Re: What Casual Games Are You Playing Right Now? - Part Five
[Re: Marian]
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12/19/23 09:17 PM
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oldbroad
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I finished Mind's Eye last night. Didn't exactly understand the story but I did like the game. I got used to the HO scenes but I think I used one more hint. One puzzle gave me trouble until after I walked away from the game for awhile. When I looked with fresh eyes I was able to figure it out.
Today I started Dark Heritage: Guardians of Hope. It is pretty hard. I am stuck in it as well as my adventure game. That's not how it's supposed to work.
Edit: Whew. Got unstuck in Dark Heritage and am now about half through the game I think. It's pretty good.
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Re: What Casual Games Are You Playing Right Now? - Part Five
[Re: Marian]
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12/20/23 12:46 PM
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I played that game quite a while ago, Marian, and LIKED it 👍
Time : The Most Precious Commodity
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Re: What Casual Games Are You Playing Right Now? - Part Five
[Re: Marian]
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12/31/23 12:53 AM
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I finished Shadows: Price for our Sins tonight. It is quite a long game. I played it in hard mode so I didn't have sparkles and, of course, I missed some hot spots and needed to use the hint button a couple of times. It is mostly a good game with nice puzzles. The HO scenes were getting to me at times because you did have to kind of click all over. The journal that you keep would turn back to the beginning when you left the game so you would have to page through it all to get back where you were which was a bit annoying. There was one major problem that put a bit of a damper on the game for me though. At one point you need to use a hammer and I had a hammer but it would not work. I didn't know if I just wasn't clicking in quite the right space or not so I tried it over and over and then I would move on and go back to it. I sort of thought I might need another item there also though it just said to use the hammer (not the hint; just the normal game info that you get when you click on something). Anyway, there were a lot of locations and I was able to continue but I kept worrying that there was a glitch and I would not be able to finish the game, especially after I used the hammer somewhere else and it disappeared from my inventory. Then a long way later I did find another item that needed to be used in that same spot but it was even later after that when I finally found another hammer and all was good. If I hadn't been worrying that it was a glitch, I would have enjoyed the game better. It is certainly worth playing. There was one page in the journal with writing on top of writing so you couldn't read it and one puzzle with incorrect instructions. Most of the puzzles didn't really need the instructions anyway. This particular one was easy enough to figure out and I don't even know why I looked at the instructions. There were some full answers there too as it was really more of a hint & answer area (behind a question mark) than instructions which were actually below the puzzles. Oh, and the first puzzle (or near the beginning) didn't seem to work even looking at the answer so I had to skip it. No big deal though for any of that. I played it in Windows 7 (just fyi).
I'm still playing The Adventures of Perseus but I think I'm getting close to the end. I like it. There are 3 play modes, untimed, timed with hints, and timed for a lesser amount of time and no hints. I'm playing the middle mode. There are regular swap levels and also some chain and group levels. I have had to repeat some levels but mostly it is not too hard.
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Re: What Casual Games Are You Playing Right Now? - Part Five
[Re: Marian]
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12/31/23 10:29 AM
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You folks are always inspiring me to try a game that you are playing. Just picked up Shadows from Steam for $.74 ! Sales tax of six cents brought it to an overwhelming $.80. Pretty good for "quite a long game." I might just wait, and play it after the new Carol Reed. (Which might or might not take a long time) I have been playing the latest catch, Surface: Reel Life CE. It's very different; the premise is, that action that should remain on the movie screen comes to life, and becomes a real (reel) threat. Your daughter gets kidnapped and dragged into the movie environment, and it's up to you to rescue her. There is a lot of 'back-and-forthing' but getting around is super easy. Some of the puzzles are on the difficult side, but absolutely doable. Instructions for the puzzles feel like they were written by somebody who volunteered: "Oh I can do that, I speak some English" The hidden object scenes have a feature that I don't remember seeing before. Spoiler: Often, you can't finish a HOS because you can't find the item you need to interact with another object. That's because the item (key or whatever) is actually in your inventory and you have to get it from there and bring it into the hidden objects to use it.
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