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The Cardinal has chosen you to travel to the village of Portonero Spain to stop a mad man. Inquisitor Augustine has become obsessed with hunting down the witch Miguela the Wolf Queen. It does indeed appear that Augusta has gone stark raving mad resulting in nearly the entire town to flee from his relentless persecution! What happened to the Inquisitor Augustine that constitutes the cruel and unusual punishments he bestows upon his people?
I was a huge fan of the first installment of Where Angels Cry, and I love the computer generated graphics that have been masterfully accomplished here. This is one of those games you either love or hate, because it has unusual features. For starters, some items require the use of a feature called a Combiner that appears when certain items are clicked on. The Combiner will display silhouetted shapes around it that need to be found and then placed upon it's silhouetted shape, and when all items have been found the item task can be completed. Another cool feature unlocks videos whenever you spot a falcon, and there are 15 Collectible Doves throughout the game. You can choose an Icon feature that will show feet wherever there is a different available exit to move to, and of course the usual Achievements associated with a Collector's Edition.
The Hidden Object Scenes are varied with either listed items or silhouetted shape finds, and most of the HOP's will continue with a few progressive interaction tasks after the list is completed, such as finding and using rocks on a catapult to bust open a stone castle which will expose a key which is used to open a box and so forth. My only complaint is that they didn't stick with period related items, I'm pretty sure they didn't have spring loaded clothespins in the 1300's.
The Mini Games are actually decent but on the easy side such as, swapping Maltese Crosses on a board within their color coded slots and from smallest to largest. Arranging buttons to complete an image by swapping and rotating, and even getting into a battle with Augustine where you have to click on the shield while the crosshair icon is inside the shield to defend yourself, if you misclick it results in your damage not Augustines.
This Collector's Edition has replayable Mini Games and HOP's, unlockable Background stories, 5 Wallpapers, 9 Concept Art pictures, Music Soundtracks, 15 Collectible Doves, 16 Achievements, a built in Strategy Guide and a Bonus Chapter, enjoy!
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Bill Turner has been working in the mines of Rockshire for quite some time, but when he mysteriously disappears, the entire town denies he was ever there! Bill's wife Bonnie has asked for your help investigating his disappearance and it appears as if Bill himself, has systematically hidden clues throughout the town with the hope that someone, anyone might be able to stop the evil that lurks within the town! What happened in Rockville that constitutes such secrecy, such Golden Silence?
This game starts out a wee bit slow, but picks up a nice pace as you progress, drawing you into the story. There is a Customizable mode, with a feature that makes the Mini Games more difficult, I highly recommend this option to seasoned players because even with this feature turned on, I felt the Mini Games were kind of easy. One of my favorite features of this series, is the Collectible Hidden Crystals, however, they are only available in the Collector's Edition. There are a total of 72, and each location has a specific number with a convenient pull tab on the left of the screen to show you how many there are in your current location. Once all of the crystals have been found, the downlow on the city's mystery will be revealed, so consider that edition over this Standard Edition. Many of the inventory items are complex items that require some type of interaction before the item can be used, and the CE has the addition of several Achievements to earn as well. The Red Panda has eaten his bamboo and as ready willing and able to help you once again to retrieve items in places only a panda would dare to venture! Another cool feature this series has are Picture Hints. When you uncover hidden pictures, you match the picture to the correct scene and location and wherever the X is on the picture, that's where you will find the next clue.
The Hidden Object Scenes weren't bad, one in particular felt awkward, as you are tasked with finding interactive list finds whilst struggling with an attacker the entire time, and after the items are found, you had to trace a few jagged lines with a hand and knife cursor, just weird in my opinion. There are multiple finds, and silhouetted shape finds as well, and you can opt for a Match 3 game instead. A big disappointment for me came with the realization that most of the HOS are repeated, and that makes it boring so at least there's an alternate game available.
The Mini Games are in abundance, I know some gamers loathe that but I love the Mini Games, in fact I would love to play a game that had nothing but Mini Games! I will list a few of the games available in the demo but keep in mind, I opted for more difficult games so I'm not sure if they are different. The first game has you flip over two tokens at a time to make a match followed by circular discs with sections to be swapped to create a picture. A lantern game where the goal is to light all lanterns. when one lantern is selected, others are affected. A picture on a wall with arrows on each column and row to nudge picture sections to the correct slot, a safe cracking code where you swap stained glass sections to create a mirror image, and a classic game of sliding tokens along designated paths so all silver tokens are on the top and all gold tokens are on the bottom.
