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- Average Rating:3.7
- Helpful Votes:992
- Reviews Submitted:85
- First Review:March 2, 2012
- Most Recent Review:August 11, 2015
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Restore the paintings of great artists that have been spoiled by mysterious thieves! Expose their plans and free the world of art!
Overall rating
4
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5
8 of 8 found this review helpful
Has its perks and its problems
PostedJanuary 8, 2013
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
5
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5
I'm not sure exactly when this game came out. While the graphics in the artwork looked great, the storyline looked it bit washed out and lines seemed broken. This story is about Lana Vassari, a talented art restorer that is suddenly up to her ears in work when art thieves hit her hometown.
It seems that everyone in Lana's loop has an angle. From the museum and gallery directors to the auction house. Old friends that just love art, and the odd buyer here and there. Even the FBI agent is keeping her busy in this hidden object mystery, but on the upside, this is not nearly as dark as many of these kinds of games are, and finding the little anachronisms is classic paintings from the Renaissance and Baroque periods is pretty fun. The background music sets the tone for whatever painting you are working on, including street noises and animals. Some of the hidden objects might be nearly impossible to find, but hints come at a price. Also, the focus was pretty much on the hidden object aspect of the game, and there were logic puzzles or weird locks to figure out. This was a big plus.
Making money to furnish you new apartment along the way is not so easy when you can sometimes lose bonuses, and sadly, the objects you can purchase are not all that appealing. Just like in Sims 3, they tend to be overpriced. While I enjoyed the aspect of the work itself, the shopping could have been left out and made the game get a better Value Score. I've not tried the original, but Hidden World of Art 2: Undercover Art Agent, while it has its perks, has its problems, too.
I recommend this game!
Can you restore the Gears of Light to the Clock Tower to defeat an ancient evil?
Overall rating
3
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5
1 of 1 found this review helpful
Not all that impressed
PostedDecember 29, 2012
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
2
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
5
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5
I've got to stop being intrigued by the idea of time-travel based hidden object mystery games. Although some of them are pretty cool, Time Relics: Gears of Light left much to be desired. The concept was sound, and was not unlike the movie, My Science Project, where items from other time periods popped up inside the high school. In this game, objects and architecture from the Middle Ages suddenly pops up from in some town where we are playing as the leader of a time-keeping organization, sort of like the Time Lords and Ladies of Dr. Who.
Our role is not quite as broad as The Doctor's, as we are only to make sure time runs correctly on our own planet, and we keep the gears in check on the big clock of the world. The animations in the break scenes are done well here, giving the game an anime kind of feel to it. In our regular gameplay, that Asian influence is gone, and we are seeing the same old kind of animations, both two-D and attempted three-D we are used to seeing in most hidden object games. I do like the fact that hidden objects came up often, as many of these types of games are seeming to focus too much on the search for an item here and there to fix something and the logic puzzles and weird locks to be called hidden object mysteries any more. Even with the anime flashiness, Time Relics: Gears of Light did a better job of sticking to its root subject. Still, it did not impress me enough to continue on with it. There are lots of time-travel mystery games out there, and you do much better than Time Relics: Gears of Light
I don't recommend this game.
Run a pet spa in this fast paced Time Management game where it`s you against the evil Pet Corp. So many pets, so little time!
Overall rating
4
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5
18 of 19 found this review helpful
Warm fuzzies!
PostedDecember 28, 2012
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
5
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5
I found Paradise Pet Salon to be very addictive and cute, and a gret diversion over the holidays. While the graphics were not all that great, the gameplay and cute animals made up for it. We are playing as a young lady that had always dreamed of working for Pet Corp as a groomer, but when she fails at creating repeat business by making clients pets sparkling clean and healthy, she hurts the bottom line, and is let go. Her dream is not over, because now she is going to take them on with her own independent pet salon, and will evenutally run a small chain of her own.
Clients bring in their cats and dogs for baths, clippings, brushings, massages, etc., and we have to do all these services in a timely manner, or both the client and their furry friend will get impatient and leave. When we lose a pateince heart, the game reminds us with a cute little "meow" or "woof". :3 Sometimes service requests will be multiple, and the pet owners might want to make a big spa day for their friend. Other times, it might just be time for a dip. We build bonuses by taking on two pets at a time, and the more animals we have at our stations at one time, the bigger the bonuses get. Along the way, between store hours, we buy upgrades, decor, and hire staff members. Games like this remind us that personal service will win the day, no matter how much the corporations want us to think differently, and that is the key to repeat business. Go brew up a cup of organicly grown herbals into a tea, and enjoy it along with Paradise Pet Salon on this cold December day, and celebrate.
I recommend this game!
Battle evil forces from the future and help Vera save her fiancé Tom in this time-warping Hidden Object game!
