mary_mcmurran's Profile
Stat Summary
- Average Rating:2
- Helpful Votes:6
- Reviews Submitted:1
- First Review:September 10, 2022
- Most Recent Review:September 10, 2022
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A trio of hoax hunters get the shock of their lives!
Overall rating
2
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5
6 of 6 found this review helpful
The dead aren't all that got neglected here.
PostedSeptember 10, 2022
mary_mcmurran
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Mystery Case Files®: Fate's Carnival
(133)Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
2
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5
Level of Challenge
2
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5
Storyline
1
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5
For a short while I found the clumsy animation and laughable CG kind of charming, but after getting out of the initial room, the charm began to fade rapidly, and by the end of the first chapter I just walked away and uninstalled. Only five locations in the chapter, I think three or four HOS (only one of which had more than five items to find), and two puzzles... awful puzzles. Both are rotate-and-swap, a type tedious to begin with, and these seem to have been made by someone who's seen such puzzles but not been taught how to make them practical to solve.
Voice acting quality is best typified by the fairy I couldn't help but dub "Cindy" when her ludicrously out-of-place accent, like a petulant valley girl who wants to talk to your manager, made me laugh out loud.
To explain what really kicked me out of the story for good would entail spoilers; suffice to say that there are two basic ways this thin premise could go, and they chose the stupid easy one.
Tastes vary; you might enjoy what I don't. But even if this game's style *does* tickle your fancy, unless the following two chapters are considerably longer and more varied than the first, there's just not enough substance here to justify paying the same price as any number of meatier and better made titles on the site.
I don't recommend this game.