The Blackwell Convergence

By: Derek Yu

On: July 23rd, 2009

The long-awaited third installment of the Blackwell series of games is here! Dave Gilbert’s The Blackwell Convergence reunites medium Rosangela Blackwell and her spirit helper Joey for another adventure. The initial release of the game was plagued by some technical problems with the e-commerce site (I know what that’s like), but they’re all fixed now and Convergence can be purchased for $14.95. There’s also a demo.

The first thing you’ll probably notice about Blackwell Convergence is that the game looks and sounds quite nice. I’m a big fan of Ian “”http://www.pixeljoint.com/p/1891.htm">Big Brother" Schlaepfer, who did the character portraits (he and his brother Greg are adventure game stars in their own right), and the background art and voice acting are very competent. Regarding the puzzles, it’s worth noting that the Blackwell games generally eschew typical item-based combinatorial puzzles for clue-based ones – Rosangela keeps with her a notebook in which clues can be jotted and then used (in a similar fashion to items).

By the way, this isn’t supposed to be anything approaching a review of the game, which I just started playing. For that, I’d wait for Adventure Gamers to write one! I thought their reviews of the first two games were pretty good.