You're welcome FudgeChi.  Tell me what you think of first home. 

tee - I love nonograms, so that's what I usually get with my pcc's.

Midnight Castle gave us another mini-event (in addition to the Castle Challenge that's going on).  We had 48 hours to play 25, 75, or 300 hidden object scenes to earn stamps.  And if collectively, we played 500,000 scenes, everybody who reached one of those checkpoints would receive 50 diamonds.

Long way of saying that I didn't get a chance to play Dire Grove, Sacred Grove yet, but I will get to it today/tonight.

I missed three pcc altogether which fortunately they replaced but I do have a July 4 that I missed as well.  I too love the nonograms but I don't really care for the multi colour ones.  They seem too straightforward.  I finished one of the Fantasy Mosaics a bit ago, 4 I think, and thought it was blah.   I think the one I'm doing now is Olympus Griddlers.

As well I'm playing Beyond Light Advent due to all the positive reviews here.  It was a fun game, I'm just on the bonus and extras now.  I lol'd at one scene.  There was a character sitting with his leg up on his knee, his left leg, and it had the right shoe on it.  it gave me a giggle.  The one thing I would change it perhaps Nix could actually have some inflection in his voice.

stusue wrote:

Sunshine, you asked if anyone had demoed Facility 47.  Well, I just happened to have played it today!  WOW, what a game!  Amazingly atmospheric with great graphics.  You actually feel cold and so alone.  However, it's very, very difficult.  I made free use of the Hint button, which sometimes gave way too much information but sometimes not enough.  It would say that you had to use something to do something outside some room, but in which building was that room and how on earth were you supposed to get outside it?  There's no map so you have to remember your way around ... at the beginning just all the rooms in the maze of the first building, then how to get to all the other buildings, then what was in which building... you get the idea.  You have to walk around everywhere as there's no jump map - nothing to help you.  The only help you have is the room signs in the first building but you have to remember which route to take to get to wherever you want to go.

There are a few minigames (I counted 11 and they were all either of medium or hard difficulty) but most of the game is wandering around, trying to find out who you are and what the heck happened there.  You spend most of your time wandering around, making notes of everything you find as anything can be a clue (you should see my notes!), getting access cards and keys to enter rooms, sometimes having to go from one building back to another then back again then somewhere else then back again, just to get an access card working.  But not a single HOP.  Your brain really gets a workout, trying to work out where to get a clue for a puzzle you encounter.  You also do scientific experiments and a whole heap of things.

You also have a choice at the end, a very difficult choice.  To get the ending you didn't choose you'll have to replay the entire game (but someone got it down to 22 mins after playing the game several times but not skipping anything - once you know all the clues and codes you could get through it very quickly).  It took me 3:45 hours but that was using hints, although I tried at the beginning not to use any but when I got stuck I wasn't going to wander around in the Antarctic storm, then in each building, trying to find what I'd missed.  You have to click on absolutely EVERYTHING! as there's no cursor change at all.  And I'm used to clicking on everything as I play with a touchscreen so I never have any cursor changes, but even I missed stuff.  One time I was stuck, clicked on hint, then said out loud, "Well, why would I have thought of clicking on the air vent right up in the ceiling?"

If you want a very different experience that's very atmospheric and really gets those little grey cells working (unless you just use hints throughout the entire game), then get this game!  It sure is worth a PCC.


 

stusue...This game is everything that you wrote about.  It is hard and I have missed clicking on obvious things. (The vent in the ceiling was a case in point for me too).  Good thing the hint button is good.   Do you recall the one puzzle where you need to get out the chain in the frozen pool to see what is at the end of it?   Did you have to go back and forth to the controls in the frozen pool and to the window in the basement room to move the chain correctly?  That is where I left off this morning and not totally sure how the whole moving the chain works.

 Oscar...I never noticed that scene in Beyond either.  Nix's voice was a little flat...I liked his dad much better in voice and looks.

For all those nonogram lovers, GH released Fantasy Mosaics 16 yesterday ... then it disappeared today and isn't there any longer!

It's full name is ... Fantasy Mosaics 16 - Six Colours in Wonderland.  The name says it all.

I've been hoping and hoping we'd get more colours and there they are!  They jumped from 4 straight to 6! 

Oscar, you're right - as usual they aren't very difficult, but I still love them as I can play them without too much thought while I'm watching TV.  But I play Casual, not Advanced, as I love the line being filled up for me when it's finished and love the numbers being crossed off as I go, which makes it much easier.  And I have to admit that I don't buy them, just play them with my FunPass, as they are quite simple.  But this time the pictures are especially cute as with 6 colours they can show a lot more detail and there are some funny ones.  But wow, it took a few levels until I got used to the garish colours!

I'm sure BFG will get it, it's just a question of when...   But it's gone in my pile of games to get with a PCC if I have one that's about to expire.