FrauMeike's Profile
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- Average Rating:3.6
- Helpful Votes:1,652
- Reviews Submitted:33
- First Review:November 27, 2011
- Most Recent Review:October 24, 2024
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My Brother Rabbit is a beautifully drawn adventure set in a surreal world that mixes reality with a child’s imagination
Overall rating
5
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5
This is the high art of storytelling
PostedOctober 24, 2024
FrauMeike
fromBerlin, Germany
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Puzzle
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
5
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5
Do you remember "The tiny Bang Story"? Did you love it and consider it one of a kind with its quirks and inventions?
Then try this. I've never played something like this before.
Then try this. I've never played something like this before.
The storyline is told in wordless pictures and a bit tragic as the young daughter of a family is diagnosed with a severe and possibly life-threatening sickness. As the family waits for test results and treatments the girl's brother imagines how he'd save his sister and by doing so we enter a realm of imagination and wonder. In his phantasy he's a rabbit who tries to make a little plant feel better.
He travels the most lovely places, fixes quirky, steam-punky machines, delves into magical sceneries and finds colorful items he needs on his quest. Only to take his little plant companion to a place where they will be helped. His only company, besides the sick sapling is a weird bug who's always looking for a fire to roast his sausage in.
This game took my breath away. The music is painfully beautiful, as is the story. Games rarely touch the topic of death and sorrow and to combine these heavy feelings with a beautiful, hopeful and uplifiting story is something I've never encountered.
I'm not even done yet, so I don't know if our brave rabbit brother will be able to save his sister in the end, but I feel like the game is worth spending every minute regardless the end. Up to now I felt as much joy as I felt sadness. My eyes became moist more than once, but I'm still hopeful that everything will end well.
Do yourself a favour and play this absolute gem of a game.
I recommend this game!
Can you stop the rampage at the Halloween party?
Overall rating
5
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5
A true gem after years of boredom
PostedOctober 29, 2023
FrauMeike
fromBerlin, Germany
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Strategy
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
4
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5
After years of the same old cookie-cutter HOPAs, I found this to be an exciting surprise. I always play on custom difficulty and found several of the puzzles and mini games quite challenging. And yet I never felt the urge to skip them or found them frustrating. Instead I returned to the respective mini games several times and finally solved it on my own. The game where you have to put monster heads into a grid was a marvellous time killer.
Since I find most HOPAS boring, repetitive and even in hard difficulty too easy this was fun to solve.
I would totally reccomend buying this game!
I recommend this game!
Extraterrestrials have arrived! Fortunately, they’re not here to invade, they just want to observe. Can you find them all?
Overall rating
4
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5
8 of 8 found this review helpful
Original, but not enough for a CE
PostedDecember 11, 2021
This game is quite unique and thus, you either love or hate it. I enjoyed sinking into the scenes to look for the requested items. Some scenes are enormous and it takes at least half an hour to find everything.
Everything's interactive and opening drawers, fridges, trash bins was funny, because you never knew what you'll find in there. There's no click penalty what makes this even more fun.
Everything's interactive and opening drawers, fridges, trash bins was funny, because you never knew what you'll find in there. There's no click penalty what makes this even more fun.
However, I'm not sure if this game is enough for a CE. There are only 25 scenes and you can find collectible cards in each of them. Since the cards are indicated by glimmering lights, it's very easy to spot them.
Besides the official item list, there are additional items to collect, usually x from one kind (i.e. 12 blasters).
I assume that these two, the cards and the extra items, are part of the CE and not included in the SE, and to me that's a bit scarce. There's no strategy guide, no bonuslevel, no extra puzzles.
Besides the official item list, there are additional items to collect, usually x from one kind (i.e. 12 blasters).
I assume that these two, the cards and the extra items, are part of the CE and not included in the SE, and to me that's a bit scarce. There's no strategy guide, no bonuslevel, no extra puzzles.
I guess I would've enjoyed this game just as much in the SE.
I recommend this game!
A routine flight becomes a perilous adventure as you struggle to survive the dangerous way of life inside the Bermuda Triangle!
Overall rating
5
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5
4 of 4 found this review helpful
Innovative and unique
PostedMarch 6, 2021
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
5
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5
We all know that the HO genre has seen better days. Now everything is the same old with similar story lines, similar color schemes, similar difficulty. When I read someone calling this "the best game ever" I wasn't expecting much to be honest. Fortunately, I gave it a try and was that a good decision!
This game really spices the genre up, the HO scenes as well as the puzzles are creative and challenging. There's a hilariously quirky sense of humour to this game with nerdy characters and some twists you'd never expect in a HO game.
