"Wow" in a bad way... very bad way
Nibiru: Age of Secrets, besides having a brilliantly clever name is brilliantly bland. The story was an interesting blend of Indiana Jones and that other point and click adventure over there. Here's the story: The Nazi’s blah blah with some advanced technology yadda yadda. Now you're in the middle of this evil thing and people die and then you go to a far off country and something happens. It was very hard for me to keep up the straight to keep paying attention. Incredibly wordy expositions and back story drown this game before it even begins. The backgrounds are nice at first but as time goes on become less than interesting. Voice acting contributing to nothing but making me sure that I am in the middle of an old 1930's B movie with stereotyping all sloppy in it. I half expected to see a Caucasian actor jumping around as a Central American worker. Maybe I'm being a bit too vague. I should be a bit blunter: The game has a nice story for a moment, assuming you can stay awake long enough to listen to it. Listening isn't easy either, because the Voice acting is silly and the mouths don't even sync properly I needed a piece of chewing gum after watching them. Finally the background was mediocre by modern standards. Gameplay is nice. That's a positive right? The puzzles range from the ridiculously simple to the "how the heck was I supposed to figure that out?" I love point and click games... there is something soothing about them but this game made me want to pull my teeth out. When you figure out what you're doing you'll have to walk back and forth between several pages of static scenery multiple times to make it finally work. But wait you're not done because now the individual that you're doing a favor for wants ketchup on that hotdog... back again... now mustard...? I almost destroyed my computer luckily I had hair. Being silly again? This isn't a comedy site? Get to the point? Alright gameplay: fun if you like a range of problems to solve that sometimes take longer than they should to complete.
I'm not by any means saying that I hate this game... I just expect a lot out of my adventure games. They are adventures after all and should be fun to play through not a chore. This game is a bit short and if you can muster the courage maybe could be fun. I, on the other hand, will wait for something much more worthy of an adventure game because this just wasn't it.