Opsimath's Profile
Stat Summary
- Average Rating:2.6
- Helpful Votes:397
- Reviews Submitted:21
- First Review:November 9, 2012
- Most Recent Review:November 7, 2023
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Travel through ghost worlds to investigate the mysteries of your family. Can you uncover the mystery of the tribal curse?
Overall rating
2
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5
8 of 15 found this review helpful
'tis a dark and dreary world
PostedAugust 12, 2014
Opsimath
fromCT, USA
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Word, Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Match 3, Brain Teaser, Puzzle, Mahjong
Fun Factor
2
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
1
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5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
2
/
5
This is a brown game. Everything is a shade of brown! And there are two modes, dark and darker - What will it take to convince these game-makers that we are tired of the dark and tired of the occult. Surely someone can make another light, bright and delightful game like Royal Trouble! Please don't let all future gaming remain grim and gloomy.
I don't recommend this game.
Awakening Kingdoms
You are chosen by Queen Sophia to restore her kingdom back to its former glory through fun mini-games and beautiful hidden object scenes.
Overall rating
1
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5
19 of 21 found this review helpful
Let those kingdoms sleep!
PostedJune 10, 2014
Opsimath
fromCT, USA
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Match 3, Brain Teaser, Puzzle, Mahjong
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
2
/
5
Level of Challenge
2
/
5
Storyline
1
/
5
Simply dreadful "game" and so unlike its predecessors on just about all levels. Like many, perhaps most, HOG players, I use the game to relax. That means no timed sequences, no penalties, well lit scenes and no head hammering pop ups. This game fails all. Skip it.
I don't recommend this game.
Haunted Manor: Painted Beauties Collector's Edition
A peaceful day at the park becomes a journey into the surreal when you become the latest victim of a troubled artist's deal with Death!
Overall rating
1
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5
29 of 35 found this review helpful
A most unfortunate choice
PostedMay 27, 2014
Opsimath
fromCT, USA
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Word, Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Match 3, Brain Teaser, Puzzle, Mahjong
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
2
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5
Storyline
3
/
5
I am impressed by the vastness of this game world and appreciate the artistic talents involved but they should have also hired an adventure gamer as consultant. Instead, they now offer the player hours and hours of what we have come to hate about adventure games - the back-and-forth need in order to progress. And I'm not talking about an annoying little pointless travel to pick up just one tiny item, I'm talking about hours of it!
I'd also like to give the team credit for including a map, but I can't. The map is useless.
I don't recommend this game.
These nursery rhymes are cursed, and your sister’s been taken by the Crooked Man!
Overall rating
1
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5
28 of 55 found this review helpful
Surprisingly bad
PostedNovember 9, 2013
Opsimath
fromCT, USA
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Word, Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Match 3, Brain Teaser, Puzzle, Mahjong
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
1
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
2
/
5
The above blip tells you most of what you need to know about this game. Here is what I can tell you after playing the demo:
- the game is TOO DARK
- the music is wrong for the atmosphere
- this game has the most annoying ambient sounds I have ever had to suffer through - even with that feature turned all the way down, it simply persists in annoying!
- the graphics are cloudy or grainy
- the indicator will drive you nuts with a magnifying glass over just about everything in each scene.
- the text distraction keeps bringing your eye to the top of the screen every time you click where the magnifier is.
- the game is TOO DARK
- the music is wrong for the atmosphere
- this game has the most annoying ambient sounds I have ever had to suffer through - even with that feature turned all the way down, it simply persists in annoying!
- the graphics are cloudy or grainy
- the indicator will drive you nuts with a magnifying glass over just about everything in each scene.
- the text distraction keeps bringing your eye to the top of the screen every time you click where the magnifier is.
Twenty minutes was all I could take and I wouldn't consider a purchase even if it were an SE game!
I don't recommend this game.
While visiting your uncle, you stumble upon a curious case. Men are vanishing, reappearing dead days later. Who killed them?
