Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Brain Teaser, Card & Board, Family, Hidden Object, Large File, Mahjong, Marble Popper, Match 3, Puzzle, Strategy, Time Management, Word
Fun Factor
4/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
4/ 5
Level of Challenge
4/ 5
Storyline
3/ 5
If you have ever played Queen's Garden games before such as Sakura Season, you know the routine, but now there are a few new twists. Now go and have some fun.
For the rest of you, it is a Match 3 games with a Christmas Theme with options for Times, Relaxed (No Time), and Piece of Cake (No Time, No Weed Growth). It has calming music, tasks to accomplish for coins, and as you accumulate coins, you can slowly build a Japanese garden. Complete with flowers, tree, and man-made objects like benches and candy canes.
Game Options: Full screen, Show Hints, Zoom with mouse wheel, Custom Cursor, Show Help, and also SFX and music Volume.
Match 3 challenges:
Gold tiles, earth blocks, special jewels, D\daisies that grow when you find a seed, presents to release, a shuffle button, bombs, power tokens (vertical and horizontal), bonus for a T or L shape, boxes, chains, quartz tiles that require 4 matches, snowflakes that explode and freeze tiles, vines, weeds that grow, rocks you have to drop to the bottom, angry Kabuki mask that bursts after so many matches, protected dynamite belts, a crown token which rewards with 500 coins and more, Sledge hammers to be dropped, roots that grow with matches, special Santa fly-by's with gifts not to mention other drama such as Rudolf being sick and you needing to find special herbs to cure him.
Overall, a calm form of entertainment or a mad free for all - stuff for all to like.
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Brain Teaser, Card & Board, Family, Hidden Object, Large File, Mahjong, Match 3, Puzzle, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
5/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
5/ 5
Level of Challenge
4/ 5
Storyline
4/ 5
Good job with this one, definitely worth a try. Very good storyline with many puzzles and a moderate number of interactive HOPs. More the for adventure gamer in you than the pure "let me just find stuff" people. Revisiting places does happen, but it makes sense in the game. They are usually kept to 2-3 places at a time. There are ghost statues to find, morphing objects, there is also a teleporting map. Audio visuals are well done; music appropriate. Word of warming - this is not a subject matter for children or sensitive people. It involves psychosis and disturbing murder methods. Puzzles are fairly easy, but fun - other than the subject matter, a nice pastime. Definitely worth the play.
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Brain Teaser, Family, Hidden Object, Large File, Mahjong, Marble Popper, Match 3, Puzzle, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
3/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
2/ 5
Level of Challenge
3/ 5
Storyline
2/ 5
If all you like is finding stuff, you could like this game. It does not have a relax mode, but if you run out of time, no harm, no foul, just fewer points.. You repeat many of the scenes, but you'll be finding things you have found before plus additional items. Some are quite tricky. You can zoom in and out for those playing on a device, so that's nice, and they are fairly generous (at least in the beginning) with hints. Storyline shows up comic book style in call out boxes, and between each scene is a tiny bit more of the story about your friend not showing up to meet you. I never turn off the music it games and it never bothers me. This music was so repetitive, it became annoying. I'm not gonna do it, but you might enjoy. Give it a try.
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Brain Teaser, Card & Board, Family, Hidden Object, Large File, Mahjong, Match 3, Puzzle, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
4/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
5/ 5
Level of Challenge
4/ 5
Storyline
5/ 5
Since the first review, although negative, thoroughly covered the details of the game, I'll just say, I disagree with their assessment of the game and the comments that it was old-school.. The developers did there best to come up with a different storyline than most. Adventure gamers should enjoy it; hidden object people not as much, as it's more figuring out how things work together than it is about finding hidden objects. I thought of it as many small games sewn together into a common storyline that makes up the larger game. I was disappointed when my demo time was up - I did want to continue on. Try it.
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Brain Teaser, Card & Board, Family, Hidden Object, Large File, Mahjong, Marble Popper, Match 3, Puzzle, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
4/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
2/ 5
Level of Challenge
3/ 5
Storyline
5/ 5
Old school graphics, a few HOPS, great story, lots of different puzzles - even in the HOPS, no morphing objects, no collectibles, transporting map. All in all, worth a purchase on a good sale. Give it a try and see what you think.
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Brain Teaser, Card & Board, Family, Hidden Object, Large File, Mahjong, Match 3, Puzzle, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
3/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
4/ 5
Level of Challenge
2/ 5
Storyline
3/ 5
It might have been a good game, but the workers walk so slowly, that you can barely do anything before the demo is over. My suggestion, once you can upgrade and get more workers, just collect food to max out your work force so that the game moves along faster before you try to tackle it. Not sure if this game is worth the hour of your life you're going to lose just testing the demo - sorry.
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Brain Teaser, Card & Board, Family, Hidden Object, Large File, Mahjong, Puzzle, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
3/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
3/ 5
Level of Challenge
2/ 5
Storyline
3/ 5
Typically, when I see a low review of 1 or 2 stars, I feel obligated to play the game and see if it was a fair assessment. In this case, the first review was spot on. A lack-luster story with the very basic of features. Cute idea that never takes off. If you've never played an adventure story before, then this would be a good teether. For the experienced player, I think I would pass unless I just had 30 minutes to blow. Sorry - no buy.
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Brain Teaser, Family, Hidden Object, Large File, Match 3, Puzzle, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
4/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
3/ 5
Level of Challenge
5/ 5
Storyline
5/ 5
Again a 1st review that was unfair in my opinion - I get if you comment that you could not play, but to trash the whole game is not fair to the developers. First of all, this game is not for newbies - slightly challenging for that. Storyline is not totally novel, but interesting with very little dialog. Colors are very grey and brown. There are skulls and morphing objects to find on each scene and probably an equal number of puzzles vs. HOP. Warning, these items will not be visible on small devices in my opinion as they are very small. The hidden object puzzles have morphing objects, but leaning more toward HOP. There are collectibles and a HOP gallery in the extras along with the typical music and wallpaper. Bonus game as well. If this review sounds intriguing - give it a try - demos are free after all. :-)
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Brain Teaser, Hidden Object, Large File, Match 3, Puzzle, Time Management
Fun Factor
4/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
2/ 5
Level of Challenge
3/ 5
Storyline
4/ 5
I hate it when this happens, an over the top review of 5 starts that fails to mention the obvious flaws. It makes me want to give it one star only to balance things out! I did not play the entire game, but only the demo, so I can only comment on that. Let's start with the good news, for adventure players, the story is newish and it has an adventure feel. For HOP players - hidden object puzzles are occasional and some are puzzle/hidden (if you know what I mean). There are language errors, but not catastrophic ones - actually they can be quite amusing. The characters are "paper cut-outs" with voice over that displays text in a box - no moving lips. The puzzles are not horribly challenging, but enjoyable. I might purchase the game with a coupon - I recommend you play before you buy. Music seems appropriate. I'll leave the rest of the details to the others, these are the nuts and bolts.
This game was well written when I played it many years ago on Big Fish Games. I thought they always say they have a NEW game every day. Hmmm... That being said, play the demo. Someone bent over backwards to be creative and futuristic. I loved the game back then, and still enjoyed it today.