The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief

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6.7

Mixed or average reviews- based on 77 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 43 out of 77
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 77
  3. Negative: 17 out of 77

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  1. riemy
    Oct 14, 2013
    5
    The Good:
    - The atmosphere of this game feels really nice.
    - The soundtrack fits the mood and is of high quality. - The general idea of the story line is interesting and intriguing. - Some puzzles are really well done and integrate seamlessly into the story. The Bad: - One major plot hole, that left me with the feeling of being lied to by the game. Absolutely absurd. But I don't    The Good:
    - The atmosphere of this game feels really nice.
    - The soundtrack fits the mood and is of high quality.
    - The general idea of the story line is interesting and intriguing.
    - Some puzzles are really well done and integrate seamlessly into the story.

    The Bad:
    - One major plot hole, that left me with the feeling of being lied to by the game. Absolutely absurd. But I don't want to spoil anyone with details.
    - Crude animations, that force you to wait until they are finished. Sometimes you have to wait for 10 seconds, until a character has left the screen, after walking up all the damn stairs. It's also looking very awful and I've got the feeling, that it gets much worse towards the end of the game. I guess the developers didn't test and integrate those animations at all. A nerve-wrecking nightmare!
    - Most of the puzzles are either totally obvious don't make any sense at all. Both ways they are not a lot of fun. (But some puzzles are nice and challenging, though they are the minority.)
    - The game was bug infested after publishing, up to the point, that you couldn't finish the first chapter. After some patches it became better, but you need to save a lot, to deal with frequent crashes.

    Conclusion:
    The setting and story could have made a really good game, but in the end I was more disappointed than satisfied by the game's flaws.    … Expand
  2. Devivre
    Oct 7, 2013
    7
    I think it's a good start. Okay, if you're expecting tough puzzles and many hotspots, then this isn't right for you but if you're hoping for a decent crime story with awesome music and decent voice acting then this first episode might be a good choice.
  3. eelegendo
    Jan 6, 2014
    6
    I liked very much this studio's last game, The Book of Unwritten Tales. One of the best of the genre. So I was looking forward for this game. Although it isn't a bad game, I miss the sense of humour of the aforementioned game. Still it has some puns in the game albeit this one is in a rather classic setting that leaves less territory for fun.

    Pros: Good, logical, clean puzzles,    I liked very much this studio's last game, The Book of Unwritten Tales. One of the best of the genre. So I was looking forward for this game. Although it isn't a bad game, I miss the sense of humour of the aforementioned game. Still it has some puns in the game albeit this one is in a rather classic setting that leaves less territory for fun.

    Pros:
    Good, logical, clean puzzles, nothing surreal. In consequence it is rather easy (even for me... Sometimes if feels rather like an interactive movie (you decide it's a pro or con I have nothing against it).
    Good characters, OK graphics.

