Rhysdux's Profile
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- Average Rating:2.1
- Helpful Votes:620
- Reviews Submitted:16
- First Review:February 1, 2012
- Most Recent Review:June 20, 2014
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Move to Metropoville and begin a 12 step Life Quest program! Find a new rewarding career in this incredible Strategy game!
Overall rating
5
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5
0 of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent Game!
PostedApril 7, 2012
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
4
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5
I loved this game! There were so many different directions you could go and so many ways you could play.
One thing that I really like is that your character can marry and have children with someone of the same gender as well as someone of the opposite gender. And, if you want to get divorced, you can do so by dating another person. (You'll keep custody of the children.)
I recommend this game!
Special Enquiry Detail: Engaged to Kill
Help detectives Turino and Lamote investigate the case of the brutal bride murderer.
Overall rating
2
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5
109 of 127 found this review helpful
Frustrating
PostedApril 7, 2012
Fun Factor
2
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
1
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5
Storyline
4
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5
If you need a lot of hints to figure out what the game wants you to do, this is not a game for you. The hint button is hard to activate--it won't work if you click on the word "hint," but it will work if you click on the flashlight--slow to refill and not very helpful. If you have already found an area that you need to investigate but you have no clue what to do to open that area, the hint button will be of no assistance, for it provides no extra clues. The hidden object games were likewise a problem, for the items are VERY small, often half hidden by other objects and frequently are no more than a color-on-same-color silhouette.
The games also have a nasty trick of not working until you get to a certain point in the story. For example, you can't look at the pile of things under the tree when you first enter the crime scene. You have to talk to the victim's brother first. There are never multiple puzzles available in an area simultaneously. One puzzle activates in an area at a time. If you can't solve that puzzle, you can't solve the other puzzles in the area and accumulate things that will help you solve puzzles later. You have to solve everything in the order that the game wants you to solve it.
Finally, the game does not allow you to skip everything that you can't otherwise do. I was rather seriously annoyed by this. And this isn't due to the level of the game, because you can't choose to play a casual or a challenging game. There's only one level.
The storyline was good. I really wanted to find Marcy (the young victim) alive or, failing that, to discover evidence that would nail her killer. But the game itself...there were too many problems.
I don't recommend this game.
The town of Deadwood is being terrorized by the ghost of a murderous outlaw! Break his curse and save the day!
Overall rating
1
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5
59 of 82 found this review helpful
Deadwood--The Perfect Name
PostedMarch 24, 2012
Rhysdux
fromWest Hartford, CT
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Strategy
Fun Factor
2
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
2
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5
Level of Challenge
1
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5
Storyline
2
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5
The big problem with this game is the hint button. Unless you're playing a HOG, there isn't one. There are few areas that you can enter and even fewer that need objects. Once you walk by the sheriff's office, the undertaker's and the bell tower for the umpteenth time with tons of objects but none of the ones that you need and no idea where to use the objects you have or find the ones that the areas demand...well, the lack of a hint button gets old REALLY fast.
Aside from that, the game suffers from being monochrome. Virtually all the exteriors of Deadwood are a bluish-black, and I didn't see any way to brighten them. This, for me, was another strike against the game; I don't enjoy games where I can't see what's going on. Something that causes eyestrain isn't fun.
The plot is pretty standard--stopping an evil ghost. I would have liked it better if the ghost of Blackjack had not looked like an inkblot, which he does in all but the cut scenes. This particular character design made it virtually impossible for me to distinguish him from the background and from the building exteriors.
I heartily wish that the game's graphics had been clearer and that the hint button had existed full-time. The game could have been, if not great, at least okay. I'm very sorry to say that it wasn't.
I don't recommend this game.
The Price is Right
Play your favorite pricing games, spin the Big Wheel, and rack up achievements in your personal trophy room.
Overall rating
2
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5
40 of 58 found this review helpful
The Price Is Unbelievable
PostedMarch 2, 2012
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
I don't know who designed this game or when, but it doesn't reflect real-world pricing. I was looking up actual prices of the goods throughout, and none of the "correct" prices in the game were remotely realistic. Suave hair conditioner is more than twelve dollars where I live; in the game, it's $1.09. Jalapeno Hot Salsa Sunflower Seeds cost between $13.47 and $17.95; in-game, they're $1.99. A regular package of Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookies is $3.99; in-game, it's fifty-five cents. FIFTY-FIVE CENTS! I don't think the price has been that low since the Reagan era!
There is no way to use actual experience in shopping for yourself or your family in this game. If you do so, you will overshoot.
It's not a bad game. The sound is especially good, though the graphics of the contestants have a Gumby-like quality. I suspect that the designers were striving to craft human-like characters that didn't tip over into the Uncanny Valley. In this, they succeeded. And they get bonus points for creating a middle-aged black woman and an elderly white woman as contestants.
But the prices definitely need to be updated for inflation.
I don't recommend this game.
After your son, Bobby, mysteriously disappears, it’s up to you to find him in Surface: The Mystery of Another World!
Overall rating
5
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5
162 of 187 found this review helpful
Loved it!
PostedFebruary 2, 2012
Rhysdux
fromWest Hartford, CT
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Puzzle
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
Excellent game with a story I hadn't seen before involving parallel worlds and a coming invasion. There's a great variety of puzzles--something for everyone. I think I would call it just difficult enough...but if you need help, there's a superb strategy guide and a hint system that fills quickly. The art is not overburdened with shadows, which I was very grateful for, and varies between strict realism and realism with impressionistic backgrounds. The artist seems to have liked playing with light and color in certain places, creating a shimmering effect. And there's tons of bonus content--extra gameplay, extra mini-games, music, videos...you name it, this game has it.
Definitely a buy for me.
I recommend this game!
Rediscover your identity and prove your innocence in The Cross Formula, an incredible Adventure game!
Overall rating
1
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5
2 of 14 found this review helpful
Frustrating and blinding!
PostedFebruary 1, 2012
Rhysdux
fromWest Hartford, CT
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Puzzle
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
1
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5
Level of Challenge
2
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5
Not for epileptics. Bad clues.
I don't recommend this game.