With no map to get from one place to another and avoid using the hint (which was too much hint) this was no fun to play. A disappointment with Elephant games. Makes me sorry I did not try it first. I wasted my money.
This is the first Elephant produced game I did not like.
First was the fact that the skip or hint buttons where not available on certain games or HOH's. This was annoying and by the time I got to the last puzzle and could get no hint, I gave up, and thus not eligible to play the bonus game. Which by this time I really didn't care.
The game had three stories and where all lame. The last one was the worse. The end made no sense.
I would suggest if you must try this game, at least play the trial first and save some money or you may disagree with me.
I am a huge Five BN fan but this one, not so much. Maybe it is me and maybe because If there was a story before this one and I missed it, but the premise was a bit (a lot) contrived.
"Gee Mom, where have you been for fifteen years. Well got to go." I couldn't get past Mom just popping in and then, "well son I have to go save the world". Even Mom's great body didn't help.
It was also very difficult to play which can be good I guess except when you don't care what happens anyway.
I have been playing these games for about five years and this game has it all. I highly recommend it. I can't wait to get the first in the series. The makers of this video make the best games by far.
Maybe it is just me but I didn't like it for several reasons. The story was weird. The visuals on the puzzles were impossible to see what you were looking for. I did not like the high tech graphics at all. I hated to give up on something I paid for but I finally said, "this is not fun". And just stopped playing and moved on. This is a good reason to play on trial first.
I have played a ton of these games. This one, like a lot of the newer ones have puzzles whose instructions are so vague, figuring out what they want you to do is harder that the puzzle itself. This one is the worst and I am not done playing it. Even after seeing the solution it still did not make sense. The abacus one and the "3,1,5 code. No idea even after I saw the solution. Not the only ones. Not fun when you have to skip it cause you can't figure out what their looking for. I still thought it was a great game and rated it so, but.....
This was a good game and a lot of play for not being the longer version. My only problem was many of the puzzles directions were to short on info. I could not figure out what the heck to do. The last one. I could not get anything to move. It was a let down for many puzzles cause I could not either figure out what I was supposed to do, or like the hunter game, I would get to where I was supposed to be but I lost. No way to figure out why. Missed out of several puzzles and just skipped them.
The game itself was technically very good. I just did not like the subject matter of kidnapping and crazy parents etc. Many other fun games by this group to play.