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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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The famous Johnny Abilli has been murdered at the Broadbeach Resort. You've been called in to crack the case.
Overall rating
2
/
5
2 of 3 found this review helpful
I don't get it. . .
PostedAugust 6, 2016
bluesycat
fromAlbany, NY
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Puzzle
Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
2
/
5
Storyline
1
/
5
I don't get all the great reviews for this game. Yes the visuals and sound are terrific. And the game play is OK, but the story is just plain wrong. Artifacts from a great many ancient civilizations are all mixed up. Nothing is consistent.
Characters do things that are "out of character" or otherwise do not make sense. There is no real character development, either. I couldn't care less about these people and their problems.
Perhaps worst of all is that it took me almost as long to play the bonus as it took to play the main game. Way, way, too short for a CE. And I'm a really slow player.
I don't recommend this game.
As an agent of the Alliance, you’ve been given a mission to destroy an ancient artifact known as the Spear of Destiny. In the wrong hands, it could help conquer the world.
Overall rating
3
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5
6 of 7 found this review helpful
I wanted to love this game. . .
PostedMarch 9, 2016
bluesycat
fromAlbany, NY
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Puzzle, Hidden Object, Adventure, Match 3
Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
This started out as a great game (SE playing like a CE), with an exciting Raiders of the Lost Ark-style story, wonderful graphics and voice overs and rational play. And that was true for the first half of the game. I enjoyed the variety of the HOS (although there were a LOT of them): morphing objects, things to construct, hidden items. Most of the mini games were easy and fun to play. Until the second half of the gam.
The second half of the game lost me. No sensible transitions from one scene to the next, missing instructions on mini-games and an increasingly dark shadowy screen took the earlier fun out of the HOS. Almost as if a different set of developers wrote and produced the second half. This rating is also notwithstanding the plague of technical issues I encountered in the second half of the game.
Overall, the length of the game is good, and most of the graphics are excellent, and the story is good. There are also collectibles. I wish I could have found more of them. For each set completed, you get a clip about WWII. But I only found about a quarter of them and with no strategy guide, you can't go back and find them.
I recommend this game!
You receive a distress signal from a scientist who went missing a thousand years ago. Is this someone's joke or does he really need your help?
Overall rating
3
/
5
6 of 7 found this review helpful
A Struggle
PostedFebruary 24, 2016
bluesycat
fromAlbany, NY
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Puzzle, Hidden Object, Adventure, Match 3
Fun Factor
1
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
/
5
Level of Challenge
1
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
Based on about 20 minutes of the demo.
Well, I loved Tiny Bang Theory. I HATED this game. Every step is a struggle. No logic, no continuity, no sensible actions. I really liked the quirky drawings and strange creatures and mechs, but trying to DO anything.
There was this great little PDA thingy that supposedly provided information and clues. It provided lots of information, but most of it had nothing to do with what to do in the game. Even the very first puzzle in the game. I understood the logic (I thought) but there was no logical solution, and I never figured out how the identify the random solution.
So a struggled for a very painful 20 minutes and decided this game is not for me. Make sure you try the demo before buying!
P.S. I gave it 3 stars because I really like the artwork and the story potential. But the play is so AWFUL.
I don't recommend this game.
Welcome back to the Cooking Academy! This time you'll be writing your own cookbook!
Overall rating
3
/
5
Sad Follow-up to 1 and 2
PostedJanuary 19, 2016
bluesycat
fromAlbany, NY
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Puzzle, Hidden Object, Adventure, Match 3
Fun Factor
1
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
2
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
1
/
5
I have to join an array of others who did not like this game. I loved the first two games in the series. They were fair simulations of actual cooking processes. This game is nothing but an exercise of mousing skills and hand eye coordination using a mouse. This is more like a game of pinball than a cooking simulation and I basically hated it (even though I love pinball.)
I gave it three stars because you will have fun with this game if you like that kind of mouse dexterity game that this is. But I'm not recommending it!
I don't recommend this game.
Every second counts in this breathtaking paranormal adventure!
Overall rating
3
/
5
4 of 6 found this review helpful
Not Sure What to Make of This Game
PostedDecember 29, 2015
bluesycat
fromAlbany, NY
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Puzzle, Hidden Object, Adventure, Match 3
Fun Factor
4
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
Based on the demo. Here's all the good stuff: a really good story, kinda creepy about a kid with a collection of paranormal powers. The graphics are good. The music irritating - but most music is. . .
But the game is clunky. Like really clunky. The play isn't exactly logical, and I was distracted by behaviors and scenarios that just couldn't happen in either the real or a fantasy world. For example, what child protective worker you've ever heard of can perform a 180 degree controlled skid from a dead stop to get her car out of a parking space? Even in the short demo, there are too many moments like this.
I have some coupons. I might get it as a freebie, but I need to think about it.
Agatha Christie: Peril at End House
Hercule Poirot is at it again Mon dieu! - in another Hidden Object mystery of murderous proportions.
