methosfl's Profile
Stat Summary
- Average Rating:2.8
- Helpful Votes:311
- Reviews Submitted:39
- First Review:April 15, 2012
- Most Recent Review:March 4, 2014
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Help a detective explore a rampant briar growth in Scotland, and discover the true tale of the real Sleeping Beauty!
Overall rating
5
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5
4 of 4 found this review helpful
Absolutely GORGEOUS but...
PostedAugust 12, 2012
methosfl
fromFL
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object
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 LOVED this game!!! I've never been a big fan of FROGs but this completely changed my mind. There were certainly a lot of them but unlike HOGs you could whip right through them and when I came upon "one more", my stomach didn't sink with "not ANOTHER one!!!" Lots of mini games and puzzles and almost all of them had more than one step which was so cool and quite a surprise. Just as I'm thinking, "Dang this is so easy" there'd be a 2nd and sometimes 3rd step. Wow!!! And they were all certainly do-able but definitely required a, "Hmmm, let's see." Absolutely loved that it made me think! Gorgeous, gorgeous graphics and lovely voice over..of course it's supposed to be taking place in Scotland and Briar Rose has a definite American accent but hey...my one and only complaint, and it's a big one, is that I finished in about 2.5 hours!!! And I am not a fast player! The story definitely could have been fleshed out more. It's gorgeous, it's fun, it sucks you right in, but it's ridiculously short. So I DEFINITELY recommend it, but don't pay full price.
I recommend this game!
Help Princess Isabella lift the evil curse that has been placed on her castle! Solve perplexing puzzles and save her friends!
Overall rating
4
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5
1 of 2 found this review helpful
Cute Cute Cute!!!
PostedAugust 10, 2012
methosfl
fromFL
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
5
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5
In the first hour I had to mute the Fairy because I was ready to go after her with a fly swatter. An hour after that I'd gotten sucked into the game enough that up the volume went and there it stayed. It's not a difficult game thanks to all the hand holding and instructions given by Tinkerbell but it was...clever. Beautiful graphics, lovely music, easy but a good variety of mini games. (All but the "bubble shooter" one, that I finally skipped before my laptop went flying!) Lots of ground to cover with an interactive map so no plodding back and forth. It was a really enjoyable game, that is until ...the final showdown, the dun-dun-DUN music playing in the background, my mouse flying, my heart pumping and BAM!!! "Oh you WIN!!!", cries Tinkerbell. Happy, happy, joy, joy. So a rather abrupt ending, but yay I won. Would I pay full price? No. But I used a "free game" coupon and as a Daily Deal it would be a good buy too. Fun and lighthearted, you got it right here!
I recommend this game!
There's a terrible secret hidden deep within Lockwood Manor!
Overall rating
3
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5
2 of 3 found this review helpful
DEMON!!! Yawn...
PostedAugust 10, 2012
methosfl
fromFL
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object
Fun Factor
3
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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
OK, let's just get that out of the way because if I'd know the "family secret" involved a demon I wouldn't have bothered. Good graphics and loved the music but lots of "stuttering" through the whole thing. A few scenes gave me a good jump and a couple of the mini games were really challenging but the story...I kept hoping it would get better. It took me awhile to realize that my problem with it was that it had no depth, no soul to it. There's minimal history of the house or the family. We only "meet" the main characters through diary pages, there's very little actual dialogue. We don't even get to see that much of the house. I like a game to suck me in so I worry about what's going to happen to the characters. That didn't happen here and I was bored because I didn't care. If you like a long, superficial game with little challenge then this is for you. If you're looking for adventure, give this a miss.
I don't recommend this game.
Relive the fantasy of Beauty & the Beast in this never before told story of magic and love!
Overall rating
5
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5
Absolutely LOVED it!!!
PostedAugust 5, 2012
methosfl
fromFL
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object
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
Beauty falls in love with the Beast, the Beast transforms back into a man and they live happily ever after, right? WRONG!!! That nasty sorceress has one more ugly curse up her sleeve and once more Beauty has to save the day. It was fun, it was sweet, the music was enjoyable. There was no overabundance of HOG's and while the mini games tended to be pretty easy, they were fun with a good variety. Minimal to-ing and fro-ing and even on expert the hint refilled pretty quickly. Only took about 4 hours but man what a fun filled 4 hours they were!!!
I recommend this game!
Help Lillian discover Titanic’s mysteries and get closer to unveiling the truth behind the disaster that took her great- grandmother’s life 100 years ago.
Overall rating
5
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5
13 of 14 found this review helpful
Something different!
PostedJuly 31, 2012
methosfl
fromFL
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object
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
If you like blood, guts & gore, lots of action or lots of hand holding, then this game is definitely NOT for you. There are 3 levels, relaxed, expert & super expert (don't remember what it was really called). I played on expert and there were no glimmers & no arrows. I had to do a bit of clicking to find out what to do and where I was supposed to go next. The hint button refilled quickly, thankfully, and would show you a small glimmer of what to look at or tell you you were done there. HOGs were plentiful but not too much and while some objects were very easy to find, I did have to use that trusty hint button more than once. The mini games were a challenge. It gives you the option to do "match 3's" if you get stumped, which I actually had to do more than once. Loved the music, very reminiscent of the movie, but did get a bit tedious near the end. Only took me about 4 hours so not the longest, but definitely made me think and that alone made it all worthwhile.
