Mayan kept me playing
Loved the mini games detail was awesome kept me playing
Can’t do anything about the straw doll
Seriously so disappointed lately
Lacked an absorbing adventure narrative
The HOPs were fun, the graphics lush and the plot was gripping. But play soon became focused on securing objects to progress through the game, with only cursory attention paid to the Mayan people or their civilisation and culture through non-player characters, dialogue and plot development. To avoid any sense of cultural misappropriation, 21st century developers should be sophisticated enough now to recognise that they need to pay more than lip service to the historical context in which they set a game especially when the game is built around communities of actual peoples marginalised, decimated, exploited or vanquished by imperialism and colonisation. This doesn’t need to be didactic or tedious; other games have made more effective use of the diary/journal as a historical repository/archive, and more detailed exploration of the sets and discovery of objects and texts with NPC or primary character commentary on or identification/realisation of the objects’ or location purpose or function would make those sites more interesting and less banal. There was hardly any character development at all, which was disappointing, because affect makes for a more involved and entertaining gaming experience in the adventure category in my view. I really did like the way tapping on a particular Mayan fragment led to cut scenes about the history of the artefact and the impact of its theft, but felt we should have had more of this especially in dialogue from the NPCs the game provided. And the romantic angle between two of them was both unnecessary and completely unexplained!
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Big fish
I love it
Maya Prophesies
This developer has done a poor job. Animations don’t respond, takes several click to get an object, etc. Very poorly done. It’s a long list of things that don’t work - not worth the money.
I’m amazed that this passes for a quality game. All the animators are amateurs. Would never make the cut anywhere else.
I’m amazed that this passes for a quality game. All the animators are amateurs. Would never make the cut anywhere else.
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