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Grim Tales: The Bride 
After your sister vanishes on her wedding day no one has any idea what happened to her, so it's up to you to find the truth! Some believe she drowned, but her body was never found. Return to the abandoned family mansion and search for clues in Grim Tales: The Bride. Explore your sister's memories to solve the mystery of her disappearance in this exciting Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game!
- Amazing gameplay
- Fantastic storyline
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Game System Requirements:
- OS: Windows XP/Vista/8
- CPU: 2.5 GHz
- RAM: 1024 MB
- DirectX: 9.0
- Hard Drive: 732 MB
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Would You Sacrifice Your Soul For Your Sister?
GAME COMPLETED SEVERAL TIMES
This series is one of my favourite, and I have as much fun playing these games for 4th and 5th time as I did the first.
In this game we are first introduced to our character, a concerned sister who is determined to find out what really happened to her sister. The sister, Luisa, was last seen being pushed off a bridge on her wedding day.
Arriving back at the family home, you are confronted by a demon who says he will make a bargain with you, he will allow you to enter your sister?s memories in order to find a chance of saving her, but if you don?t succeed, he gets your soul. Thus begins your journey through the recent past of your sister.
In terms of STORY, this game is on shaky grounds. Exactly what you can do to save your sister is a mystery, what might have happened to her is equally unclear. But there?s enough there to be going on with, so it doesn?t affect your enjoyment of the gameplay.
GAMEPLAY consists of WORD LIST HOS primarily, interspersed with some interesting PUZZLES. Nothing is too difficult, although I did have to skip a couple. HINT tells you exactly what to do next, eg. ?There?s a hammer by the right door in the bunker?. There is NO MAP, but this is not a game where one would be helpful. Each mini-adventure is confined to its own locations.
ARTWORK in this series is spectacular. The opening splash already had me committed to buying this one. The developers do marvellous VISUAL EFFECTS, and the GRAPHICS both in and out of HOS was clear, detailed, beautiful and colourful.
Great use was made of SOUND in this game. MUSIC was very pleasant and unobtrusive, allowing you to enjoy the ENVIRONMENTAL SOUNDS, until at an appropriately tense moment it blasts in. Certainly made me jump.
This is a really fun beginning to an ongoing saga with games following similar stories and game structure.
Not to be missed.
April 29, 2013
Okay to try, but not to buy
Looked at the reviews and thought to give it a try.
Enjoyed the story line and was good to find out that the scavenger hunt aspect of the game was actually pertinent to the story, however, there is too much running back and forth for my liking. The hidden object aspect of this game was an afterthought and lacking in my opinion. Some of the mini-games were challenging.
The free trial offer was not an hour and did not convince me enough to buy this game.
December 3, 2011
An explosion of HOGs.
I never understood when someone gave a game a bad review because of "too many HOGs". I figured, it's a HOG game, what did you expect? Now I understand. First let me say that I really, really like HOGs...until about 4 hours into the 7 hour mark. OK, technically good graphics, unobtrusive music and fast reloading hint even in the "challenging" mode. Storyline... barely remember what it was about because there were SO MANY HOGs!!! I mean EVERY SINGLE scene, and some with more than one. There was absolutely no adventure, it was all HOGs and mini games. The mini games were definitely a good variety but some made so little sense I either just kept hitting buttons til something happened or skipped all together. What little actual action there was consisted of going clear cross town to a new scene, seeing that you needed to find 3 more objects (almost ALWAYS a key of some form), then backtracking across town to find it. OK, find one object, back across town, place object, opens new puzzle needing one more new object, back across down, find one object, back across town, etc., etc. A little bit of action, HOG... a new scene, HOG. SCREECH!!! Should tell you something that as I'm typing this and remembering, I changed my rating from 2 to 1 stars... talk about post traumatic stress!!!
June 29, 2012
Too much going back & forth between scenes
There is a lot going for this game; it is from Elephant Games, one of my favourites, there are stunningly beautiful graphics & 3 modes of gameplay. Easy with lots of sparkles, glints, a hint that recharges in about 15 seconds & a hint that tells you exactly what to do next to boot. Advanced mode, no sparkles anywhere & a fiendish Hardcore mode, no sparkles, no mini game skips & no hints.
The mini-games were relatively easy & I love the cursor ? it turns into a beautifully slender & elegant hand on objects to pick up.
The diary tells you the story of the game although it does little else, unfortunately no voiceovers but????.I have never had to go back & forth so many times in a game, there is no interactive map so you can?t jump to scenes; you just walk back again & again & again ad infinitum.
