Hamlet!!! adventure game like samorost style

[Mehrdad]

do you play samarost and machinarium?
and now.Hamlet:
http://www.alawar.com/game/hamlet

and

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/04/13/great-dane-a-few-thoughts-on-hamlet/

[SSH]

By Samorost-like do you mean it has some completely illogical puzzles with no clues to them?

[Mehrdad]

I dont know .because i dont play Hamlet yet.but read some news from this game.that was point to similar Samorost and Machinarium .i think answer is yes.

[blueskirt]

The demo got a 1 hour trial. The good news: I think I finished the game in less than 1 hour, the bad news: if I finished it 2 minutes earlier, I'd have enough time to watch the ending cutscene. Bummer.

It's not like Machinarium. It's a more like Samorost, Bowja the Ninja and Journey of Reemus: The adventure is splitted in several single room challenges which you must solve before you can proceed to the next, you can't travel back and forth between rooms, puzzles are solved by clicking on objects all over the place, no walking, no talking, no inventory puzzles and the game focus much more on puzzles than story.

Some rooms consist of a single puzzle, may it be pattern recognition puzzle, myst kind of puzzle, or figuring out the combination to open a door. If you're allergic to any of these things, DON'T PANIC, the game come with a hint button that activate when you've been stuck on the same room for more than 5 minutes. Unfortunately, there are at least 2 rooms where you must click on several tiny hotspots very quickly, so if you don't have lightning reflexes with a computer mouse, these rooms will make you very very angry. There is also a couple of illogical puzzles as SSH feared.

Overall, the game is a 7/10. The game design is casual (no inventory, no interface, just clicking around on hotspots) but some puzzles are clearly in the hardcore realm. The game won't please everyone here, if you're a fan of Samorost, Bowja and Reemus, or if you don't mind fun little puzzle games where story take the backseat, you'll certainly love the game, otherwise give the demo a try to see if it's your cup of tea before buying it.

-Edit-
Yep. My free trial ran out of time right at the start of the final cutscene.