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This is the Fourth edition of Clutter and you are going to want to purchase this game after 10 minutes of addictive gameplay! The object of this game as well as the other three Clutter's are quite simple, find two identical items (look closely not all matches are the same size) in a huge junkpile of clutter. This may sound simple and mundane but I assure you it's extremely fun. Normally I'm not a fan of junkpiles in a Hidden Object Game, but for whatever reason this is different. There's no story here folks, just hours of entertainment, but after completing each level your score is tallied up and you can read a famous quotation such as "The buck stops here" by Harry S. Truman and a tip by the dev to make the game easier such as the fact that the lap counter doesn't start counting until you make your first match so take all the time you need to find matches before clicking on anything. There are several different types of Clutter games such as See Two, Match Two requiring you to make matches of two identical items of clutter until all available matches have been found as indicated and before the lap belt timer runs out. If you don't find all the matches before the lap belt timer runs out you will have to start the game over, however you will get a brand new junk pile. There is also a game called 10 Brick Blocks that require you to make matches of the items shown at the top of the screen. With every match of the pictured items, two brick block discs are removed to reveal more items, you will still need to continue other matches as well. Every Clutter pile has several coins and letters to collect with just a single click, you need those for extra points as well as collecting extra hints. Every level also has several puzzle tiles that need to be collected to complete a mini game. The mini games are a series of puzzles in sections. Once a section has been collected, you will put those collected pieces into their correct slot and then complete different variations with that puzzle such as swapping tiles to complete a picture, with a twist such as not having any pieces with a 1/2 flower for example. At the end of the game you will have a complete puzzle of several sections that will eventually fill the entire screen. The points are tallied by adding the points accumulated for the matches (the more matches you make consecutively gives you a higher score) coins, letters and puzzle pieces found, brick bonus, time remaining, and the percentage of accuracy (a feature I love) as well as points for the accuracy. Give this game a try, it's different than any game you have played I assure you, enjoy!
I recommend this game!
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Shrouded Tales: The Spellbound Land
Your magical powers have finally awakened. Now you have the strength to free your mother from the Shadow Realm!
Overall rating
5/ 5
109 of 132 found this review helpful
Shrouded Under The Magical Dome
PostedOctober 12, 2014
pennmom36
fromMom must have been wondering if her magic was ever going to awaken!
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Twenty five years ago the Vulture banished your mother to the Shadow Realm and cast an evil spell that sealed the entire city of Havenwick with an impenetrable dome! Your magical powers have just awakened allowing you to "see" your mother for the first time. With the help of your mother and her spellbook you will learn to cast spells and face the evil Vulture. The spellcasters of Havenwick formed the Council of Baron's who were servants of the people and protected them from evil. Your mother was a Baron of the council as well, so you must find the other council members and rally them together to have the strength to fight against the Vultures powerful and evil spells.
You will need to find (not so) hidden Ancient Runes scattered throughout the domed city, once you have found the correct amount for each spell you need to complete a mini game of connecting symbols by rotating segments until there are no open ends before using the spell. There are several spells to acquire that will allow you to fix broken items, rejuvenate dying plants, heal animals and more, your powers must be used to help others.
There are many activities to do in each location, and plenty of inventory items to pick up and use as well. There aren't a whole lot of Hidden Object Scenes but they are very well done with requirements such as locating objects that match silhouettes and there is a magnifying glass located in the middle of the inventory bar that will enlarge the shapes and you can use arrows to switch to a different silhouette for magnification. There are a lot of mini games besides the spell mini games, one I enjoyed playing was using arrows to flip coins that are gold on one side and silver on the other with the goal being to flip all coins to the gold by using blocks to keep some coins from flipping over.
The Collector's Edition has OST and Video, Concept Art, Hidden Runes, Gallery, Mini Games and HOP's, Lost Pages, 22 Achievements, a Bonus Game, a built in Strategy Guide and a Final Quiz. This is a quality game with a great entertainment factor worthy of a purchase, so hurry up and give this spellbinding game a try and enjoy!
