lala4home's Profile
Stat Summary
- Average Rating:2.7
- Helpful Votes:1,382
- Reviews Submitted:56
- First Review:November 22, 2014
- Most Recent Review:January 1, 2023
- Featured reviews0
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Can you find an elusive shop to save your long-lost partner?
Overall rating
3
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5
4 of 6 found this review helpful
This was ho-hum at best
PostedJuly 10, 2021
lala4home
fromyawn
Skill Level:Expert
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
2
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5
Storyline
3
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5
I like this series-detective stuff really interests my kind of brain. This wasn't a terrible game, especially compared to the purple stuff coming out weekly. But it wasn't compelling at all. I agree with reviewer who is going to wait for the SE. This just didn't have the pull to make me want to buy. Back to my old games.
Arthurian legends are just stories, but sometimes fiction hides the truth.
Overall rating
1
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5
31 of 36 found this review helpful
THANKS for old game suggestions!
PostedJune 19, 2021
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
1
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5
Level of Challenge
1
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5
Storyline
2
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5
I'm asking myself why I keep giving this developer another chance. I read the reviews that praise them and think, maybe this time? Well, wrong again. Nothing fresh or new here, another classic story twisted about and all in washes of pastels as if I arrested in a 10 year old's art dream. I couldn't finish the demo, I was bored and irritated.
Not the only one playing only the old games, I see. So, many thanks to those who recommend old ones. I've found some I hadn't known about (YAY!!) and been reminded of old favorites. So keep them coming, fish friends!
I don't recommend this game.
A frantic distress signal uncovers a mysterious disappearance at Misthill!
Overall rating
2
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5
1 of 2 found this review helpful
Gave it a try; just another disappointment
PostedApril 16, 2021
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
2
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5
Level of Challenge
2
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5
Storyline
2
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5
So mystery trackers have joined the cgi template team, apparently run by a certain developer addicted to purple and jumping inventory. All these games seem to just have tweaks done to characters' faces, and new voiceovers. Other than that, you've got cookie cutter stuff. I'm having a hard time remembering when a new game was anything other than boring. So sad. I couldn't make it past 5 minutes.
I don't recommend this game.
Help Santa prepare for the most wonderful time of the year!
Overall rating
2
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5
13 of 14 found this review helpful
I love this series, so sad it glitched into space
PostedDecember 20, 2020
lala4home
fromTry the earlier versions, you won't be disappointed.
Skill Level:Expert
Fun Factor
2
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
4
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5
I was surprised at the low rating this usually loved series was getting, so read about the tech problems. Breathed a sigh of relief when it downloaded okay (multiple prompts for C++ notwithstanding). Played about a third of the way through with no problems, and loving it. Cheesy, warm and wonderful as a plate of well made nachos. But then it started to freeze, okay restart. Freeze, restart. Then it crashed my system. So sad to see 2020 mess with Casual Arts too. Is nothing safe? Wry laughter. Sigh. So I can't really recommend a wonderful developer's sweet game.
I don't recommend this game.
Something is terribly wrong in the toy world, and only you can help!
Overall rating
4
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5
48 of 55 found this review helpful
Pretty game with visible effort
PostedDecember 17, 2020
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
5
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5
This is not the most challenging game but it is quite innovative in its mini games. I see such effort here on the part of developers to give us something new. Some of the tasks are almost done for you but then the next task will be quirky and not easy at all. So, thanks! It's soothing, and lovely and best of all, during the mini games, they play this haunting flute music that I absolutely love. I stall finishing just so I can listen to it. It's recognizable from their older games. The only reason I didn't award five stars is the lack of difficulty, and that is my quirk probably not shared by many. Try this one, take a wonderful little break. This is based on demo.
I recommend this game!
A mysterious abduction and a strange hospital lead to a terrible secret!
