Scottar's Profile
Stat Summary
- Average Rating:3.6
- Helpful Votes:395
- Reviews Submitted:249
- First Review:August 1, 2016
- Most Recent Review:October 23, 2025
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Hide and Secret: The Lost World
The nefarious treasure thief Jacques has kidnapped another damsel, and it’s up to you to stop his plans before she is sacrificed!
Overall rating
3
/
5
Basic Adventure Game
PostedJanuary 10, 2021
Scottar
fromAlbuquerque, NM
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
Basic adventure game. Graphics are mediocre VGA, made it hard playing hidden object minigames. No easter eggs. Mood music OK.
You have a crude jump map. solving some puzzles will have you going all over the mapped areas and you can get lost on where to go next. Fortunately by hitting the hint button it will bring up a crude guide but only outside of minigames.
It's a difficult game and new puzzle games will crop up as you progress in the game in previous travels areas randomly. There is some animation and cut scenes are mostly still pictures. But game is good for puzzle freaks who like challenges.
Find the double agent in H.E.L.P. before it’s too late!
Overall rating
5
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5
Game Series Quality was Surprising
PostedJanuary 10, 2021
Scottar
fromAlbuquerque, NM
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
Quality of game rivals others. Very good graphics, especially in hidden object find sections. Most puzzles are not hard. Some objects are cleverly concealed. It has a jump map and other good features.
You have 2 easter eggs, a hidden icon (many easily spotted) and a morphing object in the hidden puzzle subgames. It you miss them you can find them in the extras section after completing the 2 games.
The music is decent, cinematic genre, wide variety.
I recommend this game!
Stop a glacial meltdown that could have catastrophic consequences!
Overall rating
3
/
5
10 of 13 found this review helpful
Gaming Good, Narrative Poor
PostedJanuary 10, 2021
Scottar
fromAlbuquerque, NM
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
2
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5
First of all like the previous game it has good graphics, challenges and added features. Half of the mood music sucks but it's fun to play. But I have serious objections to the propaganda nature of this game.
1- The premise that global warming would cause a glacier to collapse in California is ludicrous. California does not have dangerous glaciers like that.
2- What would likely happen is an earthquake would set off a volcano or volcanoes that would cause quick melting of glaciers in the areas and other problems.
3- They seem to exaggerate air pollution as the cause of all the calamities hinting at global warming caused by CO2, the primary gas claimed to be the problem.
4- Drought and fires is not new for California nor the SW, it's been an historical occurrence written in the remains of plants and fossils.
5- Kangaroos in California, ridiculous!
If the developers keep on pushing this false projection of global warming I will never purchase another version of this game. It can give false convictions to the young, naive minds, even though more knowledgeable minds will find it quite ridiculous; after all, it's only a silly game.
I was able to do all levels in easy timed mode. Music could be better, some tracts too mellow. Bonus section has easter egg card boxes.
Diamon Jones: Eye of the Dragon
Diamon is off to China to find the ancient Eye of the Dragon! Solve different puzzles and mysteries to get this mystic trophy!
Overall rating
3
/
5
1 of 1 found this review helpful
Lacks Some Desired Features
PostedDecember 30, 2020
Scottar
fromAlbuquerque, NM
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
2
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
This is what the early adventure games where like. The graphics are early VGA. The characters walked everywhere. There was no hidden object searches, you had to hunt around for needed objects. Application of some objects was not logical. Progress in the game depended on doing certain sequences and interfaces with characters including dialogs. They had some arcade encounters.
In this game if you didn't follow a particular sequence of encounters and dialogs you will not proceed in the game. Some objects are hard to see and you just have to do a thorough search. Some of the arcade games are tough and you just have to keep trying at it with proper timing, you can't skip them. There is a start-you-up guide but no much beyond that. You can't window and there is no hint button. There is no map jump or guide. BigFish does have an online walkthrough guide that's free. As was the convention of the day the dialog is humorous, quirky. Some of the solutions are quirky as well.
The mini game section didn't have hardly any of the games played in the main game.
Some people might find this kind of game appealing and challenging but I found it tedious without the skipping, hind or window options. So I don't recommend this game, I just barely made it through without bailing out of the game.
I don't recommend this game.
Amidst the breathtaking landscapes, complete multiple interesting quests and solve fascinating puzzles to reveal the witch’s mystery!
Overall rating
3
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5
1 of 1 found this review helpful
Exception Graphics, Trying Puzzles
PostedDecember 20, 2020
Scottar
fromAlbuquerque, NM
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
This game has an unusual graphics format. It looks like they took real photos and spliced them together to make artful scenes with some animation. Music is OK.
The heroine had to confront the witch again. You go from scene to scene via a jump map searching for items and solving various puzzles, some arcadeish, some quite wacky and time consuming. Some never seemed to reach a termination point.
I found it hard to find object locations and had to use the hint button 3x, you really have to search carefully.
The game is worth the fantastic scenes alone. No extras, no easter eggs to find.
A fantasy adventure through a kingdom in chaos!
Overall rating
2
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5
6 of 7 found this review helpful
Challenging but Graphics poor.
PostedDecember 20, 2020
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
2
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
3
/
5
This game uses some surrealistic graphics, they are pasty and a bland pastel color. It has the usual TMG play but with some twists. But the storyline graphics are very colorful and graphically correct.
