ushie15's Profile
Stat Summary
- Average Rating:4.5
- Helpful Votes:487
- Reviews Submitted:51
- First Review:November 18, 2011
- Most Recent Review:July 13, 2024
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Sometimes the past returns without warning or permission.
Overall rating
2
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5
9 of 11 found this review helpful
NO one locks her purse and scatters the pieces of the lock.
PostedJune 10, 2023
ushie15
fromWashington, DC
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Card & Board, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management
Fun Factor
2
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
2
/
5
Level of Challenge
1
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
Why do developers do this? No one who carries a purse would use a lock and scatter the pieces--one part in a secret part of a mailbox! No one does this, devs! No one would! Stop doing the "locked purse" puzzle. Also, creating a smoker for bees. Stop doing that. Who comes across so many bee hives these days?
The story is great, or would be if we didn't have to put our purse lock together, or find a jack, or put a phone lock (???) on a phone booth in someone's yard together in order to make a phone call. Devs, I promise you, if you focus on a great story and eschew dumb puzzles, you would have a great game.
The characters move weirdly, teleporting from space to space. Dana's partner, usually a plus, is just weirdly put together and talks in a bizarre and stiff manner for the few moments we see him. Dana's "sister" Eve isn't even mysterious--just clumsy.
I don't recommend this game, although I loved the first one. This is a case of calling it in.
I don't recommend this game.
The Lost Lands don't let go easily.
Overall rating
5
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5
6 of 14 found this review helpful
Marvelous game! Thrilling and touching!
PostedMarch 11, 2023
ushie15
fromWashington, DC
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Card & Board, Hidden Object, Match 3, Puzzle, Time Management
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
5
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5
It's wonderful to see Susan and Maaron again, and lovely to see Susan teaching her granddaughter how to be a Warrior Maid! The settings are aesthetically pleasing and well-detailed, the puzzles are fantastic and complex, and the story is absolutely top-notch. Best game of the year by far, and will probably be the best for the year as well.
I recommend this game!
What is Richard up to? Pursue Anna’s missing father through time!
Overall rating
1
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5
21 of 21 found this review helpful
Great game IF ONLY I COULD INSTALL IT
PostedAugust 12, 2022
ushie15
fromWashington, DC
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Card & Board, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management
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
5
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5
This is a really fun demo, and I immediately "bought" it. I "bought" it because even though I have the points, which now have been removed from my account, I can't install it. I really would have appreciated Big Fish allowing everyone to install the games they buy, and not just the ones who are lucky enough to figure it out. I've worked a long day, it's hot, and I wanted to relax. Now I'm just peeved and tense. Thanks, BF, for making Grim Tales fun again--and no thanks to the terrible mess installing a game is now. I recommend this game because maybe you will be lucky enough to install it. And the HELP pages are not helpful.
I recommend this game!
A royally challenging match-3 adventure in time!
Overall rating
5
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5
22 of 25 found this review helpful
Excellent, as always!
PostedJuly 2, 2022
ushie15
fromWashington, DC
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Card & Board, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management
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
The sounds, music, and art are impeccable, as always! Suricate knows and plays to its strengths, and those strengths are--when the player wants a beautiful, relaxing, and soothing game, play Suricate games! Love it!
I recommend this game!
Explore hundreds of detailed aquatic levels and rebuild breathtaking waterscapes.
Overall rating
5
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5
20 of 23 found this review helpful
Perfectly delightful!
PostedJanuary 8, 2022
ushie15
fromWashington, DC
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Card & Board, Hidden Object, Mahjong, Match 3, Time Management
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
5
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5
I knew Jewel Match Solitaire wouldn't let me down! This is such a beautiful game, and so inventive! The new "special" cards are even more layers of fun, and I didn't think anything could be more fun than the last! There are so many games and variations to play-the main game "travel and building" solitaires, the classic solitaires, the variations, the mah jong, the big solitaires--you cannot get bored if you like solitaires and other types of these games. The art is just lovely, and the music as soothing as always. Now if only MCF could get back on track...
I recommend this game!
