| | |  | | Home » The Whispered World | | | | | | | Description: | | In the Whispered World, an epic adventure unfolds as you immerse yourself in a world on the verge of collapse. Sadwick, the young clown, lives in a beautiful but perilous world, where his family makes their living in a traveling circus. His adventure starts as he embarks on a quest to find an explanation to his recurring nightmares - in his dreams, he is chased by a mysterious blue orb as the world around him collapses. | | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 0.3 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.5 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.3 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.15 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 18 reviews |
| | | System Requirements: | | | Platform:
| Windows Vista / Windows XP | | Media:
| DVD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
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32 of 32 found the following review helpful:
 A beautiful adventure game with modern graphics and a vintage feel...Apr 29, 2010
By Ronald J. Musial
"The GameHorder"
Okay... so I've played every Sierra and LucasArts game known to man... including the King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, Quest for Glory, Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion series etc.
In other words... I know my adventure games. Those were the vintage days of yore. Then came The Longest Journey, Sanitarium, Syberia and a few more good ones... Lately though, the "classic point n click" adventure genre has been a bit lame/dry... That is until now. I caught wind of this game about a year ago when it was said to be coming to the states following its VERY successful German release. It was well worth the wait. The graphics are the closest thing to playing an animated film I've ever seen, the story is wonderful, the puzzle are challenging but not ridiculous. You are Sadwick the Clown and your are about to embark on one LONG JOURNEY to save the world... The interface is very simple yet intuitive, and it is reminiscent of the control in "Full Throttle" but LucasArts... You simple hold down the mouse button on an object you wish to look, use or talk to and select the proper action. Right clicking opens your inventory which is a giant bag with all your goodies inside.
A word of warning.. this game is HEAVY HEAVY HEAVY in the dialogue. BUT... its very witty and the voice acting/translations are spot on from the German version. Sadwick's voice is a little irritating at times but it does match his personality and name "SAD"wick.
Bottom Line... if you want a kick a$$ adventure game that will bring you back to the good ol' days when Sierra and LucasArts ruled the PC gaming industry... then by all means buy this game. It is worth beyond 29.99 and will take you hours and hours to finish "unless you cheat"
13 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 Beautiful and funny, and just a little flawedMay 02, 2010
By Stokie Dave
/This review contains no plot spoilers/ The Whispered World is a modern "old-school style" point-and-click adventure story, along much the same lines as last summer's excellent remake of Monkey Island. How does The Whispered World measure up to such a gaming classic? Very well, so far. Despite some reviewers complaining about the voice-acting for the main character, I found his voice to be no problem at all. Perhaps its just Americans it grates on (I'm a Brit). His quirky voice conveys character well, and it quickly became endearing. So far, the other voice-acting (all British so far) is also very good. The lip-sync is very poor, but that's to be expected since the game was originally in the German language. The translation of the script appears to be excellent, although so far I've noticed a few annoying Americanisms (especially the "whatever!" - which should have no place in a fantasy-world game). I've found sections filled with consistently laugh-out-load funny lines - even more so than the famous Monkey Island which is fresh in my mind because I played it through last Summer. Whatever the German humour was like in the game, it seems to have been satisfactorily translated or replaced by the British translators. The writers also understand that strong comedy can come from the characters' glumness and feeling trapped. The detail of this game world is rich from the start, and yet there's also a nice looseness to how your knowledge of the world is built up - enough that your imagination is forced to fill in the gaps. Which adds to the immersion in the world, and the music helps this along. The animation is not at the Disney or Miyazaki level, but seems perfectly serviceable and it appears to be completely hand-drawn 2D. Older kids spoiled by a staple diet of polished 3D animation may be a little taken aback by the 2D look of the game, but the consistent richness and charm of the artwork should more than compensate. Younger children should be thoroughly charmed, but may need to consult an adult to solve some of the puzzles. One major drawback is that this game is not in widescreen, and so it will "auto-stretch" to fit a 1920 x 1200 24" monitor. This caused me a little pixellation of the hero's avatar and slightly reduced some of the crispness of the lush hand-painted backdrops. But I found that playing the game like this preferable to running the game at its puny native windowed resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels (the game was developed ages before widescreen became standard on PCs). It should be perfect if you have a good gaming laptop that runs at 1024 x 768, though. You play the game with a mouse but the game controls are blissfully simple and very easy to master. There is no three-step in-game hint system, regrettably. Which means that (unless you're a puzzle-ninja) you should print out a walkthrough to avoid having to exit the game when you get stuck. But you can tap the space-bar to highlight all the click-able hot-spots in each scene, which saves having to play "hunt the pixel". The game is apparently quite long, and should take around 20 hours for an experienced puzzle-adventure gamer to complete. I suspect that normal mortals might take about 25 hours, unless they're resorting to the walkthrough too much.
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
FunJul 01, 2010
By dolly
This is a fun, imaginative adventure. Beautiful graphics. None of the slash and smash of the newer games, we need more like this.
11 of 16 found the following review helpful:
Good graphics, but depressing, and somewhat annoyingJun 01, 2010
By Music 4 U
"Mr Music"
I started playing this game and was impressed immediately with the graphics. After playing it for about 15 minutes, I found myself getting very tired of the game. The obnoxious dialog is pessimistic, and ended up making me feel like the character is smaller than life. The sort of silly verbal abuse directed at the main character and some of the animations are annoying. I had higher hopes for this game, and the production was very enormous for such a disappointing game. I wouldn't recommend it unless you really, really can't find something else to do.. I feel really pretty bad writing that, but it's the truth.
Great Game, Meets My ExpectationsMay 12, 2011
By W. A. Scott
"Your powers are weak old man."
I have had a 'point-and-click' adventure game itch for ages and I had found nothing that really satisfied it - or I couldn't find any 'point-and-click' game at all, that I hadn't already played and finished a thousand times. Then I stumbled onto this game, and I jumped all over it. It turned out to be exactly what I was looking for.
The game-play was very familiar, reminiscent of the old LucasArts adventure games back in the 90's. As far as the dialogue in the game, the sometimes gloomy humor surprised me off and on and often I found myself laughing out loud at Sadwick's bleak outlook on life.
When I bought the game, the price was down to $3.54, so it was a great value, worth every last penny. I would definitely buy it again if I lost my copy. Highly recommended.
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