Morpheus
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Morpheus is a lushly rendered puzzle game in the same genre as Myst and Riven. You start the game lost in an arctic blizzard, trying to find clues to the disappearance of your explorer member of the clergy, who vanished three decades ago in the same frozen wasteland.
The hokey 1950s video of your frostbitten character is thankfully left behind for the haunting visuals of an icebound ship, the Herculania. As you wander owing to the ship’s fabulous art deco ballroom, movie theater, and other rooms you’ll manipulate objects and find clues to how the six passengers diverted themselves with evil intentions and forbidden like. Con artists and hypocrites (with one exception), they came aboard the Herculania in quest of pleasure–only to become ensnared in their hosts’ scientific experiments. You’ll also confront the Neurographicon, a futuristic dreams-to-reality device that you suspect trapped your member of the clergy before you.
Integrated QuickTime sequences, ambient sounds, and the ability to pan 360 degrees enhance the gothic creepiness of this game. The game starts at a snail’s pace, but the puzzles soon pick up the intellectual pace. Environment is vital, and clues can be devastatingly subtle, though not as biographical as one might expect.
Morpheus is a rich, many-layered experience, with puzzles inside of puzzles, and you’ll get a lot of play for your cash. To end you’ll need a large pad and pencil, some math, and careful powers of observation–or a lot of time. –Betsy Aoki
Pros:
- Lavish, colorful graphics and ambient sound
- Tale rich enough to intrigue without excessive gore
- Engaging–the puzzles require thought and observation
Cons:
- Use of 3 CD-ROMs means you have to switch discs throughout the game
- Occasional crash for Mac users; PC users, note the patch
Amazon.com Product Description
This perfectly rendered, three-CD epic for Windows and Mac takes you on an enthralling adventure into the eerie and sometimes troubling lives and dreams of the passengers on a mysterious ship called Herculania. The Herculania’s maiden voyage went very awry, and six passengers remain trapped aboard. Their bodies have been stored in the Neurographicon, a podlike machine that preserves their dreams and nightmares forever. Upon exploring each pod, a gripping tale of greed, passion, and revenge unfolds. Experience the passengers’ tragic lives owing to their dreams, ghosts, and visions. Explore the six graphically exquisite dream worlds of these ill-fated passengers. The clues gained from exploring each of these worlds bring you one step closer to solving the mystery, aiding someone urgently in need and resolving the fate of your beloved member of the clergy’s disappearance.
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Its a fun game that my brother and i have beet at least 10 times if you like stratigie get this you won’t regret it!
Rating: 5 / 5
Wow, I really don’t know what to say about Morpheus (Does anyone even know why it was called that? The ship was the Herculania?!)It was a small too sci-fi for me. Some of the puzzles were too contrived and at times it was extremely frusterating because I had no clue what was going on. I just didn’t know what to do! Belle, Billy and Grace’s worlds were splendid, but Leo’s was too weird, and poor Muffy! (Muffy’s tag was found at the butchers. Guess why it was found and Muffy was not.) The graphics were luscious, but all togher, I’m not sure if it was worth my cash. Would I recommend this game? Well, not to anyone with XP, for me, it didn’t work too well. After reading the raving review from JustAdventure, I was clear that I would delight in it, but after playing it, I’m clear that I would have rather wasted my time on something else. I wanted a game with a ship, not sure why, but I did. Titanic Adventure Out Of Time was more my price range, but I now see the error of my ways. If you like Adventures, try some worth-while ones like Syberia, Beyond Atlantis 2 or The Longest Journey! Spare yourself!
Rating: 3 / 5
The graphics of this game were very excellent. But, this is one of the only strong features about this game. The tale line had so much potential, but was enacted in a very lame fasion. The dream sequences excellent have been a lot better, and if there was a climax, I missed it. The puzzles were not very challenging, and the ending was weak. I would spend my cash elsewhere.
Rating: 3 / 5
This is the type of game I usually look for, challenging to my mind but non violent. I strongly recommend this. Strongly.
Rating: 5 / 5
A perfectly rendered, but weird and wasteful tale. I bought Morpheus because it was inexpensive and the type of game I like. But I was quickly plunged into a muddled, weird and frankly, uninteresting plot involving a bunch of dreadful people that deserved their dreadful fates.
After perservering owing to several pointless and not-very-tough puzzles, you learn that everyone gets what they deserve. And, from the original days of Myst, we’re used to a slight let-down at the end, as a movie-ette wraps up the final details of our long ordeal, but Morpheus just leaves you wondering – did the programmers know what happened to our heros?
Rating: 2 / 5