1 person found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 2.8 hrs on record (1.7 hrs at review time)
Posted: Apr 30, 2014 @ 9:45am

100 minutes into the game and the scant satisfaction I'm getting from it is from the fact I didn't pay 7€ for it, but got it in a bundle with other games I wanted to try... It's just a generic "hidden object" game with more than a fair share of its problems. The graphics? Hit and miss - and those few "hits" that show some trace of style or care aren't making much of an impact. And yes, as someone has stated already, blurry graphics in some scenes are one of the rare things that put some tiny grain of difficulty into the game. They tire the eyes - I can go on for tens on tens of hours staring at a computer screen if needed, but I can't play more than a few of these scenes in the row. Varying degrees of blurriness between different objects don't help.

And neither does the game's shoddy English. I was left stumped looking for a "watch", until I clicked at a "clock" in desperation. And "won". Next screen got me a "clock" that was actually a watch. Great. And that's hardly the only mistake. Oh, and the game will sometimes put multiple instances of the same object and ask you to find only one - so yeah, that key you see there might not be the key the game wants you to click, but some other key. Because why not. There's no timer, no lives to be lost - the game warns you if you "overclick" and that's it. Only you vs. crappy text & graphics...

While what seems to be the single music track in the game (though I didn't pay that much attention) loops incessantly, the transition between the beginning and the start of the track being painfully obvious.

The puzzles tacked onto the hidden object scenes? Simple, seen before, and the game doesn't give a damn about you actually solving them, you can just skip them (so far) if you wanna. I didn't, but I don't see why you would care if the game doesn't. They will hardly challenge or intrigue you.

Oh, I'll finish it since I got it and update this if I notice something that redeems the game in my eyes, though now that I read that the game stretches the story into a sequel, I feel quite confident in saying that this one is to be avoided. Shame.
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