Grim Facade: The Artist and The Pretender Collector's Edition
September 19, 2014
ERS Game Studios
Widescreen Support
Interactive Jump-Map
Voice Overs
3 Difficulties + Custom Mode
Diary
Animal Helpers
Exclusive Bonus Chapter
Integrated Strategy Guide
Wallpapers
Concept Art
Soundtracks & Cutscenes
Achievements & Collectibles
Replayable HOs & Puzzles
Sheep's Room & Leonardo's Tales
An evil mage has stolen Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings and inventions and used them to unruly conquer Florence. Da Vinci is your great friend and you cannot sit still when he asked for your help, travel to Florence and stop the great mage! The story in Grim Facade: The Artist and The Pretender has a lot of potential to be a very interesting one, with cool facts about Da Vinci’s inventions here and there in the game – unfortunately, even the greatness of Da Vinci cannot save this game. Somehow ERS-G has managed to turn a seemingly exciting story into a conundrum one. There are too many conversations and dialogues for our tastes, especially if those dialogues are poorly written and accompanied by laughable voice overs. Besides, there are not many action sequences in this game which is probably one of the reasons why The Artist and The Pretender is very slow and boring.
The gameplay in Grim Facade: The Artist and The Pretender is quite a disappointment as well. Still, we cannot ignore the fact that the game contains some nice features such as the ability to choose how to develop the conversation, the familiar store and the newly added secret chamber. However, apart from those, The Artist and The Pretender is just not very entertaining; the hidden object scenes are highly interactive and fairly fun, but the puzzles are below average. In Grim Facade 5, the puzzles are very time-consuming; this does not mean that they are challenging or brain-stimulating in any way, they just require a high level of patience and a long period of time to complete. The game also consists of several outrageous animal helpers, can we just talk about how ugly the Sheep helper is? It even has its own special room for unnecessary purpose.
It seems like the only acceptable thing in Grim Facade: The Artist and The Pretender are the graphics. ERS-G rarely disappoint when it comes to the visuals and the artwork, a big thumbs up for that. The locations in this game is as usual, beautifully drawn and brilliant colored with the right amount of details and magical special effects.
In this series:
- Grim Facade: Mystery of Venice
- Grim Facade: Sinister Obsession
- Grim Facade: Cost of Jealousy
- Grim Facade: A Wealth of Betrayal
- Grim Facade: The Artist and The Pretender
- Grim Facade: Hidden Sins
- Grim Facade: Monster in Disguise
- Grim Facade: The Red Cat
- Grim Facade: The Message
- Grim Facade: Broken Sacrament
- Grim Facade: The Black Cube