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Echoes of the Past: The Citadels of Time Collector's Edition 
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Travel from the Dark Middle Ages to the present to save the inhabitants of the Orion kingdom in Echoes of the Past - The Citadels of Time! The witch is back and is more powerful and inventive than ever! After trapping you in a time limbo, you must use your Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure talents to escape and save the day! The fate of the kingdom is in your hands in Echoes of the Past – The Citadels of Time!
This is a special Collector's Edition release full of exclusive extras you won’t find in the standard version. As a bonus, Collector's Edition purchases count toward three stamps on your Monthly Game Club Punch Card!
The Collector’s Edition includes:
- Bonus gameplay
- Integrated Strategy Guide
- Amazing Wallpapers
- Concept Art
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System Requirements:
- OS: Windows XP/Vista
- CPU: 1.0 GHz
- RAM: 768 MB
- DirectX: 9.0
- Hard Drive: 484 MB
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Echoes of the Past: The Citadels of Time Collector's Edition
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Echoes of the Past Saga Continues with a Winner
The Citadels of Time is the third installment in the Echoes of The Past series (Royal House of Stone, Castle of Shadows) and by far the best.
If you haven't played the first two installments, there's no need. The story is simple enough: A witch has it in for the House of Orion and has cursed them for centuries. Because of help you've given in the past, you have been cursed - exiled in time inside the museum where you go in and out of time warps meeting the other victims the witch has cursed. You must set time right, release the captives, collect the necessary clock pieces and escape.
The graphics are very sharp, even in the HOS and they still have the best interactive HOS around. Voice overs are well done and suitable to the characters with the right amount of emotion. The ambient/background sound FX were done well, although used sparingly. The music could have been better - perhaps something more subdued and haunting rather than pounding and tense. I would be remiss, however, if I didn't mention that some of the HOS items are a bit "clicky picky". You either have to click the border and not the middle or the middle and not the border of some items.
This installment has fewer HOS and more puzzles than previous games in the series. Orneon has always provided good mini-games in Echoes, but they outdid themselves here, giving a huge variety of puzzles with varying degrees of difficulty (some of them real easy, many of them difficult). (Note: You can replay some of the puzzles as one of the bonus extras.)
Playing in Advanced mode, using no hints, no skips and no Strategy Guide, regular game play for me was 6.5 hours. The bonus chapter, which does not affect the ending of the regular game, added an additional 2 hours, making my total game time 8.5 hours. WOW! (Note: in Advanced mode, there are no highlighted areas, including HOS scenes, except in bonus chapter.)
A truly beautiful, well-put together production. Everything about it is pleasing.
November 14, 2011
Third time's the charm
I've played all of the existing Echoes of the Past games, and they are all wonderful. The latest installment is a worthy successor to the first two. The same witch continues to make trouble for the kingdom of Orion, dragging you into the past once more with the intention of trapping you between eras. You must find and repair five clocks in order to restore five former residents of Orion Castle to their proper lives; in return, they will supply you with the missing fragments of the great clock that keeps you stuck in limbo.
The puzzles are excellent. Plenty of hidden object scenes, but not too many, and there are lots of other puzzles to solve. Make stained glass to repair a broken window, find and reassemble castle artifacts, break into the royal mausoleum, and even venture into the long-forgotten torture chamber. The story is compelling and woven beautifully with the challenges.
All in all, another great addition to this series, and I can't wait for the next one!
November 16, 2011
Such a wonderful game!
