The Stroke of Midnight - New IHOG on BigFish
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You can download The Stroke of Midnight here. With her deadline looming, a romance author escapes to Eastern Europe with the hope that a trip to Transylvania can provide the inspiration she needs to rewrite her latest book. But soon her discovery of a Victorian-era love triangle provides much more than a new storyline: it provides an entire novel’s worth! Reunite the long lost lovers in the afterlife in The Stroke of Midnight, a fun Hidden Object game. Incredible gameplay Exciting storyline Reunite haunted lovers! Check out our Blog Walkthrough Get the Strategy Guide ! As always, please remember to come back and tell us what you think. Happy Gaming, Ana 
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Re: The Stroke of Midnight - New IHOG on BigFish
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It's been feast or famine with BFG lately. This looks like another great game. Forgive me if the question has been answered before, but why would someone purchase a Strategy Guide when a Walkthrough is available? The pictures are larger, the layout is different and they have unused credits. Ana 
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Re: The Stroke of Midnight - New IHOG on BigFish
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I just played this for a few minutes and I like it. When I saw "Nikitova Games," I already had a good vibe, as that is the same folks who did Deadtime Stories. Margie B posted on the Big Fish forums an excellent overview of how the hint system works in this game, and I think it would be worthwhile to share this information here. * Hints are unlimited and recharge automatically in the Hidden Object Scenes.
* The list items for Hidden Object scenes can be found in various parts of the scene: the top, the bottom, on a wall, etc.
* To use a Hint in a Hidden Object scene, click on the list item to view its location (E). The game shows a small circle around a part of the item.
* Clicking randomly in a search scene will cause your cursor to move around wildly.
* The Hint system in this game comes in stages. You can read messages in mirrors, waterfalls, walls, and so on, regarding your next task.
* Zoom into those messages to learn hints about what to do next. Click on the zoom-in message once more to get exact details of what to do next.
* The Hand Icon allows you to pick up Inventory Items.
* This game does not have an inventory tray. Inventory items can be used as soon as you pick them up.
* You can right-click on an inventory item to drop it back where you found it in most cases.
* To use an inventory item, click it onto the area in which you see the cursor flash red.
* Your cursor will glow red when it hovers over an important item in any scene; click on the item to read an important clue.
* You can skip puzzles once the “Skip Puzzle” icon appears in the lower right corner.
* The Diary can be located in different parts of any scene. Open it to read parts of the story and receive clues for some of the puzzles. 
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Re: The Stroke of Midnight - New IHOG on BigFish
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Playing the demo,it sure is a different HOG. Never played a game quite like this one. I like it I guess. The hint system is different,it allways stays active, when you click in a item it shows you where it is,no waiting at all. If you don't like HO than this is the game for you. It's different all right. Richard
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Re: The Stroke of Midnight - New IHOG on BigFish
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Quite a different type of game. I am so thankful that Margie posted the hints. I read those first and it helped me figure out the gameplay. I really like the hints on the hidden object part, cause those always slow me way down. The mirror hints was really a unique way of helping. There is movement to the game, some sorta fast. In fact the first hallway was whhhooooshhhh, like the "El" in Chicago, hang on! It didn't bother me, but it might bother some. This one is on my "to buy" list, probably won't wait long! (is tonight waiting to buy?  ) Koalanut
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Re: The Stroke of Midnight - New IHOG on BigFish
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Who writes these things? They're asking an awful lot of 'suspension of disbelief' if they seriously want me to accept that a young woman would travel halfway across the world and head off alone to spend the night in a castle in rural Romania, not even blink when it turns out to be uninhabited, in ruins and covered with cobwebs and instead of leaving as fast as her little legs will carry her, find a way to cross a huge hole to the only navigable stairway, then lie down and peacefully go to sleep after murmuring that her creativity is coming back to her. (How was that for a run-on sentence?)
The game mechanics look interesting but the story? Honestly, they'll have to do better than this if they want me to last more than ten minutes in a game.
Back to wrestling with a game that, so far, has an interesting and credible story line,
Gil.
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Re: The Stroke of Midnight - New IHOG on BigFish
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I might have just gone with the flow, too, Koalanut, if it weren't for thinking that these guys believe we'll play anything if they just give us pretty graphics and puzzles with a skip button. I've noticed that they even use the same music in some games and for sure, they use the same story line (such as it is) in game after game. (Didn't we just have one about a woman author laying the spirits of lovers to rest?) Just a sentence or two to let us know that this was an intrepid gal who tames alligators for fun and doesn't mind roughing it in tumbled-down ruins would at least have made her decision to bed down there easier to swallow!
I know, I'm hard to please. Sigh.
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Re: The Stroke of Midnight - New IHOG on BigFish
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Re: The Stroke of Midnight - New IHOG on BigFish
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"And, Gil, her HUSBAND sent her there!"
Rofl! How could I have missed that?! Cappy, you started my day with a big laugh!
Gil.
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Re: The Stroke of Midnight - New IHOG on BigFish
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where is the english?I can't get in the front door or find the menu to exit.
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Re: The Stroke of Midnight - New IHOG on BigFish
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?? What do you mean, where is the English? Is your version in another language? Where did you download from? Ana 
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Re: The Stroke of Midnight - New IHOG on BigFish
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PATSY may be having the experience I had. If the resources don't extract properly when the game is loaded, there are many pieces of the game missing. Like, say, menu buttons. What's left are the file structure tags <ui/front_door/lock/closed_position> or, better yet, a string of copy that includes "reactives".
Sadly, reports from the BFG forums suggest that once the game fails to load properly the first time, it will not load properly -- nor can it be uninstalled and reinstalled to fix the problem -- from that point on.
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Re: The Stroke of Midnight - New IHOG on BigFish
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I downloaded from here when you announced it I think I'm losing it or already lost it. It sounds like everyone is having a good time but me. LOL
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