Re: What Casual Games Are You Playing Right Now? - Part Three
[Re: Marian]
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12/20/21 06:02 PM
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The Legendary Tales games were very good! I recently started the Lost Lands series and have completed the first game Dark Overlord which I enjoyed. Currently I'm playing The Christmas Spirit 3: Grimm Tales and am enjoying it. I'm almost finished with the main game. I also started a timed HOG called Secret Investigations 3: Revelation, which is good in short spurts .
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Re: What Casual Games Are You Playing Right Now? - Part Three
[Re: Marian]
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I've almost finished a replay of Vermillion Watch: London Howling, and am enjoying it every bit as much as the first time. It is challenging and presents several novel ideas and formats that will appeal to someone who isn't looking for a cakewalk but revels in an occasional head scratcher. The story ranges all over Victorian (?) London, loosely structured along a Jules Verne sort of them. The scope of the game is as big as London, the puzzles are quirky and fun to figure out, there are multiple characters and they don't do stupid things to advance the plot. Also, the art work is terrific. This is the fourth Vermillion that I have replayed and they have lost none of their appeal. Of this series of six (?) games, Fleshbound was the only one that didn't match up and caused me to bail out during the Demo.
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Re: What Casual Games Are You Playing Right Now? - Part Three
[Re: Marian]
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12/27/21 03:08 PM
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I started playing "Lost Lands : The Wanderer" today and very much like it so far [It's not a CE version so maybe I got it with a code I won or something because the others I have are all CE's.] And I do have several - but can't remember which I've played and which I've not - so an Adventure all by itself waiting there !!
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Re: What Casual Games Are You Playing Right Now? - Part Three
[Re: Marian]
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12/27/21 03:34 PM
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Do you two color coordinate your clothes also? There was one thing about Dark Overlord I got frustrated about Marian. Not the game itself, but the collectibles. There were four different ones and I ended up short one of each which seems very odd to me. I thought maybe they would turn up in the bonus chapter, but nope, and no way to go back to look for them, so then I could not play the puzzles in the "extras" section which is a game feature I dislike. I finished Grimm Tales and am playing Christmas Stories: Enchanted Express.
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Re: What Casual Games Are You Playing Right Now? - Part Three
[Re: Marian]
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What did you think of Curse of the Crimson Shadow? I thought it was okay but I didn't really have fun playing it. I had to use the guide on the very last puzzle in the main game (the candle puzzle). There wasn't any feed back to know what to do. I later looked at a video wt and it shows feedback (lines lighting up). That did not happen in my game. It also kept feeling like it was going to get stuck loading scenes (but didn't). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3vhapfiQCgI have played through Act 1 of The Chronicles of Shakespeare and am not sure about it yet. The game plays in full screen but the cut scene videos play in a smallish rectangle and I wish I could see them better. The text usually leaves the screen before I have time to finish reading it. It is very linear and tells you exactly what to do. (That is both good and bad, I think.) It doesn't have HO scenes; you find things as you look around (as in an adventure game). You cannot pick anything up until the game tells you that you need it. But, it's Romeo and Juliet !
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Re: What Casual Games Are You Playing Right Now? - Part Three
[Re: Marian]
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I just bought Ms. Holmes: The Adventure of the McKirk Ritual and Edge of Reality: Lost Secrets of the Forest, based on other games in both series being good.
Ms. Holmes: The Orange Pips was excellent, which is why I sprang for McKirk without trying the Demo first.
The Edge of Reality Series has some excellent games and I've marked a few for replay. Games in this series tend to be long, with good graphics and challenging puzzles. I have to say, though, that three in the series were so simple as to be silly and I bailed out of them, so you need to play the Demo to see if you like a game in this Series.
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Re: What Casual Games Are You Playing Right Now? - Part Three
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Well, you two talked me into playing Eternal Journey New Atlantis - and guess what? I liked it. Very different; although you can definitely see the 5BN style in it. It's fairly old, I think. Couldn't run it fullscreen due to the (familiar to me) flicker effect. Another good older 5 BN game is Forbidden Secrets: Alien Town, with both CE and SE versions. Definitely worth a playthrough if you haven't already.
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