Re: What Casual Games Are You Playing Right Now? - Part Four
[Re: Marian]
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Thank you both, Reenie and Marian !! 🤗🤗
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Re: What Casual Games Are You Playing Right Now? - Part Four
[Re: Marian]
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04/03/23 04:57 PM
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Wow!! I just finished playing Eternal Journey: New Atlantis. What a fantastic game.
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Re: What Casual Games Are You Playing Right Now? - Part Four
[Re: Marian]
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04/04/23 10:51 AM
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I actually played (and liked) Eternal Journey: New Atlantis in 2021, probably based on comments in this thread here. I get Hope Lake mixed up with some other game and always think that I have played it already but, according to my list, I have not. I guess I'll have to add it to my very long queue of "I want to play now" games. I finished the main game of Golden Trails 2: The Lost Legacy and am working on getting the "best" score in the unlimited play area. I did start Twin Mind 3: Ghost Hunter last night but somehow got confused very early, and while the mini games / puzzles are different so far, I'm just not sure I like them.
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Re: What Casual Games Are You Playing Right Now? - Part Four
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04/04/23 12:09 PM
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I think “old school” suits me, Marian. Just as long as there aren’t HO scenes every five minutes and the objects in them aren’t microscopic !! And Hope Lake is nicely fitting THAT bill on both counts 👍
I reckon I have more unplayed games in my computer den than I have years left on this earth, oldbroad, and yet I still buy more. So you go to it, gal, and enjoy your massive collection to the max 😬
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Re: What Casual Games Are You Playing Right Now? - Part Four
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Finished Hope Lake (really liked it) and started Eternal Journey : New Atlantis CE. So very much looking forward to another good experience
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Re: What Casual Games Are You Playing Right Now? - Part Four
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Thanks very much, Marian [There's rather a lot of "gadgety" stuff in the Atlantis game and that's not really my forte.]
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Re: What Casual Games Are You Playing Right Now? - Part Four
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04/09/23 11:11 AM
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I agree with Mad on old school and am replaying some Dark Parables and other series to reteach myself puzzle skills. I recently discovered in 13th Skull that I can still do a complex modified slider with relative ease and also managed to solve the tricky tall-masted ship where the tile you click also turns adjacent tiles so I was encouraged that I hadn't forgotten everything. Alas the devilish dominoes in Return of the Salt Princess stymied me. I failed to work out that some pieces which appear to be duplicates, in fact, twirl differently or, at least, I think that's what happens. Salt Princess is a much better game than I remembered.
Just before Return of the Salt Princess, I replayed the first Final Cut, a fabulous game. Top of the line.
Edited to add: I also had forgotten how wonderfully amusing the openings of Dark Parables are. The detective, clearly no horsewoman either driving one or riding, jolts along reading notes and listening to a recording without a thought to oncoming disaster. In 2023, she'd get a ticket for texting while behind the wheel.
And now I'm playing Jack and the Sky Kingdom although the puzzles are way too simple I am still loving the game. I like a series that presumes player familiarity with previous episodes and builds on that to deepen character portrayal and player immersion, hard to do in any casual game, doubly so if helpful remarks are turned off. Sometimes I turn them on just to get some idea of who the dickens the player character is. Old school casual games, less bifurcated from the adventure game branch, tend to have comments unrelated to spelling out tasks and I treasure that feature.
Jack and the Sky Kingdom has a good puzzle at the end. I was sorry when the game ended.
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