oscar66 wrote:

I get that every time I see a post directed to Sue, I think I don't remember that...I'm a Sue too.

  Oh hello to you, Sue! 
Is Oscar your cute dog'sname?

I'm exhausted.  I treked all the way up Sunhook Spire this morning, and this evening, I walked all over Apothecarium!  What a day!  LOL

I really enjoyed Sunhook Spire.  Beautiful art, fun puzzles, and a nice variety of HOS.  It took me about 6.5 hours total, and 1.5 hours of that was the bonus game, and it never got boring, so that's a plus. 

Apothecarium was just so-so for me.  Again, lovely art, but most games have lovely art these days.  I am always in awe of the artists who draw these games.  I loved most of the puzzles, and the morphing items in the HOS was a cool idea, but kind of glitchy, at least in my game.  Sometimes the morphing item would stay blinking on my screen even after I clicked it.  And one of my biggest pet peeves in games is when you have to find "book", and there's 3 books in the scene, and it would only accept one (which in this case looked more like a deck of cards).  And this happened several times, like with "bottle" or "sword".  The biggest negative for me, though, is that the game crashed right at the end, so I'm not sure that I finished it.  The game says I did, but I'm not sure.  Still, I enjoyed it for the most part, as it had some very creative ideas.

oscar66 wrote:

Yes that's one of my boys. Always remembered in my forum name and I love that pic of him, he looks so happy.

He sure does! I love to see pics of happy dogs

I finished Apothecarium: The Renaissance of Evil.  I enjoyed it a lot.  I loved the beautiful, crisp and clear graphics especially in the HOS.  I loved that it had lots of locations to explore.  I had no problems with the HOS.  I loved all the puzzles, there were puzzles in the main game as well as special chests that you find with puzzles in them...solving those gives you a surprise box to open.  I like that there are collectibles and achievements even tough it is a SE.  In every scene there are coins to collect.  At the end of the game, there is the bonus section where you can replay the puzzles, HOS and chests, if you so choose.  

I am sorry that Noelle and oscar did not really care for the game.  I thought it was great.....to each his own.   I managed to get all the achievements except for one.....it must be the one where no hints are used and I admit I used it sometimes just to find out where to go next when I'm stuck.  

Next game I will play is Reveries: Sisterly Love CE.
 

Last edited by barregar (August 25, 2013 6:49 pm)

Wow!  You were really fast with APOTHECARIUM!  I finally finished HIDDEN MYSTERIES: SALEM SECRETS.  It was a semi-interesting game but the colors were so drab (but, I guess, fit the story).   I'm starting AWAKENING: THE GOBLIN KINGDOM.  I'm looking for a straight HOG to play when i don't have much time or just want a rest from HOPAs.