For a while, I had assumed that most people knew about The Journeyman Project, or at least heard of it. Turns out this isn’t the case. That needs to be rectified immediately.
Despite coming out the same year as Myst, The Journeyman Project may be the pinnacle of the first-person adventure game genre. It might lack the inventive logic puzzles that its contemporaries use, but in sheer density and immersive storytelling, few games can top it. Read more »
The Muses in Greek mythology glorified the spirit of the arts and history through poetry and song. Not one could have predicted that several thousand years later, a grainy adventure game with stilted, public-access-quality acting would take up their mantle.
You have to hand it to Joel Skidmore and the small team at Luminaria: Wrath of the Gods is a fairly compelling attempt to cram the entirety of the Greek myths into a digestible, entertaining, and educational format. The game de sperately needs a facelift and a tuneup, but in terms of raw effort, it’s hard to top. Read more »
Posted on July 26th, 2010 by Shadsy
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