I would buy at a sale price & keep for a rainy day when I have run out of games to play but this does not rock my world
January 7, 2012
Everything I'm looking for in a HOG
This game is the full package. Absolutely beautiful graphics in a luscious and dreamy hand-painted style, atmospheric sound effects, spooky story with a creepy antagonist, well-designed gameplay progression, a good variety of well-executed puzzles including some unique/challenging ones and very good game length.
Good graphics is the #1 factor for me for HOGs and this game has really beautiful artwork. There is the luscious, painted look and a nice soft glow in many of the scenes. There is no music for most of the game, but it works well as there are great atmospheric sound effects (like rain, crunching through snow) that give a good feel.
There is no map, but it's not necessary as there are only a few locations per "chapter". I like the game structure which has you exploring your family home for while, then entering a memory of your (missing, presumed dead) sister's, then returning to your family home to explore some more. I liked this; it felt like you had a "home base" and were going on missions. The only time I missed a map was at the end of the game where you were forced to make two full round trips from one end of the house to the other and I would have appreciated a shortcut.
While I expect the same types of puzzles to appear in HOGs, I appreciated the increased difficulty of a "sliding block" type puzzle and also a puzzle that I've seen only once or twice before (A drawing full of connected lines; you are shown an image on the right and have to highlight the lines in the first drawing to form the same outline as the image).
Not only was this a good game, but there was a lot of it! :) I thought it had a higher than average game length.
(I've started playing the sequel Grim Tales: The Legacy and so far it seems to be even better than The Bride!)
January 6, 2013
Fantastic!
I loved this game and will play it again somewhere down the road. Some of the puzzles were easy and some were hard. I found some of the instructions were lacking and had to skip over a few puzzles because I couldn't figure out what to do. The game is really long and worth the money. I was a bit disappointed in the ending. It just ended abruptly. All-in-all it is a fantastic game.
November 4, 2012
Storyline Draws You In
This game got me to buy through the story-line. I played the trial version and after it ended was here going, "But what happened to my sister!!."
Great game-play. The music for this game is fantastic. Some puzzles are easier than others and some are very hard. There's one or two that, despite how many times I play, I always end up skipping, because they are very difficult.
I do admit that while the story-line got me into the game it also ended abruptly. Maybe the collector's edition does it better since it has extra game-play, so I would recommend trying that out.
November 4, 2012
Instruction confusing
The HOS part was challenging, but the puzzles were confusing. The instructions for the puzzles were not clear so I ended up skipping many of them. Hated the ending!
December 27, 2011
It's long alright, and that's all that can be said for it.
If you like a game that is half HOGs and half mini games, grab it. If you like a game where you feel as if you're trying to stare past a light bulb to find objects much of the time, this is for you. If you enjoy casuals in which some of the games are ridiculously easy...put the red thing on the red spot, put the blue thing on the blue spot...and some require a masters in mathematics, no question you'll want this one. There is a story, of sorts, but it shouldn't get in anyone's way since it's so thin and trivial. And there is a very helpful hint system - which you'll need since you'll seldom have any idea of what you're supposed to do next without it. If you're ready for a game where you're just as grim as the bride by the time you're 3/4 of the way through and doggedly plugging away just to have it over, by all means, buy this one.
January 23, 2012
Only worth a Daily Deal
Storyline: Your sister, who recently married, has disappeared. Time to head to the ancestral mansion to find out what happened. Did her husband murder her? A mysterious figure leads you through your sister's memories to unravel the enigma.
What seems to be a promising storyline is utterly ruined by the abrupt, unfinished ending. I have no quibble with offering both CE and SE versions of a game, but you shouldn't have to purchase the CE to receive a logical ending to the game! I won't spoil it by saying what happened to the sister. I'll only say that no logical reason is given for the actions of the perpetrator, leaving the player feeling disappointed and ripped off.
Graphics: I rated this poorly for four reasons. First, in almost every HO scene, there was more than one item that fit a description on the list. For example, when "bat" appeared on the list, there was both a fruit bat and a baseball bat in the scene. Annoying.
Second, the items that were line drawings required you to click on the outline, which was sometimes quite thin, leading you to think you hadn't found the correct item.
Third, items necessary to progress repeated ad nauseum: keys, medallions, and bas reliefs ran rampant through this game.
Fourth, what animation existed was on extremely short loops, creating an almost comical effect.
Music: Neither noticeable nor bothersome.
Gameplay: Linear, with one main area and several separate "memory" areas to explore and solve. Quite a bit of backtracking. There's a journal, which I found unnecessary as I never used it. The hints recharge quickly. There are loads of HO scenes and quite a few puzzles, most of which we've seen before.
Summary: To be honest, I found myself rather bored with this one when I usually take my time and enjoy the experience, submersing myself in storyline, graphics, and music. This one just didn't grab me at all. I uninstalled it as soon as I finished.
November 2, 2012
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