I recommend this game!
Emma Roberts has been tasked with writing a story about an old haunted manor. Help her explore the McInroy Estate!
Overall rating
3
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5
16 of 17 found this review helpful
Newbies only need apply.
PostedJuly 26, 2012
methosfl
fromFL
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
2
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5
Storyline
3
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5
One mode only: complete hand holding. Every place you needed to look in a room, glimmered. And if you weren't sure what to do with that spot just click on it, "Looks like a cross used to hang here". In case you missed the big, empty, cross shaped indentation there. Nothing else to do at that spot? It throws you out. Nothing else to do in a room? It locks you out. Almost completely HOGs and the other mini games were either ridiculously easy or made no sense, requiring random clicking til it went away. Would have loved it when I first started out. Now that I have a little experience under my belt, just found it tedious.
I don't recommend this game.
Stop a magician’s ghost and free the trapped souls haunting the Black Woods in Mystic Diary: Haunted Island!
Overall rating
5
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5
28 of 34 found this review helpful
Better than the reviews would have you believe.
PostedJuly 19, 2012
methosfl
fromFL
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object
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'd been looking at this game for awhile but hesitated because of the so-so reviews. Ended up buying it on one of the deals and actually really enjoyed it. It's not long and creepy and really in depth, but it did make me think and was easy to keep up with. Too often in these games you end up with so many things to do you lose track of where you are and what you're doing. This game kept just enough things in your inventory to remind you what you needed to do. And if you got a bit stumped about what to do next, you would get a HOG that would give you what you needed when you needed it, directing you where you needed to go. A nice, steady, laid back game that makes you think.
I recommend this game!
You, as Jennifer, have to solve a perplexing mystery and save her only daughter in Silent Scream: The Dancer!
Overall rating
1
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5
1 of 6 found this review helpful
Tedious
PostedJuly 13, 2012
methosfl
fromFL
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
3
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5
Bought it as a Daily Deal and that was about $2.98 too much. From the reviews I knew the graphics would be a little bit different from the norm so I was prepared for that. Had a bit of an Anime feel to them. What I wasn't prepared for was scenes set at a tilt!!! Could have lived with that but like another reviewer mentioned, you were constantly to-ing and fro-ing because you weren't allowed to pick up things you KNEW you would need until they allowed you to. Then the way they cut to new scenes was with a very "BANG! POW!" Batman and Robin fight scene kind of way...with waaaaayyyy too much dialogue to read. I ended up skipping the dialogue just to move things along. Too often I had no idea what my next move was supposed to be or how to accomplish things I was supposed to do. I didn't get all the way through, planned on sucking it up and finishing it, ended up deleting it
when I realized seeing it filled me with a sense of dread at having to go back to it.
when I realized seeing it filled me with a sense of dread at having to go back to it.
I don't recommend this game.
Overall rating
3
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5
10 of 12 found this review helpful
Better than GT: The Bride BUT...
PostedJuly 13, 2012
methosfl
fromFL
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
3
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5
Gorgeous graphics, music unobtrusive, hint button refills quickly, blah, blah, blah. But just like Grim Tales: The Bride, there is soooooooooo much to-ing and fro-ing that you forget where you were going, what you were doing, what needs to be used where, which rooms still have unfinished tasks, etc., etc., etc. Thankfully there weren't as many HOG scenes but like another reviewer said, the mini games were absolutely inconsistent with their level of difficulty. Some so easy you thought it must be a trick and others so difficult or illogical or impossible to figure out the point of, they just got skipped. I bought both the Grim Tales based on all of the many, many, many wonderful reviews. Take it from me, try the demos first. Seriously.
I don't recommend this game.
After your sister vanishes on her wedding day no one has any idea what happened to her, so it's up to you to find the truth!
Overall rating
1
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5
31 of 42 found this review helpful
An explosion of HOGs.
PostedJune 29, 2012
methosfl
fromFL
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
1
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5
Storyline
1
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5
I never understood when someone gave a game a bad review because of "too many HOGs". I figured, it's a HOG game, what did you expect? Now I understand. First let me say that I really, really like HOGs...until about 4 hours into the 7 hour mark. OK, technically good graphics, unobtrusive music and fast reloading hint even in the "challenging" mode. Storyline... barely remember what it was about because there were SO MANY HOGs!!! I mean EVERY SINGLE scene, and some with more than one. There was absolutely no adventure, it was all HOGs and mini games. The mini games were definitely a good variety but some made so little sense I either just kept hitting buttons til something happened or skipped all together. What little actual action there was consisted of going clear cross town to a new scene, seeing that you needed to find 3 more objects (almost ALWAYS a key of some form), then backtracking across town to find it. OK, find one object, back across town, place object, opens new puzzle needing one more new object, back across down, find one object, back across town, etc., etc. A little bit of action, HOG... a new scene, HOG. SCREECH!!! Should tell you something that as I'm typing this and remembering, I changed my rating from 2 to 1 stars... talk about post traumatic stress!!!
I don't recommend this game.