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I will give this game credit for the phenomenal cutscenes which truly deserve 5 stars, the videos are well produced with heart pumping action. However the game itself moved way to slow with very little entertainment value simply because there wasn't enough to do in each scene, not enough Hidden Object Scenes and certainly not enough mini games, and the collections were far and few between, even the achievements were scarce. To be quite honest, I'm disappointed because this game had HUGE potential, the paranormal theme itself is interesting and rarely the plot with HO games making this story a refreshing change of pace from the fairy tale Kings and Princesses in peril scenarios.
On with the fantastic story: Jason Clark, a police officer, has just told a young boy named Kevin to stay in the cellar because "they're coming for you" and he locks the door behind him! The frightened boy sits down in a large overstuffed chair that has seen it's better days, looks forward and says, "please make a call" which somehow prompts an unidentified man to make a phone call in a trance like state to Child Protection Services, repeating the words Kevin is speaking from the cellar, "I need to report a case of child abuse" Samantha Evans is the case worker that receives this robot like call and immediately drives to Jason Clark's residence to investigate. Jason is blatantly lying to Samantha and she knows it, so she excuses herself to do some serious snooping. The snooping pays off as she peeks between the outside cellar doors to discover Kevin playing with toys, the toys however are magically floating in midair! Without a second thought Samantha breaks into the cellar and jumps down to save this poor child. Eventually the two of them escape the cellar and sneak out of Jason's front door, with Jason in hot pursuit! Now let's not forget that Samantha works for Child Protection Service, she is supposed to protect children, but at this point she seems to have no regard for Kevin's safety as she revs the engine of her car, and begins squealing tires as billows of smoke form from the burning tire rubber fill the air! After a speedy 180 in the road she puts the pedal to the metal and would have killed both of them as she tried to beat a train to the intersection but Kevin uses the force to slow the fast moving train to a crawl, they escape for now! Now that's a story folks!!
Problem is, the gameplay isn't as exciting as the car pursuit, not even close. There isn't even a need for the hint button because every action is logical and predictable, in other words you will know exactly what to do with every inventory item you come across (and there isn't really a lot to find) Some of the inventory items have plus signs indicating that further action is required before using that item such as bending a wire to form a hook. There were only a couple of HOS in the entire 90 minute demo, and they were progressive silhouette finds where you find the first item that matches the silhouetted shape and use that item in the scene to expose the next item which is also used to find the next item and so forth. There weren't even that many puzzles or mini games and most of those were small puzzles with the inventory items such as flipping tiles two at a time to make matches of related item such as a dog and a bone. There is also a small feature within the game that shows a bullet point in the scene with an urgent message such as, Run or Hide which prompts you to click on that flashing bullet point to quickly escape. This feature is supposed to give the player a sense of urgency. There are collectible coins throughout the game, again a little sparse on the frequency, these are coins with pencils, apples and other similar pictures, nothing exciting.
This Collectors Edition has Wallpapers, Concept Art, Cutscenes, Achievements, Music, Characters, a built in Strategy Guide and a Bonus Chapter: On The Edge. In my opinion this game will be a better value as a Standard Edition because there simply isn't enough backbone in this CE, enjoy!
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The object of this crazy game is to break matching color groups of balls, the bigger the group is the more powerful a bonus you will receive. But wait! There's way more to this game....That was just the classic mode with over 60 levels, where you release a part of a jigsaw puzzle piece, remove wooden and stone barriers and clear the balls above the white blocks to remove them. Did I mention that you have to do all of these things at a break necking speed? If you complete the level within the time limit you will automatically progress and level up, if your time runs out you will be given the option to add 15 seconds to the timer, if you still don't clear the blocks you will have to start over at level one!
If you clear large groups you will receive a bonus such as a Bomb when you remove 5-7 balls, and will destroy 8-11 balls surrounding it. If you remove 8-11 balls you receive Lightning which destroys an intersection vertically and horizontally. If you remove 12 balls you receive a Nuclear bomb which destroys 20 surrounding balls. Stone barriers can only be removed by an explosion.
Zomboball is another feature where you must clear 60 balls within a time limit in order to receive 60 more balls.
