Lost in the City is a new game that beautifully combines the traditional hidden object puzzle elements with an engrossing and thrilling mystery/horror adventure feel.
The game starts with you waking up in a locked room that looks like it hasn't been cleaned in 20 years. You then recall that you had previously gone on a first date with some girl, and almost immediately fell in love with her. But when you followed her back to her apartment, you remember her giving you a cup of coffee that was drugged, leading you to this predicament.
Moral of the story? Don't drink anything on the first date!, game review, (heh)
So you are stuck in a locked room and need to find your way out. This is reminiscent of the Japanese Crimson, game review, Room and Viridian Room games from a few years back. And when you manage to get out, you suddenly discover, game review, that the entire town is deserted and wrecked, and you seem, game review, to be the only living thing there. Resident Evil anyone?
There are a lot of things going for Lost in the City.
For one thing, the artwork and soundtrack are gorgeous. They totally bring to life the sole survivor horror feel of the game.
What's also interesting and very refreshing is that every item you are supposed to find actually has a purpose later on in the game. All too often in other hidden object games, you end up having to spot totally random hidden objects in each scene. I mean... what are handcuffs and a toy car doing in a barber shop? In Lost in the City, everything makes sense. You need to find keys to open safes, and, game review, matches to light candles.
Having to, game review, find an audio tape, the tape recorder, batteries and cable definitely sounds more logical than clicking on random objects.
There are also mini-games that separate the different stages of the game and advance the story. These include cracking numerical codes to safes, unscrambling, game review, maps and photos, and even solving riddles in order to find out where you need to go next.
The timers in the game also make sense. Rather, game review, than giving you an arbitrary timer during which you need to complete a task, you get, game review, specific story-related timers.
For example, you need to put out a fire in time or you'll inhale too much smoke and pass out.
It's the little things like these that make Lost in the City a perfect blend of storytelling and hidden object puzzles. And the story itself is pretty compelling with lots of detail and depth. I won't spoil it here, but suffice to say that the developers have taken their time to create a very engrossing story that can actually spark an emotion in you.
Whether you're, game review, into powerful, game review, story-telling, game review, and the mystery/horror genre that comes with the sole survivor adventure style, or you like hidden object puzzles that includes a strong purpose and, game review, depth, this game is, game review, definitely worth playing.
, game review, It's time to get Lost in the City.
You can read more about the game at http://www.hidden-puzzles.com/lost-in-the-city.html
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2009/12/13
CSI: NY Game Review
CSI: NY is a abundant bold if alone for the actuality that it is the absolute car for a hidden article game. Afterwards all, what bigger acumen to be analytic for hidden altar than if you were a badge investigator analytic annihilation scenes for evidence? CSI: NY is a appealing affectionate, game review, adjustment, game review, of the hit TV series, with the alternation stars such as detectives Mac Taylor, Stella Bonasera, Don Flack, Dr. Sheldon Hawkes and Adam Ross all featuring heavily in the game.
The feel and atmosphere of the bold aswell captures the aspect of the TV series. The scenarios in the bold are structured like episodes of a TV series, and what absolutely got me was that anniversary, game review, chance started off with a blow of the annihilation victim getting begin followed by credits, game, game review, review,, game review, absolutely like a TV series. And anniversary change of breadth aswell incorporates a cine blow of the cityscape, game review, of New York, afresh a affectionate adjustment, game review, of the alternation and a absolute nice blow to the game.
The absolute hidden article puzzles in the bold are aswell chip absolute well. As detective Taylor, game review, or Bonasera, you appear a abomination arena and charge to seek the breadth for affirmation and any artifice items that ability advance to abeyant assemblage or suspects. Added hidden article scenes absorb analytic, game review, the bounds of abeyant suspects and last-known-whereabouts of the victims. There is absolute little accidental altar to be found: aggregate seems to fit accurately into the story.
There are even nice touches such as bi-weekly clippings that if begin acknowledge, game review, the history of the victims and added advances the story. Another affair that makes the hidden addle area of the bold altered is that anniversary arena starts with you not alive what items you're, game review, meant to be analytic for. There is a account of items to be found, but that account emerges absolute slowly. So for the aboriginal minute or so, you're on your own aggravating to assumption which altar could be affirmation in anniversary case.
