting. You begin as a nearly frozen Arctic explorer who is looking for his father, and you find the Herculania, a mysterious luxury ship with people suspended in odd pods. As you wander you see ghostly apparitions of past events, and as time goes by you piece together the macabre happenings and even find out what happened to your father. In the course of your advetures you enter the dreams of several characters and these settings were as interesting as the beautiful ship's theatre, cabins and scientific rooms. Very well done first-person adventure game.
Excellent Escapism [Posted on 2003-03-11]
I loved this game. Initially I bought it because of the price...and because I thought it might be interesting. I was hooked right from the jump. The graphics were incredible and the little movie scenes took me by surprise and left me with goosebumps. I'm not a bigtime gamer but I love this type of game where you can just get lost in the world you're playing in. I especially enjoyed the dream worlds...I wish they were more in-depth so I could have explored even more and spent more time there. I recommend this game to everyone who likes the escape of this type of game. Some of the other reviews on here talk about flatness of acting and all kinds of technical flaws, etc...just play the game and immerse yourself. You'll love it... I want to make a return trip to the Herculania and all it's bizarre, magnificent worlds!
The Strangest Journey [Posted on 2003-04-27]
Wow, I really don't know what to say about Morpheus (Does anyone even know why it was called that? The ship was the Herculania?!)It was a little too sci-fi for me. Some of the puzzles were too contrived and at times it was extremely frusterating because I had no clue what was going on. I just didn't know what to do! Belle, Billy and Grace's worlds were great, but Leo's was too strange, and poor Muffy! (Muffy's tag was found at the butchers. Guess why it was found and Muffy was not.) The graphics were luscious, but all togher, I'm not sure if it was worth my money. Would I recommend this game? Well, not to anyone with XP, for me, it didn't work too well. After reading the raving review from JustAdventure, I was positive that I would enjoy it, but after playing it, I'm positive that I would have rather wasted my time on something else. I wanted a game with a ship, not sure why, but I did. Titanic Adventure Out Of Time was more my price range, but I now see the error of my ways. If you like Adventures, try some worth-while ones like Syberia, Beyond Atlantis 2 or The Longest Journey! Spare yourself!
That's What I Like! [Posted on 2004-01-02]
The year is 1957. You are an Arctic explorer, intent on solving the mystery of his father's disappearance some thirty years before. Unfortunately, you've become lost and it looks as though you're going to go the same way as dear old dad. You keep having these strange dreams. Coming out of one (or have you?), you suddenly find the icebound hulk of a cruise ship. When you climb on board to find shelter, you discover that the ship is the Herculania, the very vessel that your father was investigating when he was lost. _Morpheus_ is a great example of a breed of adventure that pretty much started with MYST and is now, unfortunately for people like me, beginning to wane a bit in prominence: first person, point and click, atmospheric. You might call it "Amber on Ice;" like _Amber_ it involves somewhat supernatural phenomena and getting into the minds and dreams of others. The story that is revealed as you wander about the ship--presented in QT movies--is a kind of Phantom of the Opera with a gruesome twist. Unlike the stories in some other games, it is quite well-developed and realised, making for intriguing clues and puzzles integral to the story. The characters are, well, mental cases, but they are believable people and (with one exception) you end up feeling sympathy for them. The graphics are really quite nice, with a 360-degree view. (My one complaint here was that though you could look around you to all sides, you could not look either up or down). The paths that you could travel were somewhat limited, however. In some rooms, you could, for example, only go into the corner by the desk. There were also a lot of things I would have liked to have been able to examine more closely. On the other hand, there were a few things that didn't seem to have any purpose. On the whole, the look trod the edge between sparse and lush, with backgrounds beautifully rendered but not too many objects. As in MYST, the puzzles are largely mechanical. You need to make the ship work so you can figure out what's going on; you need to gain access to locked staterooms and so on. Later on there are some puzzles that involve acquiring inventory, but there is essentially no inventory you carry around; you use each item pretty much where you find it. There are no conversations and no interactions. For me, this was great; I prefer "true" puzzles to task accomplishment and mechanics to inventory. Others might find it tedious or difficult. I ran this game on a brand new AMD 2800 with XP and the only real problem I had was that the mouse cursor was so extraordinarily sensitive that until I learned fine motor control I was all over the place. Fortunately, this didn't take long. I also had some problems with the movies: green screens and the like. I have heard there is a patch for this, but I couldn't find it. _Morpheus_ took me about 25 hours to play. The start was slow and I wasn't sure I liked it at first. When things started to go together, I liked it a great deal. I was sorry to see it end, and the ending was quite abrupt! Overall, this is the kind of adventure game that I like. If you're a fan of MYST an MYST-like games, you'll like this, too.
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