The Collector's Edition has Achievements, 72 Collectible Crystals, Music Soundtracks, replayable Hidden Object Scenes and Mini Games, Movies, Wallpapers, a Workshop (dev. diary and Concept Art) a built in Strategy Guide and TWO Bonus Chapters (Sister's Spell and Eternal Love) So get your HO game on and break this town's Golden Silence, enjoy!
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The Lantern Man has always been a legend surrounding the Whispering Marsh. It's been said that if you can hold your breath long enough when he shines his lights upon you, you will be spared! But the Lantern Man is just make believe, a fable told to keep children from the dangerous marsh, right? Well, as the County Bounder, you're going to find out if this soul collector is simply a Myth or if he's real, and if he is real, why has he returned?
I love the graphics in this game, they are crisp and well defined, and the cinematics are top notch theater quality as well. There are complex inventory items that require some form of interaction before they can be used, and there are 18 Achievements to earn, 42 Hidden Acorns AND one of my favorite features, 16 Morphing Objects within the HOP's!
The Hidden Object Scenes are pretty lengthy, some have interactive list finds followed by duel pictures that require you to find the item associated, and my favorite was an extremely interactive and progressive silhouetted shape find where you find the first item matching the silhouetted shape and then use that item in the scene to expose the next item and so forth. There are also small HOP's within zoomed in zones where you find a handful of the same type of item such as 6 petals. Each HOP has a Morphing Item and you can opt for a game of Mahjong if you're not into HOP's.
There are a ton of Mini Games in this game folks, Navigating through obstacles on a map using directional arrows, Sliding 4 shells to open a bookshelf but one shell affects others, Matching pairs of symbols by turning over two symbols at a time, Using a lockpick to open 3 tumblers, Connecting gears using chains of different lengths and even an increasingly difficult game involving your new found Lantern to scare away the Lantern Man's lights, the idea is to connect different symbols so that identical symbols are never directly connected and that no lines cross each other.
This Collector's Edition has 13 Achievements, 42 Hidden Acorns, 16 Morphing Objects, 18 Puzzles, Mahjong, a Souvenir Room, Lore Book, 10 Soundtracks, the Making of, Videos, 8 Concept Art pictures, 8 Wallpapers, 16 replayable HOP's, a built in Strategy Guide and a Bonus Chapter, enjoy before the Lantern Man steals your soul.
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Legends surround the tiny town in Slovakia about the Cachtice Castle whose mistress, Elizabeth Bathory was said to have murdered hundreds of young women in her never ending quest for youth and vitality. You are playing the part of a gemologist whose sister Rose Woods invited you to Slovakia to study a gem that Rose found on an archaeological dig.
This game really confuses me, the graphics are hand drawn, not my favorite and not all that great. The Hidden Object Scenes are plentiful, in fact everytime you return to an area, there is another HOP in the same place with the same items to find. The listed items are in huge print, and you have to click on doors and drawers that aren't indicated to click on in the first place, confusing to say the least. Sometimes the HOP's give you an inventory item, other times it rewards you with coins that can be used to skip the puzzles.
It took me a while to figure out that some of the scenes could be zoomed in and out by clicking and dragging or scrolling, which would have been helpful when I was trying to complete the Mini Game where you had to swap letters on a mirror so that the sentence makes sense, however, the last word wasn't in view and I had to skip the puzzle, a few minutes later I discovered you had to click and drag the scene to be able to visit the merchant.
This game seems like it's designed for kids because it's such a simple game with cartoonish features. On the other hand, I wouldn't want my kids to play a game with this type of storyline! The extremely large print makes me believe that the game was meant for people who have difficulty reading smaller print and for beginners of this genre, but the tutorial is horrible, and the game mechanics are clunky, so I'm not sure if beginners would appreciate this game either????
I don't recommend this game.
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The Silent Age
Help Joe discover the truth behind humankind's extinction! Can a simple janitor and literally, "the average Joe," save humankind?