Overall rating
4
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5
4 of 5 found this review helpful
A fun adventure!
PostedDecember 25, 2012
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
5
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5
While time travel has always been a fascinating subject, the hidden object mystery game Mushroom Age takes it to a new level of fun and silliness. We are playing as Vera, a regular lady with a fiance', Tom, that works in time travel theory. When she goes to her man's workplace, she finds his boss there instead. Dr. Einbock is a dead ringer for Einstein, and just as goofy. Before we know it, Vera is using a cellphone-looking thing to travel through time and hunt her fiance' down through all kinds of places, from the far future, back to the Jurassic period, into the Stone Age and who knows where else?
So how does Vera work with those whom might be hostile to her to find Tommy Boy? With the help of a robot from the 31st century, she receives a translator, and she can now speak with anyone, from Nostradamus to a female T-rex with a toothache. She helps out those she finds along the way, and they give her information to find her man. This is most definitely not your normal time-travel tale, though it does remind me somewhat of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure</a>. I doubt a movie based on Mushroom Age would be nearly as funny as a story about two headbangers on a mission to save their history report, but this does have its moments. Maybe once the Yuletide season is over, I'll go on back and find out what happens next.
I recommend this game!
Atlantis: Pearls of the Deep
Find all of the Power Crystals and save the people of Atlantis in this innovative physics-based marble dropper!
Overall rating
3
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5
18 of 24 found this review helpful
Needs to be more upbeat
PostedDecember 22, 2012
Snowfoxx
fromChipley, FL
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Large File, Match 3
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
2
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5
Atlantis: Pearls of the Deep was rather disappointing. I was expecting a Bust-a-Move or Luxor kind of marble popper, but this was like the original Jar of Marbles. Although it has great undersea graphics and a mysteries of the deep kind of theme, the lulling drone of the background music made this game a little too relaxing, but it was not enough to lull me back to bed, even when it was twenty-nine degrees in Chipley, Florida this morning.
Each puzzle has a new challenge, and sometimes you have to work around gears and other little obstacles to get past to pop the "pearls" needed to help the queen of Atlantis bring her undersea city back to life. We do get a blue-haired mermaid as aguide, but she's a little two-dimensional, and just as flat as this game is. I've abut had it with the Jar of Marbles type of puzzle games. Devs need to make these games a little more upbeat, especially in the sound department. There are lots of marble popper games out there. You won't really miss much if you pass up Atlantis: Pearls of the Deep.
I don't recommend this game.
Olivia has been kidnapped by the mysterious Lonely Hearts Killer who murders those suffering from a shattered love. Save her!
Overall rating
4
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5
1 of 1 found this review helpful
A little lighter than expected.
PostedDecember 19, 2012
Snowfoxx
fromChipley, FL
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Large File, Match 3
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
5
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5
If you've a itch to play a Sherlock Homes type of HOM, then Brink of Consciousness: The Lonely Hearts Murders Collector's Edition is exactly what you are looking for. Set in a late 19th century british town we never learn the name of you follow is the step of Owen Wright to find your missing daughter. You have help from a local inspector, although his underlings are not all that bright. Your daughter, Olivia, is a distraught young woman in the fall of a nasty broken relationship, and she is the perfect target for the Lonely Hearts killer. This dangerous figure preys on those on the outs of of love, and now that Olivia has disappeared, she might be next in line for this monster to take down.
While this game has a great plotline, and some clues are rather easy to follow, the background is a muddy nighttime grey just about all the time. The hidden object puzzles are not like this, however, and this kicked the fun factor up a bit. I actually found myself chuckling when I click on a mouse squeaky toy and ten cats popped up, although I only had to find the black one. Cute little diversions kept what might be an otherwise really dark game lighter and more fun that its other game in the franchise, Brink of Consciousness: Dorian Gray Syndrome. These games, however do keep me curious to see what the writers will come up with next.
I recommend this game!
Prepare yourself to enter the magical world of Twilight School! Save your missing mother and uncover the truth about the school's sinister past!
Overall rating
4
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5
5 of 5 found this review helpful
Worth another look
PostedDecember 14, 2012
Snowfoxx
fromChipley, FL
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Large File, Match 3
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
2
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5
When I first saw the title of this hidden object mystery, I had a feeling that AnnGames was using the current pop culture obsession with the Twilight movies and books as a marketing ploy. One of the secondary characters is even named Bella, but Bella is not the focus of this game. It has more of Harry Potter kind of a feel, yet it is set in North America. This story involves a young woman whose parents went missing, and when a distant relative, Hovenheim, gives her a letter from her mother, she finds out that her parents are alive, but they are trapped in a parallel plane called simply, Dark World.
