Daggit12's Profile
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- Average Rating:2.9
- Helpful Votes:593
- Reviews Submitted:45
- First Review:November 20, 2018
- Most Recent Review:January 13, 2025
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Can you save your kingdom from a malevolent creature in time?
Overall rating
3
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5
4 of 4 found this review helpful
More like 3.5
PostedMarch 2, 2022
Daggit12
fromEdmonton, Alberta, Canada
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object
Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
This is a decent game, storyline is ok, it kept me playing and interested to see the end. The bonus game has nothing to do with the main game, but it is ok. There is nothing really that stands out, it's a solid game, and while it still relies on the some of the old standards, it does so in a way that does not make you want to scream and quit the game, like all the current Domini games (which I have stopped demo-ing, buying, or reviewing because they are awful). It is no where near 5 stars (unless you are new and don't know that there are older actual 5 star games out there). I do not know what one reviewer was talking about "blue sparkles all over the screen", as I did not notice any, colors were appropriate. Length was ok, and while gameplay was easy, I did not feel cheated. All in all a solid average game, better than most offerings.
I recommend this game!
A mysterious bartender gives extraordinary guidance to those in need.
Overall rating
3
/
5
Tried and died...more like 3.5
PostedJanuary 21, 2022
Daggit12
fromEdmonton, Alberta, Canada
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Card & Board, Hidden Object, Match 3
Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
Listen, I can see how the Devs are trying.. to steal ideas from old Mad Head games. The locked room is Maze:Subject 360, where it is done way better. I got excited, thought "ok, maybe it will be ok". However, there are many things in the game that fall apart, though the concept is good. First, there is a room you cannot reach, unless an exact line of selections are picked, so you cannot complete the collections unless you know what that is(where your neighbors are all monsters). Second, the "rewards" mean absolutely nothing, as the game forces you to choose a certain final path. Third, to actually try to get all the collections you have to play the game over and over, and even then, I got it wrong. It is a buggy game, i get an error in the same spot each time, you cannot move forward thru half the conversations if you read fast, the 2nd and 3rd comics are very simplistic and short and end abruptly. All in all, good concept, short on actual gameplay. Good try though, better than many, but since those "many" have lately been awful, its faint praise. I have taken to only reviewing decent games, this one just makes it...
I recommend this game!
Can you save the day in your childhood hero's hometown?
Overall rating
4
/
5
2 of 2 found this review helpful
THIS IS NOT A CHILDS GAME
PostedSeptember 24, 2021
Daggit12
fromEdmonton, Alberta, Canada
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Time Management
Fun Factor
4
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
I tried this game even though the reviews were bad. I'm glad I did! It's incredibly fun and challenging. It starts out very easy and that's probably why a lot of the reviewers thinks it's a boring game.....but they couldn't be more wrong! You just have to get through the first half hour or so and the puzzles start getting harder and harder. There isn't much help so you have to put your thinking cap on! The story line was cute but it took way too long to get from one puzzle to the next as there was a lot of talking. Having said that, I would still recommend this for people who like to use their brain.
I recommend this game!
Arthurian legends are just stories, but sometimes fiction hides the truth.
Overall rating
2
/
5
48 of 58 found this review helpful
Confusing gameplay
PostedJune 18, 2021
Daggit12
fromEdmonton, Alberta, Canada
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object
Fun Factor
2
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
1
/
5
Level of Challenge
2
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
I think we have to forget that they named this Hidden Expedition. It is not even as good as the worst of that series. The game has the pIayer chasing down the verification of the legend of King Arthur, supposedly found at the bottom of a lake that someone wants to develop, but others want to declare a historical site. I do not understand why Domini insists on using the names of these established game series, when all they are going to do is cookie cutter the game play like every game they put out. While the plot line could have been a very decent game, the execution is childish and inane. I was chasing away crows with loud noises and digging things out of the dirt in the first five minutes. The scenes are muddy, darkish, fuzzy and badly drawn, small and difficult to click on. The worst however is the vague gameplay. I had no idea what it wanted me to do in some places, and I have been playing these games for a long time. It will say one thing, but want you to do something else. For example in one HOP it stated "I need help to open the box" and you are given a box cutter, but what it actually wants you to do is match the pictures on the boxes. It does stuff like that many times. I am not sure why it deliberately misleads, it makes for a frustrating game. Why give instruction at all?
This is not only a frustrating game, it is also boring, despite the subject matter. With any effort at all, could have been so much better. Another no buy. Please, try harder.
