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The experiment - Part 1: The laboratory
Author: Pilcz Studios Resolution: 640x480 at 16-bit color Downloaded: 1142 times (34.7 Mb) Genres: Sci-Fi, Investigative, Original Length: Short games
Added on: 12 March 2009 Website: http://pilczstudios.around.hu Content advisory: None  None  None Ratings: AGS Panel: (what is this?) Player rating: 58% At the funeral of his brother a physics student gets a strange message from a professor, who invites him to his laboratory. The first episode of a scifi series, with english subtitles and hungarian dub. Download Now (if the download doesn't work, try Right Click, Save Target As)
User ratings for The experiment - Part 1: The laboratory:
From 6 peoples votes so far: (vote here) Visual: 67% Immersion: 58% Puzzles & Pacing: 42% Overall Enjoyment: 58% You can see a detailed breakdown of the votes.
The experiment - Part 1: The laboratory was brought to you by:
placyd  graphics, scripts, story
Other games by Pilcz Studios:
Norbi Winter Special (Short games) Norbi's quest (Short games) Norbi's quest 1,5 (Medium length games) Norbi's quest 2 (Medium length games) The Dark Trial (Demos)
AGS Panel review for this game:
The AGS Review Panel has left a comment about this game: Pleasing to the eye and has an interesting story. Although what lets it down are the puzzles, as they are very difficult. Especially the one involving the phone number. What would improve it greatly would be a little push into the right direction in order to solve the puzzles and a proof read. As these hinder the enjoyment of what possibly could be a good game. Otherwise a nice start to a series.
User comments about The experiment - Part 1: The laboratory:
Posted by Maria on 2009-04-22 at 14:49 (IP logged): I liked the voice acting! I don't speak hungarian but they had a pleasant, smooth sound to them. It didn't confuse me, as I had the english subtitles right there. I enjoy voice acting and I don't have any complaints on the quality of the acting. You don't expect them to be oscar winning, anyway, but I thought these were good. I like this game and hope to see the sequels up soon. Posted by papirnehezek on 2009-04-06 at 03:50 (IP logged): Really nice game, with well-made story and backgrounds. The graphics are between the super-realistic and the cartoon style, and that's what really hard to create. I think the puzzles aren't so consequent, but as it has been announced, this is a hard(core) adventure game. Good work placyd, lookin forward for the next episode! Posted by placyd on 2009-03-21 at 17:12 (IP logged): You are wrong about the book puzzle, because you don't have to look any of the objects you mentioned ;) Posted by Dave on 2009-03-21 at 09:18 (IP logged): Right at the beginning, when you have to examine the bathroom mirror, the smoking table and maybe even the clock (I don't recall) to be allowed to check out the Asimov book. Being an Asimov fan, I made the connection quickly when I was told to "look at Mirror image", because the hero mentions he has some Asimov books when you look at the bookshelf, but the guy has to look at every goddamn reflecting surface before he does. I guess my complaint about the voice acting was easy to misunderstand. I know I can turn off the voices in the winsetup file, the cause of my puzzlement was the fact why some developers are motivated to include voice acting in their freeware puzzle adventure games especially if the people they're working with cannot act. I'm not asking this because I wish to offend you, but because I'm genuinely interested in the reason why you decided to include voice acting. If the emphasis had been more on storytelling than puzzle gameplay then I probably wouldn't have said a word about this. And anyway, this is the user reviews page, so bear in mind that people will mention their niggles about the game as well as the stuff they liked. Posted by placyd on 2009-03-18 at 13:14 (IP logged): The translation is under proofreading now, so it will be better. I can't remember that there is a part in the game, where you have to things in a particular order - please tell me some ;) And you can turn off the voice in the setup if you don't like it. Posted by placyd on 2009-03-18 at 13:11 (IP logged): The translation is under proofreading now, so it will be better. I can't remember that there is a part in the game, where you have to do things in particular order, please tell me some ;) You can turn off the voice in the setup, if you don't like it ;) Posted by Dave on 2009-03-17 at 19:06 (IP logged): Although I'm Hungarian, I did check out the English translation and found it a little bit dodgy, but I've seen worse. However, the fact you have to do things in a particular order is a very bad choice in game design. It doesn't make any sense to not let me do something for a totally arbitrary reason until I do something else that is actually completely irrelevant. The clues for the puzzles are a bit too vague as well, and it's very discouraging to have the player run around not knowing what to do right from the very beginning. My other niggle is the voice acting. I can't really understand why a short, freeware game would need voice actors, since amateur actors usually can't act to save their lives, as is the case here, and that really detracts from the atmosphere.

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