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Yes, you read that right, I finished two more games today!
First up, Women's Murder Club 2: A Darker Shade of Grey was a very cool puzzle game. Hidden objects were limited to finding things you needed for the game, for example, pieces of a torn up fax and a pink notice pasted to the wall. I used this walkthrough for the difficult portions of the game, and I didn't have to use many hints. By the end of the game I had 44 hints :D (hints follow you through the game).
There's 10 investigations in total, and each investigation is broken into maybe 5 parts or so, I didn't really count. The storyline was pretty interesting, though it would have been nice if the game was longer. Once again, I found the ending abrupt like when I played the first game, Women's Murder Club: Death in Scarlet. One annoying thing is that you can skip cutscenes by clicking the mouse key, but the game gives you no option on speeding through the cutscene. I tell you, I can read faster than the text went by so that part of the game was sorta slow for me. There were also some grammatical and spelling errors but not too much. All in all, a really good game that kept me quite engrossed, and the puzzles were very interesting.
I also finally finished Hidden Expedition: Everest. I had started playing it before my old Windows XP computer crashed, and I didn't look forward to starting it again from the beginning but I finally did. There's a walkthrough and review I found helpful posted at Jay is Games. What's really cool about this game is that it's narrated by Ed Viesturs (yeah, I didn't know who he was either) a real-life mountaineer who has climbed Mount Everest seven times. Along with his voice, he provides a gallery of video footage and photographs of his travels that gets unlocked gradually as you play the game.
Hidden objects were very good, and the various puzzles that finish each level were good and challenging. You could find 5 small gems per location to provide you with one more hint (3 hints at the start of the chapter). I tell you, those hints were dear to me, as I needed them quite a bit! There is also 3 other teams you are racing against to reach the summit in time. Believe me, they got quite close to me at some points. There is one part of the game I didn't finish, and that's these mystery items that are hidden one per scene, and you have to find them without knowing what you're looking for. I only found 9 out of 18 I think. But the walkthrough posted above has more hints to those items locations. That would be the only replayability value I can see in the game, finding those mystery items. But I would definitely recommend, quite fun!
So now I'm playing 3 Days: Zoo Mystery, Treasure Seekers: Visions of Gold (which will probably be followed by Treasure Seekers: The Enchanted Canvases) and Angela Young's Dream Adventure (which I started awhile ago, but should finish). We'll see which of these I will post about next!
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Elizabeth Find and Robinson Crusoe!
Yes, I finished two new hidden object games that I can post about, yay!
I haven't been playing a lot lately, due to the fact that I have a new boyfriend. :) and before that I was playing a lot of The Sims, so I didn't really have anything new to post about.
But on to Elizabeth Find MD: Mystery Diagnosis. Here is the walkthrough I used for the game. It was a pretty good game, it has 3 chapters that you can play, basically 3 patients that you have to diagnose. You get to visit different locales, like the hospital of course, with various offices and lab rooms and the patient room, and you also visit an ambulance and a school and the patients' homes.
I played in relaxed mode, so I didn't have a timer. The hidden objects were pretty easy, I think I only had to use 6 hints in total throughout the game. I like the fact that some hidden objects were various doctor related stuff like drawing blood and finding the heartbeat, and to do those ones you had to click on an instrument in your medical bag. The puzzles were pretty good as well, though I found the Radiology-MRI game really annoying. I skipped that a couple of times. Characters were not that good.....I found some of them annoying, I think they were trying to be like a House clone or something. But this game was good, it gave me 3 days of gameplay (one case per evening) so yeah, I would recommend it.
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was another hidden object game, I found this one rather more entertaining. I used this walkthrough to help me through various parts. This one was also more longer which was great. It had six chapters and each chapter had 6 parts. I played in Survivor Mode, which was timed, and I think I only got close to the clock a couple of times.
