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This is a GREAT hidden objects game, especially since there are so many ways to play it. You can play as one of two characters, then play the other. The two character's stories interact, and it's a pretty good story, to boot. After you've played the game as one of the characters, 15 more puzzles become available. The whole game is hidden object, even the puzzles. You get word lists, sometimes outlines, sounds, or only one or two clues at a time which are given in conversations with the characters. The clues are cleverly hidden and the graphics are fine. I'm a long-time hidden object player and it took me two days to solve my first game as Justin, and Anna took longer even though I had already been through the sites more than once. This game has high replay value, but like I said, it's not easy.

One of my favorites. Well worth even paying full price or using a game credit..

superk2007 wrote:This is a GREAT hidden objects game
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One of my favorites. Well worth even paying full price or using a game credit..

I could not disagree more. In fact, this is the first of the many games I have tried that I searched out the forum to leave a negative comment.

The story only takes place in the narrative. The scenes are mentioned in the text, but do not relate in any other way. For example, we are missing a rabbit but there are dozens of rabbits in the images! That is minor next to my other complaints.

1. I have adjusted to some items in **** games not being QUITE what they are described. It is as if the people writing the hints are guessing on some of the less common things. In this one, paper clips are described as staples, for example. I can live with that once I get used to it, but I HATE using up my clues to discover what they are thinking. A much bigger issue is that some items which CLEARLY match the description are not associated with the hint. Brushes, in two places, fit this category. By the barn there is a cup of paint brushes. When the hint says "brushes" they won't work. But on another visit "paint brushes" was the right hint. At the zoo, there is a section asking you to gather all of the brushes (they annoyingly do not tell you how many), and two very obvious brushes are not qualified for some reason.

2. There is a display of the "helpers" you have (extra time, hints, etc.} but unfortunately no count, so you do not know how many hints you have left. Whether I use a hint or not often depends on how many I have left. I am not going to use my last hint if I have two more scenes in this round and only one hint left.

3. The silhouette rounds are ridiculous. There is one in the hospital that is a long series of stoppered bottles that all look shockingly alike.

4. At the zoo I HATED the rounds where there was a sentence clue: "please find a hot dog and some butterflies." You have no idea how many butterflies - once you find one, the clue does not change. If you find them all, the clue does not change until you find the hot dog. But it could be "hot dogs" and you would not know which was still missing - or how many of each. You have to search the scene in excruciating detail over and over again because you have no idea what the next request will be for.

That said, the art here is fine. The music and sound is fine - except for the BLAST when you finish a scene (mentioned in another forum).