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- Average Rating:2.5
- Helpful Votes:2,025
- Reviews Submitted:145
- First Review:May 18, 2018
- Most Recent Review:January 5, 2025
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A family hike through the woods takes a terrifying turn!
Overall rating
1
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5
19 of 36 found this review helpful
THE MOST BORING GAME OF ALL TIME
PostedOctober 20, 2019
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
1
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5
This makes the first game look like a masterpiece. For myself, FOREST FIRES is not a theme of enjoyment or entertainment of any kind whatsoever. I found it depressing. Sorry, but I could not get through this overly dreadful demo. The most outstanding thing to me was having to find bug spray to exterminate cockroaches then having to assemble a drill bit to make holes in barrels that I used a broken bottle to cut the ropes off of. It was great collecting twigs and arranging stones to make a bonfire that I was then told I had to find the matches to start the fire. I also loved earning an achievement for opening all of the boxes. It was one stupid, time consuming puzzle after another that I just began to skip. All of the useless going back and forth, collecting of monotonous inventory for ridiculous tasks....stuck in a boring forest and in a boring, slow moving game with a boring story of someone missing surrounded by a very disturbing theme. Collecting acorns was indeed the highlight. What a waste of my time.
A medallion banishes Jessica to a strange world where she must defeat the witch who stole her husband's soul!
Overall rating
4
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5
1 of 1 found this review helpful
ENJOYED THIS....BUT TOO SHORT
PostedOctober 16, 2019
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
4
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5
Upon first playing this, I wondered why in the world did I ever buy this. Some of the items are so obscured, I needed to use the hint, which is very good and fills quickly. I initially gave up on the game, but decided to go back and give it another try. I am glad I did. It requires some patience and getting used to the game mechanics, but once I did, I became immersed in the story and ambience of it. You don't find all of the items in the scene right away and will use the inventory you acquire in another scene at times, but those scenes are limited to a few, so you are not going back and forth too much.
This has a uniqueness all its own and has atmosphere. For the most part, it is player friendly. I did access the hint to find my way at times and also for the use of inventory. I liked freeing the souls and the characters I met along the way. The eerie sounds of the wailing and moaning souls towards the end of the game were bothering me and I ended up muting them, so I could concentrate better. Although it was effective and added to the game, listening to that over and over became very distracting.
Other than being too short, I did enjoy this, so much so, that I am playing it a second time and am sure I will again in the future. What is also really nice is that it has a happy ending even if it is abrupt. I wish the gameplay could have gone on longer......so sad~
Awaken your inner Home Designer and have a blast renovating these homes to picture perfection!
Overall rating
1
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5
5 of 5 found this review helpful
MISERABLE
PostedOctober 14, 2019
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
1
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5
Storyline
1
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5
The worst part of this disaster of a game is the limited moves you are given. As you progress, the levels become harder and it is utter misery having to play the same game over and over if you don't beat it. How aggravating. You also have to play more rounds because you don't earn that many coins to furnish items for the rooms because of their high cost. What a waste of time and a game credit. It was nice being able to decorate rooms, but what good is it having to go through the torture of imposed limitation of moves and spending all of the time trying to beat the system? There is no way to progress in the game to earn coins for the decorating unless you complete the moves in the amount they decide for you to have. It isn't my idea of enjoyment. It is nothing but one big headache and a pain in the you know what. Could have been a fun game, but they ruined it.
Help the Walker family dig through the clutter and find everything they need to decorate Auntie Sheep’s flower shop!
Overall rating
2
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5
4 of 6 found this review helpful
COLORFUL, BUT SCENES EXTREMELY REPETIVE
PostedOctober 13, 2019
Fun Factor
2
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
3
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5
Although there are some variations of play, the matches are so repetitive a well as the scenes and items in them. It's like playing the same thing over and over again. Starts out easy and becomes more cluttered as you go along. A big plus in this is that you can skip any scene or puzzle you want by going to the pause menu. You will see an option to skip there which I used often just to see if things changed any. They didn't. You get the same objects jumbled up a different way with different matches to make or particular items to find. You can move pieces around in scenes which is nice. I did not like the blurred scenes at all, nor the matching of 4 pieces. It was so tedious.....and that was what this game amounts to.....ridiculous, out of place Christmas music and all. I won't even use a pcc on it.
When the game worlds collapse, help can only come from one place. The real world!
Overall rating
2
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5
14 of 25 found this review helpful
ANOTHER AVALANCHE OF PUZZLES
PostedOctober 6, 2019
Fun Factor
2
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
3
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5
A great concept of incorporating games, but this is totally ruined by an overabundance of puzzles...and they are even in the hos, which I draw the line about. Many of the puzzles are so annoying. It was a terrible experience playing this demo because of them. I DO NOT want to be spending all of game time with puzzles and refuse to buy this because of it. The graphics could have been better, also. HOS were dark and game scenes hazy. The HOS were more puzzle like than HOS. Collectibles consisted of only morphing objects and coins to collect. Morphs are indicated in the SG, but not the coins. There were no indicators other than a pop out tab. You have a replay of 14 HOS and only 19 puzzles out of hundreds of them. What began as a great game quickly turned into the same aggravation of an overdose of puzzles more than anything else.
Can you rescue your brother from an ancient and deadly fate?
Overall rating
2
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5
10 of 12 found this review helpful
PUZZLE... AFTER PUZZLE... AFTER PUZZLE... AFTER PUZZLE
PostedOctober 1, 2019
Fun Factor
2
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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
This could have been an enjoyable game, but everywhere you turn there is a puzzle to do. This is nothing but a puzzle game with a collecting of thousands of boring inventory. A turtle could move faster than the pace of it. Bye.