Overall rating
5/ 5
74 of 81 found this review helpful
Average Joe
PostedSeptember 1, 2015
pennmom36
fromAverage Joe just got an average promotion in the form of a demotion
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This is an excellent game for those of you who want a game that challenges you and makes you think about every move you make. As a matter of fact, I couldn't find a hint feature anywhere in this game so there won't be any handholding, you're on your own! Joe is a janitor for a large corporation, and no sooner does he reach level 2 security, he finds himself tangled in a web of a conspiracy. A dying man Joe comes in contact with tells him he's from the future (2012, vs. 1972) and gives him a solar powered time machine device.
The is a pointandclick game so you will have to gently nudge Joe where you want him to go by pointing and clicking. If the crosshair icon turns to a circle, you can click on that item to either pick it up or investigate that area further, and Joe will tell you if something is needed in order to complete that area such as finding a key to unlock a door. There is a lot of back and forthing in this game, mostly because you missed something you didn't think was there or important enough. You will have to read or listen to the dialog to figure out what you are supposed to be doing, or just try using inventory items everywhere if you get stuck. If there seems to be nothing left to do, most likely you need to activate the time machine to travel back and forth, finding items and tasks in 2012 and using them in 1972 and vice versa. I think the game The Inner World is a much more interesting pointandclick game, but this is a game that grows on you, enjoy!
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If you do not like repetitive quest driven Hidden Object games, steer clear of this game. This game is similar to games like Midnight Castle, Awakening Kingdom, Found and Dark Manor, where you are given quests to complete by the characters you meet on your journey. These quests involve finding several inventory items within different HO scenes that are given as list finds, silhouetted shapes, and some scenes are in the dark requiring you to find items with a small light. You need to find items that will complete other quests such as finding gold or items to repair a boat, which in turn is usually used to barter with people so that they will help you in a different quest.
Once you accept a quest, (which requires a certain amount of gold, gems, or items) you will be directed to the area that items needed are located. Once you complete the Hidden Object Scene, you collect your rewards and complete the task. Each scene will require you to revisit the scene several times, to complete a mastery level, usually 10-15 times, and as you progress, more items are added to search for, but it is very repetitive in the beginning especially when there are only a few items to find at a time, and only a few scenes are available. As you progress, more scenes are unlocked and more items are available to find. You can choose Easy, Normal and Hard modes of difficulty for the HOP's but many of the items are very well hidden at times. You will earn up to 3 stars for each HOP completed, depending upon the time it takes you to find the items as shown on the meter located on the top of the screen. Inventory items are stored in your knapsack and to access them for use, you will play an increasingly difficult Mini Game of connecting chips of the same color without overlapping the lines.
There is a Shop that allows you to purchase items to help you achieve these goals better or faster such as: Chests that contain various collections that you may need. Amulets that can increase your XP to level up quicker, or allow you more time in a HOP. Access gives you coins, meat, arrows, ladders, coal, and even potions that you need during the adventure. Tools such as Fireflies for extra hints, hourglasses that freeze time during a HOP, lanterns for more light during an HOP in the dark, and other things to help you find items quickly. Weapons such as spears, swords, pickaxes, flails, arrows etc. Miscellaneous contains items that help you deliver your collections. There are 86 Achievements to earn as well, and most of the Achievements have several goals to achieve within the main achievement.
You have to be a fan of this type of HOP to enjoy this type of game. In my opinion, quests give the HO meaning and makes you scour the scenes to hopefully get rewarded with the items you need. This may sound complicated, but there is a tutorial that will take you step by step, it will take you a while to catch on so you're going to have to give this game a fair amount of time to understand what you are supposed to be doing. Enjoy!
Welcome to Hotel Solitaire. On each floor you will find 5 rooms, each with its own game of solitaire. Play 15 different card games across 100 levels, either against the clock or with no time limit.