Wow! I had so much fun playing this game! It was lengthy, had a great mixture of HOS and puzzles, the graphics are outstanding, the voice overs are perfect and the storyline is great! I would definitely recommend getting the CE, because there is no map and there are lots and lots of places to explore! There is a journal that is very helpful, but without the SG it would've taken me weeks to complete this game. Having no map, many eras, areas and rooms to explore, many, many inventory items scattered throughout several eras, rooms and areas, it would've been extremely difficult for me to remember where the inventory items, that I found much later in the game, were supposed to go in the areas/eras/rooms that I discovered much earlier in the game. Plus the SG offers bonus gameplay, wallpapers and minigames, which I absolutely love. Your adventure begins with a witch that has trapped you in a museum by taking pieces of a clock and hiding them throughout the museum and throughout different eras of time. And not only are you trying to free yourself and get back home, but you also must free several different people from different time periods, restore them and their era by repairing their clocks that the witch has also damaged. The others that you help hold the items that you need to repair your clock and get back home. Some of the HOS are quite unique. Some of them you have to add objects you've collected from other HOS back into a scene. I'll try to explain it a little better; you complete a HOS, then you come across another HOS and the objects that you found in the 1st scene have to be placed into their correct spots in the next HOS you come to. I've never seen this done in a game before and I really enjoyed the change from the norm. The HOS are crisp and clear and the objects are not terribly hard to find. The puzzles in this game are challenging, but not so much that I got frustrated. They were very workable, but quite a few of them did require some serious thought. There's one in particular that you have to make stained glass and on that one I ended up checking the SG to help me out. The music and sound effects weren't at all annoying to me, so this was one of the few games that I left all the sound on. All in all, it's a long, challenging and enjoyable game. It has a nice balance of HOS and puzzles and the story is easy to follow and kept me interested throughout the game. I would certainly recommend this game to all the Big Fishers that enjoy the HOS, adventure, puzzle games! :-D HAPPY GAMING!
January 4, 2012
pros and cons list - good game
For players of the previous games, we are taken into familiar rooms in the castle which gives me a sense of comfort while at the same time being different enough and giving us new puzzles, to not make if feel the same game.
The bonus length was well over an hour for me, so making it much longer than the usual disappointing CEs I have played. But it annoyed me greatly that they had sparkles in the bonus when I played on advanced and had no sparkles in the main game. I loved the other games in the series and this is no exception. The story is pushing it as I thought I had defeated the witch in the last game!
Cons
- Replaying hidden objects scenes over again, especially in bonus
- Strategy guide doesn?t automatically know where you are in a game but did remember where you last had it.
- I actually felt dizzy looking at the cut scenes of the entry and exit of time zones so had to close my eyes
- Having sparkles in the bonus and I couldn?t switch them off
- Best puzzles weren?t in the replay minigame section
Pros
- Good length game
- Long bonus game
- Replayability of some puzzles in CE
- Variety of puzzles and hardness (most were easy or easier side of medium)
- No sparkles at all in advanced mode
- Hints were good for puzzles (telling you objective) also filled the quickest for any game I played in advanced mode. They also helped you in the scene you were in if you could do anything.
January 1, 2012
Great Game, Different & Interesting Puzzles
This is the best of the series, so far. It's not just a HOG. There are so many different types of puzzles. Not at all the typical ones you find over and over. They presented a good challenge. The graphics are great, the music non-intrusive, and the story cohesive. There is some back and forth but not too bad. You don't have to go more than about three or four screens and there is no load time.
You can choose which level you want out of three. I like a little help so I did the middle.
It's a fairly long game which is so nice. The bonus chapter is as well done as the game its self. There was one puzzle in the bonus I actually skipped. None skipped in the game.
I will definitely look for more games by this company. This was well worth the price for the Collector's Edition.
December 16, 2011
Fun
Excellent graphics...clear images and great colors.
Interesting concept.
Fun to play.
November 28, 2011
Entertaining
Fantastic game, great story and grafic...
December 17, 2011
Exciting Hidden Object Game!
Excellent graphics and an interesting story line. I really enjoyed playing this game. It got challenging at times but I liked the way the whole thing was structured.
This would have to be one of my favorite hidden object games!
November 14, 2011
In the Days of Olde
Both this game and the previous The Castle of Shadows are beautifully executed I enjoy the romp through the castle
The soundtrack, though short and repeated, suits the mood and is part of its charm
December 22, 2011
great game
like a lot of games this was another great one hope to see more
December 19, 2011
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