I don't recommend this game.
Can you solve a sinister mystery in time to save your nuptials?
Overall rating
1
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5
11 of 13 found this review helpful
Ridiculous
PostedJune 13, 2021
Daggit12
fromEdmonton, Alberta, Canada
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
2
/
5
Level of Challenge
1
/
5
Storyline
1
/
5
This is singularly one of the dumbest games I have played in a long time, even with the slim pickings we have had this year. A couple is getting married at a hotel, they have just arrived, a stranger in a hotel uniform reads the bride's palm (without looking at her palm it looked like) and all of a sudden they panic and believe the wedding is in ghostly trouble!?!? So, despite the fact that you have a hotel employee right there, the groom is clipping back plants with clippers to get an item, then immediately after he does that, there are more plants in his way, but your clippers are gone. You have to use a hack saw to remove a a metal bird attached to the hotel's outdoor light fixture to unlock a purse you brought with you. You have just checked in, are delayed entering you the room you just checked into because it is being cleaned, but when you get in, the handles to the wardrobe are missing (one is behind an electrical outlet bolted to wall): magically though, all your clothes are in the wardrobe when you unlock it, even though your suitcase was missing the piece to it's lock. You unscrew a lightbulb from a bedside light, then immediately use it in your flashlight; a door in the hotel room leads directly to a huge, dining room, etc, etc, etc, and this is just first 10 minutes. I can't believe that a dev would release a game this inane. I stopped after a magic stone appeared magically (was not there when I started) with a note while I was carving a wood turtle (using dot to dot ) to open a box to get a stitch ripper. You know, like you do at home. Ridiculous story, gameplay that children would shake their heads at, and I still cannot get this devs games to play voices, though I could hear the terrible music that they use every game. Very sad. Do not buy.
I don't recommend this game.
Can you undo Neptune’s deadly curse in time?
Overall rating
3
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5
18 of 25 found this review helpful
Another "old" game
PostedJune 5, 2021
Daggit12
fromEdmonton, Alberta, Canada
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object
Fun Factor
2
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
/
5
Level of Challenge
2
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
This game reminds me of games released in 2013-14. Sort of childish graphics, childish fairytale premise, and a really sort of bland storyline that takes forever to get somewhere. The game has a repetitive play, there is a curse placed on everyone on an island because they supposedly broke a promise with king Neptune. As a visitor to this island, you have to repeat actions with several cursed characters by playing a game, then taking a pearl from them, place it into a magical vessel that tells you a story about the cursed character, then you have to find an object they lost to break their curse. Rinse and repeat, that's the game play...with the childish repetitive purply graphics, it really is not a very fun game, at least not for adults. I like the occasional easy mindless game, but this game is just juvenile without any charm.
I think Big Fish you have forgotten the audience that actually buys these games, and it is not children. It is sad when I cannot even bring myself to use my free coupons to buy a game. Going to continue to play older much better games I have bought in the past 7 years and wait for better times...
I don't recommend this game.
The oracle’s strange vision portends cataclysmic destruction!
Overall rating
4
/
5
12 of 14 found this review helpful
Decent despite flaws, better than many this year
PostedMay 28, 2021
Daggit12
fromEdmonton, Alberta, Canada
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object
Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
I actually understand why people are giving this both a low score and high score. It has very nice graphics, well drawn, but they are muddy and dark in quite a few places, making it occasionally unenjoyable to find items in the scene, morphs, and HOPs. The voice overs are well done, they serve to advance the story, but there are a fair number of them. The game play is challenging enough, but because the HOPs are kinda muddy and hard to see, they are a bit tedious and difficult to like. There are a few puzzles, but I am not really sure why people are saying there are too many. I really didn't see any difference between this and other games (actually think many games are worse, MCF for example). I think that the lack of traditional HOPs just makes it feel that way. Over all it is a well thought out game. The HOPs, even though they are muddy and difficult to see, are done in a more novel way, taking a bit longer. Games are ho-hum repeats, but I only skipped a couple of the more tedious.
The game comes off as a bit tedious and fussy, but I think that is because everything we have to search for is so small. My biggest complaint with the 5BN games is that the cursor is teeny, so when it changes it is hard to see in contrast to the fussy background graphics. Lots of things in this game are hard to see, but it doesn't make it a horrible game. It is a more complete, well thought out game than many we have seen, despite the listed flaws. It is not the best game I have played, and the game moves too slow to be very exciting, but I think it is still worth buying (on a good sale) and playing.
