bluesycat's Profile
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- Average Rating:2.9
- Helpful Votes:1,094
- Reviews Submitted:151
- First Review:July 25, 2012
- Most Recent Review:August 2, 2020
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Your archaeologist fiancé has been abducted in Prague! Unravel an ancient mystery and save humanity from destruction as you rescue him!
Overall rating
3
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5
0 of 2 found this review helpful
Just OK
PostedNovember 7, 2013
bluesycat
fromAlbany, NY
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Puzzle
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
This is based on 20 minutes of the demo. Very easy HOS and puzzles. Nothing has really happened in the story so far, so not much to say. Some of what has happened is not logically consistent. I'm just enough interested to wait until this is a sale item and then I'll get it. NOT worth spending a full credit on.
I recommend this game!
Travel over the magic rainbow to win the Leprechaun's secret pot of gold. You'll earn treasures and rewards along the way!
Overall rating
2
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5
3 of 3 found this review helpful
OK Game for Kids
PostedNovember 5, 2013
bluesycat
fromAlbany, NY
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Puzzle
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
2
/
5
Storyline
2
/
5
I try a lot of the daily specials. This one is a novel HO, where you have to find a certain number of a particular shape in each round, or match bits of a picture into a larger one. There are also some jigsaw puzzles.
The graphics are OK, combining photos of Celtic ruins with cartoon fairies and leprechauns. The background Irish jig music is pleasant and enticing. But the game as a whole is just very easy (which is OK) and VERY repetitive (which is NOT). After the first 10 times, the last thing I wanted to hear as "Level Complete." I played about 20 minutes.
But I think it would be a good children's game. Doesn't require a lot of mouse dexterity, and everything is easy enough to be OK fun for a young child.
I recommend this game!
Travel back in time to the late 19th century and get ready for spectacular adventures on land, sea and air.
Overall rating
4
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5
1 of 1 found this review helpful
I finished Journey 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PostedOctober 29, 2013
bluesycat
fromAlbany, NY
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Puzzle
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
This is a great match 3 game with puzzle pieces to drop to the bottom to complete the levels, of which there are 81 in the main game. It also has a timer. Ugh! This was a STRUGGLE but the game was compelling and after several strenuous and stressful tries (plus some help from Playrix) I was able to complete the game. Actually, Journey 1, because when you finish the game offers the option of additional journeys with "increasing difficulty." This was hard enough on the first journey. But I'm going to recommend the game for those of you who don't mind timers and can work quickly. The story is a really fun adaptation of the novel. So enjoy if you enjoy a timed game.
I recommend this game!
A chance discovery sends Arizona Rose on a new life of adventure and it’s up to you to help her decipher Blackbeard's treasure maps!
Overall rating
5
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5
11 of 12 found this review helpful
I LOVED this game!!
PostedOctober 26, 2013
bluesycat
fromAlbany, NY
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Puzzle
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
Just wanted to say how much fun I had with this game. It took me a couple of months of intermittent play to finish. Well over 100 puzzles from 10x10 to 25x25. I played the easier mode and so much good times. There are also a few widely dispersed HOs, which are ok. Until the final levels, the music is pretty good - at the end, just annoying. I think this is the best of the games involving this kind of puzzle and I think I have them ALL.
Only one big negative (and it might have been me and not the game). When I finished the last level, I wanted to go back and replay the levels that I had made mistakes on, trying for that elusive perfect score. It was either not possible to go back or I failed to figure it out. So I started a new game.
If you enjoy this kind of puzzle, you're going to love this game.
I recommend this game!
Defeat the giant to save the world from destruction!
Overall rating
1
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5
14 of 16 found this review helpful
Not for Me
PostedOctober 20, 2013
bluesycat
fromAlbany, NY
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Puzzle
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
1
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
I will not be buying this game for one reason only. The player can make NO choices about what to do next in this game. The game alone decides what objects the player can collect and when. You cannot proceed from one scene to the next until you have absolutely completed the first scene in the way the game wants you to. NOT FOR ME. I like my freedom of choice even if my choices do not result in the most efficient game play.
I don't recommend this game.
Help Angela explore a magical world fashioned from her own dreams in this fantastical Hidden Object adventure.
Overall rating
2
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5
15 of 15 found this review helpful
Not sure why I bought this!
PostedOctober 19, 2013
bluesycat
fromAlbany, NY
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Puzzle
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
/
5
Level of Challenge
2
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
I started a project - to play to completion all the too many games I have. Ain't gonna happen. This game is too awful for words. Lots of HOs with such tiny objects that I needed a magnifier for my screen! And the hint recharges extremely slowly.