Pendle Tower was once a lavish high-rise hotel, but a new renovation has awakened a long-dormant secret within its foreboding halls.
Overall rating
3
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5
25 of 28 found this review helpful
What they should do is recreate Dire Grove for modern pcs.
PostedNovember 24, 2021
ushie15
fromWashington, DC
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Card & Board, Hidden Object, Time Management
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
2
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5
Storyline
2
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5
I was hoping for the best. Mystery Case Files used to be a slam-dunk, auto-buy for me, and I would happily buy it immediately, knowing I was getting a super-premium game of the highest complexity and wicked humor. Now...no funny diary inserts, no secret collectibles, no wicked humor from either me or the antagonists, just...the usual stuff we get, although thankfully the demo didn't make me find a stupid piece of plastic whatever to insert in my own bag in order to open it (why would I do that to myself?). It's just average, so I guess there will never be a spectacular MCF again. Wish they'd redo Dire Grove to run on today's machines; that was a stellar game.
I don't recommend this game.
Experience an original coming-of-age story in a magical realm!
Overall rating
3
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5
3 of 5 found this review helpful
Wiping my trial game was annoying enough.
PostedSeptember 26, 2021
ushie15
fromWashington, DC
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Card & Board, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
I usually enjoy odd games; for instance, I loved Brother Rabbit. This...I had to restart because of frustration with the pace, and then realized the pace is...just going to be that way, tutorial or not. Then, I started to get into it, lengthy focus on "dialogs" and all. So, I bought it, and...the game wiped out an hour's slow, slow, slow-paced gameplay. I exited. It's very pretty and the music is pleasant, but OMG, being wiped out after buying this thing AND the SLOW SLOW SLOW relaunch I am not looking forward to? AUGH.
I recommend this game!
A detective meets a mysterious stranger in her first case!
Overall rating
5
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5
9 of 11 found this review helpful
Spectacular game! Enthralling!
PostedFebruary 1, 2021
ushie15
fromWashington, DC
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Card & Board, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management
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
5
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5
This is a great, fun, exciting game, and I can't wait for the next installment! The characterizations are good, the artwork excellent, and the minigames and HOPs neat!
I recommend this game!
An expedition to an Aztec temple awakens a true force of nature!
Overall rating
1
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5
36 of 42 found this review helpful
When will I stop having to build ladders?
PostedJune 26, 2020
ushie15
fromWashington, DC
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Card & Board, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
/
5
Level of Challenge
1
/
5
Storyline
1
/
5
This is so OBVIOUSLY by a different team. No fact cards, no actual knowledge, and making Aztecs the example par excellence of how to be human? Oh, no. I don't like cutting people's chests open and tearing out their hearts. This is an insult to archaeologists, ecologists, language professionals, and thinking humans everywhere. And it beggars belief that the head of an archaeological expedition would need the help of some complete unknown in the first place. If he can't understand the language, how could he understand what the "goddess" (whose corpse looks like a beautiful woman) said to him? And an expedition where one's character has to repair tools? Where the medical expert just takes off rather than trying to help the head archaeologist in a medical crisis? Where even a neophyte in the world of archaeology violates so many known rules in just the demo? Oh heck no.
The birds are well-drawn.
I don't recommend this game.
An author has vanished, and someone’s enacting the terrible events of his latest novel!
Overall rating
3
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5
10 of 14 found this review helpful
Kind of game you can play in your sleep
PostedMay 15, 2020
ushie15
fromWashington, DC
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Card & Board, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management
Fun Factor
2
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
1
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
The artwork is lovely; however, this game can be played in your sleep, or on automatic pilot. It is the opposite of "hard," or "requiring you to use your little grey cells," (sorry, Dupin, for bringing up a rival) because it is so very easy. So easy to automatically click on what's needed in the HOPs...so easy to type in the password when it's right there in front of you...so easy to just point and click away. I remember when games required some thought and cogitation to play. I miss those times. Heck, you could even lose. I wish the "Recommend this Game?" had a "Yeah, sure, why not?" option.
I don't recommend this game.