Has anyone played Murder She Wrote2 ?

meg -- Basically what sunshinej said!  Actually almost word for word -- that's what i was going to say. Someone I know who lives in Washington state said she had seen an ad for BFG Casino too.  I LOVE JOAN OF ARC.  Okay it's not historically accurate (as someone just had to point out) but I like everything about it.  Did you play the levels again after you finished?  (there's a thing called free play).  I got a few achievements by replaying that I missed the first time.  My nephew lives in Oakland and he said that California desperately needed rain.  So sorry your parents had to cancel their trip.  Hope your mom's shoulder heals.

sunshinej -- I have that Agatha Christie too -- also unplayed!   But there's an update to AWAKENING KINGDOMS so I'll be playing that. 

WendyDarling wrote:

sunshinej wrote:

I got an android tablet last Christmas and I finally figured out how to install games on it from Amazon appstore.  I put on Patchworkz - Burger Shop - Jigsaw World.  Now I just need to find a solitaire and a M3 game and a word game and a nanogram game then I am all set.  Also, a few people mentioned that Township was a good free-to-play, so I think I will put that on too.

BFG has Farm Up for Android. Also some HOs but I don't like them on the tablet.  My favorite solitaire app is Solitaire Free Pack, it has hundreds of different games and you can pick by difficulty, time, etc.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tesseractmobile.solitairefreepack
 
 

Thanks Wendy  on the Solitaire information.  That looks like just what I am looking for. 
I think Farm Up might be too needy for what I want.  I seem to remember you saying that you had to pick vegetables often or else they die.  Is that right?
 

 I finished Cursery Tales.  I could have done without the bonus section and it did remind me of a Dark Parable game.  And the story was kinda weird. In the end I didn't enjoy it all that much.

I played Origins: Elders of Time PE yesterday, - the CE version at GameHouse, not the BFG SE version.  I'm not sure why BFG didn't offer it as a CE as it has a bonus chapter, SG, several jump maps (there are several locations and lots and lots of scenes - I just used the Hint button to get around), collectibles, achievements, the usual extras, and it was long, as was the bonus chapter.    And, with the 50% sitewide discount at GH at the moment, it's the price of an SE. 

I really liked it.  It's mainly adventure with an interesting storyline and a few puzzles and HOSs thrown in for good measure.  Some of the puzzles were super easy but they got harder as the game progressed and some were original and fun.  The HOSs were hard!    But fun!    I have no idea how how you could possibly get the achievement for doing a HOS in under 30 seconds.    You have interactive list HOSs and some small ones where you have to find parts of an object in order to build it so you can use it.  They were all hard because the graphics weren't as clear as some other games.  However, in the interactive list ones, not only do you have the straight list objects to find, but also some interactive ones and some needed more than one interaction, but you also had several in each HOS where you had to find maybe 3 or 5 of several objects, which may not always have been the same thing (eg. bulb could be a light bulb or a plant bulb).  There were also some that weren't objects and you had to work out what they were (eg. "sleep 3" were three "Zs"!) or you needed 2 or 3 objects to make something (eg. "hunting scene 2" was a hunter and a deer).  And some of the objects were hidden really well, as in hidden behind things, so you had to not only look for the objects but also find maybe just a bit sticking out from behind something.  So the HOSs were hard but fun and definitely thinky.    So how you could possibly do one in under 30 seconds I have no idea.    However, if you, like me, get stuck finding that last object or 2 or 3... you can always choose the easy alternate golf solitaire game. 

There weren't all that many puzzles but they were original and fun.  Some were easy peasy but, as I said, they got harder later in the game.  Some took some thought, however, but all were fun.  There also seemed to be a lot more puzzles in the bonus game, which took me about 90 minutes, and that was hitting the Hint button continuously to get to wherever I had to go, so longer if you wanted to remember what you had to do next and where to go yourself.  The bonus game isn't necessary but was good and gets you off the island and back home.

One major negative, though, is the SG, which I didn't find until I was near the end of the main game.    The SG itself is fine but you'd never use it in the game.  One reason is that the Hint button takes you to wherever you need to go (or you can use the jump map that shows where you have things to do if you choose the easier of 2 modes) and then, if needed, it shows you what inventory item to use where.  It doesn't help you with the puzzles, though.    However, if you want to check out the SG, you have to totally exit the game back to the main page, then open "More Info", then open the SG!    Then go back to the main page before restarting the game.  Not a good place for the SG.  I mean, who'd think to look in More Info to find the SG?    I couldn't see any way to access it in the game. 

But I didn't find all the collectibles!    What you collect I thought you'd need as part of the game (I didn't realise they were just collectibles) so didn't pay too much attention to them, picking them up when I found them (I don't think they were in every scene and a couple of times I think I found more than 1 in a scene), but thinking you'd have to find them all to do something.  But I was obviously wrong.    Oh, and that's a weird thing - there's no room or anything to showcase the collectibles (they're really boring, anyway) and the only way you know how many you have is when it shows that you've found maybe 8 of 20 when you find one.  Another oddity in the SE version is that you still have achievements but you don't know what they're for or what achievements there are as the achievements are listed in the Extras and the SE version doesn't have the Extras on the main page, and all the achievements are named and that's all that shows up when you get one.  So, you get an achievement but you have no idea why and you can't find out in the SE version!  That's weird. 

ETA:  I had to correct something. 
 

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