Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Jan 5, 2017

  Someone said it best, "It made me keep nodding off!" I wholeheartedly concur, couldn't play this more than a few minutes and I was off in LALA land with the faeries. Rest assured if you suffer with insomnia this little beauty will put you in a deep sleep within half hour tops. I aren’t kidding. I really tested this. I tried everything to combat its narcolepsy effects from toothpicks under my eyelids, to black coffee straight. Nothing and I mean nothing stopped it from making me suddenly becoming lethargic and slamming my head with a dull thud on my desk as I snored away peacefully. There should be health warnings with this game... "Play it surrounded with pillows" "Make sure your computer desk doesn't have sharp edges" "Ensure a close relative intrudes into your room and shakes you violently by the shoulders every half hour just to make sure your still breathing" I don't know what causes it to have such a lullaby effect. Is it the constant music that just has a metronome dull beat to it? Is it the hand drawn art which makes you squint harder than a Chinese man looking directly into an eclipse? Is it the constant vague gnawing’s of Hidden Object Scenes which go on forever? (For instance it will ask you to find something that 'pumps blood' so you must look for a 'heart' which could be in word or picture format). Apparently I've played nearly 8 hrs on this game (7.6 which would have been me sleeping). What I can tell you is that the game was originally developed by spin top games who were later completely acquired by ‘Popcap’. It requires you to grind away at a handful of object scenes constantly until you reach level 25. With each level you raise up you get an artefact (a jigsaw piece), you also get a small entry in a journal, which offers only lame info about certain places around the world. After every HOS you are required to solve a puzzle, from spot the difference, word find or just doing a jigsaw. Once you have completed that, you are tortured with another HOS probably the same one you have done like 50 times already. After you reach level 25 you have to do a final jigsaw, do a very easy memory game, and then finally rotate a few disks so that they align perfectly with an outside pattern. Then 'Poof' you get to see a picture of a diamond and for those that have OCD the satisfaction that you never have to play this again. The game also asks you to find two gems per level until you get to 50, but this really is a no brainer as you have literally hundreds and hundreds of opportunity to find them. The 50 gems unlock two modes, one which is unlimited HOS and the 2nd which is unlimited spot the difference. These are no doubt put there for people who want to induce themselves into a coma. While it might sound like I’m pulling your leg, I assure you I’m not. I have no doubt that the military are also interested in this game for weapon usage. Display this game across a projector and soldiers running across a battle field would just fall in a heap. HOS warfare is just around the corner. Be prepared to be utterly dazed and confused after you awake from your slumber too. You might find yourself out for days, weeks, months even. I awoke to discover trump had become president. I was so shocked, dazed just like a deer in the headlights. My only reassurance is that I could play this game whenever I wanted and it would no doubt put me down again in no time... https://youtu.be/_l7M538i_48 If you enjoyed reading this review please subscribe to my curator page. Thanks... http://store.steampowered.com/curator/6843548/
• gamedeal user

  Dec 16, 2014

  [h1]To sum it up[/h1] [b]Pros:[/b] [list] [*] High quality object hiding [*] Varied gameplay offered by minigames between levels [*] Extra objectives [*] End-game unlimited modes [/list] [b]Cons:[/b] [list] [*] Low, non-adjustable graphic resolution [*] No Steam integration of any kind [*] Every now and then, a cheap trick in object hiding [/list] _____________ This is part of a series of hidden object (HO) games developed by [url=http://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=SpinTop%20Games]SpinTop Games[/url] and published by [url=http://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=PopCap%20Games,%20Inc.]PopCap Games[/url] between 2007-2009. To date they are my favourite of the genre. Unlike more modern HO games where the items are often practically jumping out at you, here they are masterfully blended and conspicuous (sometimes even a little too much so.) The whole scene looks practically painted. Each stage ends with a varied puzzle (crosswords, rotating tiles, spot the difference) that offers a little break and introduced the next level. And each level ends with a small informative blurb that I assume nobody will read, but it adds a bit of substance. More modern HO games try to amp it up with plot and animations and a story and voice acting and what not, usually with bad results, because at the end of the day, it's a cheesy casual game and reaching for more just makes it awkward. But this series focuses efforts on the mechanics of HO gameplay, and it shows in how well the scenes are made. Shame about that low resolution though.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 17, 2013

  I love hidden object find-it games, but this series by Popcap is terrible. Popcap have their fair share of fun games, but these are definitely not up there. The music for me is just irritating. It’s painful to listen to, it’s very repetitive and all sounds the same. It’s all in a low tone, and honesty I have to say it barely passes for music. Nor background ambience for that matter. It’s a horrible mixture of both I suppose. I turnt all the settings down so I don’t have to listen to it, but no audio at all makes it even more boring than it already is, so I played my own music in the background. Just to try and make the game a tad bit more bearable. The gameplay is fairly repetitive, you play the same 5 scenes over and over and over again, and it feels as if it goes on forever. To complete, it’s way too long. Or at least felt that way. It just felt like a chore to complete. I made myself finish it because usually I want to finish games I’ve started before I can move on.(anyone that knows me will know my illogical OCD-tendencies when it comes to my steam library). Like most games, it felt so good to finish, but not in a satisfying way. Where you finish, reflect on the game and feel good about it. In a way that just made me so happy that I would never have to go near this game ever again. If you enjoy hidden object games, don't buy these. There are much better ones you can buy. The "Midnight Mysteries" and “Samantha Swift” series were good in my opinion. I played through them quite easily. They actually have a story and is a lot more engaging. The time it took me to complete those series of games, was probably the same amount of time I spent dragging myself through this game.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 31, 2014

  As far as puzzle games go this is OK. It is pretty fun in the begininng but with time it can get boring as they use the same map multiple times. I guess if you want to play and relax it is not bad.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 20, 2012

  Amazing Adventures Around the World is another fun, find-the-object game from PopCap. The game features attractive graphics but an unfortunately low viewing resolution of only 800x600 stretched to fullscreen. The gameplay is brisk, the music appropriate and their are both a collectible and bonus game added on to each one of the campaigns 25 missions. Unfortunately both widescreen resolutions and the Steam Overlay are not supported. Overall however, Amazing Adventures Around the World delivers what it promises, an entertaining albeit flawed puzzle game.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 28, 2014

  when you have that "there's too much going on for me to concentrate" feeling, this one is a fine time waster. was definitely worth a play through.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 9, 2022

  Anti-Russian company that doesn't mind selling to evil countries like Israel and the USA, despite all of their constant war-mongering and genocide.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 7, 2023

  I might be the first person below 40 to play this
• gamedeal user

  Feb 6, 2015

  Dear Gods, why did I buy the Popcap Bundle? WHY? *ahem* Let's do this. This game is the 6th hidden object game I have played. Like the Mystery P.I. games that I have played and reviewed, this game was produced by Spintop and published via Popcap. The objects hidden in the scenes are almost all the same, and there are only a very few which would be different. The flavor of story accompanying this game is finding a stone tablet, which will lead to the World Gem (which looks like a ginormous refined diamond big enough to be likened to the size of a toddler). Well. That's all of a story. I have played through the main game and the endless seeking mode for hidden objects, like I did in Escape Rosecliff Island and the four Mystery P.I. games I have played. Good Gods did that take some time. Not recommended unless you're a junkie for hidden object games and have the necessary patience and tenacity to find everything. ...and there will be another Amazing Adventures game waiting for me. But this will be reviewed in due time.