Diamon Jones: Eye of the Dragon

Litera Laboratories company offers us a new game from the series of Diamon Jones point-and-click adventures. The game Diamon Jones: Eye of the Dragon begins in a Shanghai’s bar, where our famous treasure hunter is celebrating another failure in his work. When he spends all the money, he agrees to help the owner of the bar solve several ancient mysteries.

Generally speaking, Eye of the Dragon is a fairly ordinary game with usual point-and-click gameplay. All you have to do is roam around the game’s locations, interact with the environment, look for various objects you need for different puzzles, and so on. From time to time you get to play various mini-games, for example, mahjong, pipes, or even chess. These mini-games can’t be skipped, so you will have to enjoy them till the end, no matter if you like it or not. Most of them are very entertaining, so don’t be upset.

While the gameplay and the graphics are marvelous, the game suffers the same problem as the first part: terrible English language. All the dialogs are flooded with mistakes! Sometimes it is difficult to understand what the characters are talking about. It is obvious that developers of the game have a very good sense of humor, but they really need to hire a professional translator to share their jokes with the rest of the world.

Despite the language issue, we must say that Diamon Jones: Eye of the Dragon is rather enjoyable game. Fans of the genre won’t be disappointed!

4, August 2009