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Lost Secrets: Bermuda Triangle

Posted by Ruff on October 2nd, 2008

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GameMill Entertainment brings us a fantastic hidden object adventure today with the Lost Secrets: Bermuda Triangle game. And unlike many games of this type that focuses more on presenting mind-blowing graphics and sounds, this time around, the game digs into storytelling roots to keep the player longing for the characters’ development.

The game starts as you put in the shoes of the heroine, Rachel Broadview, a common scholar leading a fairly common life as well. However, things started to change after she discovers the name of her great-grandmother documented in a book containing information about shipwrecks within the Bermuda Triangle. Curious about this link to her past, she then sets off into an adventure to find her great-grandmother’s ship, Abigail Anne, and prepares to embark on a deep-sea journey within the Triangle’s mysterious waters.

In terms of gameplay, Lost Secrets: Bermuda Triangle presents a traditional find-the-list mechanic where in order to finish a level; you’ll have to deplete all listed items on the right side of your screen. While most of the items are certainly random, some of them will develop the game’s storyline too, and with that, a pop-up window will appear and will show how this particular object links to the current state of your adventure. And when you get stuck in trying to find hidden objects, the hot-or-cold hint button is always available to help you out.

After a few levels, you get to play unique mini-games too. An example include the submarine mini-game where you navigate a sub and try to collect all buried treasure without entangling yourself on the sub’s umbilical cord. Another one is the electrolysis mini-game whose objective is to match 2 same patterned symbols to break down tiles, much like a match-3 game.

But with all of these features, the greatest characteristic of Lost Secrets: Bermuda Triangle is still the back story behind the whole game adventure. All I can say is that playing the game feels just like reading a very nice book. The story greatly develops after each scene and the dialogues between the characters blend elements of both fun and seriousness, and amazingly add a pinch of wit as well.

I guess the only limitation of this game is the repetitive music that runs through all of the hidden object scenes. But the lack in presentation stops there though, because all the scenes are beautifully illustrated and ignoring the music, the ambient sounds fit well into the variety of the themes too.

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Mystery P.I.: The Vegas Heist

Posted by Ruff on October 1st, 2008

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The Mystery P.I.: The Vegas Heist game coming from PopCap and SpinTop Games runs on the same engine as their renowned Amazing Adventures series, but this time around, instead of traveling around the world looking for buried treasure, you’re taken within the lights and sounds of Las Vegas as you try to solve one of the city’s biggest crimes.

The thing is that a report broke out that 4 billion dollars in cash was stolen from a newly developed casino just before its grand opening day. With 16 hours left before they open their doors to the public (and of course, they need that money as well), you are commissioned as a private investigator to solve this crime and find the culprits behind it. With all your efforts, an award of 50 million is waiting as a reward. And with that kind of money, who in their right minds will need rest, right?

Anyway, the mechanics of Mystery P.I.: The Vegas Heist is just like any ordinary hidden object game where you’re tasked to find all the items listed on the left side of your screen within the set time limit. Just like I said earlier, it very much plays like the Amazing Adventures series, which means that you get bonus points for making successive fast finds too. And if you need hints, the hint button will slowly replenish, ready for your next use.

Aside from the item list, you have an option to find additional items too that will unlock certain features of the game. Finding a fingerprint in each of the sceneries and collecting them all will award you a bonus million for all your efforts. Keys and chips are also available, and when you find them all, you get to unlock the Unlimited Seek and Find Mode available from the main menu of the game.

Finishing each stage also means playing through a puzzle mini-game involving jigsaw puzzles, word finding and other innovative ones like those found in Amazing Adventures: Around the World. After playing the mini-games, you’re presented with a clue possibly leading to the heist. But how exactly is that clue related to the crime is not explained in the game, making you wonder why with all the things you’ve collected so far, it all comes down to a single seemingly-random item.

Anyway, it’s still good to know that Mystery P.I.: The Vegas Heist has great production values as expected from SpinTop Games. The story does not develop very much from the initial part of the game though, but this doesn’t mean that you won’t be having fun from the actual hidden object gameplay anyway so I guess it’s all alright. The mini-games are all fun and addictive, and the added Unlimited Play mode is very much great as well.

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The Hidden Object Show: Season 2

Posted by Ruff on September 29th, 2008

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Gogii Games quickly follows up the success of one of their most fun hidden object games with The Hidden Object Show: Season 2 game, the only virtual game show where you get to have fun playing through a variety of hidden object games while earning awesome prizes in the process. And for this season 2, the game takes you seeking items within the vast area of an amusement park, filled with much of the same clutter you’ll expect from this type of game.

Just like in the original game, your task in here is to play through a day’s episode by playing 4 rounds of hidden object gameplay. The first round is always the traditional find-a-list, but the remaining 3 rounds will have you randomly choose between innovative twists to this genre through a magical crystal ball. And while I know most of you will claim that you’ve already played through most of these game types, well, how about new and innovative types as well like a Hangman-type of hidden object game where you need to spell out the whole item list first before you get to find them.

The whole objective of the game is for you to earn tickets and buy all the trophies sold within the shop. Bonus tickets are hidden within the locations too, and you just have to keep your eyes peeled for you to collect them all.

