Recommended4 hrs played
Dark Tales 8: Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart(IHOG)
Only barely recommended.
Options include separate sliders for Music, Sound and Voices, Full-screen and Custom Cursor. Choice of three preset difficulties, or you can go with Custom Mode.
Contains violence and disturbing imagery.
Story:
I've only played one Dark Tales game previously, and I am not well-versed in Poe's work, but Tell-Tale Heart is an...
35 found this helpful, 2019-08-03
Not recommended11 hrs played
This is a very good series, but this particular game is not very good. At least they tried to be original (unlike many of the Artifax Mundi games). It was a good attempt at being original. However, the main game was too short and ended too abruptly. I don't even understand what happened at the end. Some of the mechanics in the main game were really confusing. I didn't care for the mini-games.
If you get it cheap...
5 found this helpful, 2020-05-17
Recommended4 hrs played
Definitely a "sale" purchase with low expectations.
This is a very short point & click story with some hidden object finding in it. I was disappointed after having had such fun with the 2nd & 3rd in the Sable Maze series. The story is poorly written and disjointed, and definitely not for someone who is an Edgar Allen Poe fan. I'm confused how anyone would even get the story from playing this game.
Despite the...
4 found this helpful, 2019-03-08