    Cons:
    IT IS SLOOOOWWW...
    There must be a better way to set the controls for an adventure game: I click, character goes to the spot and in most of the time I can't do anything else. Walking through the screen takes time, so it would be better if I could "look around" with the cursor... And also: the character has to go to a specific spot to begin a certain movement, the he makes some footsteps on the same spot to get in the position for the next animation... It's a drag, it's so cumbersome. Double click not always working for location change (steps, opening doors) and the characters can't run.
    Bugs characters disappear/reappear, or Adil walks through Mrs. Westmacott in Kairo Museum and the hotspot is on the wrong place... And there are quite a few bugs like that. The space button not showing sometimes the hotspots on their real locations. (Was this game tested?)
    I played the German version and the voices are sometimes off, or I have to wait for a few seconds for the next line of text. Not the characters are boring (as other reviewers stated), but the way they are presented, the pauses between every line. Sometimes the devs relied on mimics, but it's just not working. The ingame movies' pre-rendered facial emotions are mostly OK, but the real-time characters' emotions are pathetic (e.g. Miss Miller's teeth are independent from the rest of her face... ).
    If you miss a speech you can't listen to it again, only if you load back a saved game...
    Around 20% percent of this game is waiting for voices, loading, walking, animations, etc...
    Still I liked the game, not a revolutionary title, but one to spend a few hours with. Let's hope there will be a TBOUT3 on the level of the 1st one.    … Expand
  4. DameLCFC
    Jul 24, 2013
    7
    An enjoyable game, steady paced with lots of dialogue a nice break from an FPS for me and graphically and musically good also. Basic and easy to grasp controls with a decent story in 3 parts, 1st part takes around 3-4 hours to complete so for a £20 release for all 3 parts not a bad deal. The puzzles are essentially straight forward, some easier some harder than others but not to theAn enjoyable game, steady paced with lots of dialogue a nice break from an FPS for me and graphically and musically good also. Basic and easy to grasp controls with a decent story in 3 parts, 1st part takes around 3-4 hours to complete so for a £20 release for all 3 parts not a bad deal. The puzzles are essentially straight forward, some easier some harder than others but not to the extent that you need to constantly alt-tab out to a walkthrough. I can't give this game a 10 as that would be silly as it is not a AAA release that takes you to the next level of invention, complexity or graphics but what it does do it does very nicely and is a great example of a point and click game lovers of George Stobart in the Broken Sword games this will certainly appeal to you its the closest comparison i can make for would be purchasers.… Expand
  5. Mpbpl
    Mar 15, 2018
    6
    Cool mystery, nice point & click game, bug filled.
    The graphics are good, the environments are beautiful, nice change of scenery between chapters but the animations for the characters are robotic and stiff to a point where the voices are really good but the animation cannot pass the same emotion as the voice or not as good making it funny in a bad way.
    Normally, point & click games have    Cool mystery, nice point & click game, bug filled.
    The graphics are good, the environments are beautiful, nice change of scenery between chapters but the animations for the characters are robotic and stiff to a point where the voices are really good but the animation cannot pass the same emotion as the voice or not as good making it funny in a bad way.
    Normally, point & click games have troubles in changing rooms or places but this game took it to another level; lots of times the controlled character passes the point where the camera should change but doesn't, making him walk to a wall or walk aimlessly without moving.
    The mystery is really good, the writing and the dialog is great, every character feels like a person in dialog(not animation), but everything else holds this game back so much.
    If you like Point & Click games, or a good mystery you will find it ok. If not, then the bugs, very precise clicks will annoy you and better to stay off.    … Expand
  6. edmondhonda304
    Aug 7, 2019
    5
    Puzzles in this game are rather logic/easy. Limited scenarios (a train, a ship) plus scarce interaction elements (characters, scene items/inventory items) lead to straightforward solutions to any puzzle the game throws at you. To make matters worse, The Raven uses a QoL system quite exceptional in the graphic adventure genre that consist of removing from interaction any "useless" orPuzzles in this game are rather logic/easy. Limited scenarios (a train, a ship) plus scarce interaction elements (characters, scene items/inventory items) lead to straightforward solutions to any puzzle the game throws at you. To make matters worse, The Raven uses a QoL system quite exceptional in the graphic adventure genre that consist of removing from interaction any "useless" or "padding" item in the scene you already examined. At first it seems a great improvement, but it ends up hindering playability because it greatly reduces the set of possible actions, rendering the classic try-anything-on-anything strategy a viable one.

    Character quality is a mix bag. Some of them are well written, others, whose role end up gaining weight as the story progresses, are dull and uninteresting.

    This game tells a classic whodunit story with a surprising but unsatisfying ending. I don’t want to get into spoiler territory, I will just say that the mystery is solved in a hurry, the final events feel improbable and the final situation of certain characters raises so many unanswered questions, the most obvious being: How on earth did they escape the crime scene? One does not have the spare time to replay the whole game, but I am pretty sure that if I did I would find some big fat plot holes in the script.    … Expand
  7. hileger
    Oct 19, 2022
    5
    Нудный детектив поинт энд пшик эркюль пуаро усатенький мерзкий нюхач...

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#67 Most Shared PC Game of 2013

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Metascore
74

Mixed or average reviews - based on 36 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 36
  3. Negative: 0 out of 36
  1. games(TM)
    Nov 14, 2013
    70
    The controls occasionally feel clunky. [Issue#141, p.117]
  2. Pelit (Finland)
    Oct 7, 2013
    84
    Quirky puzzles, nice storyline and out of the ordinary main character make this Agatha Christie tribute stand out from the vast masses of adventure games. If you're searching for mature content, this is your choice. [Aug 2013]
  3. Riot Pixels
    Sep 19, 2013
    66
    The first episode of The Raven trilogy is blink-and-you-miss-it short. The next time we’ll see the same events from the criminal’s point of view. Here is hoping that his version of the story is more interesting.
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