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Hotel Solitaire has 15 different types of solitaire games to please every type of solitaire gamer. You can chose to visit each floor of the hotel and play solitaire in 5 different rooms, or you can choose Recreation to play solitaire at a relaxed untimed pace. If you play the different levels however, it will unlock solitaire games in the Casino such as Pharaoh's Solitaire and Match 2 Solitaire. As you progress your way up the floors of the hotel, you can choose to play any room in any order, and you can replay the rooms as often as you want to achieve a better score. The following is a list of some of the main solitaire games available:
1) Facedown Cards: This is your typical game of Higher/Lower solitaire where you try to remove all cards from the board by placing cards either higher or lower than the cards shown on the deck. This game however has 3 cards shown on the deck versus the typical single card.
2) Match Pairs: This solitaire game requires you to make matches of the same number of card regardless of suit, again there are three deck cards shown at a time that can be used to make matches when there are no matches on the board itself.
3) Thirteen: This solitaire game requires you to remove cards that equal the number 13. The Ace is worth 1, the Jack worth 11, the Queen worth 12 and the King is worth 13 which means no other card is necessary when a King is involved.
4) Build Up: 4 Aces are placed on 4 foundation piles at the beginning of the game. You must build up the foundation pile with cards of the same suit in consecutive order.
5) Match Suits: This solitaire game requires you to remove cards from the board by matching two cards of the same suit. Those cards must be located in the same row or column.
If you are looking for a variety of solitaire games, look no further and enjoy!
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If you thought the Bates Motel was horrifying, try spending the night at the Peaceful Hill Motel where every guest becomes an experiment in a twisted psychological maze! When you wake up in a fog it quickly becomes obvious that you have just become subject number 360! You have no idea where you are, but the master of ceremonies has made your objectives clear, find a way out of the maze, prove yourself worthy and join her sanctuary, IF you can stand the pressure!
Everything about this game is AWESOME! You will feel your heart beating, you will feel a sense of urgency, You will feel trapped and desperate! It's sick, it's demented, it's gross, it's creepy, it's nerve wracking, and I love it! This maze is booby trapped, so you're going to have to choose your moves wisely. Do you want to open the door cautiously, or push the door quickly and hope for the best? I had to test this theory, the game warns that my decisions could be life altering, so I chose the opposite of what I chose when I played the beta version, wondering if I would lose my life and find myself back in the trapped room where I began. That would have been pretty cool, but nope, I just get told I'm not very bright by my captor. She's tracking you! Yep, she's carefully hidden tokens that open locked doors in some of the weirdest places, and these tokens keep track of you and your progress, whew, I'm still panicked from nearly drowning!
The Hidden Object Puzzles are a bit scarce, but who needs 'em in this psychological thriller, but none the less, you gotta do them to get your inventory items, right? They are varied but mostly list finds, although I enjoyed the HOP within a painting where the little girl tells you a story and you find item she is telling you about one sentence at a time. The Collector's Edition has the addition of a Morphing Object in each HOP.
There are a ton of mini games, some of which have a sense of urgency because you're trying to stay alive! There are a lot of clues to find in this game in order to solve some of the games, so don't overlook anything. There are valves to turn until the needles are all in the green zone, tiles to shift around with only one empty space, figurines to swap until all the lights turn green and even tiles to rotate to close all pipe circuits, before you run out of air!
The Collector's Edition has 15 Achievements, 44 Collectible Symbols, 19 replayable HOP's with gold, silver and bronze trophies to earn, a Jigsaw Puzzle Character Gallery, Morphing Objects, 16 Wallpapers, Soundtracks, the Making of Video, a built in Strategy Guide and a Bonus Chapter, enjoy!
I recommend this game!
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Mystery Tales: Alaskan Wild Collector's Edition
Call on the animal spirits to help find your sister.
Overall rating
5/ 5
217 of 284 found this review helpful
If You Think Your Mother-In-Law Is Bad Check Out Abigail!
PostedAugust 29, 2015
pennmom36
fromDid you forget to tell Ellie what happened to your last fiance, Daniel?
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Clearly Ellie is going to have problems with her mom to be, this woman's ruthless! When Daniel was just a baby, his father passed away and his mother Abigail became a wee bit overprotective to say the least. When Daniel became ill, Abigail vowed to find a cure, and indeed she did find a cure, in dark magic! Ellie has invited you to visit her in Alaska and visit her fiance Daniel, but Abigail has no intentions of losing Daniel to another woman, and you have no intentions of losing your sister Ellie to this cold hearted woman!