Really, The Hidden Object Show: Season 2 doesn’t fall short in adding more surprises your way that makes the original less attractive. Included in this are the 3 new mini-games you can play anytime to take a break from all that searching and clicking. The Leap Frog and Clown Shoot are just some of these mini-games, and are basically there to help you earn extra tickets for you to buy those high-priced prizes.

But will all the good things said about this game, I have to admit that I sometimes find the graphics of the sceneries very blurry, making some of the objects hard to distinguish as are listed at the bottom of the screen. However, the overall presentation is very nice and I just loved all the 3D animation and ambient sounds during the actual game. I even suggest those with crappy computers try out the game first before buying, because all that animation spells too much punishment for your old machines.

The game has its hilarious moments too. For example, too many spam clicks will trigger the game to present you a random advertisement, featuring weird made-up products that reflect the wackiness of the game’s development team. Some of the voice-overs are just plain silly and therefore, adds much fun to the actual game.

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Magic Encyclopedia

Posted by Ruff on September 25th, 2008

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Alawar and V-Games sure came up with a hidden object winner in their Magic Encyclopedia game as we get to play today a one-of-a-kind twist to the classic find-and-click gameplay that we all sure did love since its first conception. And it’s such great pleasure too that we get to see innovation happen right before our very eyes, and I bet that this game is a perfect example of the innovation that I’m talking about.

Anyway, the game starts as you take the role of Catherine, a top student of the highly acclaimed Magic Academy. One day, Catherine received an ominous but intriguing letter containing teleportation symbols that are designed to… well… teleport her into unknown places. Much to her surprise after starting her journey, the letters came from her long lost brother, who mysteriously won’t tell her directly any other information than through puzzles and clues.

Thus, opening up the concept of Magic Encyclopedia, as you try to progress through the game’s story by finding clues after clues of information leading to your brother’s location. Not only that, because the story tells of a foreboding future as well, and it’s up to your magical powers and deductive thinking to prevent an incoming disaster.

As I had said earlier, the mechanics of Magic Encyclopedia is really one innovative twist to hidden object casual gameplay. While yes, you’re still tasked to find hidden items through beautifully hand-painted surroundings, this time around, you have to find missing parts of each item, repair them first, then make them part of your inventory too to use on various interactive parts of each level.

This brings up such a creative approach to all the game’s puzzles. I loved how each item is actually part of the scene’s puzzle unlike most hidden object games I used to play. But one bit of warning though, this element brings about a more challenging approach to hidden object games too because of item parts you need to unlock first before you get to find them, and adding to that challenge are the well-hidden items that blend surprisingly well to the location sceneries, making the clues much used throughout the whole game.

The Magic Encyclopedia game brings about a variety of mini-games too. Mini-games sometimes pop-up when your cursor changes into gears and are mainly there to unlock other locations and item parts to progress the game. And while the actual gameplay is not timed, the mini-games however, should be played within a set amount of time. And some of them need a good deal of figuring out too, but not too difficult considering the mostly lax time limit.

All in all, I say that it’s really hard to pass-up such a creative hidden object game because I really found the approach much more fun than that of the classic find-the-list. The overall presentation is great and I enjoyed how the storyline developed too as you help Catherine in her long and puzzling adventure.

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Amazing Adventures: Around the World

Posted by Ruff on September 20th, 2008

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The museum once again commissions you to find lost treasure in the Amazing Adventures: Around the World game after your successful journey through Egypt. But in this sequel to Amazing Adventures: Lost Tomb, you wouldn’t be confining yourself to just one country, but now, the entire world becomes your playground in this hidden object adventure from PopCap and SpinTop Games.

Your mission in this game is to recover the most expensive and cherished gem throughout the world – the World Diamond, and to do just that, you’ll have to know how to find it first. Lucky for you, an ancient tablet serves as a map to the gem’s location, but of course, it wouldn’t be that easy now, would it?

Your first quest in Amazing Adventures: Around the World is to find the missing tablet pieces and bring them back together to help you recover the World Diamond. To do this, you must travel all around the world and search for clues leading you to the tablet pieces. Find random items as listed on the bottom of your screen, and afterwards, try your hand against each level’s end puzzle to know where you’ll be heading next.

Aside from the traditional hidden objects within each level, you are also given an option to find 50 missing gems scattered all throughout the locations. Collecting these gems is just additional burden on your part but finding them all also has its rewards. As a matter of fact, they all in all unlock the Unlimited Mode in the game wherein after beating the game; you can always go back for more hidden object fun.

But what really makes Amazing Adventures: Around the World shine are the mini-games you get to play after each level. Find the differences, jigsaw puzzles and other crafty mini-games run aplenty in this game which ensures that you wouldn’t get burned-out just finding some other random item. I even believe that this game is worth playing just for the mini-games alone. Not that the actual gameplay is not worth playing or anything, but I know you will just appreciate the break once in a while.

I guess why I said that last statement is because I found the actual game to be quite dragging. The lack of any back story makes the game quite bland for my taste and really, any adventure spanning the globe like this game really needs one, right?

But in the other hand, this is where the limitations of Amazing Adventures: Around the World stops too. The game’s presentation is definitely top-notch and while all objects are cleverly hidden in each area, you’ll also appreciate how they are easily distinguishable when you find them. Coupled with the creative ways they are described on your list, like listing “x and o’s” for a tic tac toe image, you’ll definitely find yourself mustering enough brainwork compared with other games of this type.

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