Women's Murder Club does Everest

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!