The Dream Machine: Reviewing Chapters 1 to 3

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[ad7venture]

I looked at the demo a little.  One thing I didn't care for was the way the text worked on the hotspots.  For instance, it would say things like "look at the rock", "push the rock" etc.  I would much rather that the item lit up or whatever and whatever happened, just happened, rather than having the text take the surprise away.  It's a throw back to when we had a choice on look, push, etc, that no longer makes sense and was kind of off putting.  It also had a lot of uninteresting objects that were hotspots in the apartment.  It would be all right if they added something to the story, but many didn't.  A few more random idle positions would have helped rather than a frozen character, also.   The place where that works, as far as I'm concerned, is when the characters speak with text.  Then it's distracting to see the mouth move, which wasn't the case in this game.  Just a few quibbles with the game, which was somewhat interesting from what I played.  I don't even understand the prices or know if Americans can play it, or how expensive it is. 

[Imari]

I played through part of Chapter 1 and found the game engaging and very interesting. 

However, I ran into a bug with the elevator.  The character could walk right through the closed doors and back out again, and the elevator controls woud not show up in order to move from floor to floor.  The first time it happened, the character spoke with the caretaker and after that the elevator worked.  On the third florr, he was thoroughly stuck when it happened again and I had to exit.