15 Days Reviews

Highly unstable. Game crashes randomly and frequently to desktop, with a dubious pop up message inviting you to send an error report to the developer. Had to rely on a game walkthrough video on youtube for an explanation of the plot at that one point towards the end of the game, at the cells, as I could never get a proper explanation of the plot by the characters without the game crashing. Had to save the game at every single stage, after every major plot sequence or dialogue, to avoid having to repeat the segment. The game feels unfinished - like they had never worked out how to fix the bugs. The character models only wear one outfit throughout the entire game, even though the story takes place over several locations and several days. The female protagonist has the most awful outfit. Minor characters all look alike (guards and soldiers). A couple of the high tech puzzles have instruction that make no sense - at least there was an option to skip the puzzles, otherwise I wouldn't know how I could have got through the game, regardless of the game crashes. The only things nice about this game are the story, the characters, the textures, the location graphics, the movie sequences and the dialogue. Only buy this game as part of the Publisher bundle as they do have nice adventure games.

I did The Mystery of the Druids with some friends and somehow decided to play every House of Dreams adventure games. Well this one is ... Barely an adventure game to be honest. More like a bad visual novel. Barely any puzzles or reflexion needed, just go where the people tell you to go and see what happens next. I did have a few giggles here and there but ... about 10€ for that ? Not worth it. There are a bunch of other better adventure games that last longer for less than that price on Steam. Oh by the way. The crashes. It is not even stable, got a lot of crashes that set me back several minutes of boring walk.

I Must Be Strange.. Based on the completed game. I'll give it 3 stars leaning for 4. Obviously I should buy all older games with a “neutral or lower rating” I seem to really like them for the most part! Might be my oddness showing. I’ve found the Adventure Company games to date are my favorite’s however I think I've only played two. :-) This was a shorter yet fun enough 3rd person point and click game/movie.. There are countless characters that appear is this game. I found it refreshing that numerous characters were included in scenes too! Not constantly (there was some) jumping from one to another. Starts off In a London Loft and off you go and back and off and back anddd.. Main character’s are. Cathryn - (Sounds exactly like Minnie Driver in Goodwill Hunting) < Just saw a re-run of it! Mike Bernie Jack-The Cop Robert These 5 come and go through out the entire game but you meet many as you move on. If you haven’t played this game; FYI you’ll have a love/hate relationship with them all! It's a presonal choice if their good or bad! I tended to side with Jack most of the game! Really well done graphics in my opinion.. I did like the soundtrack but ran into a few scenes where no adjusting made it so you could hear the voices so had to read subtitles. Voice Over’s sounded good but no actual mouths moved.. Oddly I enjoyed the in game computer search.. However if you search for anything off topic the game closes and you lose your spot! I did search “Adventure Company” and that worked to well! Why I gave it 3 Star’s: Not much to really do except have your hand held most of the way and follow them around. Not a challenge the few puzzles in here were either easy or you could skip them. Never should skipping a puzzles be in an adventure game!! Very clumsy and the most awkward inventory usage ever.. I mean to the point you accidentally close the scene way to often! A lot of dialogue that can not be skipped! I would have preferred cuts scenes to just suddenly being somewhere or that awful Map! My picture of the island was a model on the developers table nothing like the screen shots I’ve see on the web! Some of it did seem more like an unfinished game they just put out and It did crash and freeze numerous times! Cathryn’s relationship with her Dad was left to up in the air for me! Hope they make a 15 Day's part 2 Am I unhappy I bought it? NOPE!

Played game for 5 hrs and then it stopped working and won't load again...so no...I do not recommend.

