Chronicles of Mystery: The Tree of Life (PC)

“+ Pleasant music. + Took less disk space than expected. + Requires DVD in the drive but doesn't actually move it when starting. + You can switch off the sound of dialogues in-game, without exiting to main menu. Very useful when clicking on stuff...”

“+ Pleasant music.
+ Took less disk space than expected.
+ Requires DVD in the drive but doesn't actually move it when starting.
+ You can switch off the sound of dialogues in-game, without exiting to main menu. Very useful when clicking on stuff randomly, so that you don't need to listen to Sylvie's annoying voice.

- Plot fell apart somewhere in the middle. Things didn't make sense, a lot of common mysteries were mentioned for no real reason at all (i.e. Atlantis, Bermuda Triangle, and more - with no in-depth explanation how they were related to the main plot). The ending was absurd.
- Characters are idiots, especially the main protagonist. She's more of a tomb raider than an archaeologist.
- Women have some serious problems in this game, always related to men.
- Absurd dialogues. I found myself skipping this idiocy - it was boring, not related, and just plain bad. Even the characters seemed bored; near the end the following line appears: "Why are we having this conversation anyway?" Why indeed. :/
- Horrible random luck mini game.
- Puzzles were either very easy, or extremely frustrating because I didn't know what to do. When looked up in the walkthrough, the solutions were of the "oh, so this is what the game wanted =.=" type rather than "gee, I'm dumb" type.

I bought it for 15 USD. Total waste of money.”