Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Match 3, Puzzle, Time Management
Fun Factor
1/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
1/ 5
Level of Challenge
1/ 5
Storyline
1/ 5
I could not stomach playing this game through to the end. It was scene after scene of the SAME hidden objects for each "level," there was no actual storyline, and the graphics were pathetic. Go ahead and try it, as you should, but when you realize the 1st level is as I just described, save yourself and quit out of this poor excuse for a game and delete it.
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Match 3, Puzzle, Time Management
Fun Factor
1/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
1/ 5
Level of Challenge
1/ 5
Storyline
1/ 5
This designer continues to put out jigsaw "games" with the absolute worst pictures. They use stock photos of places or objects that are bland and uninteresting. Or they use one poor woman in most of the "people" jigsaw puzzles who, I'm convinced, is working her way through college and has been suckered into modeling for these awful photos in this game. And this is unfortunate because the game has a lot of nice features, modification of pieces, separation boxes, ghost imaging, to name a few.
BIG FISH ... people who love jigsaw puzzles need to have great pictures! Stop supporting this designer's laziness!
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Match 3, Puzzle, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
1/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
3/ 5
Level of Challenge
1/ 5
Yet again, Big FIsh is offering a terrible jigsaw game. This one is like trying to put together a puzzle in space where lack of gravity has the pieces floating and twirling and refusing to land where you try to place them on the board. Plus, the designers don't understand how to let the mouse drop a puzzle piece, so you either keep moving them OR you grab onto the entire board and start sliding IT around, instead. Bottom line, despite an improved quality of picture selection, this game is too frustrating to play for long and I cannot recommend it unless/until it is fixed.
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Match 3, Puzzle, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
3/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
3/ 5
Level of Challenge
3/ 5
I love doing jigsaw puzzles and this game has several features that are really helpful such as modifying puzzles for number of pieces, turning piece rotation on/off, and allowing ghosting images for a quick peek at the final answer. But. But. But they NEVER have decent jigsaw pictures and that's the whole reason for doing the puzzles! This company puts out jigsaw puzzle games that are supposed to be different, often for whatever the upcoming holiday is but it doesn't really matter. They seem to use one woman as a model and dress her up in various ethnic styles or they use stock photos of boring animals or tourist style landscapes. Awful. And shame on Big Fish for allowing this. The same game, slightly different pictures, although still boring. Again.
Fit Club is a challenging time management, tycoon style game! As you build your fitness club you have to deal with guests and develop your sports teams.
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Match 3, Puzzle, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
1/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
1/ 5
Level of Challenge
1/ 5
Storyline
1/ 5
I could not even play this demo through to the end because of the frustrating lack of coherence to the game. I've played many TMGs and really enjoy them, but this one made so little sense as to who needed training and how to line them up in some order, plus the thought balloons looked nothing like anything on the screen. I just put the poor little people and myself out of our misery.
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Match 3, Puzzle, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
2/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
2/ 5
Level of Challenge
1/ 5
Storyline
2/ 5
This game begins with a ridiculous story line, continues with terrible graphics, and completely lost me at the awful user interface. If I didn't have the map to check for the next available action, I would have only completed a fraction of the demo because there was truly no rhyme or reason to the story. But I know that people like games for different reasons, so so ahead and try it. But don't say I didn't warn you.
I really enjoy Time Management games and I don't care if they are cute and cartooney or sophisticated and well drawn, as long as the game is fun. This game is the type that makes clicking on items really hard, usually because the main character is standing in front of whatever you need to select.The game also makes deselecting items very difficult and exasperating as you rush to complete the harder levels. It is "challenging" only because it is badly designed. It is boring because it has no story. I do not recommend it because it is not fun.
I've been with Big Fish since they started and I've come to recognize a game where I am SOOOOOO glad that when the demo is over, I can delete it from my computer. THIS is One Of Those Games. In this case, it's a basic match3 with obstacles like frozen squares and moving barriers but there is no balance, no strategy, nothing but poorly designed game boards and a frustrating hour where you keep hoping things will become fun. But they don't. And now that you've given the game a fair shot, you can safely remove it from your sight.
This game is beautiful, well designed, well written, and fun to play. At a time when there are few high caliber products coming out, especially in the HO game market where everything is so run of the mill, "Spirits of Mystery: Whisper of the Past," is a breath of fresh air.