Comments on: Micro WIT: Snark Busters

By: Risingson

Risingson — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:04:47 +0000

Unavailable in spain :(

P.S. my favourite hidden object game is “look for the glasses”. The twist it has is that it’s not only a time-based game, but when I find the glasses then another object from my inventory, like the keys, is missing.

By: R13

R13 — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:24:57 +0000

Game is okayish, but music is TERRIBLY unfitting to the game and by so, annoying. Also, some of the objects on the screen have different resolution than the others, making e.g. trees by the fountain a horrible, pixelated mess. Also falling leaves sometimes show some artifacts.
I played through the trial, and enjoyed it, too bad it’s so limited. I mean, come on, every screen means completely new and different objects? I can’t take torch from the beach to light it at the stove in the kitchen? That’s stupid.

By: Arathain

Arathain — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:57:02 +0000

The curious thing is that this statement is kind of true. Yet, somehow, despite being composed of the sorts screen trawling that brings point and click adventure gamers out in shudders, they manage to be strangely compellling.

Funny how that works, isn’t it?

My wife played through one recently… don’t remember it’s name. No, wait, I think it was Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove. It was quite something; tons of really well drawn locations, some fairly decent puzzles and a whole big heap of atmosphere. I’m not into the genre, but I was impressed.

By: Acosta

Acosta — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:14:18 +0000

For god’s sake Wulf, get some sense of humour :P

By: Wulf

Wulf — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:49:11 +0000

Farmville != Hidden Object games.

Often, hidden object games are about an appreciation of art, since they usually have some fairly fabulous artists working on them. It’s something that only those who actually play the genre will understand, really. And being an art fan myself, and someone who tends to live and breathe art, I dig them. Well, some of them, at least. Not all of them are such a visual feast, some are a bit crap.

My favorite of which is still Drawn: The Painted Tower, because they went out of their way to make that look beautiful, and I believe I came across that long before John mentioned it as well, as something quite that pretty simply cannot escape my gaze for long. And if you like the art, then the hidden object gameplay can be quite relaxing, because you’re learning to study and see art in a different way.

So really, a comment like this shows a lack of understanding of hidden object games, and the more far-reaching issue that comes with a lack of understanding of art (period), too. :p Farmville isn’t really arty or pretty, it looks as crap as World of Warcraft (yes, I went there).

By: Acosta

Acosta — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:12:13 +0000

Hey John, next post I hope you update us about the joy of playing FarmVille and how you are too old and rusty to play Starcraft 2. We’ll still love you, grandpa.

By: frightlever

frightlever — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:31:48 +0000

I’ve been scaring away birds for years.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:44:34 +0000

I was really, really not prepared for the brutal deaths at the end of that film. Just… horrific.

By: HopperUK

HopperUK — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:37:32 +0000

Thanks for this; I’ve recommended it to my mum, because she adores these games. And I quite like em too. Not every game has to be an amazing experience, sometimes I only want to engage the sort of brain-muscles I use to play Solitaire.

By: Guildenstern

Guildenstern — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:15:45 +0000

So basically those games are like all bad parts of point-and-click adventures with all good parts taken out?

By: Xercies

Xercies — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:14:44 +0000

Hey! Day of the Dead is my favourite Romero zombie movie. Its the best at trying to creep you out i think with all its surreal dream sequences, and does the social commentary well.

By: Jules

Jules — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:14:31 +0000

I read “sharks” and thought you’d have to shoot sharks that were hiding in the scenery with a harpoon.