Nov 15, 2009, 11:53am
User review by ratgirlagogo
This one is kind of a mixed bag for me. I love the zoo/animal theme and the graphics were nice - also liked the moving birds and animals, some of which you had to catch -that was fun. I liked the background animal sounds a lot but the music got seriously old for me pretty quickly. There's no timer and unlimited hints, although you do have to wait for the hint to refresh itself, which is good because a lot of these animals are REALLY hard to find. Hard enough that I began to find it a little wearying to play in long stretches - it would probably be better to play an hour at a time or so until you finished - and you'll be playing a while because this is a pretty long game, I would say 16-19 hours maybe? Nice to see when so many developers are selling these super-short games. Also I like that it's a straight-up HOG, thank god -and it was hard enough that way - can't imagine trying to play this looking for six random shapes to meld into a tool to open a door, or something. Also, while I don't care one way or the other about having my hidden objects fit logically into the theme of the setting (don't mind searching for ice cream cones on the ocean floor) I know many of you do - and everything you'll be looking for is consistent with the zoo setting. Although I did find it jarring to gather, say, 12 ostrich eggs, put them into the bin, and have them drop with the same loud crashing noise that the 12 knives and rakes did in the previous scene.
The big downside for me was that the clicks would not always register. Every time this happened I had to close out the game and re-open it to get the click to take. There is probably nothing more annoying and tiresome in a HOG than this, and it really soured me on a game that otherwise I found pretty enjoyable.
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