Reviews

• gamedeal user

  May 15, 2014

  I bought it and am not that impressed. I am trying to stay awake while playing it. I am a die hard adventure gamer and find it to be mediocre in all aspects. Puzzles are easy, graphics are dated, mechanics are cumbersome and the voice acting is second rate. The game is not worth $20 IMO.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 30, 2023

  pros + high quality and detailed 3 D graphics and character models + Max and Lara are likeable protagonists + when you click to question mark, hotspots is highlighted. No need to hunt for pixels. + intriguing murder story. You initially start to investigate a theft at a local art gallery, but Max soon disappears under mysterious circumstances, and his disappearance is linked to a disturbing ritualistic murder crime that has taken place in a San Francisco church. When she started to work on this case, a mystery and conspiracy behind it started unraveling, and it puts her in even greater danger. + well integrated, nice variety, complex and challenging many puzzles + there are moments where you’re faced with a key decision that can change the outcome of the story + there are two endings + main characters voice acting are mostly decent + there are steam achievements + there are plenty of different, good-looking and atmospheric places including South Africa, Finland and the USA + game is quite long. there are 7 chapters + there is a auto save cons - buggy and glitchy gameplay - The game's story is intriguing, but it becomes increasingly convoluted towards the end, and due to the lack of cohesiveness and focus in the story and the frequent puzzle solving, it becomes way too hard to follow. what happened to Max is also quite unexplained and blurry in the end. the story also tied in some supernatural crap in the end, which I found quite cheesy - extremely linear puzzle-solving process and gameplay. when you fail to do something in the right direction or don't do it exactly or in a particular way, you will be stuck. - forgettable soundtrack - As an adventure game, this one is quite lengthy, but it is also padded out with too many tedious puzzles, and most of the time, it just drags on. after a while, this game's narrative becomes secondary to puzzles, some adventure-game-style tasks that you must complete in order to progress and some tedious investigative sections, which makes the game quite boring. - This game is quite inconsistent in a technical way. voiceovers are not the same all the time, character clothing is random in cutscenes, subtitles and voiceovers sometimes don't match with each other. - the game is mostly slow-paced, and after a while, it can get quite tedious. - the majority of documents are tedious to read - english translation poorly made - character animation looks stilted - some bad voice acting from side characters - no cards Overall, this is a good adventure and puzzle game with an interesting story, but towards the end, it becomes tedious due to frustrating puzzles, lack of focus the narrative and slow-paced gameplay. Memento Mori 2 one of the adventure games I abandoned without finishing because playing this game felt like a chore and a waste of time after a while but for the sake of story, I watched the rest of the game on YouTube.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 30, 2015

  Quite a good adventure with a good script (except Chapter 1), plot twists, some original and inovative puzzles and long gameplay time (over 20 hours). I am a Czech patriot (the game is from Czech republic) and give thumb up. And now the negatives: - first chapter is the worst and easily expendable. Do not get discouraged, be patient - various bugs (misplaced subtitles, different voices) - long loading screens (even if you hit ESC and press Continue game ! ) - some unnecessary and stupid puzzles whose sole purpose is to make game longer. Fox example, you need scissors and you cannot just buy them, you must repair a hose and use it to hit flowerpot on 1st floor with scissors in it! Or you must print a page, but toner is depleted and you must replace it (wtf). Or you need white paint and even though your character is a painter, you are out of white (what a shame) and you have to find it elsewhere.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 4, 2015

  Who ever played the first game in the series knows that Memento Mori is a point'n'click title with supernatural elements. Also, whoever played the first game knows how bloody awful was the majority of the game voiceovers and how sloooooow was the actual way the game introduced you into the story. Luckily, Memento Mori 2 has a brand new voice actress for Lara which did the job perfectly. The gameplay is good with puzzles that tie into the story very nicely with no random stuff to do just to prolong game time. The story this time is much better than the first game (at least to me) and it really builds up nicely up to that final moment when you find the murderer and the whole reason behind the events in this game. There are a lot of locations all over the globe you'll visit, and lots of characters to talk to. I only encountered a few audio bugs with strange vocal morphing or random "radio/telephone" filters on characters that were clearly infront of me - but apart from that, it's a very enjoyable game that I would recommend in a heartbeat! It will take you at least 12-15h to finish the game and that's for a single ending only. There are several occasions where the choices you make impact the ending of the game so it even has a replay value.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 16, 2016

