Trial and error solutions to puzzles usually frustrate most game players into returning the game to the store. Most players will be confused by theplot and the puzzles. The graphics are excellent if too dark. The atmosphere set by the graphics is fantastic and wonderful if only the story and game design measured up. This is simply not typical of the high quality Inscape games.
Most FMV games are hard to play or less satisfying than the non-FMV counterparts.
Often people with hearing problems need text to play a game effectively. Other times text with the speech makes it easier to keep up with the clues when they are spoken by the voice actors. Good games also provide written notes which summarize all the clues to help you solve existing puzzles and when the puzzles are solved the clues are removed optionally from the journal since they are no longer needed. Unfortunately Drowned God was out to lunch on these refinements in game design. Sound effects do not take full advantage of the multiple channels and often compete with each other and the voices in a loosing battle to compliment the action of the game.