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I'm a video game critic, game designer and obsessive gamer. I play everything, but my real love is old school point-and-click adventure games so when the zombies come, I'll be hunkered down in a bunker with my Keurig, my dogs, and a copy of Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within.
  • Timeless: The Forgotten Town Review
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    Timeless: The Forgotten Town Review

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    The past holds endless fascination for people with fanciful dispositions and so hidden object games often embrace what many of us see as more elegant times than our own. Timeless: The Forgotten Town capitalizes on that antiquarian inclination, taking us back a hundred years to save a rustic village enslaved by an evil magician. While not offering us the most original game concept, its slick design and high-end graphics do good justice to some well-worn conventions.
  • Intrigue Inc: Raven’s Flight Review
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    Intrigue Inc: Raven’s Flight Review

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    Two of the best things about hidden object games are getting to the bottom of the mysterious storylines and enjoying the lush, elaborate art. Intrigue Inc: Raven's Flight at least gets one of them right. While the game features some fairly pedestrian (translation: ugly) graphics, it also offers an interesting story of evil and international—dare I say—intrigue. It also contains more than a few creative takes on the usual door-opening and item-finding puzzles which save it from being just another ho-hum hidden object game.
  • Silent Evil: Kate’s Rescue Review
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    Silent Evil: Kate’s Rescue Review

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    If there was a seminar on how to make a bad hidden object game, it would go something like this: "Create a vague storyline with generic characters and put them in an indeterminate setting. Have one of them vanish. Move things along using no sound and bland, static images. Finish things up by alternating between poorly-executed hidden object sequences and boring, repetitious puzzles. I'm thinking the makers of Silent Evil: Kate's Rescue must have attended this seminar—heck, maybe they taught it.
  • Grim Facade: Mystery of Venice Review
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    Grim Facade: Mystery of Venice Review

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    When hidden object fans download a new game, we hope to experience a spectacular adventure. We hope to be transported from our humdrum lives to another time and place where we have the opportunity to experience the exotic and to become someone smarter and more heroic than we normally are. Full of mystery, beauty and danger, Grim Facade: Mystery of Venice is the just the kind adventure to make all this happen.
  • Puppy Sanctuary Review
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    Puppy Sanctuary Review

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    OK, I'll admit it. Upon firing up Puppy Sanctuary, I grimaced in anticipation of a game I expected would be shallow, short and unbearably saturated with saccharine cuteness. What I didn't see coming was a well-crafted game defined not by schmaltzy sweetness but by a winning combination made up of an entertaining pet sim and challenging match-3 gameplay.
  • Tearstone Review
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    Tearstone Review

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    The official description for hidden object adventure Tearstone is pretty vague, but after playing it, you're likely to find it fits the game perfectly. In fact, to do the title justice, the description would have to read something like: "A vague hero goes on an inexplicable quest to help a friend of dubious origin achieve an ambiguous goal." While Tearstone's concept isn't the greatest, the good news is that it works to offer a more unique and challenging form of hidden object gameplay, albeit with some inconsistencies.
  • Emma and the Inventor Review
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    Emma and the Inventor Review

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    Most of us have grandfathers but few (if any) of us have one who conducts bizarre scientific experiments in a gorgeous house in upstate New York. If we did, we'd no doubt be visiting him often just like young Emma Jenkins does her eccentric grandfather in Tricky Software's Emma and the Inventor. While this polished hidden object title offers some creative hidden object scenes and a charming soundtrack, it's ultimately undone by a too-familiar concept, too-easy puzzles and too-thin content.
  • Dream Chronicles: The Book of Water Review
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    Dream Chronicles: The Book of Water Review

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    Since 2007, Dream Chronicles has evolved into one of the most successful casual game franchises in existence and no wonder. Considering the brief history of the casual game genre, the series' four year history makes it downright venerable. The sixth installment in the saga continues the story begun in Dream Chronicles: The Book of Air but alas, fails to maintain the first title's standards of quality and invention.