Aventure Principale d'environ 2h :
Deux jeunes magiciens veulent percer le secret de leur mentor commun pour devenir le plus puissant. De là nait une rivalité qui consume les deux jeunes gens au point de se saboter l'un l'autre.

Aventure Bonus d'environ 1h :
Prequelle de l'aventure principale ; vous incarnez Thurman & Addigton à tour de rôle bénéficiant ainsi de leurs différents pouvoirs. Ils sont étudiants et sur le point de relever le défi ultime pour entrer au service de leur mentor et professeur (la statue éternuante au passage).

Ambiance : une charmante alliance de magie, mystères et châteaux
SOC 1 : retrouver les différents éléments cités : scènes claires et accessibles
SOC 2 : retrouver des éléments et les ranger à leurs places : niveau aisé
Puzzles : relativement simples
Collection : des orbes métamorphes franchement visible dans chacune des scènes sont à collecter

Succès steam : aucun mais présent ingame dans les bonus
Bug coquilles : quelques rares erreurs de traduction mais rien de bien méchant

Séduite par l'atmosphère dès les premières minutes, j'ai laissé le jeu se dérouler et m'emporter dans son récit. On ne rencontre que très peu de difficultés d'autant que les objets et intéractions sont relativement évidentes. C'est suffisamment bien/joliment amené pour que ce ne soit pas lourd et ne demande pas d'allées et venues sans queue ni tête ni raison.

Quoiqu'un peu simple dans l'ensemble et vite terminé, je le recommande en promotion.

Il était une fois, deux magiciens rivaux formés par le même mentor : Addington et Thurman. Ce dernier vous invite en tant que détective à son nouveau spectacle pour veiller à ce que personne ne sabote ses numéros. Ses craintes s'avèrent rapidement fondées quand survient un terrible accident qui va pleinement justifier votre présence pour mener l'enquête.

Nous avons là un bon jeu d'objets cachés dans l'univers de la magie. A jouer naturellement dans le niveau de difficulté le plus élevé et se passer des indices.

Lors de certaines SOC, nous devons parfois réunir des objets de même sorte plutôt que les collecter.

Un chapitre bonus nous propose une préquelle de l'histoire principale dans laquelle nous pouvons incarner alternativement Addington et Thurman.

J’ai beaucoup aimé ST:GB pour sa trame scénaristique. C’est simple, cohérent et plausible ; à 90 %, ça ne cherche pas l’extravagance. Tout à fait ce que je recherchais. J’ai trouvé les personnages plausibles et intéressants.
Pour le reste, c’est du classique : des SOC, mais pas trop et des mini-puzzles, juste ce qu’il faut. Le visuel est dans la moyenne, trop flashy, pas assez réaliste pour moi. La musique est très bien fichue.
Je n’ai pas joué l’épisode bonus au moment où j’écris ces lignes mais l’idée de départ m’a séduit. Les bonus sont plutôt classiques avec une petite originalité : des solitaires (jeu de cartes) inclus : http://agitato.free.fr/smalltown.jpg
Petit bémol : les SOC et les mini-puzzles sont enfantins, ce qui retire un peu de plaisir. Si vous cherchez la difficulté, elle n’est pas sur ce titre.
Un bon titre.
Oh, j’oubliais : la traduction est exemplaire, je n’ai même pas noté d’erreur de désignation dans les SOC. Pareil pour le reste du texte.

This is an extremely well done HOG. Graphics are top notch, music is nice, voice acting is well done, and the story is quite interesting. I was hoping for a scaryish plot, similar to the other Small Town Terrors games. This one isn't - it's more a "solve the mystery of what's really going on". It was very enjoyable and the ending came as a surprise.
For those of you who don't enjoy HO scenes (blasphemy :p), you can play solitaire games instead. I never chose to do that but from looking at the bonus contents, there are quite a few different types of solitaire. Which brings me to the Collector's Edition extras. There's a bonus chapter to play, lots of ingame achievements to work for, and you can play HOs and cards outside the main game. Which means I might go back and check out some of the varied solitaire games.
I've played a LOT of HOGs so when I say this is one of the better ones, you can trust me. If you play this, you won't be disappointed.

