Poutoule's Profile
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- Average Rating:4.3
- Helpful Votes:7,141
- Reviews Submitted:111
- First Review:February 2, 2012
- Most Recent Review:August 10, 2013
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Investigate a painter's mysterious disappearance and solve a chain of cold blooded murders in this chilling Hidden Object game.
Overall rating
2
/
5
91 of 107 found this review helpful
Disappearing painter, haunted house
PostedJune 3, 2013
Poutoule
fromPoitiers, France
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File
Current Favorite:
Dark Dimensions: City of Ash Collector's Edition
(52)Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
1
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
Played 20 minutes, easy, and had to exit before I turned blind due to the darkness of the game and the recurrent flashes of lightening !
- 2 modes, easy, difficult
- No voice overs
- A lot of written dialogue between the characters
- Note book
- H0, you interact but the names of objects in the list don't have a different color. Extremely dark, killing your eyes, never used that many hints in a single H0, you just can't see things
- Mini game, only came across one, not over difficult
- Graphics might be good if you could see them
This game nearly ruined my eyesight so this disappearing painter and the haunted house can remain where they are but definitely not in my GM....
No way to adjust the darkness in the options.....
I don't recommend this game.
Dark Dimensions: City of Ash Collector's Edition
A dark dimension has fallen over Phoenix Hill, turning its residents into volcanic ash. Help them rise from the ashes.
Overall rating
4
/
5
30 of 40 found this review helpful
What secret holds City of Ash ???
PostedJune 1, 2013
Poutoule
fromPoitiers, France
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File
Fun Factor
4
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
Played 40 minutes, casual
- 3 modes, casual, advanced, hard, you can swap mode while playing going to the options
- Voice overs
- Notebook
- Shortly after playing you get an interactive map which shows area of interest
- Integrated SG, top left of the screen, which only shows 2 chapters in the sample
- Extras : bonus chapter, Music, concept art, wallpaper
- Throughout the game you have to find 15 golden animals
- You can lock your inventory in raised position
- Interactive H0, you have to find an item to get another
- Hint refills quickly in casual mode and is useful outside H0
- Skip button
- Mini games, nothing very new and not over difficult up till what I've played, info button down left of your screen
- Music fits the game...didn't notice too much :$
- Beautiful graphics
I played the beta of this game a while ago and wasn't too keen, had this feeling of "deja vu". Replayed it today and I'm happy I did as I enjoyed the game. May be because we didn't get over good ones these past days :R You arrive in a prosperous mining town, there's been a volcano eruption, Dark Dimensions have taken over, why ?? Which secret holds this town ? Up to you to find out... Of course you get this ghostly figure right in front of your car in the beginning and of course you crash in the landscape, fortunately it's near your goal :whistle:
This game is a buy for me.
This game is a buy for me.
I recommend this game!
In order to save your life, your twin sister traded her soul to a witch. Now you must race through the looking glass to rescue her!
Overall rating
4
/
5
41 of 54 found this review helpful
You try to rescue you twin sister who gave her soul to save you
PostedMay 30, 2013
Poutoule
fromPoitiers, France
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File
Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
Played nearly the whole demo, casual
- 3 modes, casual, advanced, hard, you can swap from one to another while playing
- ERS game
- Voice overs
- Integrated SG, bottom left of your screen which only shows 2 chapters in the sample
- Diary bottom left of your Screen
- Interactive map, included in the diary, it's sometimes better not to use it straight away to change places as you can miss an action... (for me, missed the wolf cub)
- Shortly after playing, you get an amulet with the 4 elements, you get them as you meet people in the game, you find it bottom left of your screen
- Through out the game you find fortune cookies (which in fact are nuts), you get a casket for them, bottom right of your screen
- You get different achievements for performing actions, they can be seen top left of your screen
- Hint is a ballerina which you get shortly after starting the game, it's useful outside H0. refills quickly casual
- H0, you have to find related pairs, or silhouettes, you then have to put the item back into the scene
- Min games not over difficult up to what I played
- There are animals all over the place, some of them go in your inventory and help you in tricky situations
- Skip button fills quickly casual
- Good graphics
-- Extras : Wallpapers, concept art, screen saver, H0, mini games, movies, music, calendar
Your twin sister is very ill, to save her, you give your soul to an evil witch, Your sister then follows the witch through a mirror to try and rescue you. Lots of animals, a rather sugary Prince, a very funny dwarf (he saved the game for me !). I played the beta a while ago and wasn't over thrilled, that's why I played nearly the whole demo to give the game a fair chance. I'm still not too keen.....