Quest mode has several different games within such as:Step by Step with 20 levels to change the color of the blocks by removing balls in a sequential order, if you don't the previous blocks will change colors. Line Down requires you to remove balls above the line to change their color, when all blocks are repainted, the line will go one step down until it's at the bottom. Block stop is similar and you destroy all blocks above the stationary line. My favorites were Demolisher and Stonefall which requires you to destroy all stones, because only explosions can destroy stone you must set the board up to make large matches for the bonuses. And for all those who want all the fun without the pressure of that timer, there is a Relax feature that has you progress automatically as you clear the board to level up, and the best part is you won't have to see GAME OVER!
This is a unique ball popping game with so many different categories that you will spend hours and days playing new features. There are Badges to earn, record top scores to beat, and statistics which shows the number of balls, stones, lightning and bombs you have used. What are you waiting for start popping and enjoy!
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Diva sang opera so beautifully that it was to die for, quite literally her melodic voice would drain the life essence out of anyone who listened to her voice! She was eventually banned from performing in most of Europe causing her to become a recluse until the angry family members of her victims took her life when they burned her house to the ground. But evil cannot be suppressed for long, and the opening trailer allows us to see evil reborn before our eyes as two evil minions search for the Diva's coffin in a dark cemetery. "I feel her presence near" is hauntingly spoken by one of the minions, and before you can blink an eye, the minions peel open her coffin lid to expose Diva's rotting corpse, "Rise Diva we've given you back your life" For now the show must go on, unfortunately when you arrive at the opera house to meet Kate Halbreits and her family for Diva's latest performance, you watch Kate being sucked into the entrance by those same evil minions! Your investigation reveals that the Diva needs Kate alive, but why?
As you try desperately to gain access into the opera house you are summoned by a young man who claims to be a "Knowing" some use their powers for good, others evil. The Knowing has given you a Medallion capable of stopping evil forces, however, each time the Medallion is used it requires new crystals to reactivate. The Knowing has hidden these crystals all around the theater just before the show and you must find these crystals before using it's powerful forces against the entities you come across. You will also receive help on occasion from a pesky and mischievous little ferret, who actually does more harm than good (and I might add that the animation graphics on this ferret is horrible, his face is out of proportion and he's just plain ugly!) On a personal note, I wasn't all that impressed by this Maestro, the other's in this series are fantastic and entertaining. I think this is a good game, not a great game and at times the game moved along so slowly that I became bored. Some of the inventory items have gears shown above them indicating that further action needs to be taken before using that item such as combining that item with another inventory item.
The Hidden Object Scenes are a variety of finding multiples of the same item such as 12 chain links, interactive list finds and progressive interactive silhouettes where you find the first item that matches the silhouetted shape and then use that item to interact with another item in the scene which exposes the next item and so forth. The mini games were entertaining, some smaller games are actually in the HOS such as sliding tokens around a grid formation with some stationary blocks that you use as a stopping point to maneuver the blocks into a specific color coded slot, and you can use each of the sliding tokens as bumpers too. Other mini games consist of matching two halves of a token to complete a picture by clicking on the tokens to rotate them as you use the center hub to exchange the two halves. I wasn't paying that much attention this time but in the CE, the Hidden Object Scenes have an alternate pair matching game available for those of you who don't like the HOS, just not sure if that option was available in this SE.
The Collectors Edition version has Achievements, Music, Concept Art, Wallpapers, Screensavers, Movies, Re-playable Puzzles and HO's, a built in Strategy Guide and of course a Bonus Chapter, enjoy!
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I bow to you Big Fish, this game proves you truly are the game King! You have exceeded my expectations with Wicked Harvest. How can you possibly top this game?
The Scarecrow has been terrorizing the citizens of Blake's Mountain Ireland, who could blame them? This scythe wielding giant scarecrow is wicked, and he's "harvesting" children for the Red Moon! What does he need all of those children for and who is the cloaked figure calling all the shots? Could the Healer who lost her daughter to the plague be seeking revenge?
