WOW Stuse!  What a great review!

tee -- I'll have to check out Dark Realm:  Queen of Flames.

For anyone who's interested in the COTW games, here's the list up until 21 September:

  20-Jul-15     League Of Light: Dark Omens
  27-Jul-15     Mystery Trackers: Silent Hollow
  03-Aug-15   Echoes of the Past: The Kingdom of Despair
  10-Aug-15   Awakening: The Sunhook Spire
  17-Aug-15   Twilight Phenomena: Strange Menagerie
  24-Aug-15   Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink
  31-Aug-15   Sable Maze: Norwich Caves
  07-Sep-15   Riddles of Fate: Wild Hunt
  14-Sep-15   Dark Cases: The Bloody Ruby
  21-Sep-15   Surface: The Pantheon


 

I love the games where you can choose to have the puzzles harder, Oscar, they had that in the latest Puppetshow that I finished recently.  I have a lot of Haunted Hotels but have never played any except for maybe the first one. 
I started Surface: Pantheon, the one about the train that disappears in the newly built tunnel.  The voiceovers are very good.  I only bought one Surface as a CE, finding the flowers was so easy it turned me off of their CEs so I always get the SEs and am happy with them.  I also started a GH HOPA,  but now I can't remember which one it was    I'm going to try Mystery Tales The Lost Hope and see if that's it.  The husband of a dead woman asks her brother to come visit him, implying that he will be able to see his sister again.
I finished Northern Tale with all gold, they had one bonus stage if you did.  I had to look up a walkthrough for a couple of them, it was a pretty good game.  Tried Vik;ing Saga and Rescue Team but didn't like them so I started Island Tribe 2 and then I'll go to Northern Tale 2.  I'm on level 270 on Queen's Garden 2.  I guess it's endless, keeps recyclling through the layouts, I've read.  I really like it because you get a special bonus for the matches where you match across and down.   They have some really hard layouts where the only way to clear a block is to manuever a bonus into just the right spot.  Very challenging.

I am debating on whether or not to get anything in this sale.  has anyone demoed the new Phanasmat? or Witches Legacy.

I finished up Haunted Hotel Sudden Death, it was quite short in the grand scheme of things but fun with some interesting puzzles. Plus I'm picking away at Castle just when I feel like doing a couple of HO scenes.  Up next I think I'll take a peek at Voyage and see what that's all about. I'd like to see another decorating game come out along the same premise of Gardenscapes or Yard Sale.  I especially liked the Yard Sale decorating tasks.

I had a little laugh reading a review over at BFG, something someone hated and they spoke for all of us (tongue in cheek) about how much everyone hates helpers and why oh why does BFG put them in?  LIke somehow BFG is writing the code for these terrible creatures.  Personally I have no issue with helpers that are useful no matter how cute they are.

I read a post about the HAUNTED HOTEL series written by the original Developer.  I think he said the last one they actually did was CHARLES DEXTER WARD.  After that the series got shopped out to another Developer.  People seem to think that the quality tailed off quite a bit with the new Developer.

Yikes! Another sale?  At least this one is a "real" Game Club 1/2 off sale.

Last edited by lilyr (July 14, 2015 10:41 am)