Lost Horizon 2

I bought this game despite the negative reviews, after hesitating. I liked the predecessor and I really enjoyed this one so far. The story is good, the graphics are nice and the tasks are motivating. The locations are nice, varied and captivating. There are some glitches now and then with the animations, but they are not disturbing. I do not like the reaction-parts of the gameplay, fortunately there are not many in the first four chapters. I play the game with mouse only, just as classic adventure games are meant to be played and it works perfectly.

I really enjoyed this game. The graphics were beautiful. The story was captivating. Exploring old houses is especially fun for me. I experienced no technical issues throughout gameplay. In the style of point and click adventures, there was a lot of thinking to be done in this game.Most of the puzzles were easy. I would say the one at the end with the Nordic Boat was particularly difficult. I really enjoyed that the characters travelled all over the world. Some of the landscapes were very beautiful. I really enjoyed the fact that autumn leaves fell throughout certain segments of the game. It reminded me of another of my most favourite games,Black Mirror III. The learning curve seemed to fall on easy for most of the game until you reached the final chapters. It then seemed to soar up to rather difficult in certain areas. I would recommend this game to anyone who enjoys point and click adventures with a pseudo-historical narrative. Since Germany isn't allowed to utilise the swastika in games they chose a different symbol. This didn't take away from the overall story regarding World War II. It helped you understand the severe terror these people went through especially in their hiding from the Nazi's. In a way it reminded me of when I visited Anne Frank's house in The Netherlands.

pros
+ gorgeous looking, colorful and detailed 3 D background artwork
+ there are plenty of different interesting and exotic locations
+ the story that i believe is inspired by İndiana Jones movies is intriguing. there are also some cool stuff about scandinavian mythology in the end and i quite like it.
+ fun to watch cinematic cutscenes
+ nice background musics
+ three playable character
+ some action and stealth parts fun
+ some puzzles and mini games are enjoyable. they are not so easy or difficult. there are also inventory puzzles you can combine some items
+ when you press to space, hotspots highlighted so no need to pixel hunting
+ If you do get stuck, you can consult the in-game walkthrough
+ game drops cards
cons
- voice acting hit and miss. especially Fenton Paddock's voice acting quite wooden
- some frustrating puzzles
- short dialogues between protagonists cause lack of character development
- there is no linearity in the plot and it progress haphazardly. this makes the story uninteresting and boring most of part.
- there is no information about Fenton's wife. she was second protagonist in first game but she has been omitted from this game and there is no explanation about it.
- blurry and low quality cut scenes
- black screens between cutscenes and chapters
- script way weaker than first game
- there are no Steam achievements
- game little bit buggy and glitchy but it's not game breaking
- there is no auto save
- it's shorter than first game. last chapters also short and they looks like rushedly made.
Overall, LH 2 definitely not as good as first game in many aspects and somewhat flawed but yet i enjoyed from this game and recommend it to adventure gamers.

Pretty unrecognizable from the excellent first game. Cut scenes were low quality, although the interactive scenes were nicely done. It lacked any trademark geniune humour or charm in the script/delivery from the voice actors. Puzzles were okay, but a few illogical ones were frustrating. And an annoying bug near the end game marred what was an okay journey overall. It's okay, but get it in the sales.

I like playing the game. Graphics are very nice, ambient sound and voice actors are great. Puzzles are logical and good, sometimes are time based puzzles anoying, you must repeat whole scenario again and again. The lenght of the game is acceptable, about 10 hours. Story is great, you playing with 3 difrent players, sometimes you must switch between two players for finish some task, and this is great implemented into the story. You visit many diffrent locations and they are very colorful. The story is presented with many great animations. I played the first Lost Horizon game and I like it and I must say that the second one is better.

It's alright. The first one is a genuinely good point and click but this one suffers from having too many playable characters, a daft ending, some late game complex/nonsensical puzzles... but overall it's still enjoyable, with those caveats. Definitely get this one on sale.

Opinion is clearly divided on this game but I really loved it. The graphics are surprisingly good on my 38" monitor and the speech and movement of the characters are absolutely fine, I'm not sure what people were complaining about. I've been playing adventure games for well over 30 years and I would say the graphics are some of the best for a point and click adventure. I think the puzzles were challenging but not too much for you 9yr old son, this has been a great introduction in to the point and click genre for him. He has been engrossed in the story line too.