Words cannot describe this latest edition of League of Light, whatever descriptions you can think of probably apply, it's that good, and you will definitely want the Collectors Edition. Once again there are 25 hidden owls to find and they are extremely well blended into the scenery, some are real owls that can easily be overlooked and some are just images of owls such as wood carvings in the woodwork! You will also collect figurines of the main characters like the gypsy fortune teller and the creepy Scarecrow, there aren't a lot of these and they are usually tucked away in the zoom in areas. I'm not sure where the little miniature scarecrow came from, but you will rescue the less wicked and much less intimidating little guy from a hungry dog and he sticks around to help you during your investigation. Some of the inventory items have plus signs indicating that further action need to be taken before using that item such as putting pieces together or combining that item with another inventory item. Some of the items you find will actually be used on the baby scarecrow such as a shield and sword to help him scare off a flock of angry crows. There are a lot of Achievements to earn and if you click on the extras icon and go into the achievements section, you can answer three easy questions about the game, and then three difficult questions so be observant during the game. Each achievement you earn gives you a puzzle piece that you can assemble as well.
The Hidden Object Scenes are very entertaining, and they are mostly interactive and progressive silhouetted shape finds where you find the first item that matched the silhouette and then use that item in the scene to expose the next item and so forth until you find all of the items. The mini games range from simple puzzles where you swap gems to match a picture, or find 5 different symbols on each scene of a storybook. I actually liked the game on a ouija board where you had to use the pointer to choose letters in a phrase in a hangman type game, however none of the mini games were hard or too difficult.
This Collectors Edition has collectible figurines and 25 collectible owls, Achievements with interactive games,Sketches, Wallpapers, Music, a built in Strategy Guide, a Bonus Chapter where you save the Healers daughter, and even an extra bonus game as well. This game is a must buy, with a phenomenal story and excellent graphics as well as exceptional entertainment value and some pretty cool hidden owls to find this is a CE must for me, enjoy!
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If you are a fan of nanograms, pic cross, mosaic puzzles, you're in for a treat with this game. There are setting to allow for full or widescreen, and you can disable the voice encouragements, background and images, mute and you can choose to have the game automatically fill in blank cells for you. There are achievements to earn such as no misclicks, no hints used, perfect time, playing for 5 and even 10 hours as well as earning bronze, silver or gold trophies. Each game allows for 6 mistakes and each cell you correctly fill will also fill up 4 energy vessels that can be used as hints to fill in several random cells. There is an available tutorial, the basics of the game are fairly easy to figure out. Nonogram grids consist of cells that can be filled in or left blank to solve the puzzle. The numbers along the sides of the grid indicate the number of filled-in cells in the rows and columns. You fill in cells with the left mouse button and cross out cells using the right mouse buttons, every filled cell will be divided with an empty cell. This game has 5 puzzles to each level with groups of pictures such as DNA, cells, and atoms followed by a jigsaw mini game and then the next level has pictures pertaining to weather such as tornados, rain and lightning. If you are a beginner or hardcore nonogramer this game is going to thrill you, enjoy!
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What a perfect day, spending the day with your daughter Jessica who is having the time of her life. All's good until she says she want's to stay there forever, and BAM, this was a personal request for Grot the soul reaver to appear out of nowhere and kidnap little Jessica! Grot taps his scepter on the ground and the two of them vaporize into a puff of black smoke disappearing into the castle on the hill, now what? Well you could go back home and pretend this never happened, or you can enter the castle which is obviously haunted, track down this evil and very powerful demon and save Jessica. For now I say we give it a gallant effort.
This is a decent game, although I had my doubts at the beginning because there was nothing but dialog boxes and awkward silence, however it didn't last long before the game picked up it's pace. There are 4 levels of difficulty which are designed for playing the game in all modes, even the available achievements are designed for playing the game in different modes. This game has Morphing Objects, one of my favorite features, and I must admit they have done a very nice job with the morphs, slow and not too obvious. Whenever the mirror begins to shine, that is your indication that a morph is in that scene, some are in HOS as well. There are also collectible mirror fragments that you will place into a frame each time you find a fragment.