The local shaman has foreseen your arrival, and has given you a powerful amulet. This amulet can be used upon any animal totem to magically transform you into the animal totem, temporarily of course. Each time you become one with the animal, you will play a mini game as seen through that animals eyes, such as guiding a mouse through a maze using directional arrows, or soaring through the skies as an owl and finding objects shown through a viewfinder you control. Because you are a wildlife photographer, you have a digital camera that allows you to photograph any wildlife you come across, however, there is no indication to alert you (at least in custom mode) so you will have to pay attention. There are Plus Sign inventory items to tinker with and 22 Achievements to earn, and there are 11 Collectible Character Figurines to find throughout the game. There is a Snowflake icon located on the left of the screen that will allow you to make it snow, either no snow at all, or practically a blizzard.
The Hidden Object Puzzles are varied and are usually presented in three stages. Some have Morphing Objects to find followed by interactive list finds, silhouetted shape finds, fragment finds or finding 3 items of each picture shown. There is an alternate Match 3 game available if you aren't into HOP's. There are 13 HOP's available throughout the game.
The Mini Games are fun, however they really aren't new and they are very easy puzzles. Tiles to rotate to complete an image but some tiles affect other tiles, untangling a rope by moving the knots to different areas until none of the rope segments overlap, and navigating a boat and using the boats light to find 3 jellyfish, 5 squid and 5 fish, and then clicking on each colored sections to change the color to match them.
This Collector's Edition has 10 Concept Art pictures, 5 Soundtracks, 11 Character Figurines, 11 Wildlife photos, 22 Achievements, 13 replayable HOP's, 23 replayable Mini Games, 21 Cutscenes, 11 Wallpapers, and 5 Personality Quiz Questions that will match your answers to 5 different characters personalities, a built in Strategy Guide and a Bonus Chapter, enjoy!
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The Duke of Reddington was among the victims of a strange and icy storm that sank a ship just off the coast of St. Margaret island. Letters he had written to his wife, Natalie the Duchess of Reddington, indicate that the Duke had uncovered some discrepancies within Governor Finch's financials. He believed that the recent reports of gold heists he was sent to investigate, never existed, in fact they may very well be a cover up! The Navy has asked for your help getting to the bottom of this investigation (hopefully not the bottom of the sea) unfortunately, it looks like Rebecca Lowe, A.K.A the Sea Ripper responsible for these heists, is aboard your very ship! This investigation will uncover a tide of treachery and lies....a Sea of Lies to be be precise!
Although this edition of Sea of Lies has plenty of drama and suspense to keep you on the edge of your life preserver, I don't think it holds a sea candle to the original Sea of Lies. I am however, glad that Tide of Treachery has returned to the sea which put this game on the pirate map so to speak. Many of the inventory items are complex, Plus Sign Inventory items that allow you to tinker with the items before they can be used, and the Collector's Edition had the addition of a hefty ho amount of seafaring Achievements to earn, and 44 Collectible, but not so hidden Globes to collect. (they are unusually large) Personally neither of those features floated my boat well enough to persuade me to "shell" out the extra booty, this edition is the better value in my opinion.
The Hidden Object Scenes are done well with plenty of variations in scenery and type. Most are done in stages, with interactive list finds and descriptions, but there are also Multiple finds that include an interaction to open up the list, of silhouetted shape finds. If you aren't thrilled with the HOP's, you can play an awesome Match 3 game instead.
The Mini Games are plentiful, but kind of easy in my opinion. There are tokens that must be slide to match the background, Mermaids to put in the correct position to stop a waterfall, and a game that requires you to adjust silhouettes of ships using candle reflections. My favorite game requires you to select a starting point to move the token using directional arrows so that it travels across every cell without overlapping, for a total of three games that progress in difficulty.
The Collector's Edition has 12 Achievements, 27 replayable Puzzle Mini Games, 18 replayable HOP's, 7 Movies, 8 Concept Art pictures, 8 Wallpapers, 9 Music Soundtracks, a Souvenir Room, 44 Collectible Globes, a built in Strategy Guide and a Bonus Chapter. So, yo ho ho mates, get your HO game on and enjoy!