Blue fish games are going downhill in quality. The last two, including this one, an item disappears when tapped n instead of adding to inventory, thus not available to advance in the game. Only way to fix is start all over! I'm already 80% of the way through the game. So I had to quit and just delete it! So maddening!! Don't waste your money. Contacted the company and since its on iPad they say they can't refund my money. Terrible customer service!!! I'm finding another company to purchase games.
Had a real good adventure. Lots of cool mini's.
The game has a good, albeit fantastical, storyline that is engaging. The puzzles aren't terribly challenging, but they advance the plot. The art is beautiful and the music is truly background music that builds tension where appropriate without being annoying. Well done!
As you know, Big Fish always focus on making amazing puzzle games. Liked all of them so much!
Thank you Dracyy for looking out for RATS! I understand that you are afraid of spiders. What a team: I am petrified of rats, you of spiders, and Snooper of snakes! So we shall make a pact to BOLO for those hideous and disgusting creatures! I was very relieved to hear from Snooper! I am so sorry that you are going through all that medical red tape, and am going to keep you in my prayers! Also Nambr, Bunkie, Hossie and Blueflier, where are you?! I need my team!
Sunshine Susie, Opinion, and Kim Meadow, I (and hopefully the rest of the team) really adore you! Thank you for being valued members of the Dream Team Elite! I really appreciate you all looking out for me, and Kim Meadow is back with us so we have a very formidable team, and BigFish had better fix glitches and give us better games!
So on to the game. Not my favorite! Players, turn up the brightness because the graphics are so gloomy, ugly and dark. This is an Elefun game, and it seems very dated. I won't bother explaining the storyline as everybody else has already covered it. They gave you a diary, a strategy guide and a non-spoiler hint system. The game was a decent length and had a bonus adventure, albeit a short one. There was an excellent teleport map with available tasks marked. Inventory was labeled and it told you what you received after an HO scene. Too bad there were no plus objects; those are a lot of fun to figure out! There was only one type of HO scene: word list, and too many of them at that. Boring! If you got tired of the HO scene, you could opt for a jigsaw puzzle instead. The touch sensitivity was so poor that it was a good thing you had that option, or you would never have been able to finish some of the scenes. Other than the sensitivity issue I did find that the game ran smoothly.
Also there were a zillion collectibles and morphing objects, neither of which I like because to me they are just annoying distractions to the game. It's almost like they know the game won't be long enough, or good enough, so they throw those objects in to lengthen the game! Loading was not instantaneous between locations, and that grates on my nerves as well. There were a lot of puzzles and mini-games, some decent and others boring rotational stuff. I forced myself not to skip any either!
All in all, a very average game. After playing exceptional games from Mad Head and EIPIX, this developer needs to make its games much more beautiful, exciting and interactive! On the bright side, except for static HO scenes, no horrible snakes, spiders, and especially RATS! That was the only thing pleasant about this game!
Please Dream Team Elite, let's start pushing BigFish again for a 4th Empress, another beautiful Amaranthine Voyage, another House of 1000 Doors, and anything gorgeous from Mad Head and EIPIX! We need great games for what they are charging us, and I sure hope the next Sable Maze fits that bill!
Lynxie sends ❤️💋😘 to my incredible team and to other reviewers who love us as well!
This is a creepy game w/o being gory. Nice art, solid puzzles, good HOP's. Story is silly as usual, but still okay for what it is. I thought the length was about right.
However, if the devs are going to include a points system( and I like that )they should make sure it works. I found 3 "beyond objects" a tarot card and an origami at the beginning of the game and my score ( it's in the journal ) was still zero. Watching the theater doors slam put the first points into the score. This was true for the rest of the game. Only certain things registered. And you don't get to see your final score. The "points" button on the title screen doesn't show anything but the profile list. Also I found 65 beyond objects, got the points for finding all of them ( but never for individual ones), but did not get the achievement which says there are 66. Sloppy. It's a decent game; the devs should have taken better care to do it right.
loving the game, but now it won't let me put the pen in the inkwell so I can't move forward. pretty upset that I can't finish a game I paid for
(if the glitch is fixed I will change my review)
This is a pretty good game. The art is okay, and the story is too. A few loose ends were not tied up in the ending, which always disappoints. What happened to all of the people who had been I prisoners for ages? Never said. And the biggest problem is how painfully slow the transitions are from scene to scene. I'm used to games that pop quickly. But this one drug on and made it hard to want to continue playing. It would be good if they could fix this. This was bad enough for me that I marked it only a 3 stars.
The game is very well done with crisp graphics and good puzzles. The thing I didn't like was the story itself. It is too dark and creepy.
Had me intrigued throughout the game. Had great fun. Look forward to a sequel. Thanks.
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