One of the many things I love about this game is not penalized in clicking to see if window open statue opens mouth etc. I love games not knowing what surprise happens when you click on it. Puzzles are fun but skippable also. No way main character looks like Jim Carey! The maid is different looking. Voice overs fantastic, A lot of game for the few bucks!

I hope the company does more games like this. It is nice balance not too hard you do not need a walk through. I hope other designers will follow this example. I am bored and do not buy straight hogs anymore. I want to use objects found, Sweeny Todd is a good example also,like Dire. Voices done well, plenty of inter activiy make this a fun game for instance finding scissors to cut pictures or cloth, hint system so you never get stuck.

Thanks Ana, this is a great game. I'm really enjoying it. I'm a little behind on my games and I wasn't going to download anymore till I got caught up but I really got sold on this one.

Ditto to all the good comments. I was going to post about the Keanu Reeves lookalike, but, a lot of people agree.

I'm enjoying the game, but wish it were a bit "darker." And, oh my, the cleavage!!

Hi, Draclvr!

! You're bad !

When I downloaded the demo, I was expecting a darker game as well, but I must admit that I enjoyed it immensely and got a big kick out of the characters (especially the butler and Rover). For some strange reason, I didn't even notice the cleavage !

Susan

I thought it was a hoot and I enjoyed playing it. Luckily (at least for me) the mini-games were a little more difficult as the game ran on but not so hard as to cause me any angst. It was worth the dough...characters especially!

Jody (cleavage, what cleavage )

Oh my gosh, I downloaded the game because of the good reviews I saw here and it my freebie game. I totally agree, the main character totally looks like Keanu Reeves Ok, now to play for a little to see what all the fuss is about

This game was a total HOOT!
Looked @ the Demo & bought straight away,
like I always do if it seems a good one.
I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Voices instead of just captioned,
quite a colorful cast,
and definitely not boring!

I liked the game for all the reasons listed above, but the system used for saving a game was annoying to me. Unlike other casual games,this game only saved at the end of each chapter. If a person chose to exit before that, then the entire chapter needed to replayed. That certainly wasn't a positive in my mind and I hope isn't going to be a regular feature in upcoming casual games.

I agree about the save system, Cappy. Being able to only save at the end of a chapter seems to apply to every Nevosoft game I have played and also seems to be a "feature" specific to their games, as offhand I can't think of other games of this genre where this is the way things are set up. I don't think you need to worry that this is going to become a regular occurrence.

I would prefer something to let me know what to click on - random clicking gets tiresome.

The saving only at the end of a chapter doesn't bother me mainly because I already know what to do when I start again.

I love the butler!

Thanks for the reassurance, Marian, and the tip about Nevosoft games.

"Sir, grab the spiders, and let's hurry to the boiler room."

That's one great line among many delivered with perfect aplomb. The scripting and voiceovers are superb in this game.

I didn't like "Magic Academy" enough to finish it; however, I am playing this game with gusto despite the annoying non-save feature. The voice acting is superior to that in most full blown adventure games, as are the amusing character graphics, for example, the maid with facial piercings. The actor doing Glenfield created an entrancing world weary butler. I hope he gets the Casual Game Best Supporting Actor award and look forward to hearing him in other parts.

I wonder how Nevosoft got such top of the line voice actors when other games of all types have such trouble?

I edited this post to mention that Alt+Tab ameliorates the non-save problem if you don't mind having Vampireville on the desktop. Then I started pondering the differences in voice acting quality after reading Jane Jensen's recent interview.

I just finished this one last night and it was fun and the acting was spot on. I hope the developers will make more games. My only minor gripe was not being able to save in the middle of a chapter which is a minor gripe since the chapters were short.

I originally posted to ask for help but I finally solved it.

Not saving until end of chapters is common with casual games.

I enjoyed the game except for those solitaire games.