Publisher: Ocean Media
What I Paid: $5.62
Verdict: Not Shovelware.
What I Say:
The Good: This is a surprisingly meaty and lengthy hidden object game, almost rising to the level of a decent point and click adventure game. The story is captivating with you switching between the heroine and hero frequently to progress the story and the villain is fleshed out with a decent back story. The puzzles are hard but not impossible (mostly – I had to do some of the more ludicrous ones on Easy mode) and I found myself looking forwards to the various story beats as they came up.
One question: why are villains always so stupid? They always seem to leave obvious methods of escape from what should be watertight traps.
The Bad: 1. Putting something flat under a door and poking the keyhole to get the key is an overused trope.
2. The game has severe technical issues on the Switch. As far as I could make out, if you skipped ANY cut scenes the Switch would act like it was out of memory and any new scene that you visited would crawl along at less than 1 frame per second until it was loaded. Very painful and how this got past quality control I have no idea. At one stage, the graphics and text became completely corrupted and I had to quit the game and reload it. When I eventually get around to it I’ll add a screenshot showing this.
3. The final minigame in the Bonus Chapter simply didn’t work. Fortunately, you are able to skip it (I changed the game difficulty from Hardcore to Casual and was then able to skip the minigame) so it isn’t technically a game-breaking bug.
4. Achievements don’t work properly and just pretty much immediately popped even if I didn’t meet their requirements.
5. It was not unusual to back out of a scene or a puzzle and then have a cacophony of voices to sit through, as if every single voice line in the game was played at the same time.
What They Say:
Dreyer Crowley has a tough time growing up: he loses his parents and ends up in an orphanage.
As Dreyer grows older, he decides to put an end to an endless streak of bad luck and restore his family’s reputation.
But there’s one problem: Dreyer’s out of luck.
Desperate, he decides to make a deal with Fortuna: infinite luck in exchange for loving hearts.
Beatrice and Franz are Dreyer’s next targets.
Solve tricky puzzles, outwit the villain’s henchmen, and save the lovebirds.
Now the game is on!
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