Book Travelers: A Victorian Story Collector's Edition

I had high hopes for this game because Elephant games has released very good series in the past and the concept and story seemed different than usual. But sadly, the "disease" infecting other HOG developers has infected Elephant games as well. As the other devs, the art is superb in these games, just beautiful which is a major motivator for me to buy them. However, this game is not finished and obviously lazily put together. There are places where there should be puzzles and they just animate to finish the scene instead. These games used to have really great music and now all you get is either silence or background ambient noise. They had a character in a scene after the story had him teleport away. There are missing sound effects. Tom Sawyer says he's from St. Petersburg. What the heck?? I think I'm finally done buying these games new. I have a ton of old ones which I'll play or replay. This makes me very sad. I don't know if it is the political stress of Europe or what the problem is. I can't recommend this. Good thing I bought it on sale.

There are definitely better HOGs from Big Fish and Artifex Mundi. There are some cut scenes that just don't have any sound? It's a great premise for an HOG series but this one just doesn't utilize the concept as well as it could. Try the Dark Parables or Danse Macabre series instead.

The premise is nice, but the execution is poor. Game is very short and simple, everything is at hand, hardly any attentiveness is needed. HOGs and puzzles are trivial, and there are very few minigames (in most cases, things fall together automatically, without the need to solve a puzzle or do any effort). No music (only a drone), and many sound effects are missing. Visuals are nice.

This was exceptionally dull. It basically doesn't even use its own concept, characters are pretty much only in one scene before never appearing again, it's extremely short, and most of the cutscenes don't even have sound effects or sometimes even music. The ending of the bonus game is literally just a bunch of barely-animated pictures with no narration, nothing.

i LOVE THIS GAME

Very interesting and fun. Liked the artistry and clever games. Keep your eye out for numerous morphing items which I missed. Highly recommend.