This is a straight 5 out of 5 and the best game I played since years. Absolute recommendation.
This is a straight 5 out of 5 and the best game I played since years. Absolute recommendation.
I recommend this game!
When your world and the supernatural realm collide, can you survive?
Overall rating
4
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5
Fun, but different
PostedOctober 17, 2020
FrauMeike
fromBerlin, Germany
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object
I really enjoyed the game and would definitely recommend it. However, not being able to re-visit scenes after you've finished to collect morphs, fragments or figurines you might have missed, it a downer. You'd have to replay the whole game to find everything.
Aside from that it's a cute pumpkin filled autumn fun.
I recommend this game!
Mystery Case Files®: Dire Grove™ Collector's Edition
Use your Hidden Object skills to follow the trail of a group of missing graduate students in Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove!
Overall rating
5
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5
9 of 9 found this review helpful
A sublime masterpiece
PostedOctober 15, 2015
FrauMeike
fromBerlin, Germany
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Strategy
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
5
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5
This game is nothing less than the best hidden object game I've ever played. No, seriously, it's epic. From the first second to the very end the game experience is rather like being in a movie than playing a game.
It starts with the music which perfectly emphasizes the story. It is pleasant, unobtrusive, yet really beautiful and varied. There's no endless loop of the same music piece as in other games, but a diverse set of different melodies that transport different moods. There are breaks as well, when the music stops and leaves you alone to dive into the atmospheric sounds such as crackling twings, calling birds in the distance, footsteps in the snow. The music together with the sounds create a dense and vivid atmosphere that still drags me in after all those years. Yes, I must've played the game at least six times, but still get hooked every single time.
But the gripping atmosphere is only half of the game. The graphics are hand-drawn beauties that complement the story. The huge, eerie bed & breakfast house and the snowy village are just the old-fashioned location you would wish for in a classical scary bedtime story.
To add even more uniqueness, the game has a so-called "found footage" element included, comparable to "Blair With Project". During your investigations you find video tapes the missing students made before they disappeared. They reveal a scary celtic folklore that threatens the world. The tapes are filmed with real actors who are doing a great job, I really loved this feature.
The CE has 50 morphing objects, 14 achievements, a strategy guide, a highscore ranking, and a "playing room" you find later in the game with extra puzzles, hints to future (well, now past, that is) MCF games and some easter eggs.
If you love HO games and haven't played "Dire Grove" yet, do it or else you'll miss the best game I know.
I recommend this game!
Maze: Subject 360 Collector's Edition
From the makers of the Rite of Passage series comes a ground-breaking new series that's as creepy as it gets.
Overall rating
3
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5
46 of 56 found this review helpful
Intense beginning, but gets shallow with progress
PostedAugust 4, 2015
FrauMeike
fromBerlin, Germany
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Strategy
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
3
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5
I'm really into horror games, I love the jumping moments and goose-bumps and was very excited when the "Warning!" sign appeared. It's been a while since I last bought a game, because they're all the same, same colors, same stories, same puzzles - witches, demons, animal helper, been there, done that. A "psyhological thriller", as anounced, seemed to be just the change I was craving for.
The game starts really promising, you find yourself locked in what seems to be a hospital and a scary little girl plays not so funny games with you. You enter a asylum-like hallway labyrinth where a disturbing doll jumps around and try to reveal what happened to you and the entire town which seem to be asleep or fighting with death because of the creepy girl. I really liked my own shivering and bought the game after the trial without hesitation.
Unfortunately, the further you progress the more familiar the game gets. What begins as some sort of asylum theme turns out to be the too well-known "demon from the beyond world tries to enter ours and steal people's souls and only a shaman-made dreamcatcher can stop it" plot. There where no more jumping moments, the game wasn't scary.
But since MadHead games are better than the rest even when the plot is worn-out the game was quite okay.
The HO scenes were slightly interactive and there were morphing objects in all of them. The CE extra offers a bonus "endless" HO scene, a jigsaw puzzle, and revisting all normal HO scenes, so you can look for morphing objects you overlooked earlier.
However, the decline in tension was so extreme that the overall rating dropped from a good 4 to a 3.
The HO scenes were slightly interactive and there were morphing objects in all of them. The CE extra offers a bonus "endless" HO scene, a jigsaw puzzle, and revisting all normal HO scenes, so you can look for morphing objects you overlooked earlier.
However, the decline in tension was so extreme that the overall rating dropped from a good 4 to a 3.
If you expect a horror game comparable to "Escape from Ravenhurst" or "True Fear: Forsaken Souls" (the two other games with the "psychological thriller" warning) as I did, than this game will most propably disappoint you, it's not even half as scary as those two.