Hovenheim has connexions at a school somewhat like Hogwarts, but it seems to be more like the school from the webcomic, Eerie Cuties, Charybdis Heights. The school is filled with magic-using, good-looking teachers and students. Hovenheim's contact at the school is Derek, a wizard that teaches several different subjects, but mostly history. He gives lily some tasks to do to help her to crossover to the Dark World, like chasing down frogs, hunting for books, which leads to logic puzzles, but herding five little frogs into a pentacle is much easier than collecting thousands of frogs into a pick-up truck like they did in the movie Cannery Row. I was a bit put off by the abrupt cut off at the end of the "demo" but I think I might go back to this one. Unlike the Stephanie Meyers series, I sort of like this game. There just as to be more to it than the eye candy, but for any teen girl looking to find that pop culture escape, you should check this out.
I recommend this game!
Embark on an epic journey across the Chinese Empire and build the greatest structure known to mankind - The Great Wall of China - in this exciting time management game.
Overall rating
3
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5
1 of 1 found this review helpful
Just like so many others
PostedDecember 11, 2012
Snowfoxx
fromChipley, FL
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Large File, Match 3
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
3
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5
When I decided to take on this casual building game based on a very important time in China's history, I expected something pretty amazing, but what I got was a frustrating recycle of the Roads Of Rome with an Asian paint job. We have a desperate emperor looking to defend his country from northern invaders, Mongols, instead of Germanics, a young man trying to prove his worth, this time an architect, instead of a general, and a princess caught up in the middle between her family and the man whom loves her.
This strategy building game runs pretty much off the standard formulae for these kinds of games. Build your work camp, send working out for supplies and build places to get or make supplies, farms, sawmills, quarries, hunt for treasures, and deal with bad guys or exotic creatures. This time, the creatures that have the little workers running in fear are dragons. While this is a nice change from the regular Western-style building game, there are many other kinds of games out there like it, and they all have one main thing in common. That timer! It seems that they give you more tasks to do with each new level, yet the same amount of time to do them in. If some of these gaming companies could tweak that, maybe they might sell more of these types of games, and then those whom test the games might buy them. As for me, I'll be leaving Building the Great Wall of China aside for now. That timer was the joykiller for me.
I don't recommend this game.
Battleship
It’s a hit! The all-time favorite naval battle game is reloaded for PC and Mac! Launch strikes with mouse-driven precision as you destroy enemies in Classic mode or Salvo mode.
Overall rating
4
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5
11 of 17 found this review helpful
Modern turn on a classic
PostedDecember 6, 2012
Snowfoxx
fromChipley, FL
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Large File, Match 3
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
5
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5
This classic navel battle strategy game takes to the casual game circuit along with the other classic board games, like Life and Monopoly thanks to PopCap Games. While we have two modes we can play in, like the classic mode where we fire off one shot at a time on the grid, or the salvo, where we fire off one to five shots at a time, according to how many ships are out there in our small fleet. We still have the five ships, the aircraft carrier, the destroyer, the battleship, the sub, and the PT. We actually do get to see the ships go down, but not in an explosive glory shot, but simply slide over and sink. It was somewhat impressive to see the little planes go down as they fell off the carrier.
Along with these basics, we are given new ranks as we go along, according to how many enemy ships we take down. Along with moving up in the ranks, we also access new superweapons, like sea mines, a supersword satellite that can take out thirteen spaces on the grid, and other great ship sinkers. If you always loved this game, and the movie, Battleship, then you will heartily enjoy this fusion of the old grid strategy game and the movie to play at your leisure any time. It is very easy to get caught up in this new version of the game, and know that PopCap has saved itself from the embarrassment of The Game of Life.
I recommend this game!
You`re a contestant on the TV show Kitchen Brigade! Over the next 66 days you must open a variety of different restaurants!
Overall rating
4
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5
12 of 13 found this review helpful
A cute mix-up of tastes
PostedNovember 18, 2012
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
4
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5
If you are really into Food Network style shows like Iron Chef, or variations thereof, then Kitchen Brigade might be right up you alley. Definitely a sequel to Cooking Academy games, this one is a little more relaxing, in that you actually have a team of NPCs helping you out. You have to succeed in running different types of ethnic restaurants, and really impress the judge of the competition before you can go on to the phase. The cuisine is everything from traditional American to Japanese-Thai, it covers the globe, and we get different kinds of customers that have personalities that will work for or against us, depending on how patient they are. There are impatient ones, and you can bribe them with cookies, but I think it would take more than a cookie to keep real people on the go from losing it.
Having some back-up staff to cut, mash, boil, and help you fry up food is a big plus, and these little cooking games get more like the shows we see all the time, but I don't think we'll be seeing anything like Restaurant Impossible soon, then again, when casual game developers are looking to pop culture to get ideas for games, who knows what we'll see next.
I recommend this game!