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- Average Rating:3
- Helpful Votes:5
- Reviews Submitted:1
- First Review:October 27, 2012
- Most Recent Review:October 27, 2012
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Treasure Seekers: Follow the Ghosts Collector's Edition
Help Nelly and Tom free the unlucky ghosts being trapped by the evil alchemist in Treasure Seekers: Follow the Ghosts!
Overall rating
3
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5
5 of 7 found this review helpful
Exquisite execution yet needlessly frustrating. I better explain rating...
PostedOctober 27, 2012
bignovice
Fun Factor
1
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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
after 5 stars for Visual/Sound, Challenge, Storyline and then 1 star for Fun. After playing similar hunt games I have grown intolerant of unnecessarily frustrating and unjustifiably troublesome strategy devices - such as, no fun looking through several rooms for a tool or item only to request a Hint and told to look deep inside a jar or box. This looks like game designer cheating. Game style and graphics has tremendous visual quality; even so, I did not find this Follow the Ghosts game fun to play. As a colIector and horder of things, I find each room (basement, library, attic, office) captivating for the objects - so much variety to look at and nothing dainty; very much a man's rooms, even to walls and furniture, sombre colors esp. browns, dark woods, big desks, wall size bookcases, taxidermy, shipping, tools, etc. Since the storyline involves guys, gamewriters made a huge mistake not pairing a guy and younger brother, or detective and male sidekick, since their choice of a pretty female co-hunter shouts PC, adds no drama to plot, and reveals nothing feminine to give her psychological character (thus making her meaningless); similar misstep in laughable cat in office and attic - what guy would ever admit fright of a cat? And why on earth would gamemaker nonsensically have two hunters in fear of such cat in attic run from room to find something obvious to get rid of it? Nonsensical and not a few of that business. My short list of complaints includes: Annoyance from popup windows that broadly overlay and conceal background. Petty peeve for stingy help. Minor gripe over excessive amount of clicks to accomplish a task or move an object. Still a well-done game technically, just not Fun for play. I will recommend it.
I recommend this game!