Overall rating
5
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5
48 of 56 found this review helpful
At last. Best game in months
PostedDecember 13, 2020
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
5
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5
I'm glad a game has come out I actually want to buy. I beta tested this and remembered thinking highly of it and it holds up. It's a darker theme at holiday season. I hope it doesn't do poorly because of that. But for me, being really tired of cheesy, childish, overbright and overwrought games? This is a relief. It's not the most challenging of game play, no. But at least everything doesn't jump off the screen at you like a hyperactive child screaming "click on me!!!" You get to ferret around yourself a bit to find stuff. Ahhhhh. Brain happy. Check out Brian's fingernails. How'd you miss that, you silly cow.
I recommend this game!
Master Detective must face the greatest challenge – time itself!
Overall rating
2
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5
29 of 33 found this review helpful
This was a sad disappointment
PostedNovember 24, 2020
lala4home
fromMasterclass in how to lose your loyal customers
Skill Level:Expert
Fun Factor
2
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
1
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5
Level of Challenge
2
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5
Storyline
2
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5
My favorite game series has had the "update" treatment that has killed other great series. Handing over Hidden Expedition to Domini felt like one more awful thing about 2020. Changing a beautifully rendered and complex game to a cartoonish and simplistic mess made me angry. And now the incredible MCF has gone the same route. Charles Dalimar is now a cartoon villain, not the guy that once actually gave me the chills. Now you have to use a silly gimmick to advance. The Queen is gone and some arbitrary female british voice is your communication. The game begins so abruptly, I wondered if I had slept through the opening scenes. This is a mish mash of older stories that were a thousand times better. I'm heartbroken. I don't know if it's lack of eastern european developers, lack of talent or lack of caring. But the dominant feature here is lack of. Sorry my participle is dangling. But so is my respect for your games. Just...just so let down. To other gamers out there, especially new ones, go try the older MCF games, recommendation follows. You'll see what I mean.
I don't recommend this game.
A Halloween visit with distant relatives becomes more than you bargained for!
Overall rating
1
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5
24 of 28 found this review helpful
You're not a curmudgeon. This is awful.
PostedOctober 16, 2020
lala4home
fromEnough with this developer already
Skill Level:Beginner
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
2
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5
Level of Challenge
1
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5
Storyline
2
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5
I am stunned at the positive reviews on this one. Nobody else got nauseous at the terrible animation and blurring of the screen? Halloween is now purple and blue? Pixels no longer desirable? All items for inventory must jump out at you because, apparently even though you're playing their game, you might MISS IT? I give this 20 Bahs and 14 Humbugs. There's curmudgeonly for you. Domini is consistently the worst. So they've got that going for them.
I don't recommend this game.
Can you and your friend escape death's clutches in time?
Overall rating
3
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5
44 of 53 found this review helpful
Hmmmmm...
PostedOctober 8, 2020
lala4home
fromDeja boo.
Skill Level:Expert
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
2
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5
Storyline
3
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5
Not the worst game out of Big Fish this year, by far-a year 'domini-ted' with purple and blue cookie cutter games. The art is beautiful, if you like Halloweenie decor, but I can't help comparing this to Halloween Stories: Invitation CE, which was an amazing, creepy, beautiful game. I'm gonna go replay that. This game is using many of the same ol' same ol' tasks, like finding weird shapes to open locks, and of course you have to oil stuff. Not great but not terrible. The overall feel of this game is that is wasn't quite finished. It has many spots that feel a bit...raw, unhemmed, slapped together. So I'll recommend this game but with reservations noted.
I recommend this game!
Someone in Fairy Tale Land is selling wishes, but at what cost?
Overall rating
1
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5
13 of 20 found this review helpful
Nothing new to see here, folks
PostedJuly 24, 2020
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
1
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5
Level of Challenge
1
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5
Storyline
2
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5
Domini has given us another of their use a pin to open a lock, find a wrench to turn the fire hydrant on, wave away the mist with a hat, collect the coupons blah blah blah and do so while items jump out at you like jump scares are even called for. Oh, and all while shielding your eyes from the garish colored world that is a Domini game. Absolutely nothing here I haven't seen 100 times before. I can't even recommend trying this one. Just awful.
I don't recommend this game.