10th October 2003, 10:50 PM
The puzzles are connected in that you have to examine the world you are in to solve them. If you don't look around you won't find the information you need. It was fun looking around for clues, and they were hidden rather well. The puzzles couldn't just be a chain of things you solved one after another, ala The 7th Guest or The 11th Hour. They wouldn't be nearly the same if all the clues were presented up front. Some clues had to be gained by solving other puzzles and such. In general, I think the world was a needed part of the experience, not just there for it's looks.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)