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I like this game overall. I'd give it three stars out of five.
RoM is a hidden-object game that has you searching "rooms" on a large estate for special objects. The game assigns you quests, like "search the study at night." Doing these searches costs "energy" (when you run out of memory, you're done until the energy recharges); they earn you experience points as well as ingame currency that let you purchase some things. Leveling allows you to access more rooms in the estate to search for more things. You also slowly earn "gems," which are a currency that allows you to purchase more energy and objects to complete quests; you can also purchase gems with real money.
The awesome:
* The art is simply stunning. Beautiful high-definition gorgeous screens in all places. Whoever did this art deserves awards. It's almost distracting. Game has a fullscreen mode. Music is evocative and not annoying at all. It can be disabled.
* I think for a freemium game it recharges about as fast as one might expect. If you need a game you can play whenever, wherever, this isn't going to be your thing, but between recharges and the frequently-awarded fast-recharge items, I haven't felt frustrated by the recharge rate.
* The screens alternate "modes," like "daylight mode," which is just a normal screen, "shadow mode," which has you looking for silhouettes instead of words, and others. It's refreshing.
* Leveling happens about as often as I think it should.
The not awesome:
* After about level 8, quests are irritatingly difficult. I've got a whole line of quests running down my screen that I don't want to or can't fulfill.
* Ghosts constantly hijack rooms and can only be chased off by buying objects to exorcise them (or earning these objects, but good luck with that).
* Obviously, buying the objects only happens with "gems." In fact you can only buy most items with gems, though some are buyable with the money you earn ingame. I think the balance with ghosts and how expensive items cost (both with gems and ingame currency) is really off here.
* I really, *REALLY* hate "jumbled word" mode. Changing modes is freakishly expensive, however. This dislike may just annoy me enough to quit playing.
Otherwise: great game, will support financially if balance is fixed and hated modes can be avoided more easily. (I'm lvl 12)
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cottoncandy2 wrote:
Miniatures1 wrote:Sorry to see Big Fish going this way these games can be quite costly!
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I'm disappointed in games that lead you on with Free play and then nickel and dime you to death in order to keep going. If this is the new norm for BFG then I'll go somewhere else. They aren't the only fish in the sea. I'd rather just pay for a game and be done with it.
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i AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY!! I started playing this game and really did enjoy it, HOWEVER, the game will nickel and dime you to death .... seriously! I made it to lvl 13 and now I can no longer play because I would have to "buy" a serious amount of gems/diamonds in order to get rid of the ghosts and get the items I need to fufill the quests.  There's also a lack of instructions.
DON'T PLAY THIS GAME!!!! It is very addictive and like any addiction it is also very very expensive!!!!! I spent $5 - thought the gems would last HA! They were gone in just a few minutes of play. Forget that-I may try to keep playing but you won't get anymore of my money
Sorry Big Fish but you'll only lose money with this gig
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I've been playing ROM for a month or so. Quite enjoyable at first; now, not so much.
After finally saving up enough 'stuff' to open the Hobbit Hut, imagine, to my surprise, that it would close again in 3 days and I would have to start saving up 'stuff' again. Same with the Ifrit Palace.
I was thrilled to be able to finally add neighbours (apart from trying to get some radomly) but now that is overwhelming as well. I have 40 neighbours, and it takes close to 30 mins to visit/gift them all. Also, with so many neighbours who want help with feeding critters, when I try to help it freezes my game and I have to exit and start again. The same happens when I try to select a daily challenge.
My biggest frustration, though, is the quests. Search the Library in night mode and find (enter item here). So I search the room, three times, to get to the night mode only to search and not receive the item I need for the quest. So, if I have the energy, I continue to search the room, through all the modes to get back to night mode, search AGAIN, and still NOT get the item. It is tedious and BORING.
Needless to say, I'm getting close to the end of my gameplay with ROM.
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When I first started playing this game (i think it was about 2 months ago, not sure, though), I was also outraged with the fact that it's announced as a free game, but they expect to sell you game money and game gems for real money, and the articles mto be bought ingame (either with "coins", the game currency, or with gems) are exorbitant, to say the least.
I liked the game, though, so I kept playing to see how far I could go without investing real money.
Well, today I turned level 100, and never bought a single coin or gem for real money. That's to say it's totally possible to enjoy the game and level up without investing your hard-earned income in the virtual currency of the game.
In the beginning, when the energy bar is fairly small and goes empty pretty quickly, it was sometimes a bit frustrating.
But by reading the forum one can learn the ways of the game, like, for instance, the Strong Talisman, which can be bought by game coins and restores the energy 40% faster, also it lasts for 12 hours, which is pretty good.
Every day one gets 5 diamonds free of charge, by day change time. Also by searching the dragon mazes one can get coins, items and more diamonds.
