I'm sorry. You really seemed to enjoy MC.

So, another Bonus Punch Monday!   

I haven't had time today to do anything other than work out my own PCCs, so I haven't posted any reviews as I'd planned.  However, I'll let you know the games that I got and a brief description as to why, just in case anyone's looking for any games to get today.

3 SEs:

Home Designer: Living Room

In this game you design a living room and you earn money to purchase your furniture, decorations, etc.  You play Hidden Object Scenes - 15 different types of hidden object scenes! - including Picture, Word, Silhouette, Spot the Difference.  You play the same rooms over and over again (but you never know which room you're going to play), but in different modes of HOS, and it really helps to remember where everything is in the room as I think there's a timer (?).  I played this months ago with my FunPass at GH so I can't remember all the details but I do know I loved the variety.  There are also 5 different minigames, including M3, Card Memory, Jigsaw Puzzles, all of which you can skip.  There are over 150 types of furniture to select from and for each piece (eg. sofa) you have at least 6 options to choose from.  And I worked out that in order to earn enough money to purchase all the options (there's an achievement for purchasing everything), you have to play close to 800 levels!  So this game is loooooong!  Also, for the first time in a room-designer game, the options are realistic and the room actually looks really good.  You can have a modern room, or classic, or Japanese, etc.

Rune Lord

I demoed this last week and loved it.  Unfortunately, I can't remember much about it other than it has a different take on the usual M3.  You have to play each level several times until you get enough energy of each type.  Some levels also have extra challenges that you can do if you want but they're not obligatory - eg. drop flies or something down to levels that have toads on the side and they stick a tongue out and gobble them up (I loved these levels!).  Or you have to make matches of a particular colour to make a coin go up.  That's all I can remember apart from the fact that I put a great big tick next to it. 

Sweet Wild West

This game doesn't seem to have received many good reviews but I really liked it and wanted to keep playing so got it.  Limited-move M3 with some interesting boards and powerups.  It's not hard, but not easy to get 3 stars.  I didn't get 3 stars for at least 3 or 4 levels, maybe more!  It gets more interesting as the game goes along.  But it's a very slow game with no frenetic clicking.  You don't have a lot of moves and so you have to think about each move, so it's calming, the sort of game to play while you're watching TV.  I had to play some levels several times until I could achieve the goals and get even 1 star (if you don't get at least one star and complete the goals you're asked if you want to replay the level - you can't continue without at least 1 star).  The boards (sometimes up to 4) aren't very big as the tiles with fruit are huge, which actually makes it harder as you don't have much wriggle room.  I've only played the first 20 levels so I can't tell you how hard it may get.  But I knew I had to get this game after the level with 4 boards, where the tiles moved in a different direction in each one!


I also had a credit that expired today at GH and so used 2 and got:

Beyond the Kingdom CE

You can find a full review for this game in my review thread.  Even though I've already played this game, I loved it and, as there were no other CEs I wanted to get, I decided to get this one as it's definitely one I'll play again.


And last week I got 2 CEs, after not having got any for months.  I played one and was hoping to post the review today but simply didn't have the time.

Tales of Terror: The  Fog of Madness CE

Not yet played but I loved the demo and the idea of the fog.

Whispered Secrets: Enfant Terrible CE

Very long game and I loved it!  Not in my top 5 favs of all time but it was fun and interesting.  As for CE versus SE - the main game is super long but the bonus chapter is only about an hour.  It follows on from the main game but is a totally separate story and isn't necessary.  So I recommend the SE wholeheartedly but the CE only if you like lots of collectibles (3 different ones), achievements, an extra 1-minute jigsaw puzzle (20 collectible puzzle pieces = wallpaper), and an extra hidden object scene with the memorable objects you collect (35, all different, hard to spot, and in the hidden object scene you find them - I think a silhouette search - and you turn all the nightmare objects back into nice, friendly toys, etc., which was fun).  I liked the bonus chapter and all the collectibles but, as the bonus chapter is short (and I play with no help and go really slowly), it's up to you to decide if 3 types of collectibles (the morphing objects and memorable objects in the scenes are all different and not too easy to spot - and the puzzle pieces are almost impossible to see in the zoom scenes as they're translucent mother of pearl - all of which you can go back and find once you've finished the game, and they continue into the bonus chapter) are enough to warrant double the price.  I'll post a full review as soon as I have the time to type it all up.


 

Yay!  I finished a game and it was an old one too, that I have had since 2013.  Delaware St. John: The Town With No Name.

This game has 2 stories.  Each story was pretty short made shorter because I looked at the walkthrough a few time on Gameboomers.  I had a hard time knowing where to go to next especially with the second story with so many doors and many of them locked. It was confusing there in the orphanage with 3 floors and different hallways.   There was a chase scene in the second story (the orphanage one) that was tough to beat.  A tip in the forums helped me get through it. 

As with the other Delaware St. John game I played,  the voice actors are excellent and the navigation was still confusing. Pretty tough when one was being chased by the hunter. 

I still enjoyed it and it was nice to tick off another game off the unplayed list.

Last edited by sunshinej (July 13, 2018 5:41 am)

I've managed to finish 2 games this month:  Dark Romance: Winter Lily Collector's Edition and Witch's Tales.

Witch's Tales is a Clutter type game (but much shorter).  Winter Lily is #8 in the Dark Romance series (all the games are stand-alone so they can be played in any order) and among the better ones.  The storyline has elements in common with the Snow White fairy tale.  I like switching between 2 characters, and there wasn't a zipper pull - missing, broken, or otherwise - to be seen.

Speaking of zipper pulls, I played a game last month (it was either Phantasmat: Insidious Dreams Collector's Edition or Labyrinths of the World: The Devil's Tower Collector's Edition) where I encountered 2 zippers and neither had a missing pull.  Has to be a HOPA first!

Yesterday, I used a gifted pcc (thanks Shardlake!) to get Home Designer: Living Room.

 

I finished Mystery Case Files: Rewind.   The gameplay is like the original Ravenhearst game. So think of it as a old school game with a modern update.  There was 11 investigations and you had the option to use a timer or not.  I used the timer and had about 20 -30 minutes to complete the investigation.  Twice I ran short and had to redo.  The objects were much easier to find than say Prime Suspects or Madame Fate. 
You had limited hints (5) just like old times, but I rarely needed one since the objects were pretty easy to find.  Also, a skip button for mini games which I didn't use.   Since I played the SE, I don't know what the bonus content consisted of.

It was nice to play one investigation at a time especially since it is summer and maybe you just want to play for 20 minutes or so.