What this, game review, bold excels in admitting are the mini-games that are broadcast throughout, and there are affluence of them, game review, . These are not your archetypal mini-games such as jigsaws or afterwards puzzles, but are in fact neatly chip into the chance and affair of the game. You get to besom abomination scenes for fingerprints, yield photos of the actual evidence, accomplish facial recognition, account the victim's falling aisle and a accomplished lot more. It is these altered mini-games that makes CSI: NY absolutely angle out a part of the added amateur of this brand and sets the accent you'd apprehend from a bold based on the CSI franchise.
There are 4 "episodes" in this game, with altered characters from the alternation accepting starring roles and with anniversary case getting altered (as altered as they can be... afterwards a dozen seasons of the assorted CSI series, every affectionate of annihilation becomes appealing cliched). There is a fair bulk of amusement and assuming in the bold to accomplish it feel like the TV alternation as well. Scenes such as Adam Ross adage "Umm... Mac? Why do you and Stella consistently wish to do the, game review, fingerprinting, game review, yourselves? Is there something amiss with my work?" are funny and abduction, game review, the aspect of the show.
Admittedly, the bold is appealing beeline with absolute little allowance for accessible exploration. Aggregate occurs in a arrangement and could be airless for gamers added acclimated to the exploration-style chance games. But CSI: NY stays accurate to the anecdotal scene-by-scene storyboarding of a TV show, and is a appealing acceptable adjustment of the franchise. Definitely a bold account arena if you're into the abomination scenes affair and wish to accept a duke in allowance stars like Gary Sinise break crimes.
Rating: 4.0/5.0 You, game review, can apprehend added about CSI: NY at http://www.hidden-puzzles.com/csi-ny.html
The feel and atmosphere of the bold aswell captures the aspect of the TV series. The scenarios in the bold are structured like episodes of a TV series, and what absolutely got me was that anniversary, game review, chance started off with a blow of the annihilation victim getting begin followed by credits, game, game review, review,, game review, absolutely like a TV series. And anniversary change of breadth aswell incorporates a cine blow of the cityscape, game review, of New York, afresh a affectionate adjustment, game review, of the alternation and a absolute nice blow to the game.
The absolute hidden article puzzles in the bold are aswell chip absolute well. As detective Taylor, game review, or Bonasera, you appear a abomination arena and charge to seek the breadth for affirmation and any artifice items that ability advance to abeyant assemblage or suspects. Added hidden article scenes absorb analytic, game review, the bounds of abeyant suspects and last-known-whereabouts of the victims. There is absolute little accidental altar to be found: aggregate seems to fit accurately into the story.
There are even nice touches such as bi-weekly clippings that if begin acknowledge, game review, the history of the victims and added advances the story. Another affair that makes the hidden addle area of the bold altered is that anniversary arena starts with you not alive what items you're, game review, meant to be analytic for. There is a account of items to be found, but that account emerges absolute slowly. So for the aboriginal minute or so, you're on your own aggravating to assumption which altar could be affirmation in anniversary case.
What this, game review, bold excels in admitting are the mini-games that are broadcast throughout, and there are affluence of them, game review, . These are not your archetypal mini-games such as jigsaws or afterwards puzzles, but are in fact neatly chip into the chance and affair of the game. You get to besom abomination scenes for fingerprints, yield photos of the actual evidence, accomplish facial recognition, account the victim's falling aisle and a accomplished lot more. It is these altered mini-games that makes CSI: NY absolutely angle out a part of the added amateur of this brand and sets the accent you'd apprehend from a bold based on the CSI franchise.
There are 4 "episodes" in this game, with altered characters from the alternation accepting starring roles and with anniversary case getting altered (as altered as they can be... afterwards a dozen seasons of the assorted CSI series, every affectionate of annihilation becomes appealing cliched). There is a fair bulk of amusement and assuming in the bold to accomplish it feel like the TV alternation as well. Scenes such as Adam Ross adage "Umm... Mac? Why do you and Stella consistently wish to do the, game review, fingerprinting, game review, yourselves? Is there something amiss with my work?" are funny and abduction, game review, the aspect of the show.
Admittedly, the bold is appealing beeline with absolute little allowance for accessible exploration. Aggregate occurs in a arrangement and could be airless for gamers added acclimated to the exploration-style chance games. But CSI: NY stays accurate to the anecdotal scene-by-scene storyboarding of a TV show, and is a appealing acceptable adjustment of the franchise. Definitely a bold account arena if you're into the abomination scenes affair and wish to accept a duke in allowance stars like Gary Sinise break crimes.
Rating: 4.0/5.0 You, game review, can apprehend added about CSI: NY at http://www.hidden-puzzles.com/csi-ny.html
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