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Review – Mystery Stories: Mountains of Madness
Even if you have never read H.P. Lovecraft’s novel At the Mountains of Madness, you will be surely amazed by the game Mystery Stories: Mountains of Madness, where the plot can just fascinate you. In 1931 you visit Antarctica as an explorer Lynn Morgan and Professor William Dyer and suddenly you found out that your expedition in the team of other explorers is impossible. You make a discovery that all the members of the team were killed and disappeared. Can you figure out who or what murdered them? Is that the Elder Things of ancient myth or anything else?
Review – Them: The Summoning
Introduction
Looking into thumbnail of the game you may say: “there is something about that gentleman” and you are right, he was accused for murdering his wife for betrayal, a lie that someone has delivered to him. The game – them: the summoning asks you to help this couple to get out of the situation and depending on how well you are in hidden object games and puzzles he will be discharged from accusations.
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Review – Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Introduction
Historically unproven legend says that the gardens supposedly hanging on the air were build by the King to his beloved Queen. Obviously, the developer of this game – Gameshastra was tempted by the idea of impressing the crowd with the beauty of ancient eastern culture using the fable about Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Still, it is difficult to say how much of the effort put on this game went useless even though first impressions from playing may not always take to correct conclusions. So, we are given an opportunity to try the game by tasting fruits sold in bazaars, touch the carpets made of silk and accompany the Queen begging idols to help her husband in fighting against enemies of Babylon.
Review – Voodoo Chronicles: The First Sign Collector’s Edition
Introduction
The game has nothing to do with black religious cult practices as one may think because of its name. Voodoo Chronicles: The First Sign containing of 9 long lasting chapters with plenty of diehard hidden object games and puzzles made on story of investigation by private detective Voodoo.
Hidden objects games are very flexible to fit into any genre as one example we have here, a highly adventurous model of the game made on Hollywood classic dramas of 40′s and 50′s of the last century. Distinctive feature of the game plot representing famous and well known style of “fiction” with crime and violence are widely used in many movies produced at that time in US.
Review – Sonya
Introduction
Life is full of such terrible stories and most of the time parents never learn that kids shouldn’t be left at home alone!
The family of Doctors with two daughters was living happily together. It happened when parents went far from home to cure and help country people from bitter disease that was taking lives. Unknown villains took this chance and came to their house and attacked small Lily when her sister Sonya was at her room. She couldn’t help sister because of the locked door. Sonya, the name for this hidden object game is narration of the pity story of girl searching for her lost sister.
Review – Mystery Legends: Beauty and the Beast Collector’s Edition
Introduction
Mystery Legends: Beauty and the Beast is another love story but this time you can “play” with this love. Evil spelled poor prince watches as his life comes to its end, unless some, let’s say, princess or at least some girl would come, fell in love and rescue him from the magic. He almost gave up but the love is blind and provincial Belle who wasn’t last in the beauty with a lot of chances for better marriage went to him.
Review – Cursed Memories: The Secret of Agony Creek Collector’s Edition
Introduction
The game Cursed Memories: Secret of Agony Creek that came up at the beginning of this week is different from other hidden object games as it was created in the scenery of present days, realistically depicting story with mystery and darkness, unlike others taken from old books or scary legends. Ordinary countryside surroundings that can be found in many places in the world were used as proper place for screenplay of this exciting game.
It is time to have some rest from old styled games and to give a chance for this genre to show up and to see if they are worth playing.
Review – Grim Tales: The Bride
Introduction
Most of us must have read or at least heard about the tales of these brothers. Some shabby books of Grim’s may still are sitting in your bookcase read many times by your ancestors long before even you were born. It makes a great honor for Elephant Games developers to take one of their tales as an inspiration in creating of their game. The name itself – Grim Tales: The Bride catches eyes of anyone refreshing for a moment sweet old memories of listening to or reading the tales of Grim’s. Let’s see how well genre of hidden object game fits into this story.
So, here is the story- a remarkable day in the whole life of your sister, a wedding day was turned into tears. Bride, your dearest sister has gone forever leaving behind queastions and mystery of her disappearing. Would you let this to happen if you could know about this before? No! Brotherly love is burning your heart and is saying – “go and find who did it at whatever cost!”.
