timothya's Profile
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- Average Rating:4.3
- Helpful Votes:1,143
- Reviews Submitted:199
- First Review:June 24, 2012
- Most Recent Review:September 3, 2025
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Haunted Legends: The Undertaker Collector's Edition
Find out who is behind the shocking zombie invasion.
Overall rating
5
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5
1 of 2 found this review helpful
Wow! Lots of Great Play Here!
PostedNovember 27, 2012
timothya
fromSandpoint, Idaho
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Drawn: The Painted Tower
(183)Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
5
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5
Bang for the buck, this might be the best game I've played all year. Some odd runtime error crashes prevented a perfect score but only got in the way a little.
Pros: Spooky theme, great villain, gorgeous art, very atmospheric music, excellent story line. Outstanding variety in mini-games and H0 scenes. Excellent cut scenes. Long, satisfying play. Just about everything in the game was a Pro.
Cons: A number of C++ runtime crashes interrupted game flow but cost very little progress. Distracting but not fatal.
Bonus: Simply the best. You get wallpaper, music, concept art, extra game play, and best of all you get to replay the H0 scenes AND the puzzles! Fantastic!
Overall: Chock full of everything you pay for. Wonderful effort!
I recommend this game!
Surface: The Noise She Couldn't Make
When a young woman is found comatose by the side of the road with a bloody knife beside her, it's up to you to unravel her story!
Overall rating
5
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5
1 of 1 found this review helpful
Great Story Line
PostedNovember 14, 2012
timothya
fromSandpoint, Idaho
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Drawn: The Painted Tower
(183)Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
5
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5
Every so often one game really stands out from the crowd, and this is one of those. Gorgeous graphics and a unique plot treatment that takes the player from "Who is Noise?" to "Why is Noise?" and ends in a thoroughly satisfying resolution. The atmosphere is surreal, which is to be expected since it's the interior of a young lady's mind. But it has an internal logic that is revealed as the player gets to know her. Wonderfully plotted!
More of this, please.
I recommend this game!
Mystery Trackers: Four Aces Collector's Edition
Save Brightfield from a shocking plot by a dastardly organization!
Overall rating
5
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5
2 of 2 found this review helpful
Great Entertainment
PostedOctober 21, 2012
timothya
fromSandpoint, Idaho
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Drawn: The Painted Tower
(183)Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
Wonderful game play in this one with enough innovation to stand out from the crowd.
Pros: Good acting, excellent cut scenes and plenty of them. You have an adorable canine assistant, Elf, who isn't just a tool but at one point has to be rescued. Music is appropriate and unobtrusive. Graphics, sharp and well laid out. Puzzles largely rotational and some quite challenging without being too frustrating. Plot consistent and well-constructed.
Cons: Not much. Quite a bit of back-and-forth that does get a bit wearisome at moments.
CE bonuses - extra points for the gameplay and especially for the outtakes! It's pretty obvious everybody was having a great time making this one. More of this, please.
I recommend this game!
Dark Parables: The Red Riding Hood Sisters Collector's Edition
Discover the Red Riding Hood Sisters and defeat the nefarious Wolf Queen!
Overall rating
5
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5
Not Your Grandma's Riding Hood
PostedSeptember 25, 2012
timothya
fromSandpoint, Idaho
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Drawn: The Painted Tower
(183)Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
4
/
5
If you can suspend your disbelief long enough to picture Red Riding Hood as a crossbow-wielding kicker of wolf posterior, this one's for you. Not a bad plot - jealousy, betrayal, and enough mystery to overcome a somewhat saccharine ending.
Pros: great cut scenes, better than average voice acting, H0 scenes that yielded objects you actually needed. First-rate graphics. A surprise return of a past character was well-timed and had me cheering.
Cons: found a bug in one of the games. The map is not very useful most of the time and you can't use it to transport.
Overall: great effort, very entertaining. Can't wait for the next one.
I recommend this game!
Gothic Fiction: Dark Saga Collector's Edition
Rescue your daughter, Hannah, from the clutches of an evil witch before it's too late in this chilling Hidden Object adventure game!
Overall rating
5
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5
2 of 3 found this review helpful
Fine Puzzle Adventure Game
PostedSeptember 17, 2012
timothya
fromSandpoint, Idaho
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Drawn: The Painted Tower
(183)Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
4
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5
Adventure, travel, beautiful scenery, and no H0Gs. That's more of an addition than a subtraction in this case.
