Tirama, which CEs do you want to get?  

I haven't played many CEs lately but I could tell you whether I've played them and what I thought, or if I've bought them as CEs or as SEs and why, or if I plan on getting them as CEs.

One game I can tell you about is The Curio Society: Eclipse Over Mersina CE.  I got the CE and have no regrets as I didn't think it would be worth the CE when I got it (with a free coupon), but I bought the CE for particular reasons, and the bonus chapter is 1:30 hours, so long, but it isn't worth the CE.  I'd recommend waiting for the SE.  The main game for me was 3:45 hours.  However, every time you turned around in this game there was a MG!  There were 34 in the MG and 14 in the BG !!!!!!!!  Some of them were easy peasy and shouldn't have been called a MG (for example, put a missing piece back on something and then switch the 2 heads) but some were really hard.  I even have 3 classed as HARD and underlined numerous times!  LOL.  The problem with the CE is that there are hardly any extras - no replayable HOPs or MGs, for example, which would've been great with so many of them, and some of them were FUN!  There are 21 HOPs, and they ranged from easy to hard.  The only other extras were collecting 9 dossiers (cards - all in your face except the last one) and coins (82, only in the MG) which are all found in zoom scenes, so really easy, and the usual extras like music, as well as 29 achievements.  But you use the coins to purchase relics in the Relic Room and I loved that.  It isn't worth the CE but I loved the animation of the relics, as well as the info you can read about them, as they're funny.

I've also played Eventide: Slavic Fable CE (MG 4:30 hrs, BG 1:00 hr).  Unfortunately, I didn't write down what I thought about the game.  I wrote down every single HOP (18, easy to hard, 1 very hard) and MG (30, easy to medium-hard, with only 2 hard) but didn't make any note of what I thought.  I did make notes about the gameplay, however, and I'll add them below.  It has all the usual extras, but no repayable MGs, only most of the HOPs.  It also has 2 lots of collectibles - 30 bestiary cards about Slavic mythic creatures (interesting) and 30 ethereal flowers, which could be anywhere, scenes and zoom scenes, and weren't in every scene, sometimes none, sometimes more than one - that I remember was fun).  But I'm sure I really liked it. I just can't remember the BG being anything special.  Whether I thought the CE was worth it, though, I didn't say.  Grrrrr...  Sorry.  But I obviously thought it was worth the CE when I got it.



These are the notes I jotted down:

1.    I did something out of order near the end (the game isn't linear) and I only found out that Grandma was missing after I'd already found her!  LOL.
2.    I loved the music.
3.    Make sure you open everything!!!!  Every single drawer, for example.
4.    And make sure you click on everything!!!!  As things are hidden EVERYWHERE!
5.    And sometimes places you couldn't go before open up so check EVERYWHERE, ALL THE TIME!
6.    I loved the beautiful graphics! which are like artwork, ie. beautiful paintings.
7.    I loved the ambient sounds, especially wearing headphones!
8.    However, there was one pet hate of mine - 5 times, for no reason whatsoever, I had to backtrack to replay a HOP.  I either stumbled upon them when I was wandering around, wondering what to do next, or I checked what to do next in the SG when I was lost and found that I had to go back and replay a HOP, or I learned by the end to go back and check the HOPs.

Sorry I can't say definitively what I thought of the game ...


 

I know I want to get these CE's

Phantasmat: Behind the Mask
Final Cut: Fade to Black
Christmas Stories: Puss in Boots
Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst Unlocked
Dark Parables: Goldilocks and the Fallen Star
Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst Unlocked
European Mystery: Flowers of Death

So I need to decide on 3 more.

Has anybody played any of the Dark Romance CE's?

Plus I think I will have to have a Dark Parables month.  if I purchase this one I will have four of them unplayed.

TiramaSue wrote:

I know I want to get these CE's

Phantasmat: Behind the Mask
Final Cut: Fade to Black
Christmas Stories: Puss in Boots
Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst Unlocked
Dark Parables: Goldilocks and the Fallen Star
Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst Unlocked
European Mystery: Flowers of Death

So I need to decide on 3 more.

Has anybody played any of the Dark Romance CE's?

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Tirama, of those you've listed, I have them all as CEs (but I imagine you meant MCF: Key to Ravenhearst instead of MCF: Ravenhearst Unlocked twice?).

If you were thinking of Dark Romance: The Swan Sonata CE, I got it as an SE as the extras weren't worth getting the CE.  However, I have the other 2 Dark Romances as CEs:  Vampire in Love and Heart of the Beast.

Other CEs that I already have (and I always demo and then read every review I can find on every site I can find before getting a CE) are:

Incredible Dracula: Chasing Love CE
Weather Lord: Following the Princess CE
Haunted Legends: The Secret of Life CE
Lost Lands: The Golden Curse CE
Haunted Hotel: The X CE

I haven't as yet demoed, but hope to before Monday:

Immortal Love: Letter From the Past CE
Spirit of Revenge: Gem Fury CE


 

TiramaSue wrote:

oscar66 wrote:

Plus I think I will have to have a Dark Parables month.  if I purchase this one I will have four of them unplayed.

Me too.  But I really need to have a Mystery Tracker's month first.  Got 4 of those waiting to be played and it won't be long before another one is released.   

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Oscar and Tirama, if either of you decide to have a particular game month, let me know and I'll join in.