The Secret Legacy: A Kate Brooks Adventure
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Visually impeccable
I believe that this game can have its place in a HOG lover's library. I prefer adventures but Secret Legacy fascinated me during the whole of the demo. The reason ? Its graphics: stunning ! So neat, so crisp, a palette of soft, extremely subtle colors, almost pastel in places, with a variety of beautiful hues.
The panoramic view is another of its nice features: the Virtual 3D enables you to scroll each location left and right. The effect is superb.
But the scrolling has another purpose: several hidden items can only be found by changing the viewing angle.
Secret Legacy is a pure HOG. Very little action and only a couple of puzzles !
On the easier of the two modes, hints help you with the HO Scenes but won't give directions or tell you what to do next.
In fact each location is a HOS, and in addition, within them, clicking on a hot spot opens another HOS.
These HO Scenes are neat, yet many items are small and difficult to spot. They are given in a list or as black silhouettes
Due to the linearity of the game, there is no bactracking.
As you go along you collect egyptian tablets which provide some information on the history of Egypt and serve as a diary.
The puzzles are by no means the strong point of this game; all are classics: tangram, slider [parking-lot type], gears.....
The intro is a bit weird, cartoonish but pleasant nonetheless. The intro music is very strange, and parts of the in-game soundtrack quite amusing.
I would recommend Secret Legacy to all those who are particularly keen on hidden objects, or are looking for a rather relaxing game, hence my 4 star rating, but die-hard adventurers like me will probably neither appreciate the linearity, the absence of action, the rare useful items, the too small amount of puzzles, the lack in variety of locales, nor the fact that the game doesn't require much thinking.
Still, it is really worth a good look, so the best is to play the trial version and take it from there.
January 6, 2012
Entertaining
I really like this game, the story is ocay, bright grafic
November 20, 2011