I recommend this game!
The evil Alura is back, and this time she’s attacking your homeland!
Overall rating
3
/
5
6 of 10 found this review helpful
Turn evil witch back to her gentle self
PostedMay 25, 2013
Poutoule
fromPoitiers, France
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File
Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
Demoed, casual, for a little over 30 minutes I would say (game's demo says I still have "60 minutes left"....
- 3 modes, casual, advanced, hard
- Integrated SG which shows 5 chapters + bonus play. Extras includes wallpapers, concept art, music
- Notebook
- Interactive map showing areas of interest
- Shortly after playing you get a chest where the artifacts you collect will gather
- Voice overs. A lot of cut scenes and talk
- Interactive H0, regular ones, some with silhouettes where you need an item to find another, sometimes it's difficult to use the item found, you have to click several times before it works. A lot of H0
- Some nice inventive mini games
- Hint is useful outside H0
- Skip button
- Good graphics but not over thrilling
The evil witch was once a gentle maiden, up to you to turn her back to her normal self. I have all the other Love Chronicles but I can't say I'm too keen about this one. Will probably get it to take advantage of the sale.
Become the fabled detective and rescue the Final Cinderella from the evil Godmother's clutches!
Overall rating
5
/
5
119 of 133 found this review helpful
Witch looking for real CInderella
PostedMay 23, 2013
Poutoule
fromPoitiers, France
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File
Fun Factor
4
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
Played 40 minutes, casual
- Blue Tea Games
- 3 modes, casual, normal, hard
- Integrated SG, which only shows 3 chapters in the sample
- Vice overs
- No notebook but a task bar, bottom left of your screen
- Map showing areas of interest, not interactive
- As in all Dark Parables you collect figurines to open a story in the Parables
- There are memorial closets, you dress up maidens to get a reward
- Fragmented H0, not too easy to find, some really big (not the ones you spot first !) and some pretty small
- Hint, refills really quickly in casual mode and is useful outside H0
- Skip button fills quickly, still in casual
- Good, inventive mini games
- Beautiful graphics
- Didn't pay too much attention to the music :$
Evil witch is changing maidens in glass maidens, looking for the real Cinderella in order to revive her beloved. She kidnaps a young maiden looking for her now glass sister... Quite a fun story and a bit of humor too, the tea served is blue for instance ;) Good game, good story, good graphics = instant buy !
I recommend this game!
Join the beautiful demon-huntress, Vida, on her investigation into a series of mysterious kidnappings!
Overall rating
4
/
5
16 of 16 found this review helpful
Is there a story ???
PostedMay 21, 2013
Poutoule
fromPoitiers, France
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File
Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
Played 30 minutes, easy
- 2 modes, easy, hard
- Right after you click on play there's a display of a tutorial showing how to work your way in the game. You have to click escape to exit
- A very long introduction to the game and it takes a while when you exit a scene to get to the new one
- Voice overs
- Notebook
- Map showing areas of interest
- You get achievements throughout the game
- Shortly after playing you get Black, a fun ferret that keeps chatting with you
- You find too blue glowing stars that allow you to get an overall view of the items to find in a H0
- Hint refills nearly instantly in easy mode
- H0, you do not interact, a lot of them, one round each corner. Objects not too easy to find for some and sometimes they are strangely lighted to make it more difficult
- Mini games pretty easy, very few of them
- Will go against the flow but I've liked the graphics
Not much of a story but the game is fun, for a H0G lover, and the chat between Vida and her ferret is quite humorous. Might spend a punch card credit on the game which is well worth a try.
I recommend this game!
Over and over the same nightmare is following you: your sister Anna is trapped in a strange existence, begging you to help her escape. But what if these are not just random nightmares?
Overall rating
4
/
5
76 of 89 found this review helpful
Sister disappears...evil is round the corner
PostedMay 20, 2013
Poutoule
fromPoitiers, France
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File
Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
Played 35 minutes, easy
- 3 modes, easy, expert, pro
- No voice overs
- Notebook
- Hint is useful outside H0 and refill nearly instantly in easy mode
- Skip button, fills real quick, still easy mode
- H0, not too many of them, your interact, in some you have to perform an action before being able to enter it, in others you have to find silhouettes and use the object to get next next one. Quite fun.