Even a VIP membership can be bought by saving the diamonds one earns ingame. It's the best investment for the diamonds, by the way. After I did I improved quite a lot and leveled way faster.
Another very important aspect of this game is the community, or neighborhood. One needs neighbors. By visiting the neighbor's places we get coins and xp. By helping the creatures on friend's places we get more coins and xp and once in a while one energy point. By helping the neighbors to feed their dragons also get coins and xp. And pretty much everything we do in the game gives coins and xp as rewards, and in some cases items too. Neighbors gift each other daily, and there are daily 100 gifts one is granted - free of any charge - to give his neighbors.
The people in the game and in the forum are super nice and friendly and it's really enjoyable to interact with them. They are also very helpful, and one can't really level or enjoy the game without neighbors, lots of them, the more the merrier.
On the negative side of the game, are the numerous glitches and the parts that don't work on Big Fish, like the battles.
Yet despite of the frustrating parts we're all still here and having fun. Hopefully they will fix the problems sooner rather than later. (a little bit of wishful thinking can't harm.
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I personally love this game, for those of you who say it gets costly, if you're willing to wait your energy will refresh and also the lottery spin occurs daily, so you have a chance to win gems, energy, pearls, artifact charges, and pearls as well as a chance to win the jackpot. My only complaint for this game is that the wizard battles don't always connect, I might get a match for a duel, but after the rock, scissors, paper choosing, sometimes it hangs and never completes the loading, so I'm stuck closing out the game and restarting and losing the pearls it cost me to enter the competition, while not a big problem yet, it gets very frustrating.
But overall, I love it..
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![[Post New]](/templates/wanda/images/icon_minipost_new.gif) by Yunice on Apr 28, 14 4:30 PM
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This is one of my favourite games on Big Fish. I'll just do a quick 1-10 scale review on the various components of this game.
Content: 9 - I am level 51 at the time of this review. So far, I have not felt any moment of boredom yet. Looking at the levels of some of my neighbours, which go as high as close to 400, I would say that there must be a lot of content in this game, otherwise I do not think anyone would endeavour until levels like that! I also like the part that there is always some kind of "offer" event that pushes up the entertainment meter in this game, though I must admit that it can be quite difficult to achieve some of those when a person is just starting out in the game. It took me about 40 levels before I could actually try to even complete one of those events. I guess it could be due to me being slow(didn't know about that famous wiki then) at learning when I started out.
Graphics: 9 - Beautiful graphics and some of the items actually pose some kind of challenge with the great blending into the background. It really takes one with very keen eyesight to find some of the stuff! Always good to have some challenge in any game!
Gameplay: 7 - This is the part which I am not super satisfied with. I am not sure if this is happening to many or not, but there are many instances where the game freezes up with the spinning portal after competitions, especially if the said competitions consists of 3-4 players. I have also noticed that it is impossible to send gifts via typing the name of a specific player on the full screen mode, well, for me, at least. I have to minimize my screen every time in order to do so. Letterbox in-game also seems to have some glitches where my game gets messed up after sending out a letter to someone.
Overall: 8 - I will probably review this part again in future if any of the examples I have mentioned above under the gameplay category gets fixed eventually. Keeping my fingers crossed!
All that being said, I think this is an awesome game with a wonderful community where many are willing to help one another out when it comes to answering queries, dragon feeding and the sending of gifts. I would not have been able to progress much without some of the nice people who have been willingly giving me all kinds of help when I needed some. I also think it is amazing that this game is still so popular despite it being out for quite some time; cannot say the same for most other games of the same genre.
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![[Post New]](/templates/wanda/images/icon_minipost_new.gif) by afspam on May 22, 14 11:00 AM
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I enjoy the game. I don't spend all day on it and have never spent any real money on it. I'm at level 46. Using the competitions and helping/visiting friends, helps to level up faster and gives me coins that I can use for tools to advance. I like the fact that the items to search change frequently and there are constantly new buildings to search as you get coins and complete tasks.
The frustration is that every time there are more than two people in a competition it crashes the page after the competition is done (rarely doesn't) and sometimes crashes before beginning. Can't play duels at all, they always crash before starting. And there doesn't seem to be any interest in the game developers fixing this problem.
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mygirls1816 wrote:Hello out there am I to understand correctly that some of the games will be going to download or buying them, if so then bigfish is just doing what another popular game site has done, limited online free play, you either have to download for a limited time of play or you have to buy. I'm not one to spend money on any game period they should leave well enough alone if they want to make more money I'm sure they can come up with more ways than that heck they came up with this site.
You don't have to pay for anything to play this game. The online free play is limited, but really only at first. The more levels you get under your belt the more free play time you get. I haven't paid for energy to play this game since about the first week, when I didn't know any better and thought I had to pay for energy.
Edited on 08/21/2014 at 1:09:44 PM PST
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