Echo: Secrets of the Lost Cavern
by Dreamcatcher Interactive
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Video Game Reviews of Echo: Secrets of the Lost Cavern
Customer Review: Neolithic Adventure
Summary: 4 Stars
First off, I must say I did enjoy the game. The idea of adventuring about in what I took to be Late Stone Age Europe was at least different from any other Adventure game I have ever played. As the game progressed, I found myself becoming very involved in Arok's life and his search for the Lost Cavern. While the story line was somewhat weak, as was Arok's motivation for starting his journey, I found that I wanted very much to see how it would all turn out.
Now to some particulars:
The graphics were very nice, especially the FMV cut scenes. I began to wish I were right there with him (Arok), breathing the crisp, clean air of post Ice Age Europe.
Sound effects and music were more than acceptable, and the User Interface was very easy to control.
The puzzles made sense, at least once I figured out the underlying logic. Bear in mind that in many cases, certain objects and locations will not become active or "hot" until you have progressed to a certain point in the game.
If you enjoy Adventure games, I think I can say you will enjoy "Echo". Although it is rather short, at least as compared to something like "Myst IV" or "The Longest Journey", it is an interesting experience, and the historical information included as part of the game play can turn an enjoyable game into an educational experience, if you give it a chance.
Four out of five stars
Customer Review: Echo-puzzles etc
Summary: 4 Stars
Echo was a fun game with some very inventive puzzles which I really enjoyed. The only real problem that I had with this game was that it was wayyyyyyyyy to short! Enjoy!Customer Review: Hard puzzles
Summary: 4 Stars
I really liked this game and liked learning about our ancient history. There was no way I could do the puzzles without the strategy guide. For that reason alone, I dropped the score to 4 stars.Customer Review: Unique Story, Tremendous Fun
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't know why someone hasn't thought to make a game around this setting - about 20,000 + years ago before, and still respect what we know about the period. Don't let this scare you. Forget the muscle bound club and kill stuff.
Although several of the puzzles are variations on puzzles I've met in several other games, here they are totally in sinc with the story line and tremendous fun. Others are new to me, challenging, and still totally appropriate to the story line.
The graphics are extremely good, and in some places - especially good. I really felt like I'd been transported back to that world of our own earliest direct ancestors - the people who did those cave paintings. Not Neaderthal, by the way. The characters' interaction with their world of that time (end of last Ice Age) was neither grating, nor silly.
It IS true that the plot isn't all that unusual from the other games I've played, but the way it was done here, given what I've already said, made it totally fresh and TREMENDOUS FUN!
There are games that I HAVE played that I enjoyed just as much - for different reasons - but few I've enjoyed more. (Warning: I AM a terminal Syberia fan.) Even the acting was OK!
All in all, I couldn't recommend it more highly. Even the price is reasonable! It wasn't difficult giving ECHO 5 stars in BOTH categories.