Ceville (PC) Review
Come play…. it’s time to release your inner *******….. have fun…. *evil laughter with lightning in the background*
In this game, you will play the roll of Ceville, an evil tyrannical king who’s purest joy in life is to make others miserable. Sadly, payback is a *****, as the game starts with your people and even your own guards turning on you and attacking your castle! During your escape, you will find out who traitor that caused all this is, and your new life mission will be to get revenge on the “vile villain.”
Sadly, the story in general is slow and you will wish Ceville was more into kicking ass then undermining later in the game. However, live for the moment, and you will be laughing as often as not.
This is a point-and-click adventure, with a very sadistic sense of humor during which you will control 3 different characters at different times, each of which will have puzzles that apply their personalities to to the way you have to think about it to win, making for some serious challenge and requiring you stop and think often… but most of the time, you will be playing as Ceville, and the way to win, will be to be the biggest ******* to everyone else you can, sometimes doing things you would never have thought of.
However, to assist in the relatively high difficulty some parts of this game have, there is a very minor hint system/improvement to the point-and-click formula. When you hold down the space bar, you will get to see a text title over everything you can interact with color coded to show how you can (look, use, talk, ect.) interact with it… and it shows according to what you have selected from your inventory (if you have anything selected). This is a very nice touch in that getting stuck no longer means the game becomes nothing more then a hidden object game… a very nice improvement for the entire genre.
Graphics and sound, however, I can have very little praise for. The game looks beautiful for the most part, but between minor framrate issues (do not ask me why, the game does not look that complicated, and for comparison, I run Crysis Warhead at the same resolution without a hiccup), shadow-work for objects that clearly go through things (as well as sprites for a video or two), and even some objects that it’s obvious they moved it later and then didnt change the location you click on, it’s obvious this game is not very polished at all. Sound also suffers from issues of the same nature, between the audio not matching the subtitles at times, and even cutting out (as if they cut their English version short on a few lines by accident). This game is budget, and while they spent it wisely around the gameplay and puzzles, things do suffer for it.
OVERALL: I would be lying if I told you this game wasn’t entertaining, but I would also be lying if I told you this game was great. It’s a good title, and if you like this kind of game, it’s worth buying. If you are even neutral to Point and Click games, you may be better off going to find something a little more finished for your tastes.
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