Once again, another glitchy installment in this ERS series which focuses on Saint Germain, the evil dwarf. As usual the storyline focuses on the dwarf trying to gain eternal life by draining it from others. You could customize settings. At certain locations you collect, and here’s an oxymoron for you, cheerful human skulls (because they are adorned with flowers!) In addition, you collect weather-themed icons for your storm machine, so these were mandatory collectibles. There was a marked teleport map to transport you between locations, albeit not instantaneously. Inventory was labeled and interactive and there were complex items to assemble. Objectives were regularly updated but there was no cohesive journal. The graphics were excellent although they were creepy, but this game falls under the horror genre. The HO scenes had variation. Most of the mini-games and puzzles were of the rotational sort, so to me they were banal and unoriginal. However, like Domini Games, ERS also allowed you to choose the difficulty level during certain mini-games. The biggest issue I had was that there were touch screen sensitivity issues, where application of inventory items was finicky, as well as manipulation of the puzzles and games. The game also froze up on me as well. I had to skip several due to this problem. If ERS had quality assurance levels that matched the excellence of the graphics, they would have a winning equation for the game, but that was not the case. It’s unfortunate because the gameplay itself was enjoyable. ERS really needs to start giving us a back button because the user interface allows us to backtap quite easily to prior locations! The game was on the short side, inclusive of the bonus adventure.
I deducted stars for the unoriginal storyline and mini-games, and also for the overall glitches I encountered throughout the game. My actual review is 3.5 stars. I would suggest to other gamers not to purchase this game immediately and play the trial first to see if you can tolerate the problematic technical issues.
Lynxie sends 💋😘❤️🤙🏻 to all and wishes you all happy holidays! I hope Thursday’s game is better and not one from ERS! Apparently this was not the case, as Thursday’s game is from Daily Magic, who is famous for the extremely annoying leaping inventory and difficulty when placing inventory items. This was a bad week for games!
UPDATE: Now BigFish is starting with a sale running through January 1, so I don’t really know if we’ll get a game on Sunday or Monday, but let’s all hope for one. The amazing Izzyoc has informed us about a bunch of upcoming games so keep your fingers crossed!
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