  Another old school adventure (in gameplay style) in modern graphics. I really liked the first one and was looking forward to sequel for many years. When English version was finally out, game was already a few years old, therefore it did not look very good, pixelhunting really pissed me off and when I finished the game, I was left with feeling: That was it?
• gamedeal user

  Feb 6, 2017

  Well... I say YES, but I perfectly understand those who say NO. This one is just very inconsistent. First of all, the atmospehere of the game is absolutely brilliant and the czech studio certainly did their job very well. Also the graphics look very nice (I mean the level of detail and the post processing effect add nicely to the overall feel of the game). I have probably never seen so good looking an adventure game. And... this is a game from 2008 which seems incredible to me. That's nearly 10 years old a game and you just wouldn't tell by the graphis. Now to the cons: - dialogs. I am going to talk about English version, don't know about the others. Sorry, but the technical solution is just a disaster. It's not that it would be silly, would not make sense or anything. It's just that it seems they did not even test it at all. The level volumes do not match... Very often one person speaks much louder than the other. And you need to adjust the volume a lot during the dialogs to make anything out of it. Also some lines are completely missing (you see the subtitles but there is no sound), sometimes the subtitles say something completely different that what is being said. In other words the lines are misplaced... Often you hear something much sooner during the dialog than you should, and then later something they were probably supposed to tell you earlier. I just do not understand how is it possible nobody noticed. And it's not a rare thing actually, there is this problem in most of the dialogs. What strikes me the most is the at the very end of the game there is a dialog where you don't hear what one of the characters says. It's voice is so low and completely lost in the music. I thought that this must be some rare bug, beacuse clearly this was meant to be the pinnacle of the game, the final scene... And... you dont hear it. And guess what. They just made it that way. You can watch the endings at youtube and the thing is that that's just the way it is made. Also sometimes during a dialog or even a monolog, the voice of a character (it's not just about the main char.) changes in a very strange way that I am almost sure that it's a different person speaking. They probably needed to make some rush adjustments in the end and they just didn't have the original voice actors. I can't explain it otherwise. - there is a vary annoying menu bug that prevents you from entering menu at certains locations (meaning you cannot save) and also sometimes it is even impossible to launch the game if the last save is at one of those locations (I know I said you cannot save in them... Well, sometimes it works it's really not that deterministic)... Sometimes restarting the computer helps, sometimes it doesn't. I really had a hard time just trying to launch the games on many occasions. - there is obviously some kind of bug that causes line endings not to work in all the documents you find in the game. The problem is that the structure of these documents is essential in solving some of the puzzles, but the documents become almost unreadable as a result of this bug, which makes some of the puzzles many times harder. Some more things I'd like to point out: Detective rating. This is a briliant idea. Really. But well.. the implementation is bad. Very bad. The problem is that you get rewarded for some actions (not necessary for the advancement in the story) like touching things on crime scene only wearing gloves and not your hands, finding out some additional information and so on, BUT you cannot do much more important things that are OBVIOUS in the given situation. Oh common, they must have seen this during the development. So in the end, it is about not about what is a good detective approach but whether you can find out, what the devs consider a good aproach. Wasted potential unfortunately... Items combinations. Well I liked the original Memento Mori game bacause the things you did in the game made sense. I cannot say this about it's successor. Very often you have to do things that make absolutely no sense in the sitatuion. It's OK if you force the players in two unusual solutions of problems. But hey, first you need to remove the obvious and simple means from the game. And the game absolutely fails in this way. Like having to cut something using glass shards when there's a knife lying on the table. Or having to steal a spray can from the people you are bout to break in to, so that you can finish your disguise that is going to help you in that, when you are actually a painter and have a lot of paint on your own... And so on. Puzzles. Many of the puzzles are poorly designed. In some of the cases you don't know what to do and need to try to see how it works. And you solve it by chance after few clicks before you even grasp what it is about. On the other hand there were 2 puzzles that were driving me nuts. The first one I solved very quickly on a paper but, I was desperate as how to explain my character that I actually know the solution. In other words sometimes the game is often not about your wits but about... "What the hell do the devs expect me to do?" The second puzzle I really didn't like was badly designed in a way that it clearly explained the rules, but than you had to break them, which is really not what you would expect. I don't want to spoil here so I will not tell anything more. Characters models. There are very few characters models in the whole game. Sometimes you meet one character three times during the game with different clothes, which feels... odd. But what really got me is that they even reused the main character model (different clothes and... sunglasses) which really confused me, because I realy thought it was him and was expecting how the things would turn out since he was obviously in disguise... If I were to summarize my opinion, I'd say two words. Wasted potential. This game could have been so much more! And I feel sorry for it because it is a brilliant concept held down by some details... Well, as the game would so often remind you: "It is all about the detail". Just why did you not heed your own advice?
• gamedeal user

