Wishbone: I've only ever played the first Atlantis game. I never finished it, because I honestly couldn't be bothered to play it for very long. It suffered from the same defects as a lot of Cryo's games did, namely absolutely excellent graphics and sound, but completely shitty gameplay.
At one point, I ran into a puzzle involving a model of the solar system, that could be adjusted with a handle on each side of the base of it. No clues were given as to how it should be adjusted in order to open the secret door behind it, which is what was needed to progress. After fiddling with it for a long time, I finally went to Cryo's web page and looked at their own official walkthrough. You know what the solution for that puzzle was? "Turn the left handle 46 times and the right handle 47 times". And that was it. No explanation whatsoever. I got the distinct impression that that was because there wasn't any. No logical solution at all, just an arbitrary position chosen to be the solution, with no hints on how to get there, and an insane amount of adjustments needed. I quit playing the game after that.
The clue was in some riddle (the hint that that they guy gave you before sending you off to that room) you were supposed to make a solar eclipse. But I do not think that there was any more to it that that, really without knowing were to start that it really not enough.
