lilyr wrote:

stusue -- Thanks for the long post about ESOTERICA.  That's one I was looking forward to.  Now, not so much.  I DID pay money for it.  Did you play the CE?  I'm thinking not since you played for free and you usually say if it's a CE.  That would be a MAJOR irritant not to be able to go back and read the cards.  

Lily, I hope when you do play Esoterica my comments won't influence your own enjoyment of it.  Lots of people loved it and gave it 5/5!    As I said, I really can't put my finger on why I didn't like it but it just didn't grab me.  I think there were maybe too many little irritants that just all added up.  I've also just played some amazing games - some of the best I've ever played - which may also have affected how I felt about this one, which simply didn't compare in any way.  I just hope you love it when you play! 

I think Esoterica was only released as an SE, so yes, that's what I played.  As for not being able to read the cards, there was no new information so it wasn't all that important that I couldn't go back and read them, just another little irritant.  But I would have liked to know how many I actually got!  I assume I got them all as you get them when you zoom into an area and the box won't close until you've found it.   But still, who knows? 

 

If anyone's interested, I just got an email from Playrix and they're having a special sale on the Farm to Fork CE this weekend only - $5.99 (70% off).
 

I feel like I've been talking to myself all day. 

Anyway, GameHouse has a sale until Monday - 40% off all games, either off the member or non-member price, depending on which you are.

Code : CANDY2014
 

stusue - thanks for mentioning that you received yyour coupon.  I have a bad habit of not checking my e-mails.  My ISP approves of this coupon,  didn't dump it into the junk folder.

I've finished another 5 levels of Hello Venice 2.  There's only two gardens to fix up, the small one at the beginning of the game, and the rooftop one, which has a lot of things for you to buy.  You receive what looks like a seed at the end of each level, and you need to redeem seeds as well as cash to buy things for the garden.  I have 5 more things to buy and each one needs 5 seeds.  I always worry when I play untimed that I will not earn enough $$$ to buy everything, but it won't be a propblem.  SO I'm happy.

Yay, another game finished!  I've just finished The Fog.    What a long SE!    But talk about back and forth!    I just hit Hint, Hint, Hint until it got me to where I needed to go.  There was no jump map and there was no way I was going to try and remember what I needed where as there were so many locations!  But the story, graphics and music were good and the HOSs and puzzles were difficult but great. 

Mmmm... what next?