The cut scene art is cutesy cartoonish and I liked the characters, but the HO art is fuzzy, blurry, garish colors. Ugh! And, oh, yeah, you can't mute or even reduce the volume of the music. I didn't find it that offensive, but just TOO LOUD!
Very unusual for me, I played for less than a half hour before totally giving up!!!
I don't recommend this game.
Alabama Smith is back in an all-new time-twisting adventure involving powerful relics that could alter the destiny of mankind!
Overall rating
3
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5
6 of 6 found this review helpful
Middle of the Road
PostedOctober 15, 2013
bluesycat
fromAlbany, NY
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Puzzle
Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
I finished the first part of this game. And when you get to the end it offers you the opportunity to play again, but with a different goal. That was cool.
This game is a mixed bag. LOTS of HOs, a bunch of mini-games, some of which are ridiculously easy and some of which I found unsolvable. The story line caught me, because it's about the Incas and Machu Pichu, things in which I'm greatly interested. BUT the story bounced all over the place - Peru, somewhere in the States, the present, the past, this room, that room, the next room.
Some puzzles you're not allowed to try to solve until you get to a particular point in the game. Same with some items to collect. Thankfully, the hint button recharges in about 2 seconds, because I needed it A LOT. Characters are lame, but I LOVED the sound track, which is unusual. I tend to turn the music off after about 5 minutes.
In spite of its downsides, overall, I liked the game, and eventually will go back to play the second scenario.
I recommend this game!
Reveal the secret of an ancient prophecy! Fascinating tasks and exciting puzzles await you behind the breathtaking scenery of a mysterious island!
Overall rating
3
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5
2 of 4 found this review helpful
Pretty Simple Game
PostedOctober 14, 2013
bluesycat
fromAlbany, NY
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Puzzle
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
My review is based on playing the hour demo.
This game is about a girl finding out about herself. It seems like an old game. Has a diary, but no voice overs and no map. Many, many easy puzzles, and long cut scenes. Transitions between scenes are long (and frustrating).
The graphics are pretty. I think kids would like it. Nothing really scary and nothing too hard. You get pretty much led by the hand from one scene to the next. Also, once you solve a puzzle (at least most of them) you get to play it again from the main menu. This game should be likable, but I'm going to pass until it shows up as a bonus.
If you're a power player, you're going to hate this game.
I recommend this game!
Criminal Minds
Join an elite team of FBI profilers who analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds!
Overall rating
2
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5
1 of 1 found this review helpful
Like Watching Grass Grow
PostedOctober 4, 2013
bluesycat
fromAlbany, NY
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Puzzle
Fun Factor
2
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
/
5
Level of Challenge
2
/
5
Storyline
2
/
5
I read many of the reviews and played the full hour of the demo. While the constantly popping up dialog didn't bother me, the general pace of the game was slow, slow, slow. In the hour I played, almost nothing happened. And this is a murder mystery.
On the plus side, the graphics are good, and the HO objects are hard to find. Fun unraveling the scrambled clues - best part of this game. But overall, the pace is slower than snails - slug pace maybe.
I love the TV show; I don't recommend this game.
I don't recommend this game.
A long time ago, the Dacians asked their gods to hide their treasures. Now, you have been chosen to find the treasures!
Overall rating
4
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5
1 of 1 found this review helpful
Fun Game with Challenges
PostedSeptember 28, 2013
bluesycat
fromAlbany, NY
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Puzzle
Fun Factor
4
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
I finished this game today, after taking a LONG break. Hexagon Match-3, beautiful graphics and compelling music. There are a few HOs at the end of each section, but except for the story, these are not much of the game.
The story is based on the history of the Dacians, an actual people who lived in the near middle east 2000 years ago. Check Dacia and Dacians in Wikipedia for more information than the game gives.
Play is easy, all matches must be made drag and drop - click does not work. The most frustrating part of the game is that you must wait until all matches are done before you can make another move. Sometimes a series of matches that you have plotted out will be erased during a long matching session.
While there is not a "real" clock, the color of your award for each session (gold, silver, bronze) is determined by the time you take to complete the level. Levels become increasingly more and more difficult to finish in gold time. Later levels need the power ups to finish at all. Even with the challenge, I really enjoyed this game. I am now going back and trying to complete all the levels at gold - a huge challenge for slow fingers and weak eyes me, but the game is fun enough for me to want to do it.
I recommend this game!