Overall rating
5
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5
I loved it, but not all will. See below.
PostedAugust 23, 2015
bluesycat
fromAlbany, NY
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Puzzle, Hidden Object, Adventure, Match 3
Fun Factor
4
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
I REALLY enjoyed this game. Great story, excellent background music, and the best set of credits EVER. But please PLAY THE DEMO FIRST.
This is an old style HO game. While the scenes are true to what they are - generally not junk piles - the objects to find are often VERY SMALL, and the searches are TIMED and you have LIMITED hints.
A timer is generally a no-go for me, but the story here made me keep at it. The game is organized into chapters, so you can walk away periodically and not get lost. If you don't finish a chapter in time, you get to do it over (and over and over, if you're me). There is a diary of clues and evidence as befits a good detective story. You can go back and read about the characters and what their ideas and motivations are. And you get to "be" Poirot in detecting who the murderer is if you pay attention to the clues.
So, for those who like this kind of game ENJOY. Otherwise, do pass it up.
I recommend this game!
Isa's back to his old tricks, and now he's doing the bidding of an even greater foe.
Overall rating
3
/
5
2 of 2 found this review helpful
Too Short for a CE!!
PostedAugust 18, 2015
bluesycat
fromAlbany, NY
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Puzzle, Hidden Object, Adventure, Match 3
Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
I played the complete game, plus the bonus, in less than four hours (and I'm NOT a speedy player). The game has lovely graphics, a stupid story, a helper that I hated, and a not-very-helpful strategy guide. Moderate puzzles and HOs. Nothing new. But that still would have been OK if that game had been a little bit longer.
There are also items you need to find and there is a misleading instruction that implies you need to find all those to play the bonus game. This is incorrect and drove me crazy. If you get that far, the bonus is under "extras" and the bonus referred to in the collection section is just another game.
I don't recommend this game.
Help save these cute little pets from the cruel wizard by untangling all the nuts, fruits and filling their empty bellies.
Overall rating
3
/
5
Sweet game
PostedApril 8, 2015
bluesycat
fromAlbany, NY
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Puzzle
Fun Factor
4
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
/
5
Level of Challenge
2
/
5
Based on part of the demo. This is a really sweet game with cute graphics and a sweet challenge. Little animals look really, really sad if you fail a level. For me, however, it's a no go, because I couldn't complete Level 11! Oh, well, I should know this by now - shooter games are not my thing. However, figuring out the puzzles was great (until I couldn't)!
I give it a sold recommendation if you can do these games.
I recommend this game!
Restore the Driftwood! Seaside's top resort has fallen into disrepair. Fix up the rooms, the inn, and renew the garden!
Overall rating
3
/
5
1 of 1 found this review helpful
OK, plus a little
PostedMarch 30, 2015
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
Based on the completed game.
This is a game for HO lovers only. The simple premise is that you have an inn with a bunch of rooms that need renovating. You visit each room 3 times, once to clean, once to put stuff back in that was found somewhere else, and once to find themed materials. After the last visit the room is "rented." The scenes are lush and detailed. Some of the items are very small and very hard to find. Some of items to place are too difficult to find, and you have to use some of the very limited hints.
You earn coins for completed work and those coins can be turned into stuff to make the inn nicer and prettier. Choosing your upgrades was fun, as was the searching for things in the HOs.
There's lots and lots and lots of reading. The music got to be crazy-making pretty quickly. The maid is beyond intensely annoying. If you can stand it without sound, shut the sound off!
Even with all these negatives, I found the game fun and enticing and never thought that I wouldn't finish it. Enjoyable. I recommend it (except for the maid, whom I wanted to throttle).
I recommend this game!
A kingdom’s future rests in the light of three beacons. Can they be lit in time? Will the shadows be cast into light?
Overall rating
3
/
5
Pale shadow of Drawn The Painted Tower
PostedMarch 14, 2015
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
2
/
5
Based on the completed game. I absolutely LOVED the first game in the series and bought this game and Drawn 3 sight unseen based on that. Sadly this game is a very pale shadow of the first.
It fails on nearly every level. The beautiful, surreal drawings of the first are much more realistic and not so emotionally gripping. Nothing happens in the paintings, really. You might as well be talking to a character on the street. The haunting music from the first music has been replaced by music that is more accessible and just plain boring. The story really is just a rehash of the story in the first game. The hint system, which I found really engaging in the first game, is a simply a set of endless hand holding by the emasculated butler character.
The puzzles are still different and enticing. Even though the game didn't grab me, I might take a look at the CE to see if it has a replay extra for some of the puzzles. I knew how to solve them, but wanted to game to move on so skipped. Another quibble, some of the puzzles had a reset and some didn't. A couple of the very difficult ones took me a long time to figure out and without a reset, I think they were unsolvable.
I'll give the game a recommendation for the puzzles, but if you liked the first Drawn, you probably won't like this one.
I recommend this game!