Pretty COOL. Aside from the lamest HO game ever. – Punished Talents: Seven Muses HD - A Hidden Objects, Adventure & Mystery Game Review

The HO game with the highlighted word "bird" was SO completely RIDICULOUSLY overly complicated!! 1st: there were 2 "birds" one was a picture (more like a filled in outline as it was just solid black) of a bird on a green flag, then there was the exact same outline on the ground, but clicking on them did nothing. After clicking on practically every object, the straight edged razor moved and I used that to "cut" the bird out if the flag and it slowly drifted down to the bird outline that matched. Done! No?? The bird shape cut -out was "mobile" so now I'm trying to match THAT up with anything that looked like it would belong with- as I passed over a cup of coffee......it "clicked" and the cut-out wrapped itself around the cup -bird+coffee?? Oh well at least I'm done....but when I clicked on it ..What?! MORE?? Again, I'm back to clicking on every single item...and to my surprise this little tiny bag/sack (smaller than the coffee cup) of something "dark" -coffee beans? So now I'm trying to match it with the "bird flag/cut-out bird/coffee-cup bird" and lo and behold, the bag turns upside down, shakes out contents and lifts off, for the BIG REVEAL: "A BIRD shape floating on top of the coffee!!!" Tah-Dah!!! Seriously?? Four steps for THAT?? But what makes me frustrated is how UNRELATED the objects were, made NO sense -and if you're going to have a 4-step process for a HO, make it so clever, crafty and interesting leaving the player in AWE, thinking, "Oh, that was COOL!" That's the reaction you'd want, not, "I have a headache, that was a waste of time and stupid". That being said, that was the ONLY big downfall and I really enjoyed most of the game. Like most mystery game apps,it starts off great with lots of promise and intrigue, then losses steam as the game progresses, finally cramming a bunch of HO games towards the end. Let's stop that trend. NOW. Ps- ferret as a pet?? Ew.
Review by MissLCinSF on Punished Talents: Seven Muses HD - A Hidden Objects, Adventure & Mystery Game.