Overall rating
2
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5
8 of 18 found this review helpful
This is a FIRST for me
PostedSeptember 21, 2013
Opsimath
fromCT, USA
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Word, Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Match 3, Card & Board, Brain Teaser, Puzzle, Mahjong
Fun Factor
2
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
/
5
Level of Challenge
2
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
Never before have I played a game that is not only unusually short but also ended while I still had puzzles to solve and inventory to use. Something is really wrong and I cannot recommend this game to people who expect fair play for their dollar.
I don't recommend this game.
Only by discovering clues left by advanced civilizations can you stop the return of an ancient enemy and save Earth.
Overall rating
1
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5
3 of 4 found this review helpful
Tried hard to find the good . . .
PostedJuly 17, 2013
Opsimath
fromCT, USA
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Word, Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Card & Board, Brain Teaser, Puzzle, Mahjong
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
1
/
5
Level of Challenge
1
/
5
Storyline
1
/
5
OhSoClueless is OhSoRight! I did want to like this game but found the aimlessness underwhelming. This game is not for any age.
I don't recommend this game.
Solve this maritime mystery to reunite a pirate with his lost love!
Overall rating
3
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5
3 of 10 found this review helpful
New game? I don't think so!
PostedMay 11, 2013
Opsimath
fromCT, USA
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Word, Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Match 3, Card & Board, Brain Teaser, Puzzle, Mahjong
Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
I don't remember the music but I know every screen of this game. Since I can't find it in my purchase group, I suspect it has been renamed and, if that's true, how unfair. I think it has been a couple of years since I played this but I haven't forgotten it. I know this isn't new!
Join Oink-oink on the journey to save his friends in Push the Box, a new exciting puzzle game with attractive graphics that will definitely give you a challenge.
Overall rating
3
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5
2 of 4 found this review helpful
The tipping point
PostedMarch 13, 2013
Opsimath
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Word, Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Match 3, Card & Board, Brain Teaser, Puzzle, Mahjong
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
1
/
5
Such a cute game to idle away spare time. I actually would have bought it except for the fact that there is no "back one move" option. The annoyance of starting from step one when you make a wrong move helped me decide to pass on this.
Patchworkz is a relaxing jigsaw-puzzle game with competitive elements.
Overall rating
1
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5
6 of 19 found this review helpful
NEVER had this happen before.
PostedDecember 3, 2012
Opsimath
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Family, Word, Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Match 3, Card & Board, Brain Teaser, Puzzle, Mahjong
Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
2
/
5
No story, no outline ... just pure, bright colors set up for a peaceful hour of play. Then I get called away after only 10 minutes and ... I cannot quit the game! So 10 minutes of play and 50 minutes of the clock ticking while I was called away. What were they thinking?
I cannot persuade myself to purchase a game that exhibits such lack of planning. Good grief! Where is the product QC at BFG?
I don't recommend this game.
The Brothers Grimm have assigned the task of revealing the truth behind missing children in the town of Arbourshire; it is up to you to discover the secrets of the Fairy Tale Mystery, before it is too late.
Overall rating
4
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5
4 of 6 found this review helpful
Wait for the SE version, then grab it!
PostedDecember 2, 2012
Opsimath
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Family, Word, Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Match 3, Card & Board, Brain Teaser, Puzzle, Mahjong
Fun Factor
4
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
I've just finished playing the demo and, since you have the game outlined for you in previous posts, I would like to comment on aspects other than story line. The graphics are not breathtaking, they are good - perhaps very good would be a better description. The HO games are wonderfully bright! The are uncluttered and the items are fairly, cleverly hidden.
Voiceovers are easy to listen to but, if you are a fast reader, there isn't any way to fast-forward the dialog - your only option is to skip the scene altogether. Puzzles are, for the most part, not difficult and inventory use is clear. I enjoyed the demo but will wait for the SE version. Lately, few games merit the CE cost.
I wish players such as myself who collect HOGs as a way to relax and enjoy some quiet time would collectively tell the creators of these games that they are losing focus. The games seem to be morphing into another genre and I can only say that such a move will never work. Stick with the customer base you have and continue to bring back the light into the dark and gloomy games! Oh how I wish for another Royal Trouble!
I recommend this game!