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- Average Rating:4.5
- Helpful Votes:5,106
- Reviews Submitted:133
- First Review:October 4, 2012
- Most Recent Review:October 20, 2018
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Researching the cause of a mysterious supernatural epidemic will have wildly unpredictable consequences...
Overall rating
5
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5
23 of 53 found this review helpful
A sci-fi tale ......
PostedOctober 20, 2018
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
As Diana, expert for ancient languages, we get the chance to join an expedition to find a cure for a new epidemic, which broke out at the reception of Ms Whitwick in the historic museum. An egg, one of the exhibit pieces, had exploded and set free an unknown but deadly virus. The heart of the tree of might should be the only means to fight the disease. On our way we make good progress and find a way into an unknown world to the tree of might . But then our chance turns out to have been a trap: Ms Whitwick has not sent us out for the good purpose but to bring the artifact into her own hands.
Only the stranger, we met on our way, saves us from her attack. So, on we go, to get back, what she has stolen and make our way through portals into other worlds. As we are special, we may be able to restore order.
A story, more science fiction than fantasy but thrilling and full of challenge. Many puzzles and some creative HO scenes, fast pace and appealing graphics round up this game. For me the best Legacy so far and a must-have.
I recommend this game!
Can you save your hometown from dangerous monsters in time?
Overall rating
5
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5
46 of 70 found this review helpful
Halloween Feast with well known monsters
PostedOctober 18, 2018
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
5
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A weird story, very suiting for Halloween. We play as the daughter of a photographer, whose specialty are pictures of monsters. By taking their photo, he bans them into the picture, sort of locks them out of the world.
Of course it cannot be the wish of any monster, to be locked in a photograph, so at Halloween, when ghosts, monsters and sorcerers have special powers, they try their coup to come free.
A Harlequin doll, very much a look-a-like of Pinocchio, has been brought to your father's house by his housekeeper, who suddenly comes to life and serves as helper for all the banned monsters, among them the Headless Horseman. Your task is to disable this puppet and then bring the monsters back into the pictures and free the wolrd from them a second time.
Our adventure is fast paced, with many variable HOS and not easy puzzles - real fun and a seasonal feast.
Of course it cannot be the wish of any monster, to be locked in a photograph, so at Halloween, when ghosts, monsters and sorcerers have special powers, they try their coup to come free.
A Harlequin doll, very much a look-a-like of Pinocchio, has been brought to your father's house by his housekeeper, who suddenly comes to life and serves as helper for all the banned monsters, among them the Headless Horseman. Your task is to disable this puppet and then bring the monsters back into the pictures and free the wolrd from them a second time.
Our adventure is fast paced, with many variable HOS and not easy puzzles - real fun and a seasonal feast.
I recommend this game!
Can you stop a crazed kidnapper in time?
Overall rating
5
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5
75 of 109 found this review helpful
Finally Phantasmat goes really scary!
PostedOctober 4, 2018
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
5
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A thrilling story, a great performance and a lot of scary moments, this is, what we experience as Marcia, novelist and the famous author of horror bestsellers.
On coming home, we realize, the house was broken in. Our daughter is at a resort with friends for some days, so she should be safe. Then, the next call, an anonymous man informs us, he has kidnapped our daughter and her friends and we should come to the resort. He won't tell us, who he is, but asks for remembering our truest fan, whose letters we never answered.
Step by step we come to know, who this man is. We find prove for the murder of a close friend and realize, we are confronted with a psychopath.
Fast pace, very impressive effects, variable features (HOS, puzzles) - this Phantasmat has all, a scary HOPA should have.
I recommend this game!
Solve the puzzle of the red mist and save a missing camper before they meet a terrifying end.
Overall rating
5
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5
16 of 37 found this review helpful
A very special hunt!
PostedSeptember 20, 2018
rainworm
fromDark mysteries, camp fire atmosphere - preparing for Halloween!
Skill Level:Expert
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
5
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Our friends are sitting round the camp fire again, telling stories - horror stories and finally it is time, Tom tells his tale. A story of the crimson mists in the woods.
When he was a child, his father took him on hunting trips and one day the crimson mist rose, his father vanished and was found dead the next day. He could never forget it and always tried to find out, what had really happened on this day long ago.
As a young man he had the chance, when working as a guard in a youth camp in the woods. Toms's tale begins with his arrival. He is looking for a girl, chatting with some others - all good and quite normal, but then the crimson mist rises and it is Toms's task to find out, what lies behind it and find the vanished girl.
