Just finished The Saint: Abyss of Despair.  It was an SE set in South Africa.  The main character had a great S. African accent but all the native Africans in it sounded like old American white people  I bought it for the accent and the S. African locale but I hardly got to go anywhere in Africa.  Mainly the house and  a couple outbuildings.  It had a map but it wasn't needed.  It was very short, only took me 4 hrs. tops and I'm pretty slow when it comes to games.  The HOs were really easy, I whizzed right through them, didn't even need a hint to find a paperclip  The puzzles were pretty easy, too.  I liked the story, it was typical; father used an ancient artifact to help his dying daughter and unleashed ancient evil force, but it was okay.  I'd recommend it if you were looking for a short, easy game as a punch card filler.

So I demoed Myths of the World-Stolen Spring CE and I can't stand it which is weird because I usually love eipix games but this one just was not my cup of tea. I thought the whole stealing the spring idea was kind of lame and the winter queen witch was just not that interesting.

But then I demo'ed Cursery-The Crooked Man & The Crooked Cat CE and I can't wait to buy it. If anyone buys this and plays the bonus chapter can they let me know if its worth buying the CE? Its Humpty Dumpty! How fun! But since Blue Tea Games have morphs in both their CE & SE games, I usually just buy the SEs. Although now that I think about it, I do have a lot of their CEs...oh well. I was so glad to see BTG having a game out! Its been ages!!

I have the first Whispered Secrets-Story of Tideville SE, still unplayed of course. I remember when I demoed it that it reminded me of an ERS game only with more to do and more innovativeness. We'll see how I like it. Im in need of a new hidden object game to play, a normal person would just play whispered secrets but Im not in the mood for it LOL

Megwoman25 - I have Cursery: The Crooked Man & The Crooked Cat CE. I'm currently stuck on this one puzzle that I just can't get but I'll let you know about the Bonus Chapter once I get to it.

I played a bit of Northern Tale 2 yesterday. It is a fun game so far. A bit bummed that it isn't widescreen though. makes it seem a bit off.

I've FINALLY finished CHRONICLES OF ALBIAN:  THE MAGIC CONVENTION.  I started this game in September!  I could only play a scene or two at a time because the items were so very tiny and/or well-blended.  It will be a very long time until I play the 2nd one!  I finished ZOMBIE SOLITAIRE too.  It wasn't pretty -- lots of one-star levels -- but it's done as far as I'm concerned.

Before we got the Halloween games I'd started THE BEAST OF LYCAN ISLE.  I was doing okay but dropped it in favor of the Halloween games.  I went back yesterday and am totally lost!  I have the staff for the old woman but I can't find her house.  I know I've been there but the map in this game is a mess.  Fortunately I found a walkthrough at a site that my anti-virus approves of.

I keep reading about all the wonderful games you all are playing and I want to start one (or more ) but I'm just so far behind that I really should play an older game.

I know Lily! I feel bad every time I play a newer one! I feel better about it thought if there is another one out in that series like with Surface, since a new one was out, I felt okay about playing my fancy Soaring City CE. I keep looking at Kuros, Avenue Flo Special Delivery & Spirit Soup and keep telling them that I haven't forgotten n will get to them soon knowing Im picking the newbies over them haha 

Wendy, you make me very happy I didn't purchase Surface-Noise. I always thought the name "Noise" was sooo dumb and because of that I just couldn't get into the story. I think it was the evil that was named noise but was it the girl? I can't remember. Anyways, even if it doesn't have the great achievements you want, maybe the bonus game will be awesome. xx