Favorite Genre(s):Card & Board, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management
Fun Factor
5/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
5/ 5
Level of Challenge
4/ 5
Storyline
5/ 5
I got hooked on hidden object with the original MCF games.This was a great tribute to them.I hope there are more like this down the road.The newer MCF games are puzzle after puzzle and where the player hops from one location after another looking for silly objects any master detective would have brought along in order to open a door, pick a lock, or break a window.
This is the best of the 4 in the series by far, IMO. Even after the quests have been completed, you can still wander around collecting berries, mushrooms and roots, fishing, hunting, mining, fighting zombies, trolls, spiders and snakes, and then barter what you collected for gold.For the other three games, once the resources and enemies have been gathered or killed, you're done.
This was so incredibly inferior to Hero of the Kingdom III. I should have heeded the one honest review--way too short, no renewable resources to wander about collecting, and a ridiculous story line. Lost Tales should have stayed lost. A total waste of $7.
It would've been a fun game had it not been so glitchy. Slow loading and sluggish click response was maddening. The developers apparently didn't take any of the numerous previous complaints seriously enough to fix the problems before passing it along to Big Fish.
The usual game play where the "Master Detective" doesn't carry any items like a multi-tool pocket knife, lock picks, or a flashlight in order to carry out his orders efficiently. But he has a mechanical butterfly.