  May 7, 2017

  Worst than the first. Main menu is almost useless & buggy. It just jams into black screen. This has something to do with the area where game autosaves. EDIT: so main menu stays black but you can blindly click the "continue" and carry on the game. I happily played to chapter 4 and today misclicked "start new game". So autosave is now back in chapter 1. I'm done. I'm so done. Damn this game and damn the autosaves to lowest hell. This IS a decent game but now I just want to give it superdislike.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 29, 2018

  Chatper 1 is quite casual and had me bored in places not seeing how the game could continue and keep my interest. Chapter 2 picks up much more and involves murder and so on. Try not to let C1 scare you off before you decide on the game. It starts riddled with issues.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 11, 2018

  There are bugs and there are game-breaking bugs... Having bought and played the first Memento Mori, I bought and installed the sequel as well. I made it to Chapter two okay, that's when the trouble started; when I try to save my progress and press ESC or click the menu icon on the upper bar on the game screen, the game freezes completely. Apparently the only solution is to play through the sescond capter up to the third and then it should work again - at least up until the 4th chapter, where the issue will most likely reappear. I didn't buy this adventure point n' click game to speedrun most of it using a walkthrough just to get to a save point (i.e. whole other chapter), and having a family, job, hobbies and other stuff more pressing than this (quite honestly so far rather uninspiring) game, I cannot afford to NOT save my progress along the way. Guess I'll have to uninstall this thing, ask for a refund (first time ever) and forget about the overall lore of Memento Mori. *EDIT: I managed to work through the save issue by using only the autosave feature until the next chapter began and manual saving worked again. However the game is fairly boring and I have been speeding up my playthrough by using the community walkthrough. I usually enjoy solving adventure puzzles myself but this game I just want to get it over with. I cannot recommend it because for a point & click game it feels uninspiring, lacklustre and mediocre at best. Any flow and excitement gets cut off with extensive periods of combing down same places again and again, wondering what kind of odd gimmick or item combination I'm supposed to use this time in order to advance. I enjoy it when my logical thinking and intuition is in sync with the puzzles and quests of an adventure game and when there's a nice flow and sense of achievement involved. Memento Mori doesn't quite seem to provide me with that. There are many other better, not to mention cheaper, P&C games on Steam. EDIT: 20th May 2019. So I decided to give this game another chance, and used a step-by-step guide to help me get through the more frustrating parts. However, despite following the walkthrough, an odd glitch occurred in Chapter 3 and I was literally unable to activate a hotspot that should have been there. Not even pressing the tab button would show the hotpot where it was supposed to be. There was no way to interact with the area at all, as if it was never meant to exist. So now I cannot progress further. At all. 1/10 What an awful experience! EDIT 22nd May 2019 Okay, I'm willing to admit MY fault. I went back and , with the help of a walkthrough and the writer of said walkthrough, I found a small thing (not directly logically connected to the appearance of the hotspot) I had to do in order to get the hotspot and progress. On the other hand, I do have to point out that I consider the game less than perfect when an experienced point & click player has to constantly use a guide to enjoy a game and still has severe trouble in following the game's logical continuum and spotting some vague and minute, but obviously crucial, details scattered around the environment without any suggestive elements or discreet nudging toward the right way. I referred to Memento Mori 2's poor conveyance of the story (lack of flow) and the required actions to further it, and the issue here is evidence of that. All in all, after the latest game-breaking bug turned out not to be one, I feel like upgrading my rating from 1/10 to 4/10.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 14, 2018

  Bug means it crashes every time at same scene outside hotel, so unplayable. Plus never saves your settings, defaulting to a crappy low res setting with full blast music.