- Quite a few mini games, regular ones, not over difficult up till what I've played
- Good graphics
- Music a bit loud and slightly repetitive
You have a nightmare about your sister and decide to visit her. :O, surprise, surprise, she has disappeared !!! You investigate. This looks like a nice SE and I will spend a punch card credit on it.
I recommend this game!
Save the kingdom and reunite Princess Isabella with her prince in the exciting conclusion to the Princess Isabella trilogy!
Overall rating
3
/
5
13 of 27 found this review helpful
Evil witch is back, hopefully for the last time !!
PostedMay 18, 2013
Poutoule
fromPoitiers, France
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File
Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
Played 35 minutes casual
- 3 modes, casual, advanced, custom
- Integrated SG which shows 7 chapters + bonus play
- Voice overs
- Notebook
- Hint is useful outside H0 and fills really quickly in casual mode
- Shortly after starting the game, you get :
1. a dragon flute, use it to call the dragon who will help you (located up, right of your screen (you have to assemble it in a mini game)
2. a magic wand, it will allow you to get the power of some creatures and then use it (in casual blue sparkles indicate the animals you can fill it on) -bottom left of your screen, next to the hint button.
- As in all Isabella's games, you must find pieces of portraits to open new scenes
- H0, you don't interact
- Mini games not difficult up to what I played
- The graphics are different from the other games, they remind me of the ones in Awakening.
- Music is rather loud
You're the daughter of Princess Isabella. The 3 fairies who look after you are kidnapped by the evil witch who, of course, is back, as evil as ever. I've been quite disappointed in what I've played, the game didn't grab me at all and it's a no buy for me though the sale is tempting.
Solve this maritime mystery to reunite a pirate with his lost love!
Overall rating
5
/
5
28 of 35 found this review helpful
Captains wife disappears, was he a pirate ?
PostedMay 11, 2013
Poutoule
fromPoitiers, France
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File
Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
Played 35 minutes, normal mode
- 2 modes, normal, casual
- You have to click on menu to access the SG but you don't exit the game
- 9 chapters, 3 bonus ones
- Notebook
- You sometimes have to combine items in your inventory to get an object
- Interactive map
- Voice over
- In some areas you can move your cursor left or right to move in the scene
- Throughout the game you collect coins that you need to open different chests, in them are items that you need
- In normal mode, you can see on the map where there are coins, don't know if they show in casual
- Hint takes a while to refill, even in normal mode (over a minute), it's useful outside H0
- Skip button
- Interactive H0
- Mini games are easy up to what I played
- Excellent graphics
- Good music
Captain Williams used to sail all over the world with his beloved wife. She's seen less and less and then disappears. One day the corpse of the captain is washed ashore, dressed as a pirate. You investigate. I'll be going against the majority as I have loved what I played, it's a very intriguing story, there are a lot of clever things to achieve, the graphics are superb, it's an instant buy for me.
I recommend this game!
A late-night subway ride takes a bizarre turn into a mystical cemetery. You have been summoned by a strange entity to free the cemetery’s lost souls. Will you succeed, or is this the end of the line?
Overall rating
5
/
5
78 of 109 found this review helpful
Save 3 restless souls.....
PostedApril 18, 2013
Poutoule
fromPoitiers, France
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File
Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
Played 40 minutes, casual
- 3 modes, casual, advanced, soul savior, you can change mode while playing
- Integrated SG which shows 3 chapters plus a bonus play
- Notebook
- Interactive map which shows areas of interest
- You can combine items in your inventory, the ones you can combine are marked in green
- Voice overs
- Shortly after playing you get a raven that will help you gather things out of reach. You get, while playing, different powers for your raven : air, water, fire, earth. You've got to play a mini game to acquire your power and one [b]each time[/b] you want to use one, it empties after you use it.
- You get a puppy right at the beginning of the game and, throughout the game you collect medas (5) for him and other items, you can then buy him things and play other mini games. There an arrow at the top left of your screen, use it to access your puppy.
- Hint is useful outside H0
- Skip button
- H0, you interact, only came across one during the time I played
- A lot of interesting mini games, some new
- Gorgeous graphics
- Didn't pay much attention to the music, so it must have been OK :$
You're riding home, with your dog, on the subway and end up in a cemetery... Here you discover you have to save the souls of 3 people before you'll be set free as well as your dog who's kept as an hostage... This Redemption Cemetery look really good, I had been a little disappointed with the previous one but this one grabbed me straight away. A buy for me.
I recommend this game!