oscar66 wrote:

My problem with the number of errors allowed is pretty minimal.  Sometimes I haven't noticed that I made one and when I do I run my finger thru the puzzle to start over.  The games that you can have six errors sometime I have to run it threw an additional line! lol not a big deal.  I've actually never used a hint in these games but yup when it gets down to those ones where you have two boxes in say two lines and it could go either way it's a bummer when you think okay the pattern makes sense like this, beep no you're wrong no three stars.  And you know I can start over and make that same stupid error again! I always thought the hint would effect the stars so I've never used them.

I started Mysterium Lake Bliss this evening which isn't too bad.  I quite like the story and the graphics are nice.  Puzzles are on the easy side, but it is interesting enought that I will read everything.  The map is not that fabulous so you do end up wandering about a bit.

The hints don't affect the number of stars, so I use them rather than guess and maybe be wrong and have to do it over.    

I like the music in this one (Riddles of The Mask).  Sounds like it belongs in an epic movie about the Napoleonic Wars.
 

I finished Dark Tales: The Fall of the House of Usher.  I bought the SE version and liked it well enough, it was a long game and I enjoyed playing it.  The puzzles were different and fun and the HO scenes were varied to keep them interesting.  The only place I felt let down is at the ending.  It was over in 5 seconds and wasn't very conclusive.  No doubt it finishes up in the bonus chapter.  

Last edited by sunshinej (May 6, 2014 6:04 am)

What a haul Stusue!  I held back and didn't buy anything although I was looking at Gamehouse as well and those prices were sorely tempting.

I imagine you are on tenterhooks waiting Meg.

Tirama - I like the music in that one as well, I tend to turn it off in the other ones.  And the music in Mysterium is really good so far as well.

 

Okay, who else is getting Witches Prank: Frog's Fortune in today's sale?  What a super cute game.  I'm still debating about the DD Island of Death: Demons and Despair.  Has anyone played it yet?  If so, how demon-y was it?

ETA...I see Gamehouse has Witches Prank: Frog's Fortune as a Premium Edition game and BF only has the SE.

Last edited by sunshinej (May 7, 2014 7:44 am)

I stopped playing a great M3, The Legend of Egypt - Jewel of the Gods, to play Witch's Prank: Frog's Fortune CE.  It's challenging and I wouldn't recommend it for beginners.  But I love it so much I bought it today using my 25% discount coupon with the 50% sitewide discount, so got it for just over $2 and a punch.

The boards are really big on the screen but there aren't many tiles at all, as the tiles are all really big and very brightly coloured!    There are also holes everywhere in the boards and lots of things like locked tiles (with key tiles), sand tiles that have to be cleared several times, etc.  It's challenging because there are so few matches as there's very little room to move and make matches.  It's definitely not a game to just while away some time whilst watching TV or something.  There are also 2 different types of powerups. 

I love my Egyptian village (the graphics are great - HD and really clear and colourful, with my little villagers walking around in the sun - with shadows!) and it's now so prosperous that my poor have sugar, just like the rich!    It's also loooooooooooooooong.   

The only problem is that several of the buildings that you need to update (you update each building twice) are hidden at the bottom of the screen behind the scrolls that show the buildings you can currently buy and I didn't realise that until just before I stopped to play Witch's Pranks, and I really needed the extra powerups that building gave me.    No wonder I didn't get as many red technology crystals as I needed to build everything.     You don't collect building materials, like bricks, but rather architectural, technological and wisdom crystals to build.  As you get to bigger buildings you also start needing to have used certain powerups x number of times in order to build them.  I don't think I'm ever going to get to build a pyramid.