gyanda's Profile
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- Average Rating:3.9
- Helpful Votes:2,177
- Reviews Submitted:190
- First Review:February 3, 2014
- Most Recent Review:March 6, 2025
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Midnight Mysteries: Ghostwriting Collector's Edition
Characters from classical literature are coming to life!
Overall rating
4
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5
2 of 2 found this review helpful
Strange game but interesting
PostedFebruary 5, 2015
Fun Factor
3
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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
Maybe that there are games that intuitively suit you and some don't, nevertheless how interesting they are? I could not solve - i guess - any of the minigames in this game... mostly i was looking astonishedly at the solution when i used the skipbutton - perhaps it was just me or it wasn't explained well or it wasn't painted well (with the candle-game)... i am very astonished most of the time when i play this game.. it has turnarounds, which i didn't suspect (you always come into a new surrounding as you try to get hold of the villain)... it has tasks to be done which i would never do with this special tool... a bellow to clean a painting? Nevertheless the story is interesting and keeps you going as you want to know when this mirror in the mirror in the mirror-like wandering through different books ends and whether you will be able to catch the villain and solve the mystery. It is an interesting game, but for me it has real strange ways to follow and strange things to do:-)...
I recommend this game!
Love Chronicles: A Winter's Spell Collector's Edition
A dark wizard awakens the ice queen using your daughter!
Overall rating
5
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5
2 of 2 found this review helpful
Loved everything
PostedJanuary 14, 2015
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 exactly the kind of game i LOVE!!! It has an interesting story, it had nice soothing music, it has interesting HO-scenes and it has - what i love most in a game - these puppettheatre parts, where you have to build some figure from parts in order to get to hear a story... i just love these. I love the graphics, i love the subject of the story, a child which has such warmth and gentleness that it can heal the world and prevent the icequeen to succeed... and it has this "we transform a person back from an angry person into a caring and kind person"...for me this game is perfect and i would love to see more of this coming. Thank you, dear developers, for giving us such a nice time while playing, especially when the whole world outside the game seems to have turned into madness at least we have this spare moments in a wonderful painted world... i sometimes wish, i could just have a hut in the woods as the timberman!!!
I recommend this game!
Christmas Eve: Midnight's Call Collector's Edition
Do you have what it takes to save Christmas?
Overall rating
4
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5
6 of 7 found this review helpful
Nice way to spend leisure time!!!
PostedDecember 13, 2014
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
4
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5
I did like this game much better than the other recently released games of ERS, the developer. It has really nice graphics and i loved that it is not all sugary but has this evil twist going on in the story. I did like that there is lipmoving when people speak a lot and i adored the snowman, who helps you with your tasks. What is unfortunately weak in the story is that you still have to wander around a lot - getting one item in one place to be used i a completely other part of the game, so you have to go back and forth quite a lot. For me games, which work like this, show a lack in thinking on the part of the developers and i would wish this would improve in the following games. But it is a really nice game, has this cosy winter-atmosphere, has changing places from the "real world" to the "fairy world" (or better "underworld" as the one sister has drowned in childhood, but magically stlll lives)... For me it is nice that i can play this game right now, it is entertaining and l loved the graphics (although, just to mention it: one character in the fairy-world looks exactly alike the one in the dove-game from the same developer). I was a bit sorry that there are no collectibles, at least i haven't found them and i am already near the end of the game.
I recommend this game!
Haunted Legends: The Stone Guest Collector's Edition
Someone is stealing the hearts of children – literally! Is it a brilliant inventor, seeking to cure his ailing son? Or has dark magic taken over the village...
Overall rating
2
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5
5 of 5 found this review helpful
So sad!!!