I don't recommend this game.
Beyond the Invisible: Evening
Shadows-kidnappers have arrived! Unravel the mystery of the Shadows and free the town from their dreadful fears!
Overall rating
5
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5
55 of 65 found this review helpful
Precious little diamond
PostedMarch 11, 2015
FrauMeike
fromBerlin, Germany
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Strategy
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
4
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5
Even though this game comes without any bling-bling and has no voice-overs, collectibles or any kind of extra, I give it a full five out of five stars.
The visual appearance is among the most artistic and unique styles I've ever seen anywhere, let alone a PC game for a handful of dollars. I'm a huge fan of European comic art, and here I find myself catapulted right into a french graphic novel with a slight resemblance to a Tim Burton movie. I love it!
The crooked trees, the pale yet lovely little orphan girl, the worn out cobblestone pavements, the living shadows. Really, it's adorable.
The crooked trees, the pale yet lovely little orphan girl, the worn out cobblestone pavements, the living shadows. Really, it's adorable.
As mentioned, there are no voices, but you don't need them anyway. Not to create atmosphere, that is. The sound effects are so brilliant, so exquisite, and the atmosphere they create is so dense that I myself don't need talking people to feel the story.
The overall gameplay is self-explaining and doesn't offer surprises, you seek items you need in other places to open a lock, a door, a chest. The HO scenes are crisp and only slightly interactive, but they're crisp and as beautifully drawn as the rest of the game.
I'm going to buy this jewel and so should you if you're into graphics and sounds induced suspense.
I recommend this game!
Frankenstein: Master of Death
The border between life and death is fragile. Restore the course of nature, solve puzzles and search for clues in Frankenstein: Master of Death!
Overall rating
5
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5
70 of 82 found this review helpful
Scary, unusual Frankenstein fun!
PostedJanuary 26, 2015
FrauMeike
fromBerlin, Germany
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Strategy
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
5
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5
I was so tired of all the mysterious evil forces stuffed games with similar stories lately, that I even quit my BF membership, et voila! This eerie little gem pops up!
The story: your old friend, the famous Victor Frankenstein, sends you a letter and asks you to visit him giving only sinister hints regarding his work and his assisstant Igor, a wealthy Baron who also supports Victor with money. Not knowing what's going on, you head over to Frankenstein mansion to unravel the mystery.
Gameplay: The HOS are slightly interactive and with advanced difficulty not too easy, since the cursor doesn't show the interactive elements. The user interface is a bit strange and definitely needs getting used to (e.g. the hint is on the top of the screen, behind a skull), but after a bit trial and error you'll find everything you need for smooth gaming fun.
Even though the graphics are not really sensational and the music is a bit annoying, the game gets a five out of five, because it's so wonderfully creepy. There are definitely some serious jumping moments when Victor's "living dead experiments" appear on the scene. I love scary games, I love getting solid goose-bumps, and I love the mad scientist theme.
This game scores by storyline and atmosphere and if you like that, this game is definitely for you.
I recommend this game!
Phantasmat: The Endless Night Collector's Edition
In this scarier-than-ever story, find out what really happened on prom night, 1964...
Overall rating
4
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5
5 of 6 found this review helpful
Great game, but with bugs
PostedJanuary 24, 2015
FrauMeike
fromBerlin, Germany
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Strategy
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
4
/
5
BASED ON THE WHOLE GAME
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I really enjoyed playing this game, it was solid fun with good graphics and sounds.
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I really enjoyed playing this game, it was solid fun with good graphics and sounds.
The HOS were interactive and entertaining. The object lists were very variable, silhouettes and word lists as well as descriptions of the items, and even combinations of all three. Some HOS could only be unlocked by finding 5 morphing objects first and I really loved this fresh use of MO. Unfortunately, this only occurred twice in the main game and, I think, once in the bonus chapter. I love morphing objects so there could have been more of these scenes for my taste.
Overall it was a pleasure to play the game.
Overall it was a pleasure to play the game.
However, I encountered a small bug. At a point in the game, all items in the inventory disappeared, they became invisible, even though they were there. Hovering over the inventory revealed the discription of the respective item, but the picture of the item itself was missing. This happened twice, but luckily lasted only a few minutes, then the inventory pictures re-appeared.
Besides the usual wallpaper and music tracks, the CE contains 41 eye symbols to collect, replayable mini games and HOS (with the possibility to earn a tropy for accuracy and speed), a making-of section and a strategy guide.
I would definitly recommend this game.
I recommend this game!