Pros: Adequate storyline, excellent cut scenes, very good acting. Puzzle level moderate, and there are plenty for puzzle lovers. Music atmospheric and unobtrusive. Best of all this one's different levels really do offer different difficulties. Casual may be a little too easy for advanced players but medium is just about right for a nice, relaxing game.
Cons: map is not very well done and you'll soon ignore it. It has no ability to take the player from one scene to another (although on Casual level the characters will take care of that for you in some places). Location of major objectives is noted but not key unsolved puzzles. Certain laboratory puzzles' solutions are arbitrary and not very intuitive.
Overall, four and a half fins of five. A nice break from the same old H0G stuff. I'd love to see more like it.
I recommend this game!
Surface: The Noise She Couldn`t Make Collector`s Edition
When a young woman is found comatose by the side of the road with a bloody knife beside her, it’s up to you to unravel her story!
Overall rating
5
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5
1 of 1 found this review helpful
Wonderful Game!
PostedAugust 15, 2012
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
Entirely enjoyable. Stunning graphics, superb cut scenes, unobtrusive and atmospheric music, excellent acting. Some new and quite challenging puzzles. Best of all, first-rate writing with a couple of lovely plot twists. Events are paced properly, leaving the player without that artificial feeling too many games have offered of late.
There is a surreal quality to the scenery that is a presentation of a young woman's mind in the eyes of a psychic: lots of symbolism, occasionally quite poignant. This one is beautifully done. Five fins up of five.
I recommend this game!
Redemption Cemetery: Grave Testimony Collector’s Edition
Escape a cursed island of lost souls by helping three of the trapped spirits in Redemption Cemetery: Grave Testimony!
Overall rating
5
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5
5 of 9 found this review helpful
Three Short Stories
PostedAugust 6, 2012
timothya
fromSandpoint, Idaho
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Puzzle
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
Wonderful time, loved the game. Anyone who has read (or seen) Stephen King's "Catseye" will recognize the format - three short stories linked by a single theme. In this case it's lost souls, whose saving will earn you a boat ride off a very unpleasant island. The first of these is a Roaring Twenties gangster theme, somewhat underutilized in this genre, IMHO; the second, a rather quirky Old West scenario in which a young lady is to be burnt as a witch #no points for historical accuracy, full marks for fun#, and the third, a rather vivid pirate scenario.
Pros: great graphics, convincing #and not overdone# acting, atmospheric music, clear objectives and a plot that hangs together well despite its segmentation. Decent length of play, and due to the segmentation the player always knows where he or she is.
Cons: not much. Some may be bothered by the fact that the stories have nothing to do with one another; I found that rather refreshing.
Overall - a clear winner for me. I'd love to see more of this sort of treatment. Five fins of five.
I recommend this game!
Infected: The Twin Vaccine Collector’s Edition
A new breed of virus has spread throughout the City of Oxford. You must search the city for a missing girl who holds the key to stopping the global epidemic!
Overall rating
5
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5
1 of 1 found this review helpful
Great Mid-Difficulty Entry With Some Nice Innovations
PostedJune 28, 2012
timothya
fromSandpoint, Idaho
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Puzzle
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
The Pros: Excellent, linear, coherent writing. HO scenes yielded objects that were directly related to the plot. Excellent live and voice acting, atmospheric music. Best of all, the difficulty level could be tuned. That is a feature I think a lot of games will pick up very soon. One character, Carl the Homeless Guy, was a hoot.
The Cons: puzzles were very easy. Some HO graphics were a little indistinct.
More Pros: I loved the "Behind The Scenes" extra. And the kid who did the little girl's voice acting was great.
I recommend this game!
Royal Detective: The Lord of Statues Collector's Edition
Save the besieged alpine village of Martlet and rescue its residents from the mysterious living statues in this exciting Hidden Object Adventure game!
Overall rating
5
/
5
Unexpectedly Great Game
PostedJune 24, 2012
timothya
fromSandpoint, Idaho
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst ™
(217)Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
What a wonderful surprise! The elements of the game are conventional: village emptied by some disaster, the player has to go figure it out. The execution, however, was extraordinary, and there were a couple of innovations that were worth the price of the game by themselves.
Beautiful art - that was the deciding factor in my initial purchase. Lovely music, reasonably coherent plot, sympathetic characters. Mini-games seemed just the right level of difficulty. Smooth gameplay, excellent map.
What set this one apart were the wonderfully executed statues and the animated helpers who were more ally than gadget. Multiple endings that encourage a replay. Overall, simply a superior example of its genre and highly recommended.
I recommend this game!