I've just finished the demo for  Mystery Tales: Eye of the Fire CE.  

What a disappointment!!!!  I'd been so looking forward to its release!  

I played the beta months ago and I think I've simply played too many really good games in the interim so that now Eye of the Fire was really disappointing as it doesn't live up to those games and doesn't have the things that I now find are important to me.  There are lots of great things about it but the negatives are enough that I'll now wait for GH to release it as a PE.

PROs:

  -  Easy/Hard choice in MGs - and Hard really means harder!
  -  variety in HOPs and MGs - some original
  -  some HOPs have more than 1 level

PROs/CONs:

  -  very clear graphics BUT unfortunately too oversaturated for me
  -  good music BUT you hardly ever hear it, which is typical for Domini
        -  one piece of music, once, when you enter a new scene and that's it
        -  if you enter a scene again there's no music - nothing - absolute silence
        -  I even played a HOP in absolute silence!  I found it really unnerving
  -  lots of collectibles with lots of interesting information
        -  morphing dungeon items, witch's pages, tarot cards
        -  BUT they're way too easy to spot - morphs are in psychedelic colours!
  -  lots of achievements - 20 earned, 13 gameplay
        -  some are really hard to earn - eg. 10 HOPs in under 1 min each !!!!!!!!
        -  and the HOPs are challenging and multi-level !!!!!!!!  So impossible !
        -  AND you can't get them all unless you give up a HOP and play the alternate M3
  -  the story was interesting but not riveting and not very original

CONs:

  -  BBTs give way too much info and you can't turn them off
  -  you can't turn off Plus Item indicators - red for a PI, green when it's active
  -  it's a totally SILENT game, just like all Domini games
  -  only came across 1 extra scene click - a butterfly flew away - that was it
  -  animation is really blurry and super pixelated - really turned me off the game

Recommendation for me:    Wait for GH to get the PE


 

Now I'm off to play the bonus chapter of  Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan PE.  

I played the main game yesterday and it was SO much better than I'd expected!  

I only got the SE when it was released but was always tempted to get the CE.  

Now, after having played the main game, I'm glad I didn't get the CE, even though the collectibles were really good and really well camouflaged - the most imaginative I've seen - for example, they were part of a decoration, or were part of the foliage of a tree, in the exact same colour and shape.  However, you get nothing but an achievement and a jigsaw puzzle - that's done for you! - if you collect them all - the pieces are added as you find each one - and it's not even a wallpaper.  And you can only replay the HOPs, not the MGs, and some of them were my fav MGs!  And no Souvenir Room, no info, nothing extra.

However, I'll see what the bonus chapter's like...


 

FudgeChi wrote:

Thank you, Stusue

I played the main game of Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan PE  today too! It is good. I'm going to play the bonus chapter tomorrow.

I've just finished Laruaville 5. I've been playing a few levels at the end of each playtime just to relax. It was fun.

Hey, Fudge, I hope you're feeling heaps better!  

I've just finished playing the bonus chapter!  

I absolutely it!  But I'm not sure if it's a sequel or prequel...  

It's like different developers made the BC as it's really cute and funny!  

A proper review for the entire game tomorrow, as it's really late now.  

But I'm busy tomorrow so I won't be able to play Grim Legends 3 until Saturday!  

It's one of the games I got cheap from the Windows Store.  

ETA:  I forgot to say that I've downloaded Laruaville 5 but I think I'd better play 4 first...  
 

Last edited by stusue (September 29, 2016 3:55 pm)

Fudge and stusue - Laruaville 4 is Christmas game.  I'm saving it for end of November, beginning of December.

Still working my way through Halloween Riddles: Mysterious Griddlers.  Lots of counting in this one, and not many big numbers.  Hope I can finish it today.

The next HOPAs I'm going to play will be the last 3 from the Final Cut series.  For the remainder of the year, I'm going to focus on finishing series that are no longer being continued.

There was TWO bonus chapter???? LOL I didn't realise!!! No wonder I thought it was short!!! Where was the second bunus chapter?

Darn it, uninstalled it and deleted the save files. I'll have to play it all again!!!! I don't mind, I liked it! I'm so stupid!

ETA: Thanks, TiramaSue. Might save Laruaville 4 then and play 3 next instead.

Last edited by FudgeChi (September 30, 2016 10:26 am)