Can you reveal the story behind the watch, defeat the witch and save your sister in time?
Overall rating
2
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5
8 of 12 found this review helpful
VERY SLUGGISH AND AN OVERWHELMING AMOUNT OF PUZZLES
PostedSeptember 23, 2019
Fun Factor
2
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
3
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5
More than anything else this is a game filled with an avalanche of puzzles and hardly any HOS. There are a variety of puzzles....some like Clutter, others requiring dexterity because of their arcade style, and other types, some of which could have used better instructions. I enjoyed doing some of them, but it is so excessive I got tired of it. There is a quick skip for them.
This is no where near the quality or fun as the others, which I have. In fact, it is nothing like the other 2. There is a ton of going back and forth. It does have a transportable map and also a fast filling hint. What is just about as bad as all of the puzzles is the sluggishness I had with this game. It also has an astounding download size of 4116MB.
I am so disappointed in this due to the imbalance of gameplay because of the ridiculous amount of puzzles at every turn....here a puzzle...there a puzzle.....everywhere a puzzle. It's too much. I like to have some gameplay and more HOS. The couple of HOS I came across were attractive, colorful, and enjoyable. Why can't there be more HOS instead of all these puzzles? I don't think it is a HOS game at all. This is just another puzzle game with a bit of story, a whole lot of going back and forth.....and a teeny, tiny amount of HOS. What a shame.
A journey into the mirror world unleashes a powerful villain!
Overall rating
2
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5
26 of 39 found this review helpful
TOO MANY PUZZLES
PostedSeptember 21, 2019
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
Storyline
3
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5
The graphics are excellent. Real life characters with a bit too much talk. The Collectibles are mediocre that consist of 32 morphs...8 Bullfinch birds...7 apples...8 butterflies....9 Phoenix...12 cans. All this gives you for Extras are puzzles. The 32 morphs unlock a bonus puzzle. The other collectibles unlock 20 levels of more puzzles. It' an OVERDOSE. There are no indicators for the collectibles in the game, but they are designated in the transportable map. All I saw for replays were for puzzles. Unbelievable.
I really liked the graphics in this, but have to say that is all. The gameplay was boring and tedious, the usual going back and forth and collecting of mundane inventory....and puzzle parts.
The real displeasure is there are way too many puzzles in this and hardly any HOS. I couldn't finish the demo because of it. I only came across one HOS in the time I played and encountered an overabundance of puzzles. It is not what I consider an enjoyment to be spending all my time with puzzles. There is no balance in this. TOO MANY PUZZLES is why I will not be purchasing this game.
It's just another disappointment of what could have been an enjoyable game, but isn't.
Can you stop a dangerous curse from destroying the realm?
Overall rating
3
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5
7 of 14 found this review helpful
DOESN'T LOOK LIKE BLUE TEA....VERY SHORT BONUS
PostedSeptember 21, 2019
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
3
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5
The Bonus is extremely short with a repeat of FROG (fragmented objects) and scenes, as well as the blocks puzzle where you stack them. The only thing I thought was nice are the extra 2 parables, making it a total of 7 parables (5 in the main game). It was disappointing that that's all there was to it.
The graphics were not the best and did not resemble Blue Tea at all to me. They could have been more defined. There is not an overwhelming amount of puzzles, but there is an excess of going back and forth collecting too many parts for too many places to put them. It was draining. I thought the transportable map was also poorly done.
The FROGS (fragmented objects) are too dark in places and they are not any where near as intricate as in original games. Although they are nice to look at, there are not many items in them.....and those scenes are repeated in the game.
There is a replay of 20 FROGS and 19 puzzles. You collect parable pieces that unlock the parable stories as you go along. There are 5 in the main game and 2 in the Bonus. I think they are a nice feature in Dark Parable games. You also collect morphing objects, which I am not very interested in. I thought they could have done better for collectibles. The collectibles are in the Strategy Guide, but I found the screen shots to be blurry.
Although I think this is one of the better games to be released recently, it left me with a feeling of disappointment and a lack of satiety. The quality just isn't there.
Can you save Vienna from a masked Phantom’s wrath?
Overall rating
2
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5
8 of 19 found this review helpful
BEAUTIFUL GRAPHICS.....TOO MANY PUZZLES
PostedSeptember 15, 2019
Fun Factor
2
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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
There are too many time consuming puzzles in this game. I feel that most of my time and effort is taken up with an overabundance of puzzles, outweighing gameplay, and I end up skipping them. It is frustrating to be encountering so many puzzles. I like to have more gameplay than being bombarded with puzzles. All it does is lengthen what is a short game to begin with and lessens the enjoyment of the scenery and story.
The graphics are beautifully done, as is typical of this developer, but this is my least favorite of the series and did not leave me with a feeling of satiety. I thought it was basically mundane and boring, leaving me with the feeling, "Is that all there is?"
There is a replay of only 12 HOS and 13 puzzles...cheap. There are many more puzzles than just 13. I wouldn't want to replay any of it.
Some of the HOS were innovative where you had to match silhouettes with items in the scene, which were rather like puzzles in themselves. I saw no alternative to play. The HOS are repeated in the Bonus as well as some main game scenes. Most of the time is taken up with puzzles if you do those....I didn't. If there weren't so many puzzles you could complete the bonus in 10 minutes.
The collectibles are unimpressive.You collect 38 morphing masks and 27 wooden letters that are only good for yet MORE PUZZLES to do. The only indicator for these is a pop out tab on the left of your screen. They are also marked in the strategy guide.
I am thoroughly disappointed in this. The excessive amount of puzzles ruined this game for me.