Pfitzy's Profile
Stat Summary
- Average Rating:3.3
- Helpful Votes:11
- Reviews Submitted:3
- First Review:August 30, 2015
- Most Recent Review:September 26, 2015
- Featured reviews0
Pfitzy's Review History
Help Henri, a high-spirited baker with a penchant for pastries, arrange scrumptious ingredients into groups of three or more to make colorful confections.
Overall rating
4
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5
3 of 4 found this review helpful
I love the beautiful food and quirky characters
PostedSeptember 26, 2015
Pfitzy
fromSeattle, WA
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Time Management, Adventure, Match 3, Strategy
Current Favorite:
Phantasmat Collector's Edition
(100)Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
4
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5
I adore this match three. The only glitch that bothers me is that there's an occasional loss of fluidity with match-making during more chaotic periods of the game. I also find that during certain levels the color scheme makes it impressively difficult to tell one item from another which I'm not sure is the intention of the developer.
Other than those two issues, I really like this match-3 as I'm prone to loving most things to do with fancy food, cute characters and odd, but interesting sound effects.
I recommend this game!
Mind's Eye: Secrets of the Forgotten
Follow an enterprising journalist who smells murderous intent behind what everyone assumes was a suicide in Mind’s Eye!
Overall rating
4
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5
6 of 7 found this review helpful
I liked it
PostedSeptember 7, 2015
Pfitzy
fromSeattle, WA
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Puzzle, Hidden Object, Time Management, Adventure, Match 3, Arcade & Action
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
4
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5
I liked the character development and the story - it was a bit brief, but I bought this as part of a pack. I was hoping to run into a sequel, but alas - it appears this game wasn't as popular as I'd hoped.
I recommend this game!
Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove, Sacred Grove Collector's Edition
A deadly secret lurks in the woods of Dire Grove!
Overall rating
2
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5
2 of 3 found this review helpful
Definitely will play the demo first, next time.
PostedAugust 30, 2015
Pfitzy
fromSeattle, WA
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Time Management, Adventure, Match 3, Strategy, Brain Teaser
Fun Factor
2
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
2
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
2
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5
To me, this MCF game was, at best, mediocre. The voice-over provided by the master detective was completely unnecessary and unwanted. BFG/Elephant had a voice-actor for the male version, but the female version was obviously done through some sort of synthetic voice generator and just plain awful (monotone.. way worse than the one supplied by my GPS). As other reviewers have noted, the accents vary by character - which can happen IRL, but makes the whole story seem inconsistent - especially when a father has a cockney accent and the son is North American (US or CAN) and the developers offer no explanation for it.
The game play, itself, was alright. However, the puzzle scenes were rarely intuitive and tedious to solve. I ran into a technical issue only once during a matching scene and had to use the hint function to bypass it (I hate using the hint function...). The picture puzzles were too obviously placed to be fun to pick up - same goes for the morphing objects.
Overall, this MCF is missing any level of suspense and I didn't care much for any of the characters - not even my own as he wasn't particularly interesting or sympathetic. I much preferred the ambiguity of previous versions over this as well as the real live actors (which I used to think were cheesy, but now I miss them). I'd have been happier with just reading my lines and seeing my nondescript gloves providing my action scenes with no ethnicity/gender indicated unless it's integral to the story.
Most of the puzzle scenes took a ridiculous amount of time to "solve" and I eventually had to use the strategy guide because I just got tired of randomly clicking items in hopes they would animate. I, actually, liked the more recent Madame Fate and hope if they stick with this format that they at least go for horror/suspense/mystery as opposed to whatever the dime-store emo-pseudo indigenous sci-fi junk this was. I dread every time I had to return to the characters to talk to them (or look at the ones holding the scenery up).
I don't recommend this game.