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Title: Wonderful World -- Cranky Interface
Review: Now having completed the single-player version of this game, I can say it is probably the best I've ever played in this genre, and certainly the best of the Myst series. At the beginning I was very put off by the nearly-unmanageable cursor, but after removing all the other [user] background tasks on my 3 GHz machine, I found it possible, though still very annoying, to work with. The problem with cursor management is simply that there is an extraordinary amount of other "stuff" going on in the game, and cursor positions are not updated often enough. One would hope that the relative amount of time devoted to mouse position polling and other functions can be slightly modified to give the kind of smooth mouse action usually found. In contrast to the mouse, the motion keys [arrow keys] are a bit over-sensitive, and one will find that a mix of walk/run and 1st person/3rd person views to be most useful.
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