I disliked how the interface panel covered up some of the background.
The music and story line is OK, You can play an easy causal- no time mode. The game has no achievement section nor easter eggs. I did not go into timed mode as I was disappointed in the game graphics. Some levels get tedious in game play.
Manage resources and projects to earn success in new lands!
Overall rating
3
/
5
4 of 5 found this review helpful
Another TMG but boring
PostedDecember 6, 2020
Scottar
fromAlbuquerque, NM
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
Another time management game with different features. The music is somewhat corny but OK. The graphics are pleasing and well balance in a cartoon way.
This game has translucent hidden puzzle pieces, which are not too hard to find except I couldn't find one on level 12. I searched and searched, clicked everywhere and no puzzle piece came up, I even reloaded the game, no luck. The puzzle pieces seem to be tied to the bonus games past level 50, they have no hidden pieces.
I wasn't intrigued by the game and didn't go for the timed mode, other new TMG games popped up. The help guide is very basic, you have a tutorial at the start. Kids may like it but I found it kind of boring.
I could not condemn nor recommend the game.
When volcanic eruptions uncover hidden caves in Samoa, you can’t wait to decipher the ancient texts inside! But this educational expedition quickly takes a dangerous turn when someone steals your research! Legend says the Maori hid a powerful artifact, and there’s no telling what damage it could do in the wrong hands! Can you find the artifact and save the world in time?
Overall rating
4
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5
1 of 1 found this review helpful
My kind of adventure game
PostedDecember 6, 2020
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
5
/
5
This is basically my kind of game. It has good graphics in it's perspective, good musical score. What I like about it is all of it's puzzles are readily solvable, although some are funky as it is usually in all of this type of games. It has 1 arcade game that I deplored, I hate arcade in adventure puzzle games. There was one puzzle that didn't make sense on the solution in the guide.
There are 3 easter eggs to find. Guide will help you through the entire game, even finding the easter eggs. You also have a jump map.
It has a bonus game which is usually the case for CE games. You can paly all the puzzles and hops in the extra game..
I recommend this game!
A great evil unlocks deep within Ravenhearst!
Overall rating
4
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5
Best sequel version yet but needs background story.
PostedDecember 6, 2020
Scottar
fromAlbuquerque, NM
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
4
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
In this sequel the detective is rescued from the jump into the ocean from the Ravenhearst blast and taken to a hospital. They remove the strange shard embedded in his wrist and you guessed it, somehow Dalimar's psych gets transferred into the Detective. Like the guy in the last game he has these weird episodes of recalls of his last encounter that he has no real memory of, like drawings and such. So they put him in an insane asylum and he ends up in Dalimar's old cell. The story evolves from there.
The game plays much the same way. You have a jump map. The easter eggs are lighthouse towers to find. And just like in the last game there is a indicator to tell you that one is there to find. And it won't be right off in where you enter the area. No morphing objects anywhere. No log book which is a shame for a clue resource. The background music and environmental sounds are less disturbing and more sublime, orchestra based.
It has 1 arcade game puzzle that I detested so I skipped out of it after 1 try. Would work if I could slow it down. Another door master puzzle didn't have any clues on some of the embedded puzzles or poor clues. There were puzzles that had no clues and you either just had to do trial and error or bail out to the guide. In the hops you have puzzles within puzzles as before. 1 puzzle was just too difficult for me, another the solutions just didn't make sense.
You can replay hops and puzzles in extra section. In some hops objects are too well hidden for the graphic resolution which is fuzzy. As in the last game series you have a souvenir section in extras where you go to various scenes to get the souvenirs.
I would recommend this game except for the objections of the previous sequels. But I can't say don't try the game. From the ending it seems it terminates the series from Dalimar's return.
Mystery Case Files: Key to Ravenhearst Collector's Edition
Can you find the key to Ravenhearst's resurrection?
Overall rating
3
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5
1 of 1 found this review helpful
Game up to current standards, disturbing background sounds
PostedDecember 6, 2020
Scottar
fromAlbuquerque, NM
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
In this game it's up to date with the rest of the adventure games as to interface. You have a full guide and a 'jump' map to help you. Graphics are clear enough to make out objects better in the hidden puzzle games. But you don't have a log book. Most puzzles are solvable, but some have no real hint as to how to solve them. The music is relaxing, not scary.
Remember the intricate door puzzles of the last 3 games, you will encounter similar puzzles in this game. They are easier then the last game but still very cryptic. The clues are hidden on the puzzle, you just need some abstract logic to solve them without the guide. 1 or 2 puzzles are very cryptic and tedious, I skipped those. Another is stupid and I just had to fool around to solve it.
Toward the end 1 door puzzle claimed the solution to one part was embedded in the puzzle interface but I could not find it. If it was there it was not obvious. The end solution was cryptic and there where no real clues as to the sequence. Just had to fool around or bail out on the guide.
You have 2 Easter eggs. 1 is red eyed ravens in each scene, the raven icon in the bottom middle lets you know if they are present. The other is morphing objects in the puzzles games. A morphing indicator will let you know if the puzzles have those objects, sometimes the morphing object is hard to detect.
In the extras section you can replay the hops and puzzles and find morphing objects you missed. Some of the ravens are very well hidden and hard to see. The guide shows where they are but not the morphing objects.
At the end of the game there is a souvenir room in extras where you can find them throughout the game.