10 Ways from Sunday

The Good
The premise of this game was very off-beat - break all 10 Commandments in order. The game was also pretty funny, with text and dialogues that made me laugh on several occasions. The audio was adequate. The graphics are not going to win any awards, but they were serviceable, although shortcuts were taken to avoid creating additional animations.

The Bad
The game was done quickly to meet a competition deadline, and it shows. I encountered two game-breaking bugs - one where the game just hung, and one where the game got stuck in a state where I couldn't interact with anything. In addition, the puzzle design is pretty bad. Objects will suddenly appear out of nowhere when you re-enter a location after making some progress, so you have to keep revisiting locations to see if anything changed. What's more, the designer had some very strange ideas of how to break various commandments. To violate the Sabbath, you see a movie. To murder someone, you can't just stab them with the scissors in your inventory - you need to perform some elaborate sequence of events. Some of this is typical adventure game "moon logic" puzzles, but in other cases it goes even beyond that. Bottom line - the game needed more polish.

The Bottom Line
This game can be a fun diversion for someone looking for some humor and non-traditional game goals. However, it's ultimately a let-down, as you spend way too much time running around looking for objects and trying to read the designer's mind to solve the puzzles, and this gets boring pretty quickly. Recommended for hardcore adventure gamers, but probably not anyone else.