Assisting to the premier of Thurman's new trick on his request, he is victim of an accident. You know that he was sure that his rival was sabotaging his work. It's now up to you to find what Galdor's Bluff is hiding!

Small Town Terrors is a series of hidden objects games, focused on one town hiding a secret. After an evil entity and zombies, Galdor's Bluff is focusing on illusions and is less oriented in paranormal and horror themes. The story is well-written, as you don't expect the twist at the end.

The gameplay is the usual one: find items, use them in specific locations, solve puzzles, find objects thanks to a list of them or to replace the missing one to its place. The puzzles are quite easy to solve and the hidden objects scenes aren't hard at all. It's just a shame that the mechanisms of two characters you can switch are only explored in the bonus chapter.

The graphics are correct: while it's not an apocalyptic setting, it's still a town visited during the night. Though the majority of the locations are normal, some of them are situated in ruins, getting a little touch of mystery. The soundtrack is also correct.

As it's a collector's edition, you have concept arts, the bonus chapter, wallpaper and a solitaire game. Indeed, each hidden object scene can be passed thanks to a solitaire card game where you can remove cards when their sum is matching 13.

There are also achievements in-game but not on Steam, which is a little disappointement.

Anyway, Galdor's Bluff is really enjoyable, way more than Livingstone but Pilgrim's Hook stays still my favorite game in the series. Anyway, you can go ahead.

Galdor’s Buff combines the world of stage magicians with the right amounts of detective mystery, which results in an incredible hidden object game that hides its shortness with some healthy dose of backtracking.

Although Galdor’s Bluff is officially the third game in the Small Town Terrors series, it lacks the eerie horror atmosphere of its predecessors. It is closer to classic English crime novels in its approach, set in the world of the rivalling vaudeville stage magicians, where our detective protagonist witnesses and investigates the grim details of a suspicious stage accident. (Moreover, there is an obvious Harry Potter homage bonus chapter with an interesting character switch mechanic.)

As expected from a Small Town Terrors game, the puzzles and hidden object scenes offer nice balance and variety, but they are few in numbers. This leads to the game’s biggest weakness: to mask its short length, the developers included a useless map system and tons of backtracking. The actual content is strong enough to excuse this shortcoming, but it is something you have to know before playing it.

Good HO game ( bonus chapter included) focused on magic and with an interesting outcome. Worth to play.

My rate: 7.5/10

I got this on offer and, while I enjoyed it, I would not pay full price for it, since it took me less than 3 hours to complete on expert mode. I recommend it on sale or in a discount bundle.

Pros
+ Pretty graphics
+ Enjoyable HO scenes

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- Very strange facial animations
- Story full of plot holes

Good hidden object game.
Nice design and sound.
There are some achievements but only in the game.

All in all, an enjoyable detective themed hidden object game, easy to recommend to fans of the genre (when it's on sale), as it's much shorter than the asking price implies.

There are 27 mini-game puzzles and 21 hidden object scenes on offer, multiple character voice acting, achievements (but sadly only in-game) and rather annoyingly collectables... ah yes the claim of "Over 50 morphing items to find" in the store description is incorrect, there are only 37, thankfully.

The hidden object scenes are largely a standard affair, although there are a few that have an interesting twist such as one with a buffet table where you have to find and then group certain foods together. If you prefer, you can also play games of Pyramid solitaire in place of a hidden object scene, although this takes much longer and if you fail to win the card game, you still have to play the HOG to proceed.

The graphics are most definitely above average for a 2016 HOG title, the sounds are detailed and suitably atmospheric, as for the BGM, it's generic and largely inoffensive

There is one rather challenging puzzle in the bonus chapter that I sadly had to skip out of frustration, which thankfully did not prevent me from obtaining 100% of the in-game achievements. My only real gripe with the game is the price, which even for a voiced HOG is too much for such a short game, so make sure to snap it up when it's at least 50% off.

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