Advantages: Used up a couple of hours on an otherwise dull Sunday Disadvantages: Nothing challenging about it
I've played a few of Agatha Christie's puzzle games, one of which involved Hercule Poirot and I really enjoyed them.
This one however I found dreadfully poor and I'm not really sure what the creators were thinking of when they dreamt it up.
Overview
You take on the role of Poirot who must investigate a murder on board a cruise ship sailing up the Nile.
Features
* 14 suspects to interrogate
* 12 investigation levels
* 24 rooms with hidden clues
* Mini games
System Requirements
* Windows 98 or above
* 600MHz CPU
* 128 RAM
* 57MB Free Disk Space
* Direct X 6 or above
My Thoughts
With all the other puzzle games I've played there's also been a bit of video play to go with them. That's probably not the right technical term, but I mean that Poirot for example would wander around looking for clues ...
in a whispered falsetto croon goes I-I-I, yeah, then lyrics begin with “I still will watch, don’t know what’s right, flowers weep, I still love you, holy love, holy love, yeah, stocking tops, coffee cups, when morning comes up, I’ll know cuddle, yeah, yeah” all these lines are sung over a bass synthesizer sound that creates a counterpoint to the whispered vocals, this takes the song to the high-pitched guitar middle 8 section that along with Paul’s vocal adlibs and sweeping string sound that brings the track to an end.
This sounds like an unfinished track to me with its nonsense-like lyrics and half-realized arrangement it’s a wonderful sounding experiment.
Family Life (5.21) the sound of a piano begins Paul sings the opening lines “Starlight do you know me, please don’t look at me ...
Advantages: History and having a Thomson rep at all times Disadvantages: too short
I went on a Nile Cruise with Thomson. It was a five star boat part of the Presidential line called the Nile Commodore.
In the brochure the details included all excusions which were packed into the 7 days, I thought oh yea dragged around from tomb to tomb but it was booked so off we went.
We arrived to a wonderful friendly greeting. Thomson had a rep on board who came everywhere with us and was always around to help. Not a pretty young thing with fluttering eyelashes but a more mature young woman who was well respected by all the crew.
The boat was fantastic wood panelling everywhere and whenever you say members of the crew they greeted you warmly.
Our 2 cabin boys met us and introduced themselves and evry morning and night we went in to a spotless room with the beds made in the morning or turned down at night.
4 Egyptian ...
Deva 30.10.2001
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