Adventure Chronicles
Hidden Object Games, Puzzle Games January 25th, 2009
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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For all great casual game sequels, there’s only one way to go after the initial release, and that is to improve. Adventure Chronicles is the second hidden object game following its predecessor, Escape the Museum. And this time around, it definitely improved to take part in the competitive find-and-seek casual gaming space.
The story of Adventure Chronicles follows right after Dr. Susan Anderson and her daughter’s escape from the crumbled museum. After all the interviews and getting back to her much-loved work, she received a journal coming from a mystery man named John. The journal contain hints pointing to the location of several long lost treasures coming from the Great Civil War, Blackbeard the pirate, and an Egyptian Pharaoh among others. And being thrilled by the adventure, Susan sets off to travel the whole world trying to add these historic items to the museum.
For each level of the game, there are three tasks that you should fulfill in order to move on to the next step of your journey as complete as possible. First, the journal contains several riddles pointing to a key item you’ll need to find the treasure. A riddle is found on each scene and you must solve all of them to complete the stage and end up with the treasure.
Second, you play a traditional hidden object game by finding listed objects at the right side of the screen. Some objects are locked, but can be easily found by interacting tools or inventory items to the scene. Normal items can become inventory items too, and to use them properly, take note of several clues and hints Susan will tell you as you click on possible hidden item locations.
Your third objective in Adventure Chronicles is an optional task but it can be frustrating if you don’t get to fulfill it. Each scene houses a hidden GeoCache treasure, and you’ll be given a riddle to find them. A scene can be completed without it, and you cannot use hints to locate it, but finding them completes the in-game museum, accessible through the game menu.
Adventure Chronicles is definitely a great improvement from the previous game and it’s backed up by an amazing storyline that envelopes you entirely as you help Susan fulfill her very long journey. The scene designs are great, and the game is seldom plagued by too much backtracking like most hidden object games.
It’s surprising that the whole game is not timed at all and penalty for miss-clicks is just a second of blurred vision reminding you of your bad habit. But besides this lax of penalty, the game is still quite challenging as it bombards you with riddles and puzzles you sometimes can’t discern or solve. I guess the only thing negative about the game are some of the pixel-finding you need to do in order to complete the levels, but that’s common in hidden object games anyway, meaning Adventure Chronicles is still an overall good game to play.
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