[pro] - Graphics are not too bad - The story was OK - Running and shortcuts with double click [neutral] - Most of the puzzles are easy but sometimes annoying . For example if you have to search the web for a name but don't remember it (there is no journal) [contra] - Lip sync is horrible or not existent - I didnt't like the control - Wooden character animation - Game chrashes sometimes (for me first time after two minutes of playing) Got the game in a bundle but would definitely not buy it for 9,99 €

It's not a bad adventure game. It's not a good game either, more of a "meh" experience, but it doesn't entirely deserve the negative rating here. Pros: - Interesting story. - Decent graphics. - Very good voice acting. - Great movement controls - you can walk, run, fast travel between rooms and teleport on the map. - Skippable cutscenes and dialogues! Cons: - During the 9 hours of my playtime the game crashed 15+ time. That's a lot. It's even worse that the game doesn't have autosave so you have to save a lot. Thankfully, all cutscenes can be skipped so you can quickly catch up from an older save. Also, one cutscene at the end of the game crashes every single time. After many tries I had to skip the cutscene and watch it on YouTube. - The game has no journal and the protagonists give you no clues on what you are supposed to do next. So if you don't remember everything everyone said you will be lost all the time. This is especially bad if your playthrough is split between several days. - Bad audio balance in dialogues. Often the background noise was so loud I couldn't hear the dialogue. Thankfully the game has subtitles. - Bad minigames. Fortunately skippable.

I enjoyed this very much. I had a few crashes but I do think in my case, it was due to my older computer . I made sure to save constantly, every single transition (even though the game does have a very good automatic save system, I'd recommend saving more...) There are several comprehensive reviews here on the review page that are worth reading . The game is fun! It has a great story, engaging characters and good voice overs. The game play is all point and click and there are no action scenes, and no danger of dying. If you know of The Moment of Silence, and Overclocked... same game developers... But this offering is more polished . Heartily recommend for all point and click fans and for anyone who likes a good adventure game.

[b]That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. - Martin Luther King, Jr.[/b] [i]15 Days[/i] is the second of House of Tales' games that I've played - and I'm pleasantly surprised about this one, despite the bulk of negative reviews. The first game from the developer team that I've played was [i]The Mystery of the Druids[/i], and it was little else than a straightly bad P&C adventure. Now this one, is both enjoyable and thought provoking. Sure, it's Steam integration is problematic and, has known bugs and crashes; but all those problems can be avoided if you were to play the game in an older system a.k.a. anything prior to Windows 7. The game revolves around a group of highly educated art thieves: Catheryn the art school drop-out, Bernard the mysterious Belgian man and Mike the hacker with a mouth. This bunch of quirky individuals all share a flat and work as international art thieves with a cause: they donate all their earnings to charity organizations. As the game starts, they are offered an odd job for a suspiciously grand amount of money. From there on, they will go through the most dangerous 15 days of their lifetimes as the ideological aspect of their work becomes downright political and dangerous. You play the game as Catheryn mostly, but there will be times that you get to play others since they all have their individual roles in a heist. Oh, and in some additional transition parts between their travels, you'll take the role of an international policeman who's been investigating political murders too. Interesting, huh? Well, telling more would be giving spoilers. Let's say that this one turns out to be a stirring spy thriller pretty quickly. The game hails from 2010, and its graphic quality isn't the best, but still the environment and character designs do contain an impressive amount of detail. Cutscenes are way better compared to the in-game graphics, which is expected from the time period anyhow. The music is one of the best parts about this game though. It can very well be the soundtrack of a Bond movie. Voice acting itself is believable and character appropriate too. What really grasped me though, was the game's story and the questions of morality it rises. As you play as a band of criminals and encounter the results of various power politics in the game, it forces you to think about right and wrong; crime and punishment - and even the concept of justice itself. Character interactions and character depths are genuine. Maybe inspector Stern may come as a bit of a cliché, but all other characters have genuine personalities, moral dilemmas and life expectations. Dynamics within the group are displayed in a way to enrich their personal stories. That is some good character writing if I've seen some. The gameplay isn't revolutionary: it is a point & click adventure, in the end. But neither item combinations, nor puzzles are obscure or boring. Everything keeps the story flowing primarily. There are five mini-games in total, and they are the just right amount of challenging. If you listen to the dialogue appropriately, you'll always have a solid idea about what to do about item combinations too. Let's get to the part concerning the bulk of negative reviews here around: crashes. The game was intended for older systems, and since the developer team is long gone, the game's Steam integration is clunky. There are 2 points in the game that may cause a crash: first one is about using the online search engine - since some words may trigger a crash; and the second one is when you get into the catacombs the first time. First of these errors is easy to correct, since someone posted an appropriate fix on the discussion forum. The second one is a persistent error though, which may be avoided if you are playing the game on an older system. For me, downloading the search engine patch, and playing the game in a Windows XP did the trick. Again: the game is intended for older systems, so if you are playing it on Windows 10, you've been warned. There sure is some crashes, and no, the game doesn't autosave, but saving manually during any scene takes a second of your time, and the story is well worth your effort. At the end of the day, I can recommend the game to anyone who'd appreciate a decent P&C adventure. Enjoy! Please also check out Lady Storyteller's Curator page [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/11672469/]here[/url] - follow for regular updates on reviews for other games!

