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Aug. 23rd, 2014 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI've been playing more hidden object games from Big Fish Games. I've discovered that I really like the Dark Parables series of games. The stories are decent, and the graphics are nice. I can do about half of the puzzles, and the hidden object challenges are interesting because I'm trying to find the pieces of an object based on seeing what each piece looks like. It's harder than it sounds. I was expecting a written list of objects to find, so this surprised me.
I'm more or less randomly trying a few other lines of games. The one I just finished is Dreampath: The Two Kingdoms. I wasn't particularly impressed. The graphics were kind of chunky and didn't quite feel right. They weren't awful by any means; they just weren't quite what I was looking for. The story was kind of dull. Interestingly, this was the first Big Fish game that I've run across that specified the gender of the point of view character. All the others I've tried, referred to the point of view character as 'detective' with no gender attached. This one referred to the point of view character as 'princess' and ended with an implied romance for the character.
I recently played another Mystery Trackers game. This one was called Black Isle. Although I quite liked Mystery Trackers: Raincliff's Phantoms, the first Big Fish hidden objects game I tried, this one felt clunkier after playing so many Dark Parables games. I also couldn't do most of the puzzles in Black Isle. I'm glad there's the option to skip them. For most of them, my brain just doesn't work right to figure them out. Others, I probably could figure out if I resorted to paper and pencil to track what I was doing. I couldn't swear to it, but I felt like the two Mystery Trackers games I played had a lower density of hidden object challenges than the Dark Parables games did.
I've got three games left to play, one Mystery Trackers and two others, from other lines, that I picked more or less randomly. I'm hoping to find another line that I really like. There are still more Mystery Trackers games I haven't tried, so I can fall back on those, but I'd love to find another line I like as much as Dark Parables. Big Fish has dozens of different lines.
I have to decide what to do with the games I've finished playing. I bought them and so feel like I should keep them, but I think I'm unlikely to try replaying them. Nobody else in the household is interested (and I'm not sure I'd give up my laptop for the hours required for, say, Cordelia to play one of these games). Space on my laptop is not currently an issue, so I'll probably leave things as they are for now.
I'm more or less randomly trying a few other lines of games. The one I just finished is Dreampath: The Two Kingdoms. I wasn't particularly impressed. The graphics were kind of chunky and didn't quite feel right. They weren't awful by any means; they just weren't quite what I was looking for. The story was kind of dull. Interestingly, this was the first Big Fish game that I've run across that specified the gender of the point of view character. All the others I've tried, referred to the point of view character as 'detective' with no gender attached. This one referred to the point of view character as 'princess' and ended with an implied romance for the character.
I recently played another Mystery Trackers game. This one was called Black Isle. Although I quite liked Mystery Trackers: Raincliff's Phantoms, the first Big Fish hidden objects game I tried, this one felt clunkier after playing so many Dark Parables games. I also couldn't do most of the puzzles in Black Isle. I'm glad there's the option to skip them. For most of them, my brain just doesn't work right to figure them out. Others, I probably could figure out if I resorted to paper and pencil to track what I was doing. I couldn't swear to it, but I felt like the two Mystery Trackers games I played had a lower density of hidden object challenges than the Dark Parables games did.
I've got three games left to play, one Mystery Trackers and two others, from other lines, that I picked more or less randomly. I'm hoping to find another line that I really like. There are still more Mystery Trackers games I haven't tried, so I can fall back on those, but I'd love to find another line I like as much as Dark Parables. Big Fish has dozens of different lines.
I have to decide what to do with the games I've finished playing. I bought them and so feel like I should keep them, but I think I'm unlikely to try replaying them. Nobody else in the household is interested (and I'm not sure I'd give up my laptop for the hours required for, say, Cordelia to play one of these games). Space on my laptop is not currently an issue, so I'll probably leave things as they are for now.