The Hidden Object Scenes are well done, interactive list finds, however some of the scenes are repeated, which tends to bore me the second time around. The mini games are decent too, ranging from simple puzzles where you assemble torn picture fragments or swap sections, to slightly more complicated games where you move animal shaped clouds by clicking and dragging along a trajectory path. If the line is clear of other animal clouds you can move the cloud all the way to the end, if not you have to finagle other clouds out of the way.
This makes two stand alone editions in a row that have clearly surprised me, I really wasn't expecting much but the game has definite entertainment value, enjoy!
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When the King allowed suiters to seek his daughters hand in marriage, every Prince from miles around arrived. The Princess wasn't impressed with any of them, until Prince Henrik walked into the room and it was love at first sight! One year later, they are the proud parents of a beautiful royal baby and Magnus has just arrived with a present for the Royal Blessing. This is a very special day and this present is equally as special, a Fairy Godmother named Violet who has been magically bonded to the child and forever bound to protect this child! What could possibly go wrong for this royally blessed family full of love and happiness? Obviously something has to go wrong otherwise it's not much of a story is it? It would seem that Prince Henrik has a secret, a very large debt to repay, a first born child! Turns out the Prince isn't really a Prince, he's just a very ambitious pauper that set out on a quest to find riches when he was just a boy so that he could provide his parents with more wealth and wealth would certainly bring happiness. Somewhere along his journey he made a deal with the darkness, with the evil entity that presides within the Tower of Darkness. Prince Henrik has been turned to stone, and the baby has been taken to the tower, the Princess and Violet must embark on a journey to face this evil before it's too late!
I have to give credit when credit is due, for a stand alone non-exclusive game, Queen's Quest is a decent game that will surprise you. The graphics are beautifully hand drawn, and the mechanics of the game flow very nicely, there are even Achievements to earn, some are very original, and there are several collectibles available! That's correct, there are 6 royal crowns, 5 swords, 6 hooks and 6 apples to collect, and the collections can be accessed quickly with the crown icon which is next to the achievement icon on the bottom right of the screen. Violet is a fairy so she's along for the ride to help collect items that are out of reach for the normal person.
Again I have to give the devs credit, they have jam packed this game with entertainment, the Hidden Object games are fun but I loved the mini games, some new some old, but all of them so far are just plain ole fun. My favorite game so far was placing colored crystals of different number values so that the sum of two crystals equalled the total that was indicated between them. Many of the games required you to click on items in a specific order by trial and error (if you chose the wrong sequence you had to start over) there was even a series of dungeon doors, each had roman numeral buttons that had to be clicked in a specific order. You would need to interact with the scene surrounding the door first to uncover the correct sequence before opening one of several doors. The Hidden Object Scenes were mostly interactive list finds such as waiting until a lizard changes a series of different colors and clicking on the lizard once he turned orange for an orange lizard. A few of the scenes were repeated a second time with silhouettes of several keys for example.
To sum it all up, this is a very entertaining game with a great story. Each scene has several active areas, and you get many features with this game that are usually only available in collectors edition which makes this game a bargain in my opinion. The only complaint I have with this game is with the map which is too time consuming to access because you have to click on the journal and then click on the compass, but once you do, the map will allow quick travel to that location which is a plus. This game is definitely worth the price and most definitely worth a credit, enjoy!
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Schrodinger the cat is a scientist who needs lot's of cheese for his experiments. In order to continue his experiments, he needs the mice to collect Anima Shards before they reach the cheese, that's where you come in at. You must place crates that are shaped like tetras blocks in strategic locations so that the mice can reach the shards. Don't worry, you can re-play a level as many times as you need to if you get it wrong. The crates can be rotated by right clicking, but once you place a crate, you cannot move it. Some levels have bombs as well that you must collect to progress, these bombs must be used to destroy some of the crated blocking the path again don't worry the bombs only hurt the crates not the mice. The mice can't jump very high upwards and if they jump down more than 3 blocks, they will die (they can be killed if you place a crate on them because it squishes them) I loved the mice, not only are they designed to be adorable, but the devs did a great job with their movements as well. This is one of those games that really makes you think, and before you know it you'll be saying, "just one more experiment", enjoy!