Updating my review to reflect the fact that I have now finished the game. The negative reception to this game was a bit surprising to me at first. The game couldn't be that bad, could it? Well, after playing I can safely say, yes. Yes it is that bad. The opening pre-rendered cutscene almost had me fooled into thinking this game would be a cool, fast paced action thriller adventure. Those hopes were quickly dashed by the first in-game cutscene. Here's a full list of everything wrong wth this game: -The characters move WAY too slowly -The animation is stiff, cheap, and clearly cutting corners. (At one point, I swear to god, one of the characters walked straight through another character. Not like the models just overlapped, one character moved DIRECTLY through another character model. HOW do you fuck up animation that badly?) -The voice actors cannot convey emotion for crap, not helped by the lack of facial animation. -The game is very dialogue-heavy, making cutscenes take FOREVER to go through. Metal Gear Solid 2, eat your heart out. -The direction you are given in game is either blatantly obvious ("I'm going to go over there now" probably means you have to go over there) or too vague. -The interface sucks. It should not be this difficult to open your inventory in a point and click game. -The story is repetitive and ultimately leads nowhere. How the hell do you make a trip to Paris seem boring? -Every single character in this game is a cardboard cutout with no unique traits. -The sound design is terrible. I had to turn on subtitles to even understand half of the rambling dialogue because the characters never speak above a whisper and the music is cranked up to 11 by default.. -The game REPEATEDLY crashed on me while I was trying to finish it, so I had to pause and save the game after everything I did just in case the game decided to randomly stop working on me. At the very least, the game was short by Point and click standards. Even with all the crashes, sections where I got hopelessly lost or stuck because of some minor detail, and the endless stream of dialogue, I was able to finish the game in about seven hours. If you are intrigued by the mystery and want to know where it leads, just look up the Wikipedia page and save yourself the disappointment. Stay away from this game.

Very nice adventure game from 2010, but it is quite different from current flagships of genre like Deponia, Syberia and even The New Beginning. Its strong part is story dynamic - it flows continously. Actions which are required for progression are grouped in small sets of locations to minimize the frustration of pixelhunting. Actually, I haven't noticed any major 'how-to-progress' gameplay stalling. Pros: 1)Graphics is quite pleasing even for 2010 2)Continous story progression due to smart areas segmentation(it behaves more like interactive movie than brainbreaker) 3)Story is quite positive with its own dark twists(If you played The New Beginning you may notice similar character motives and EVEN GAMEPLAY ELEMENTS in puzzles) 4)Puzzles are grotesque, but simple enough to take just enough time to be fun instead of PITA 5)The Cop Character is powered by mild metagaming. It is hard to explain. You need to play the game to get the idea. Maybe it was intentional to give player that 'cop intuition' feel xD 6)Able to create tension and suspence without ugly timers on screen and 'game over' messages. Just the wild ways of the story and you. Cons: 1)Crashbugs! Tonns of it. Save often, but nothing gamebreaking. 2)Characters are stereotypes. Actually it helps the story, but some people don't like when it is that way. 3)Game beginning is a bit chaotic and has no backstory except on need-to-know basis 4)A bit hardcore: it doesn't have 'journals' or task indicators, but it is mostly straightforward 5)One ending. But, you know, movies have only one ending too ;) Highly recommended. I love it.