As a young man he had the chance, when working as a guard in a youth camp in the woods. Toms's tale begins with his arrival. He is looking for a girl, chatting with some others - all good and quite normal, but then the crimson mist rises and it is Toms's task to find out, what lies behind it and find the vanished girl.
Playing as Tom, we follow the track and soon discover a group of masked figures, who seem to perform a special hunt. They wear animal masks, hunting not the deer or wolf but ........
A dark adventurous story, creative HOS and puzzles - a must have for me.
I recommend this game!
Can you rid the city of a malevolent monster in time?
Overall rating
3
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5
28 of 83 found this review helpful
And more strange events in London
PostedSeptember 15, 2018
rainworm
fromThe series has very good games as well as such, which are not really mine....
Skill Level:Expert
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
3
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5
The next Vermillion Watch and after we had gotten rid of our worst enemy, we now will need to face a new problem.
Must be the spirit of Halloween coming nearer, but our new opponent is or are werewolves. An infection spreading in London and our task is to help wiping it out. The game begins as usual with a look back and a short glimpse at the coming events. Then we are in the game, very fast paced with a lot of puzzles and HOS. To be honest, not 2 steps are made without going through the one or the other. Quite entertaining on the one hand, but it lets me miss a story on the other.
Perhaps that comes later and we will learn more about the one, who must be behind the werewolf infection and what purpose all this serves. I prefer the werewolf theme in a more classic adventure style game, so it is of course a well made game with some interesting and new puzzles, variable HOS, but not really mine.
I recommend this game!
Use new vampire abilities to save your beloved in time!
Overall rating
4
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5
35 of 54 found this review helpful
Greetings from the vault....
PostedSeptember 13, 2018
rainworm
fromHalloween is coming ...... be prepared and meet some vampires
Skill Level:Expert
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
4
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5
Vampires and Romance - Yes, the old vampire legend was revived in the Romatic Era of Literature with the gothic novel and one of its masterpieces, Dracula. But the game seems more inspired by the Twilight movies. And we have other specialties: people are infected not only by the bite of another vampire, a poisened potion is enough, to change a mortals life into that of an undead.
It is a romantic story of two lovers. Xxx is deadly ill and her lover gets a potion for her, that should either cure her or be the cause of her death. She drinks it but pleads, her dear yyy should drink the other half, so they weren’t parted, be it in life or death. It is not life but die to wake up as undead after their burial. Xxx has been chosen as prey for the Master of vampires, our protagonist is more or less an accident. But he is not wiling to let his beloved been taken and sets off to follow her and the vampire, who shall bring her to the Master.
We can easily conclude, he will be successful in the end, but before that, we may follow his steps. And our hero is lucky, first he gets a talisman, which helps him achieving powers of destroyed undeads, then he passes the test of the vampire hunters and is now a mighty opponent, who the Master should fear.
Plot unfolds fast, we soon get our helpful talisman and in a lot of HOS, coming along in various forms, we are told more of the story, learn about vampires and the vampire hunters. Puzzles are more on the easy side but as this is not an adventure game, one can live with it. All in all an entertaining performance on the evergreen of the everlasting love, which overcomes all obstacles.
I recommend this game!
Face the fears in Sebastian's Cinema of Horrors!
Overall rating
5
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5
34 of 50 found this review helpful
Movie time? A horror festival!
PostedSeptember 8, 2018
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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Level of Challenge
5
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Storyline
5
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We have to track down Maya and her colleagues in an old cinema, where they were last seen. She is an architect and renovating the old horror movie cinema is her latest project. Her last call to her brother was suspicious, he heard strange noises and saw ghostly figures in the background. Since then, she and her team are vanished. As these are no normal circumstances and the usual police investigation is useless, he asks us for help, as our specialty is the paranormal activity !
The cinema has of course a history: here the famous director of horror movies, Sebastian Fleming has made his films, pressing the last out of his actors to achieve the highest quality. His goal was bringing the real feelings on the reel, showing real fear, not just acting. Rumors will have it, he was mad and drove his crew half crazy as well. During the shooting of his last film ‘The Night of Evil’ he came to death. Police reported it as accident, though it remained suspicious. The fake equipment for the horror scenes had turned out to be real, so he was electrocuted. Maya and her team must have revived his ghost when they entered the building and started their work. The ghostly Sebastian Fleming seems to go on, where he was forced to stop, by directing the ‘Night of Evil’, now with the newly arrived ‘actors.’
