Wendy - make sure you click on the Pet Store to look for the Pegacorn.  From there, I think you have to click on choose another helper?

Tha'ts good news.  Give her a biscuit from me when she's all better.

I'm fine.  The meds made both of us rather sleepy so we took a nice nap.  I have to go back in two weeks for the gum surgery.

Not going to start any new game tonight.  I'll just putter around with the free to pay games.

Tirama, I'm so glad things went well for both of you yesterday.    I hope your gum surgery goes just as well and that you both heal super fast and well.

Oscar and Wendy, I loved both Phantasmat 1 (especially the replayable M3 as it's maybe the best M3 I've ever played - although I haven't played it in a long time - maybe I should check it out again - and I simply adore the music!) and Botanica 1 and both are in my top fav games!    So it'll be interesting to see what I think of both sequels when I finally get around to playing them. 
 

Well, after almost finishing 2 reviews yesterday - one completed game, one demo - I've finally managed to post one today!   

Yesterday, I'd spent about 90 mins doing a review of Black Rainbow, when Firefox crashed (you know I've been having lots of problems with my computer lately).  I'd learnt my lesson with another review and so had kept on copying whatever I'd done as I went along so that I could paste it back should I lose everything.  Well, I soon discovered that, when Firefox crashes, not only do you lose your work, but also whatever you've copied just in case!    I couldn't face redoing all that work straight away so started on one for a demo - but exactly the same thing happened.   

Then last night I had the brilliant idea to try and type a review up in Word and then copy it here.  And, after a bit of trial and error, it worked! 

So, after having spent all morning doing a review of a game no one will probably ever play, I've just posted a review of Plagiarii, a game that I'd been waiting since last November for it to get to GameHouse as it really interested me but it didn't excite me enough to want to purchase it at BFG.

My recommendation and rating for Plagiarii are as follows:

My Recommendation: 

Length:    It’s definitely not a long game.  It took me somewhere between 2½ and 3 hours but I’m a slow player and I kept trying to find those last tiny hidden objects, so I spent longer than usual on the HOSs.  I read that someone did it in an hour and only used 2 hints – which I find very hard to believe.   Someone else said that they took 2 hours, and that I believe if you’re a player who rushes through games without taking the time to stop and appreciate the graphics, story and gameplay.
 
Difficulty:    This is a very easy game as there’s no wandering around and everything is very straightforward.  However, the instructions for the puzzles were a bit vague and I had to do a bit of trial an error to work some of them out – you’re told what to do but not how to do it – but I just found that that gave it a bit more of a challenge and also made it more life-like as, if you were really in that situation, you wouldn’t be given any help.
 
My Recommendation:    I certainly recommend this game for anyone who has a FunPass, even if it’s just to play some unique HOSs and puzzles.  I’d also recommend this game for anyone who wants an easy game or who likes straight HOGs with some puzzles.  It’s also short and relatively easy so would be great as a fill-in game. 
 
However, I wouldn’t recommend that anyone purchase this game, unless you wanted to support the developers who have made a good effort for their first game.  It’s too easy, there’s no widescreen, the graphics are old-fashioned with no voiceovers or animation, and there’s no adventure.
 
There were only 5 names plus a composer in the credits, and this is the only game I could find for them.  So, if this is the first effort of a very small new team then it’s a great first attempt and I can’t wait to see what they do with their next game, the prequel.
 

My rating: 
 
     I liked playing this game but nothing special  (although I liked the originality)

You can read the full review in my review thread, StuSue's Reviews.