Today's game for Club Members , tomorrow's game for all.

You can download Mystery of Another World Collector's Edition here.



As always, please remember to come back and tell us what you think.

Happy Gaming,
Ana

Thanks, Ana. Downloading the demo now. This is from Elephant Games (Grim Tales: The Legacy, Mystery Trackers: Raincliff), so I'm expecting this to be a long game with some interesting puzzles.

Can't go wrong with Elephant Games. Just played a few minutes of demo. But I'm impressed. Great cut scenes. 3 difficulty options. I chose the second because I'm not very good at puzzles and wanted the option to skip. HO scenes are clear and not too complicated.

But it's so predictable. If it weren't for having to pay attention to find hidden objects, I could have whizzed through the demo on automatic.

Then there's the always annoying factor that the protagonist will constantly let him or herself be sidetracked by a zipper that doesn't have a pull or a chest that for some unknown reason has a peculiar lock which, for an equally unknown reason, just has to be opened. I never feel as if they're really frantic. If, just once, one would say aloud, "Okay, I should just calm down and search everything here for a clue," I might be less inclined to want to yell at him/her to get a move on and stop fiddling with everything in sight. Sure, it's a game, but really! They might give a nod to what people really go through.

Becky should write a piece on originality and/or human feeling in casual games. Of course, she might be staring blankly at her monitor close to forever trying to think of an example.

Gil.

Your comment made me smile, Gil. Some truth in what you have to say. But most of us keep coming back for more anyway. Maybe adventure games are more your style.

Heheh-Gil, like Sparkle, your comment made me smile too. It does get a bit much when you get a knife into inventory, use it(and it leaves inventory)....Then-a bit later on need it again and have to go through another search to find another one. pffuii.. Leave the repeatable useful objects IN the inventory already developers!But-still in all I'll keep coming back for more..do like the spooky, eerie atmosphere games so much.

Gil! I agree with gamenut that my biggest pet peeve that annoys me the most is having a crowbar and you use it once and then have to look for another one to open a box in the next room.

I do however love Elephant Games and you always get a lot of game for you dollars.

Ana

Thumbs up on your comment, Gil, However, I was impressed with Brink of Consciousness: Dorian Gray. The protagonist would breathe fast when something frightened him or angered him, kinda cool.

My pet peeve would be when you must suceed with a particularly long and challenging puzzle to open a box, only to find something minor. Ack!

Do like the Mystery Trackers series.

Pam

"My pet peeve would be when you must suceed with a particularly long and challenging puzzle to open a box, only to find something minor."

Oh, no kidding! And the crowbar you can't use on anything but one specific item though you've been lugging it around forever. And (so true) the knife you gaily tossed away just before you needed it again. And the pile of leaves you won't brush aside because you might get your hands dirty. Lol! They obviously don't know me.

Yeah, adventure games are more my thing because they're so involving, most of them. There are a few casuals I've played that were really good and kept me playing because I was interested and did want to know what came next. And, let's face it, you can hit the Windows key and go do what you should be doing then come back really easily. I like them well enough, they just have much more propensity to annoy the heck out of me.

Gil.

Traveler -- intriguing editorial ideas!

Both free to a good home.

Gil.

I'm really enjoying reading this thread.

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BFG has nothing on you, Marian.

Gil.

I like Elephant games also. I played this one twenty minutes and bought it. Maybe if I get a crowbar I'll get to keep it. Love all the comments.

Ugh! I gladly do without those sorts of comments. I want to play the game, not listen to the protagonist blabbing about obvious things I can see for myself. If they're going to talk, it should be important to the story or offer a clue to a puzzle.


I hate that kind of thing. I don't want to listen to the character breathing. I always end up telling them to stop breathing. I can do my own breathing. I don't like hearing footsteps either. They're nearly always inappropriate for what's being stepped on.

I have recently begun playing casuals without the sound, I find I can focus more on what I have to do. I usually skip the dialogue and cut scenes anyways, since the diary or journals contain all you need.
One of the recent games I played didn't have a journal (Grim Tales maybe?), but that just added to the challenge.

But a good music soundtrack or good ambient sound can add to the game's atmosphere. Sometimes puzzles can have aural clues as well. There may be some where I turn off all sound, but not that many.


I've played more than one that didn't have a journal -- or that had a very sketchy journal -- or that had a journal that included different information than was revealed in cut scenes.

Is there anyone here who bought this game and was able to play the Bonus Chapter? Please let me know.

I haven't purchased this game. Are you having a problem with the bonus chapter?

Along with many other people we cannot access the bonus chapter. Tech support is saying it is not the fault of the game, their response is.

"It's rare, but sometimes the saved data for your Collector's Edition can become corrupted in some small way, and thus block you from reaching the bonus content."

But it has happened to so many people that it just seems strange that such a rare event would happen to them all, at the very same point in the game. It's frustrating. However, I will try one time to replay the game to see if it happens again. Then we will see how rare it is.

That is indeed strange, Flo. I'm going to take a look at the forums and see what others are saying. It's hard for me to believe that this is not a glitch.

So sorry Flo. That would be beyond frustrating.

Ana

Just checked the forums and a new version of the game is now available that fixes the following:

That's actually what I did. I'm glad they realized it was a glitch because they were completely ignoring our plea to do something.

Thanks for finding that Marian, when last I checked it wasn't there. I was dealing with tech support and agreed to try to use another profile, so I'm almost back where it happened, will know tomorrow if it works. I just hope I downloaded after they fixed it and not before.

I sure hope when you reinstalled the game that it was the new version, Flo. Fingers crossed.

All is well, I am now able to access the bonus chapter.

Thanks

Ana

Whew!