Crystal Key
- Search for the Crystal Key in this incredible adventure game
- Secrets lie waiting to be unlocked and learned by those with the key
- Journey owing to stunning lands of desert, jungle, and water
- Explore breathtaking worlds, each more gorgeous and magical than the last
- Carefully examine and solve each puzzle by the side of the way
Product Description
Your quest for the Crystal Key will take you on an incredible adventure. Armed with only your wits, your journey will take you owing to stunning lands of desert, jungle, and water as you explore breathtaking worlds, each more gorgeous and magical than the last. Rise to the challenge and let your wisdom, instinct, and ingenuity lead the way. Carefully examine and solve each puzzle by the side of your path. Secrets lie waiting to be unlocked and learned by those who possess the Crystal Key.
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I’ve had this game for a couple of years and chose to finally play it one day when I was bored. Although I saw other comments that the game could not run on XP, it ran perfectly fine on my system. The only thing I had to change was my version of Quicktime. By and large, there are some puzzles that can be tantalizing while others are practically common sense. There is really no character interaction at all, making it seem very similar to Mist. My least favorite part about the game is the ending. If you complete your task, there is no dramatic scene of your people being freed or really the “terrible guy” perishing. Rather, it’s a unadorned “Congrats! You win!” kind of ending. It occupied me for a few hours..
Rating: 2 / 5
Although the game ran pretty quick, the graphics were still horrible, even for a bargain price. I found the plot to be excellent, but the game itself was not excellent. It was loaded with glitches and problems that malfunctioned the game.
Rating: 1 / 5
The Crystal Key is a pretty nice game. But, XP USERS BEWARE!!! If you plot to play this game using Win XP, prepare for the toughest puzzle of the game…getting it to run properly (The website for this game said it was “completely compatible” with XP). There are som patches to download to help with many performance issues in the game, but I couldn’t get them to install properly either. The website for this game recommended playing the game in “Win 98/Me compatibility mode” to solve the issues that the patches were supposed to fix, but this crashes the game and you get an open file dialog looking for .run files. How I got the game to in fact work was to set my monitor resolution to 640×480 when the game runs. Right-click on the .exe file for the game and brilliant properties. Click on the compatibility tab and then click on the option to change monitor resolution to 640×480 when this file executes. This didn’t solve all problems, but at least I was able to play the game. Save often because you will need to prepare for the in-game bugs too (i.e. restoring a saved game, travelling to a world you just left, CHANGING THE CDs DURING THE GAME). The game itself is fun. The graphics are honestly decent, but when you are in motion, things blur with pixelation. The ambient sounds are either nice or irritating. Some times, the sounds are just repeating sound clips that are only a few seconds long. The puzzles are what make the game fun. They are not trivial nor are they too hard. With a few clarification, some drawing, and a small memory (your memory, not the computer’s), the puzzles can be solved in a excellent matter of time. By and large, I believe the developer needs to spend more time in the debugging process to fix the irritating bugs. This would eliminate the need to download patches that don’t even work. I speak from experience on this. I am a qualified software developer and the company I work for has a debugging cycle of up to one month and then beta testing. If you want to play this game, DO NOT pay more than $10 for it (that price is nearly too high and I do not like to buy bugs) and if possible, play the game with Win 98.
Rating: 3 / 5
While the previous reviewer is right in that the game may not run on XP out of the box, a couple of e-mails exchanged with the tech support solve the conundrum very quickly (for me, the answer was to uninstall quicktime and reinstall it from the CD with certain settings changes). If you have Win98, don’t agonize about this conundrum – you won’t have it.
Now for the game itself – it’s very well designed. You get the hang of the interface honestly quickly. For the most part, the puzzles are both creative and reasonable. Some, but, are very unintuitive and require finding very obscure, hidden objects, or using an object in a manner you’d never reflect of. Some puzzles require you to have visited an area that you might not even have known about. Don’t be worried to take a peek at uhs-hints.com if despite your most dilligent reasoning you cannot come up with a solution.
The environments are on the whole quite pleasant, with the exception of one – the jungle. Every node you can walk to looks just like every other one and you must therefore navigate by trial and error.
A minus of this game is that there is no character interaction at all – in fact, there are no characters except in cut scenes. Characters added new dimensions and intrigue to sports meeting like Legacy of Time and Myst III as well as many others. Here you walk owing to “abandoned” worlds.
Similarly, there is virtually no storyline development as you play the game – you have a vague thought of a mission (to find out how to bring down the terrible guy) and that’s what you do owing to the entire game.
On the whole, but, the gameplay experience can be quite pleasant, if you peek at some hints when you’re stuck.
Rating: 4 / 5
First off, I got this game at the bargin bin price at walmart as it is now sold here. Originally this game sold at full price(never get full price bug ridden sports meeting people!) After patch 1.1 the game even runs on XP on a super quick machine with small conundrum. Those of you who have knocked this game have not patched it yet. Most people(I take upon yourself) first reflect of patching the sports meeting they get but some of you(quite odviously) don’t go to websites to find answeres to the problems.
The game is set on different planets accessed via gateways. Of course thier are other ways as well via darth vader zapping you and taking you aboard his ship ect. It has a retro sci-fi feel to it which I like and it is set in eerie mysterious places. (Mostly dark dungeon-like places and depressing spaceship corridors). Unfortunately interacting with other people is nearly non-existant, but it is still intruguing and fun. If you like far fetched sci-fi and otherworldy exploration go for it! this game ain’t worth no 40 bux but it curtainly is worth 10. I am surprised it is such a well loved item and is being sequaled considering all the knocks against it. I like it!
Rating: 4 / 5