PostedDecember 8, 2014
Fun Factor
2
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
1
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5
How long have we been waiting for the cute little man to appear again. I was so excited when the game came out. But, unfortunately it is not, what i expected. There is no going-through storyline on the dwarf, one does not understand at all, why he is so evil, nor where he has his powers from to open portals and bring stones to life. The story is - friendly put - strange and not very sense making. I also do not understand how a company can - in times of such great done games - still insist on no lipmoving when the people speak. The two things i really liked are the graphics (that's why one plays ERS games, because of this great style in painting) and the game one could play instead of the Hidden Object Scenes. What i did not like at all was the wandering around so often, just to get one tool and then had to haste back to a totally different location - this made the game very boring and it just couldn't hold my interest, so i am not even going to play the game to its end - and i bought the CE... if i were the developers this would alert me. Sorry, i love this dwarf, but this game don't does him justice!!!
I don't recommend this game.
Whispered Secrets: Into the Wind Collector's Edition
People have been disappearing in the town of Ridleton for the past 15 years... Can you weather the storm and solve the case?
Overall rating
5
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5
2 of 3 found this review helpful
Hours and Hours of pleasure:-)
PostedNovember 30, 2014
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 don't repeat the storyline of the game, others have done this already. What i loved most about the game where that you had the feeling that you are truely on a journey, the locations changed often, the way to get to a place, etc. - and that the story unfolded more and more in a nice manor... you see pics in a book and have to find three items which are in the paintings... and by finding these, you get more information on the background. I loved to play this game, the colours were just great, this little helper was so cute, he even moaned als if he was tired, i loved this. Gameflow was excellent, you know where to go next and what to do - i love, when a game is working smoothly. And every time when i thought: oh, too sad, now it will end - it kept on going... that surely was a pleasant surprise. All in All you get plenty of gameplaying fun for hours and wonderful graphics, nice story, just a really good game. I would praise it with better words, if my english was better, so excuses for this. It's just great, that's for sure:-)
I recommend this game!
League of Light: Wicked Harvest Collector's Edition
Someone – or something – is stealing the children of Blake’s Mountain!
Overall rating
5
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5
1 of 2 found this review helpful
So thankful!!!
PostedNovember 13, 2014
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
For me this is game of the year. What tremendously great graphics, what a wonderful storyline, what nice tricks with the HO-scenes (the one with the crystals was so great!!!) - I do enjoy every minute of playing, often i do just stare at the scenery and wished there was a land which was exactly like the paintings. I bow my head to the developers, this is a really great, great, great game!!!
I recommend this game!
Silent Nights: Children's Orchestra Collector's Edition
A fire breaks out during a concert, and now your daughters are both missing. Hurry to track them down – their music may hold the key to life and death!
Overall rating
5
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5
9 of 10 found this review helpful
Unusual and very interesting!
PostedNovember 2, 2014
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
4
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5
This game comes as a surprise to me. When it started, i thought the graphics were kind of weird, as they were kind of different, from what i am used to in these kind of games. But, keep playing people and you get that is a real new style of how to paint a game - i really loved it after a while. The story is that your children get kidnapped and you try to solve the riddle and get them back. Quite a usual story. But with so many new features. I loved the interactivity of the HO-scenes - as they were really making sense. You did not just to find a key to open a chest and then the HO-scene is over and it meant nothing except to keep you busy. Here it is much more beautifully done. (The one i loved most was the little train, which you had to get going... i just stared and couldn't believe my eyes... it looked so realistic, it felt my heart with joy that someone took the effort to create something so beautiful. The hint-button is okay, charges relatively quickly in casual mode. The music is fine. But i for all love the interactive HO-scenes (and normally i do hate them!!!) and i do love the graphics... it is like really being into the story, not just "okay, it is nicely painted". I just love this game also because the developers had the courage to use a new style and appearance. It is worth a try: play the demo and get hooked:-)
I recommend this game!
Travel Riddles: Trip to India
India welcomes you with its riddles, ancient wisdom, exquisite aromas and lost treasures in this match 3 adventure!
Overall rating
3
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5
12 of 13 found this review helpful
could have been...
