Secret Files: Tunguska

This game is so basic to look at it's almost untrue; the graphics are certainly not easy on the eye and the speech is grammatically incorrect in a lot of places (but it has been translated from German). If you can forgive these two, majorly obvious faults then you could be in for some addictive gameplay...

The puzzles are sometimes ridiculously easy to fathom and, at others, utterly bizarre and difficult. You can't progress through the story until you've exhausted all options and done everything right. This makes the gameplay very linear and will have you trying to combine everything you hold with everything around you in an effort to progress.

The story is good enough to keep you playing but not excellent enough to make you think about it after you've put it down.

It is an almost classic point and click adventure that will have you reminiscing about the days of Monkey Island (without the humour) and Broken Sword. A step in the right direction for the DS in my… more »

This game is so basic to look at it's almost untrue; the graphics are certainly not easy on the eye and the speech is grammatically incorrect in a lot of places (but it has been translated from German). If you can forgive these two, majorly obvious faults then you could be in for some addictive gameplay...

The puzzles are sometimes ridiculously easy to fathom and, at others, utterly bizarre and difficult. You can't progress through the story until you've exhausted all options and done everything right. This makes the gameplay very linear and will have you trying to combine everything you hold with everything around you in an effort to progress.

The story is good enough to keep you playing but not excellent enough to make you think about it after you've put it down.

It is an almost classic point and click adventure that will have you reminiscing about the days of Monkey Island (without the humour) and Broken Sword. A step in the right direction for the DS in my opinion but it only gets 3 stars because it hasn't pushed the boundaries of the genre enough, if at all.