Legacy - The Lost Pyramid 4+

This was an interesting game, certainly worth playing, and I’m looking forward to the next in the series from this dev, as I’ve read good things about it (and already purchased it). That being said, there were a few considerations. The navigation was fairly clunky and a little finicky, especially as you “passed through” walls from room to room, though I adjusted to it fairly quickly, so not really a complaint. The graphics were ok, the music nice but repetitive, and the story decent if not a little cliche. Most of the puzzles made sense and were enjoyable to solve, however a couple of the clues seemed a little ambiguous (maybe just my opinion). Also, some of the tools required to solve puzzles were a bit of a hidden object search for me (I’ll be “looking” for that aspect in the next one😜) as I found many of them by accident, except one for which I grudgingly consulted a walkthrough (normally against my religion). All in all, still a fun game, and I applaud the dev for this first installment in the story.

I have to say, Legacy brought be back to the 90s when Cyan, Inc and Brøderbund put out Myst.

There is adventure, mystery, puzzles, and even an endearing (if not slightly obnoxious/repetitive) soundtrack.

I’ve been glued to this game since coming across it and I look forward to finally finishing it soon.

However, one Big con: on iPhone, the wheel for the red crystal and lens puzzle is incredibly hard to rotate. I spent 5-10 minutes messing around trying to figure out what I accidentally did to get it to move. Then I figured out that stroking the spot on my phone in a very very narrow space got it to work. This wasn’t enjoyable as it wasn’t so much a puzzle to figure out (maybe a meta puzzle...), but I don’t know how hard it is to fix an issue like that (anything from making the area to touch larger to changing from a wheel to some other mechanic. The elevator buttons work well.)

I was enjoying exploring the area and solving some early puzzles. I kept returning to the three gongs having, I thought, figured out what needed to be done but it didn’t work. At all. So I went to the recommended walkthrough and sure enough, the gong puzzle is meant to be solved as I thought. I tried again but it still didn’t work so I started a new game. (Be aware that if you do this you lose all of your previous game so you really are starting over) Played the game exactly as presented in the official walkthrough without any looking around or false starts. Got to the gong room. Nothing. Has anyone else had this issue? Without solving that puzzle I probably cannot finish the game although I didn’t watch the rest of the walkthrough to see how important the gongs are to the story. So I am off to play something else. Update: I deleted the game and started over. The gong puzzle worked and now I am moving on!