But yeah, puzzles were very entertaining, there was spot the differences, find x number of items, and putting together puzzles, along with a whole bunch of others. Oh, and you got five hints at the start of each chapter, and you could earn more hints in various ways. At the end of each chapter you got to build a little more of a boat so that Robinson Crusoe could escape from the island. The hidden object portion of the game was challenging, items were hidden quite well. Had a good storyline as well, the game goes from when the ship is caught in the storm and he's shipwrecked to him building a cabin, then meeting Friday (a native that helps him), and escaping from a tribe of cannibals, to going to Friday's tribe, to of course escaping from the island. Not sure about the replay value, but it was a very good game, and I would definitely recommend it!
Anyways, now I'm playing Women's Murder Club 2: A Darker Shade of Grey, Hidden Expedition: Everest and Detective Stories: Hollywood. Will post once I finish another game, but funnily enough, it probably won't be one of the ones I've just listed....I play what I feel like playing, and sometimes it's something I haven't played yet.
Oh, and I have some cool news! As you know, my favorite game company in the world is Spiderweb Software. I've been a member of their message boards for a little more than a year now, and in April a senior moderator asked me if I wanted to join the moderator team! Of course I said yes. :) They wanted to have a newer member as a moderator instead of someone who'd been there for years and years, lol. So I haven't done much besides edit posts to contain pictures, and edit someone who had something spammy in his signature. But anyways, it is awesome that I am a moderator on my favorite game designer's forum. :)
So that's it for now, see you next time!
I haven't been playing a lot lately, due to the fact that I have a new boyfriend. :) and before that I was playing a lot of The Sims, so I didn't really have anything new to post about.
But on to Elizabeth Find MD: Mystery Diagnosis. Here is the walkthrough I used for the game. It was a pretty good game, it has 3 chapters that you can play, basically 3 patients that you have to diagnose. You get to visit different locales, like the hospital of course, with various offices and lab rooms and the patient room, and you also visit an ambulance and a school and the patients' homes.
I played in relaxed mode, so I didn't have a timer. The hidden objects were pretty easy, I think I only had to use 6 hints in total throughout the game. I like the fact that some hidden objects were various doctor related stuff like drawing blood and finding the heartbeat, and to do those ones you had to click on an instrument in your medical bag. The puzzles were pretty good as well, though I found the Radiology-MRI game really annoying. I skipped that a couple of times. Characters were not that good.....I found some of them annoying, I think they were trying to be like a House clone or something. But this game was good, it gave me 3 days of gameplay (one case per evening) so yeah, I would recommend it.
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was another hidden object game, I found this one rather more entertaining. I used this walkthrough to help me through various parts. This one was also more longer which was great. It had six chapters and each chapter had 6 parts. I played in Survivor Mode, which was timed, and I think I only got close to the clock a couple of times.
But yeah, puzzles were very entertaining, there was spot the differences, find x number of items, and putting together puzzles, along with a whole bunch of others. Oh, and you got five hints at the start of each chapter, and you could earn more hints in various ways. At the end of each chapter you got to build a little more of a boat so that Robinson Crusoe could escape from the island. The hidden object portion of the game was challenging, items were hidden quite well. Had a good storyline as well, the game goes from when the ship is caught in the storm and he's shipwrecked to him building a cabin, then meeting Friday (a native that helps him), and escaping from a tribe of cannibals, to going to Friday's tribe, to of course escaping from the island. Not sure about the replay value, but it was a very good game, and I would definitely recommend it!
Anyways, now I'm playing Women's Murder Club 2: A Darker Shade of Grey, Hidden Expedition: Everest and Detective Stories: Hollywood. Will post once I finish another game, but funnily enough, it probably won't be one of the ones I've just listed....I play what I feel like playing, and sometimes it's something I haven't played yet.
Oh, and I have some cool news! As you know, my favorite game company in the world is Spiderweb Software. I've been a member of their message boards for a little more than a year now, and in April a senior moderator asked me if I wanted to join the moderator team! Of course I said yes. :) They wanted to have a newer member as a moderator instead of someone who'd been there for years and years, lol. So I haven't done much besides edit posts to contain pictures, and edit someone who had something spammy in his signature. But anyways, it is awesome that I am a moderator on my favorite game designer's forum. :)
So that's it for now, see you next time!
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