I've got a bunch of the MCF games to play.  I never bought Shadow Lake, and haven't been able to find out whether it's needed for understanding the entire Ravenhearst story arc, though personally I thought the first Ravenhearst ended fine and in the second one, things got way too weird, in the third one things were weird and gross.

In January, my goal will be to play the 4 Mystery Tracker games I have sitting around gathering cyber dust.

Merry Christmas, Everyone.
I'm working on The Tin Soldier, liking it the least of the first three games.  Christmas Carol is my favorite.  I'm decorating in Christmas Puzzle 2, but you only get 20-50 coins per board and need at least 200 to buy anything at the point I'm at, so I don't know how decorated I will get.  I upgraded the desktop to win10, all of a sudden today it was asking me if I wanted to upgrade and it did it with no problems.  So far I like what I'm seeing better than win8, win10 seems like it incorporated the best features of a smartphone/tablet.  Most of my games are on the laptop, which is also 8.1 (thought it was 7), so I think I'll wait awhile to decide if I want to upgrade it, everything has been running fine on it. 

Now I'm playing Laruaville 4, with a Christmas theme, with Funpass.  Lord, is this a hard M3 in timed mode!!!  I had to replay the first and the second board!!!  Heck, I probably had to replay all of them, that's how hard it is. 
I cancelled GameHouse in mid October when it ran out but I still got a game credit in late October, which I used.  Since then they've given me 3 more credits, two of them seem to be from the old Funpass and one of them seems to be from the new Funpass.  I suppose I really should write in to tell them about it, I wrote in when I wasn't getting them, but their customer service is hit and miss, mainly miss.  They probably won't even know what I"m talking about, and it will probably correct itself next month.  And even getting the extra games to own, you can play them for free, anyway, so no big whoop.
 

WendyDarling wrote:

I started The Last Dream from GH.  It's irritating because my cursor is a bit slow/floaty.  I tried using the system cursor but I had a hard time noticing the cursor indications.  It uses progressive FROGs for the HO scenes.

Hey, Wendy, I just finished the main game of The Last Dream PE!   

And now I'm totally drained!   

Now this is a game that requires thought ... a lot of thought!   

For one puzzle I had to look up a walkthrough on YouTube...   

... only to be made to feel really stupid!   

And I made copious use of the Hint button, which is something I NEVER do!   

It took me nearly 5 hours, including maybe 30 mins for that puzzle...   

... but then time should be added for all the times I used the Hint button.   

And I never, NEVER expected the twist at the end!!!!!!!!   

What a fantastic game!  Highly recommended!   

Review maybe tomorrow with the others ...   

But I gotta play the bonus chapter first ...   

... although I can't imagine what it can be about as the MG finished conclusively...   


ETA:  I forgot to mention what other games this developer has released (in chronological order):

01/09    Haunted Hotel
01/09    Haunted Hotel II: Believe the Lies
03/10    Island: The Lost Medallion
08/10    Haunted Hotel: Lonely Dream
08/11    Sonya CE
06/12    Haunted Hotel: Charles Dexter Ward CE
08/12    Inbetween Land

Wow, Specialbit Studios' last game was way back in August 2012!  That must have been when they handed over Haunted Hotel to another developer ... Elephant?  Eipix?  I wonder what they've been doing in the meantime...

One of the developers added in the post with the list of their games:

"Personally I would recommend you either Haunted Hotel: Charles Dexter Ward Collector's Edition or Sonya Collector's Edition. Other games are quite old now."

Yep, all prior to August 2011.   

 

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Methinks now it's time for some dinner while I watch qualification for the 4 Hill Ski Jumping Tournament before I tackle the bonus game in The Last Dream PE.



That's me playing games because, after having to use headphones at Mum's place to play games or watch TV or listen to music, I'll never again play a HOPA or listen to my fav music without them.  Playing a HOPA with headphones makes a huge difference as the sound is doubly good, especially the music, and you get really immersed in the game, not being able to hear anything else.  I'm actually listening to the music from Rite of Passage: Lost Tides CE whilst posting here.  I love it!



Some of these games have the most amazing music!