The Abbey - Director's cut Reviews

Recommend for old-school P&C adventure lovers.

I get to a certain point, the parchment pic and it freezes up and i cannot go any further. was a good game up until then

Great production value and engaging voice acting.

An update to a 2008 game of the same name. Very few graphical options. Voice acting is solid. Art style has a solid 90's cartoon vibe. Lots of cutscenes so the game's pace is fairly slow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4pJikxr-To

The voice acting is exceptional, the art style nostalgic and the story compelling. It is an older game that has stood the test of time. If you like Point & Clicks I highly recommend it. The price is right but you may be able to get it on sale. I am not finished with the game yet but when I am I plan on watching the movie.

The presentation is quite good. The story is engaging, clearly inspired by Umberto Eco, well told, animated and voiced.. The gameplay, however, is poor. First bummer, the puzzles are of the pixel-hunting sort, having you scan landscapes with your mouse to find the little objects hidden in them that must be clicked to progress. Feedback on actions is useless; basically, the protagonist just says 'no." He refuses the most reasonable actions, so you must guess the precise way the writer wants you to perform each step, be that a less logical and more contrived way. Much worse yet: events, locations, actions and dialogue lines are not accessible until triggered by very specific events. As bad as this design already is, triggers are silent. There are no indications that anything changes anywhere as a result of what you do or say. Any other game would usually play a little animation to cue you in, but not this game. For all its verbosity, it fails to show you what matters most. Therefore, one must revisit all locations, to either spot a difference or retry previous actions that may or may not bear fruits this time around. It's utterly tedious. Counter-intuitive. Illogical. Bad form. The work of a gandul.

Just bought it and I just started playing, but I already wanted to give a first impression. At first it is always a nice thing when developers want to improve their game from 2008. The cut scenes are impressive, the graphics are very good, and the voice acting is also outstanding. The game is very story driven. I recognized it is based on the movie "in the name of the rose" which is based on the book from Umberto Eco. So I see forward to have a nice experience with this game. There are not so many classic adventures anymore with and good dialogs, and a good story, and good cut scenes and good graphics. So I immediately bought this one... Update: I am in chapter 4 now and it is a great game as I thought. I realise some players may not like so many dialogues, but they are excellent and most entertaining and they make the story, which is exciting. Some puzzles are a bit obscure, sometimes because of the hotspots, sometimes because you need to do the right thing at the right time. I for instance was stumped at getting the snuff from the Abbott. But I have to be honest, there was a hint... I encountered some bugs, no voice but subtitle, or subtitle did not match the voice, or if you already had done something, the dialogue still existed, but I saw that in many games... No game breaking bugs. So all things considered, A very well done adventure game with excellent voice acting, very nice graphics and a compelling story!