Alexia Crow: The Pandora's Box
Alexia Crow, protagonist of QuestTracers' series of point-and-click adventures makes a choice and becomes a hero in Alexia Crow: The Pandora's Box. This concluding chapter of the trilogy contains many of the positives and the negatives of previous installments: gorgeous art and interesting puzzles marred by a clunky interface. But fans of the series should definitely be glad to see how this story ends.
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Probably the easiest of the 3. The only gotcha for me was that I couldn't pick up the pen the first time I tried.
Where is the location of the lock box combo?
never mind.
What is the blub for?
I thought the content of the puzzles was good, but the interface left me constantly annoyed. For one thing, text boxes kept covering places I wanted to click. For the sliding block puzzle, I had a hard time getting the block to go where I wanted it to. I knew to click in the square where I wanted it to move, but for some reason (maybe because I was trying to go too fast) I did a wrong move several times and had to restart. After all those tries when I was finally near the final move I accidentally clicked on the restart button, which is conveniently located right next to the playable squares.
Lastly, when using the pen it isn't intuitive where to position it over the target.
I was pretty sure it went the box with the hole, but I'd click the end of the pen on it and it would say it didn't fit. I tried both ends of the pen and it still didn't fit. So I looked for other stuff to stick in the hole.
It turns out you need to click the middle of the pen on the target, which is really not intuitive. It would be like needing to click the center of a mouse pointer on something rather than the tip of the arrow.
How about NOT having a set of buttons where no matter which you click they all open your stupid link back to your SPAMMY GD site?
In fact, apparently you can't click ANYTHING in this game without it opening the damn link back to your site.
Yeah, the game is basically unplayable unless you want to continually open and close new browser windows every single time you click. No thanks.
That happened to me the first time I tried to play. It seems to have stopped now.
My game seems to be frozen on accessing the card reader. It just keeps "loading" in game. I tried refreshing the page and resuming my saved game but I can't get past this spot.
I have been asked recently to minimize my requests for walkthroughs per game so i'm only asking once. I hope one surfaces soon :)
Yeah, this is absolutely unplayable. No matter what I click on in the game it opens a new tab to the zibbo gamesite. It's only a problem with the version hosted on JIG as I can play it without hassle elsewhere.
I guess no one has a walkthrough yet huh?
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