I recommend this game!
Can Camelot survive the wrath of the Green Knight?
Overall rating
2
/
5
17 of 20 found this review helpful
Tedious Game
PostedMay 23, 2021
Daggit12
fromEdmonton, Alberta, Canada
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object
Fun Factor
2
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
2
/
5
Level of Challenge
2
/
5
Storyline
2
/
5
There is so much tedious busy work in this game that I had to stop after 1/2 an hour. So, We are looking for King Arthur because he is missing, but we are doing it by searching the kitchen and dining room of the castle for more than the first half hour (I stopped in the middle of it). Somebody named Mordred is a suspect, we also searched his bedroom which is right off the dining hall. Everything in this game is small and muddy. The scenes are very static, fuzzy and boring, and it has a very old game feel to it, like it was made before 2012. I could not get voice volume to work, though I had no problem with hearing the music. There are scrolls to find in every scene but they are not at all hidden. The HOPs repeat, and they are not that great to begin with. The puzzle (there was really only one in the time I played) was an old school exchange 9 red tokens with 9 blue. Ho-hum.
I have no real idea where all those 5 star rating are coming from, except that maybe people like these horribly tedious old style games. It is nothing but busy work. The tasks have little or nothing to do with the story. There are so many doors to open, chests to unlock, amulet type holes to fill, but none of it advances the story premise or the game. And my biggest irritation, the bottom part of the screen where we keep items, juts so far up in to the play area, that I accidently either hit the huge(feathers) hint button or sent myself backwards enough times to make me scream. Another reviewer mentioned that it is a long game...I can see that, but it is not time well spent.
This is tedious, boring, fuzzy, muddy, static game, and I will not spend money on it.
I don't recommend this game.
Can you save the world of Spirits from a dangerous adversary?
Overall rating
3
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5
13 of 20 found this review helpful
Just OK
PostedMay 14, 2021
Daggit12
fromEdmonton, Alberta, Canada
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object
Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
2
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
This is another ok game; nothing new, a repeat of other games (you know, put out fire to get stuff, climb a ladder to get stuff, use a magnet to open a latch, replace piano keys etc...). We have a magician's nephew on a visit to have his magic heart checked, and his uncle is taken before that happens. I did not actively dislike the game, but I was bored with the gameplay. The HOPs were mildly interesting, there are coins and morphs to find in scenes, and indicators for them (though what's is the point of the coins, you really have no choices, you just buy what's there). Again, I had no voices at all, the music was really warbling and bad, so I turned it off. The other sounds worked ok. I just found that over all, the game was just bland, and in some places just silly. It is well put together, well drawn, works ok but, there really isn't anything that I can say wow to. I am tired of game after game set as fantasy. I think it is a cop out. It is the same game with the same tasks in just a slightly different setting. I am bored, with them, feels so repetitive. I would rather go and play the Maze series again...at least those are original.
So, if you like these types of games that are repetitive, then by all means buy it. This one is better than most of the ones released since the beginning of the year, but I am not going to spend money on games that are not nearly as good as the ones I already own.
Dive into a wondrous Match-3 undersea world where the cares of life drift away!
Overall rating
5
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5
9 of 9 found this review helpful
Can't help it, I love these games!
PostedMay 10, 2021
Daggit12
fromEdmonton, Alberta, Canada
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object
Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
This is an excellent game, plays very much like those before it. There are however, new additions and changes, so if you are a stickler for repetition, beware. There are now nets on game pieces (you can play them but they do not disappear). The amulets that you have to bring to the bottom of the screens are different (they look like "R"s on a blue gamepiece). There are new bombs and bomb icons, as well as a new little "submarine" window that you get for 4 piece removals, which will explode a few pieces of whatever is displayed in its window. The "ladybug" type piece in previous games has changed, but you still moved it to charge it higher to get bigger explosions the same way. Just read thru the help pages because I probably missed some. Gameplay is still the same, get keys and amulets, to advance and to build the buildings. Lots of extras as well, and it looks like they have added to that as well.
This is a bright, lovely game, with large pieces which I especially enjoy, making it fun and engaging for all ages. The only ones in this whole series I did not enjoy was the "Royale" one, but only because the small pieces seemed bland in comparison to the Twilight, Natures capes, and Origins games. The changes may irritate some, so fair warning, but for me it just makes it that much more enjoyable. Thank you Suricate Games!
I recommend this game!