Comments on: Masters Of Mystery Demo Impressions

By: Gordon

Gordon — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:22:37 +0000

It took me about 4 hours to finish the game (also bought at BFG for 6.99). Even if I finish it in 2,5 hours as you said I wouldn’t say it is not worth the price. What is the alternative for $2.5/hour ? Sure I can play WoW and go through same things over and over, but this was quite good experience.

By: Shkspr

Shkspr — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:36:26 +0000

Well, I hope you got enough enjoyment out of the demo, John. The game hit Big Fish Games and I enjoyed the demo enough to spend a credit on it after my time was up, and saw the game over credits within about another 90 minutes. The game had a smooth interface, and I had only spotty issues with the help function, but it was just a bit too easy to clear out half the objects in a room in the first thirty seconds or so, and the story was most definitely NOT worth the price of admission. For a $7 Game Club credit, I was just barely miffed at the money I spent. My parents, however, buy four or five of these Hidden Object games a month. I’ll have to warn them about it before they plunk down $20 at Best Buy.

By: A Disembodied Voice

A Disembodied Voice — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:32:14 +0000

Have you checked out http://www.casebookthegame.com? From a certain perspective that’s a slightly more fleshed out take on the hidden object game I guess? You are hunting for photos of evidence from first person that could relate to tasks that represent what you are trying to find out (that person x was in the room, for e.g) rather than looking for a specific list of items and it has a proper little detective story told through good bad-fmv.

It didn’t do much for me, aside from thinking that the first person tech was pretty cool (it’s like a photo you can walk and look around freely in), but might be worth checking out maybe.

By: Gotem

Gotem — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:43:22 +0000

there are some of those games that mix hunting of objects with puzzles, one actually reminded me a lot of one of my old time favorites: 7th Guest , it’s called return to Ravenholm or something like that, ( I know, we don’t go to Ravenholm any more)

By: terry

terry — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:52:55 +0000

I think I lost most of my patience for hunt the object games with Where’s Wally/Waldo but its nice to see a new spin on those games.

What I really want is a Killed Until Dead remake – aside from the CSI games (ish), I haven’t seen anything quite like it since.

By: Lars BR

Lars BR — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:07:22 +0000

Yeah, I can enjoy a bit of clicky non-action too, but stay away from the full version. I completed it in a little bit under two hours, which means the demo was more than half the game. Luckily there’s absolute no replayability.

So save your currency units…

By: Conquests.of.

Conquests.of. — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:48:49 +0000

Police quest!

They weren’t unreasonable, tho, it was just police standard procedure you had to follow

By: MrFake

MrFake — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:27:30 +0000

Police Quest 4: The Voyage Home, or whatever the hell it was called. Reasonable clues and objects found in more or less likely places. Totally unreasonable solutions to puzzles at times though.

It’s awesome how casual games are roughly 15 years behind, and yet are a market to rival the rest of us.

By: Lewis

Lewis — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:11:15 +0000

Looks like, well… the sort of thing you’d give about 11% in ‘Gamer, to be honest. Will have to check it out and report back.