The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time (1998) - MobyGames (2024)

The ability to pan your view around was a very welcome improvement over the first two games. While this degrades graphic quality somewhat, it's well worth it.

The Bad
There is a horrendous problem with audio in this game, and it is apparenty a common issue with many computers. In order to stop the audio from studdering and popping constantly, one must tweak their system performance settings to disable various acceleration options - making this game playable, but other modern games will slow to a crawl. But perhaps it may be worth it, if you only play one game at a time.

The other problem I had, was that there was no way for your character to die - there was no risk. In the previous games, there were numerous ways to die, or cause temporal anomolies, and some of them were quite humorous. The sense of isolation in the first two games was not present here, and was missed.

The Bottom Line
If you can overcome the audio problem, this game is a must. The plot is well-crafted, and the drive to advance to the adventure's conclusion is always present. Look forward to many hours of lost sleep.

A big part of this game, as well, is Arthur, your AI helper. At times, one could complain that his jokes are just too bad, I suppose. But I felt that he was a great addition to the game and easily my favorite character. Some of his comments are hilarious.

The Bad
Alot of people felt that the concept of being able to use the Chameleon Suit to talk to people was a great addition. However, I feel that it seriously breeches that spine-tingling surrealistic "aloneness" which accompanied the predecessors and gave them a special ambience. Also, it is unrealistic in the way that, obviously, talking to someone could change the whole of history. Even if these civilizations were destroyed, they must have had a few survivors somehow. Anyway, that's a lesser concern than the loss of atmosphere.

Finally, a major problem is that you can't die. You could easily die and/or cause a temporal distortion wave in many places throughout the first two games. It lent even more atmosphere to what was already incredibly heavy in it.

The Bottom Line
It's not Buried In Time, but it's the next best thing. Kudos to Presto Studios.

The Good
Stunning graphics, animations, cutscene movies, a truly epic plot and great gameplay concept. The puzzels are all very well designed and related to the plot and the environment (unlike Myst-like games where you have to solve very obscure and unrelated puzzels). Very fun to play and watch the FMVs! The overall presentation is simply the best in its genre!

The Bad
A bit short, some mouse compatibility problems. Very addictive gameplay resulting loss of sleep.

The Bottom Line
Best adventure game with everything right, from fluid, beautiful graphics to great FMVs to atmospheric music to truly epic plot. A must-have for all adventure fans and all the other gamers alike!