Reader reviews for Martin Mystère: Operation Dorian Gray

it seemed like the developers, Artematica, had gone out of their way to make their game frustrating and un-fun to play. I mean you’d actually have to ‘try’ to put this many faults in an adventure game:

it has severe pixel hunting issues, it forces your character to walk slowly across screens, the double-click to change screen instantly feature only works in some instances, the inventory only comes up when you click on the ‘I’ icon twice (?!), the main character is boorish and unlikable, there’s no volume control at all, there are so many hotspots in some locations you’d be searching forever to work out what you’re meant to be doing, save games are only represented by small screen thumbnails which you can hardly tell apart…

but my favourite is this: the dialogue is presented