I am enjoying "Timeless: The Lost Castle" very much, and cashed in a free game ticket after 40 minutes of the Demo.
While there are no voice-overs, collectables, morphing items or a map, for a Standard Edition game, it has a lot to offer!
The graphics are beautiful and nicely detailed, the music is good, and the puzzles are a nice mix. The story-line is enough to make me want to find out what happens next, and there is just the right amount of reading to do. Hidden object scenes have lists or outlines and are challenging without being frustrating.
All in all, I am looking forward to playing this one today, as I can't get out from under all the snow we got here in the Lake Ontario region!
Hard to believe this game is from one of my favourite developers! I only lasted for 9 minutes of the Demo, and I have to say, it was quite painful...
They must have created this ten years ago and someone found it on a floppy disk...under a straw hat, beside an hourglass, surrounded by glasses, binoculars, apples, butterflies and a wrench...
The music was not at all related to the theme of the story, the HO scenes were merely a distraction, and the dialogue was moronic!
"There is a statue. It may have a secret compartment. Perhaps I will find something"
I purchased this great game after 30 minutes of the free trial and have been playing it for nearly three hours! I find the graphics clear, the colours vibrant, and the voiceovers are top-notch. The HOs are on the difficult side and include inventory items and interaction, the mini-games fairly easy and there are fragmented HOs as well which gives this game a nice balance. Collector Edition quality in an SE!
I downloaded the demo for House of 1000 Doors: Family Secrets yesterday and began playing immediately. When my computer screen suddenly went black and I read a message telling me my 60-minute free trial had expired, I almost wept!
I was so completely enthralled with wandering around this haunted house (that can materialize and then disappear again in locations all over the world), searching for special items needed by the ghosts I met, solving obscure and challenging puzzles and locks, and generally having a great adventure, I had forgotten about time!
Well, all I can say is I hit the BUY button as quick as I could! Then, once the game was downloaded, I created a new profile and began all over again, instead of picking up where I left off as usual. I took my time and savoured every moment, noticing things I hadn't the first time!
The protagonist is a struggling author of supernatural fiction now suffering from writers' block. She receives an invitation to attend a séance, where the ghost of her long-dead grandmother begs her to visit the House of 1000 Doors, and free her tormented soul. Few people have ever been able to enter the house, let alone leave it, but Kate Reed is about to become one of them.
The options include casual or advanced game-play and the custom curser changes from a magnifying glass to a question mark and grasping fingers. The background music is beautifully haunting, the graphics are incredibly detailed and the game-play is flawless. The solid plot is well-developed and the voice acting is very well executed!
What more can I say about this game? House of 1000 Doors: Family Secrets #Collectors Edition# is one of the best Hidden Object Games of 2011. Give yourself an awesome game for Christmas. You deserve it!