Elaine Marley and the Ghost Ship

This game plays out rather strangely. In fact, I was not initially even able to start the game. Instead being confronted with a long sidetrack of characters notes. Then after playing the "hour one" segment, There is a whole diatribe of notes that play out _very slowly_ in timed text. I couldn't find a way to skip it or adjust the very slow text timing.

Then onto "hour two";

More notes, then another really bizarre sequence of events.

Then "Hour three". This was even weirder.

So instead, I'll comment on the system;

The presentation is rather strange but unique, using a lot of timed text and some other text effects such as text appearing in boxes around the screen. There are sound effects which actually work quite well. There are some pictures presented and these seem to work nicely too.

The bizarreness of the game itself is somewhat entertaining. But I'm not sure whether that was the actual design plan here. The choices basically walk you though the puzzles and their solution, so you don't really solve anything except to control the order in which you do things.

Nevertheless, i think the weird and wonderful "campy" look does have a certain retro charm about it that lends itself to these sorts of fan remakes.