SafeCracker, The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure (2006)

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Jeuxvideo.fr

11 / 2006
Safecracker est très agréable pour tous ceux qui aiment faire travailler intensément leurs cellules grises. Nos neurones sont souvent mis à rude épreuve. La réalisation nous empêche de nous ennuyer et les informations données au compte-gouttes donnent envie d'en savoir plus sur le milliardaire décédé ainsi que sa famille. Le nombre des puzzles et leur difficulté nous retiendront un très long moment. Un titre à posséder pour se poser calmement et profiter des longues soirées hivernales pour un prix raisonnable.
Note: 8/10
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Jeuxvideopc.com

11 / 2006
Le jeu video peut-il réclamer un effort de la part du joueur sans renoncer à son essence ludique ? Une question que Safecraker pose à nouveau, en tant que véritable casse-tête interactif pour amateurs d’exercice neuronal. Par un miracle qu’on est bien en peine d’expliquer, celui-ci s’avère à la fois très exigeant – patience et concentration requises ! – et captivant. La raison de cette alchimie réussie ? Un scénario minimaliste mais élégant, au service d’un ensemble d’énigmes particulièrement bien pensées et variées.
Note: 7,5 / 10
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Gamechronicles

10 / 2006
The sheer simplicity in Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure is its greatest asset; easy to maneuver around and gets right into the logic puzzles that are the mainstay of the game. The lack of storyline or background information is made up for by the fun and unique nature of the puzzles that are the main focus of Safecracker. Safecracker combines unique puzzles or logic games with simple and easy to figure out rules for those puzzles that are part of the fun in conquering them. Rules or objectives for each puzzle is either easy to figure out or quite apparent by the board. Some are a bit difficult but that is also part of the puzzle. They could have added some parts like unlocking an area for solving puzzles again after concluding the game but safecracker is a very good puzzle game and well worth a look for puzzle enthusiasts.
Note: 7,5 / 10
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Worthplaying

08 / 2006
Safecracker rather ambitiously bills itself as the Ultimate Puzzle Adventure. It makes no bones about being straightforward and all about the puzzles instead of the adventure game experience. I really don't think I'd go so far as to call it The Ultimate anything, but it isn't a bad pure puzzle game at all. You have to make sure that's what you're in the mood for, even if you are a fan of this admittedly niche genre. That's kind of a given though; you wouldn't play Safecracker if you're looking for something like The Secret of Monkey Island, and you wouldn't order pizza if you want a steak. Safecracker fills the role it's designed for like a key fits its keyhole.
Note: 7,5 / 10
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Quandary

08 / 2006
Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure is a nice looking game. The graphics are excellent showing off the plush furnishings and fancy floor coverings of the Adams Mansion. The wooden floors in the upper hallways look so polished, and movement is smooth and slick. There is some light and occasional music to calm your nerves whilst working on the puzzles, or you might want to listen to your favourite music CD. I did. There are no game characters to meet so there is very little dialogue, just a comment or two from your good self, who will also read aloud the various letters and notes you find scattered around. All the dialogue is subtitled making Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure easily accessible for deaf or hard of hearing players. And a bonus here is that there are no aural puzzles. In short, it's a most enjoyable and satisfying puzzle game that you can work through in a couple of sittings or, if you prefer, take a puzzle or two at a time and make it last longer. I would recommend it for any puzzle game fan. There are limitless saves as far as I could tell and provision for 5 players to open their own game and save separately. When you finally reach the end there's a little surprise in store. I'd like to mention briefly your final task, but it would give the game away!
Note: 8 / 10
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