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sunshinej wrote:

I did the beta on Vermillion Watch and thought it was pretty good, so I am glad to see that you really liked it, stusue.  I should have gotten it on the July 4th BOGO, but didn't.  I'll wait for the next BOGO.  

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Sunshine, I'm halfway through the game I got in the sale that I wasn't sure if I should get or not  -  Darkness and Flame: Born of Fire CE by FIVE-BN Games  -  but just went with my gut at 11:30 pm on Tuesday Seattle time (8:30 am on Wednesday Oldenburg time, as soon as I woke up) and WOW!  I think it's even better than Vermillion!!!!  It's amazing and really hard.  There are only a handful of HOPs, which are all progressive silhouettes in an entire room where everything is where it should be (no junkpiles in this game) and with a few little puzzles.  And they sure ain't easy!  This game is more like adventure light with a few HOPs thrown in for good measure and some quite difficult minigames, but not as many as other recent games.  But the adventure part is really challenging (at least for my poor, feeble, little brain).  But the graphics and animation are both amazing!  The animation is a little blurry but the movement of everything, especially any water (which looks real) and the people and their actions is fantastic.  You should see the graphics when you're underwater! 

And there's a morphing object and a collectible in every scene, with capsules that give you info about the valley in some zoom scenes.  There are also feathers to collect but I haven't come across any of those yet - maybe in the bonus chapter.  Oh, and the morphing objects are hard!  I stared at one screen for maybe 20 mins while I was watching something on the TV, trying to find the little bugger, and jumped for joy when I finally found the tiny little thing!  Some are minuscule in the middle of something in the far, far distant background, at least one is hidden by a moving object and you can only see it when that object moves away and before it comes back, and most of them are so subtle that you really have to pay attention!  And they're all totally different objects (or engravings, etc).  The collectibles, on the other hand, are quite easy to spot but there are 5 different ones and you never know which one is going to be in any scene.  But the good thing about all the collectibles is, if you collect them all, you get an extra 7 puzzles to play in the extras!  I think maybe 5 jigsaw puzzles and then 2 minigames, one of which is one of my favs!

I am SO happy that I listened to my gut and got it in the sale.  And even happier that I chose that game to play today!  Now back to it after I go down and get my dinner...



ETA:  I'm back and was just wandering around and around aimlessly, trying to work out what the heck I could do with the gumboots in my inventory (the only things in there) but couldn't for the life of me see anything that needed gumboots.  So I was going around to every scene, clicking on everything, trying to find something I'd missed, when I thought, what the heck, I'll just click on that tiny little puddle of water on the floor of the submarine that fell down when I entered it underwater.  And guess what ... part of that puddle was a single shard of glass, exactly the same shade of blue as the water!

Now I just have to work out where the heck I can use that glass shard ...


 

Last edited by stusue (July 8, 2016 12:19 pm)

stusue wrote:

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sunshinej wrote:

I did the beta on Vermillion Watch and thought it was pretty good, so I am glad to see that you really liked it, stusue.  I should have gotten it on the July 4th BOGO, but didn't.  I'll wait for the next BOGO.  

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Sunshine, I'm halfway through the game I got in the sale that I wasn't sure if I should get or not  -  Darkness and Flame: Born of Fire CE by FIVE-BN Games  -    
 
 

Thanks stusue...Now I know what to get with my other half of a BOGO  Darkness and Flame: Born of Fire. 
 

stusue wrote:

Tirama, thanks for all that info!  

GH has been 10 years "in the biz" as they say, so a few years younger than BFG.  And they also have 3 locations around the world - Seattle like BFG (I wonder how close they are to each other...), São Paulo in Brazil and Eindhoven in the Netherlands (I'd love to go and visit them there and see how it all works). 

But do you know how many employees BFG has?  GH has a total of 146 workers in the 3 locations, with a combined height of 791'7" (their page is really funny).  They have cartoon faces of a group of people with several saying hello in different languages, titled "The GameHouse Crew", and underneath the title it says, "(Not actual photographs.)".

 

According to google maps, they are within 2.8 miles of each other.  A 10- minute drive (without traffic).

According to this article published Nov 12, 2014:

Big Fish grew into one of the world’s largest casual game companies, with around 500 employees at its headquarters on Seattle’s waterfront and around 600 worldwide.

The other big casual games company in Seattle was PopCap, which was sold in 2011 in a deal with Electronic Arts.

Tirama -- I had to laugh when you said GH and BFG was a 10 minute drive without traffic.  There's ALWAYS traffic in Seattle!

Yikes!  That's another good reason for me to not go to GH.  (the limited time to be able to access a game you've purchased).  Since the only thing I can see that's beneficial  about GH is the Fun Pass, and I don't play nearly enough games to make it a deal for me, I'll stick to BFG.

stusue -- I'm glad you're enjoying  Darkness and Flame:  Born of Fire.

Yes, I think I have a couple of games lined up for the next BOGO.  I refrained from this one.