PostedSeptember 1, 2014
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
1
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5
a very nice game, if it had a story and we knew, why we take so much effort to get to the juwelries in this Match 3 game. The music sounds indian and thus rises the expectations... we would love to be abducted into a novel of princesses, betrayal, love and hatred... but there is no story... and that is the weak point of this game. It has all a Match 3 game needs: nice buttons, difficult tasks like to clear all silver and golden tiles, nice difficulties when the outer shape of the episode of the game doesn't allow for many stones and one therefore has to think, how to get the tiles there free - and powerups of course. Just the reason why we should play is missing. And therefore it get's indeed boring after a short while, because the action always repeats and we are not awarded with - like another part of the story to happen before our eyes... it's just we play, we get points, then we play again. Too sad that the story is missing, because i really wanted to keep this play. I am in need of a good Match3-game, which i could replay over and over (as i replay cradle of rome often).
I don't recommend this game.
Witches' Legacy: The Ties That Bind Collector's Edition
Lynn’s wedding is interrupted by a ghost from Edward’s past.
Overall rating
5
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5
48 of 61 found this review helpful
Love it!!!
PostedAugust 16, 2014
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
Witches Legacy is a series of games from the developer EleFun, all dealing with Lynn and here aunt, who had to save her from the witches. Meanwhile Lynn is grown up and about to marry Edward, a witchhunter, whom she met in another installment and learned to love. On the day of the marriage a strange letter makes Edward leave for the orphan home where he grew up. Lynn follows him and thus the next adventure can begin. This is what i like a lot about this developer: the story works! It has tension. You are always curious, what is going to happen next, how to solve the riddles, etc. - The hintbutton recharges quickly and you have the well-known little "Imp" as a helper - this time there are collectibles to pleasure the Imp and also puzzle-parts to collect throughout the game.
The HO-scenes are interactive - and are clever and thoughtfully arranged. Never are they “too much”, never do you feel lost, not knowing what to do to get further.
As I mentioned in my title, I do love this game and this series Witches Legacy. If you think about it: we follow Lynn now already since she was a little girl - thus her life in fact unfolds over decades to us as we keep on playing the various episodes of the serie. I know of no other serie’s that covers such a long period of time - and what gets me most: every story of these episodes IS interesting and creates tension. What a wonderful craftswork this scenario-writer is delivering to us, with every new installment. Quite a talent to keep a story such fresh!!!
I do love the graphics, I do love the little Imp-helper, I do love the story, the story, the story and I love that this developer takes his players serious in a way that I do often miss with other developers. Neither does he neglect story as so many new games do nor does hij overload his game with interactivity, so that you don’t even want to go on playing because of all this glittering nonsense. This developer gives us a game which is as a costly book on a rainy afternoon… qualitiy work at it’s best. Thank you so much, EleFun, I love this game!
I recommend this game!
Ominous Objects: Family Portrait Collector's Edition
A father returns home to find his children missing - all but one, who refuses to say a word...
Overall rating
2
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5
3 of 4 found this review helpful
What a boring game
PostedAugust 11, 2014
gyanda
fromCologne
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Match 3
Current Favorite:
Witches' Legacy: Hunter and the Hunted Collector's Edition
(45)Fun Factor
2
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
2
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5
Storyline
1
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5
I am sorry that i bought the CE. There is no storyline at all - the children are saved in a minute and from then on you don't know, why you are doing all this stuff. There are so plenty of rooms that they don't feel connected at all. The voice of the hero is really unpleasant and also is his "give me a new clue" if you do something wrong. Yes, the graphics are nice, but that there is no story, no tension, no nothing at all that wants you to keep going. I uninstalled it, without playing it to the end. What i also did not like at all, was the "interactivity" of the HO-scenes, at it was in every HO and there are quite plenty of HO-scenes in this game. I know, it is fashion right now to do so, but it also is boring. I do play late at night, after a long day of work... i would love to have some gentle friendly entertainment - instead of solving riddles, which don't explain themselves... you never know, why which tool is ordered to help another one, it is just guessing. Instead i installed an "oldfashioned" game with a real story, with tension, with HO-scenes which are not overloaded with interactivity but just use them sometimes... works much beter for me. Tja, too sad, i spent 2 game credits on this game.
I don't recommend this game.