The series about the paranormal detective has been modernized: no special glasses but a smartphone will help us, see behind things, detect the paranormal. We use it, discover one or more items and a HO scene is triggered, in which we learn more about the background of the current situation. As always, plot is enfolding fast with a lot of challenging puzzles and creative HOS - and the fantastic story about the horror movie director is thrilling enough.
I recommend this game!
Can you recover an ancient underwater artifact in time?
Overall rating
5
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5
33 of 64 found this review helpful
A Scientist, an artifact, a detective, the bad boys and Elf – an enjoyable package
PostedSeptember 6, 2018
Fun Factor
5
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Visual/Sound Quality
5
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Level of Challenge
5
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Storyline
5
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Russell Jackman is a known scientist, his specialty are artifacts in the sea. He successfully found the Tesseract, a powerful ancient artifact with not yet fully researched but dangerous powers. One day he is missing from the research vessel and we are on our new mission: finding him and investigating the case.
Soon we find him below the ship, in an underwater area, where he has his office and more. But he is imprisoned. He can tell us, who his captors are: the opposite rival group of our mystery trackers, the dark trackers. But we are successful in freeing him from his cell and together we make it to a place, where we can board a small plane. Jackman will fly it but first, we have to do some repairs. Of course the dark trackers are close, so we need to hurry. Again successful, the artifact awakens and Jackman, who had it in his lap can no longer control the plane and the artifact’s power....
So the Mystery Trackers have found a rival group at last, the Dark Trackers. They are our opponent in this game. A fast paced game with many puzzles and HOS, all placed logically and enjoyable and of course Elf. The story is the usual one, but not at all boring. Mystery Trackers is one of the neverending evergreen series and we feast on every game. So nothing really new but a cosy thrill in 3 chapters, plus bonus chapter.
I recommend this game!
A chilling tale of death, deception, and the supernatural!
Overall rating
3
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5
8 of 25 found this review helpful
Dangerous Arts
PostedAugust 30, 2018
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
4
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5
Is it Dorian Gray, waving at me in this game? No, we are of course in Edgar Allan Poe's world, again as Inspector Dupin's assistant, this time hurrying to the aid of a young lady, who fears for her life. She has, like her friends, gone to a famous yound artist, letting him paint her portrait. Nothing dangerous, one could think, though many of the portrayed ladies have vanished and she has received threatening letters. The letters say, she will leave her sould to the portrait and die.
Dupin and we can have a few words with her, but then a masked and hooded man appears on the scene. She is dissolving and literally sucked into the painting. But it is not too late, we learn from an old woman, who hands us a book, from which we learn the ways of bringing her back to the living. The hooded man could escape, we catch the painter. Soon we learn, it is not him, who takes the life and souls of the portrayed women, but somebody else, who takes their beauty.
The story would be well told, if not interrupted by many puzzles, which are thrown into almost every scene. I like challenging puzzles, but please not into a more or less dramatic moment. For me the puzzles have been placed randomly to bring challenge into the game but with the effect of destroying the plot. HOS are far from the creative approach this developer once had with this feature. So all in all, not one of the outstanding performances in this series.
But everyone should try for themselves.
I recommend this game!
Your brother’s invention has made contact with aliens. Help him defeat an intergalactic invasion before the Earth is destroyed.
Overall rating
5
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5
10 of 20 found this review helpful
Aliens ante portas!
PostedAugust 27, 2018
Fun Factor
5
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Visual/Sound Quality
5
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Level of Challenge
5
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Storyline
5
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After we met our space boy in the first Beyond nd had to be 'mother bear' in the second one, we now enter the world of science fiction as sister of a sentinel! Our brother, who is a chosen one, to save our world from alien forces, we will fight the battle together with him.
We loose him in childhood, when he dematerializes before our eyes. Only years later, when danger is imminent, we will be reunited. The contagion, a hostile force, which destroys all worlds, has arrived. Our brother sends us a message via an old talisman. A trusted friend of brother's new spheres, stretches out his helping hand, so we can reach our brother and assist him in his challenge.
In the end we even shoulder the bigger part of the task and win the war against the leader of the contagion.
A masterly mix of HOS and puzzles, fast paced, a thrilling story - all in all a great addition to the Beyond series!
I recommend this game!