XIII - Lost Identity
1.8
5
48
48
This is an interactive novel kind of game...
The story is like a thriller novel, and it has so many twists and turns it's amazing. The story IS the game on this one, and for those who don't like to read dialog, well, then, you won't like it, because it's the whole point of the game.
The graphics are good, though static. The characters are cartoon style, but okay. Music is unobtrusive, but relaxing and fits the game. And, surprisingly, it's quite long. Took me about 5 hours with no skips and only a few HOS hints.
The HOS are mostly easy, and vary from lists to silhouettes to find x number of... Some of them have small objects, though, and I did use a few hints. The puzzles range from very simple to hair-pullingly hard! There is one wire puzzle near the end that is a doozie.
I really don't think this game merits such bad reviews. It's really quite a good game - it just is not a typical game - it's different, and I enjoyed it a lot. So much, in fact, I sat down to play and didn't get up until it was finished! For me, that's rare, but I just had to finish the story - like reading a good book.
October 7, 2012
Mindless and boring
I must be having a masochistic day, because I played for the full hour. The people who wrote this game are unoriginal, unskilled, and probably do not speak English as a first language. (Hint: a "champagne flute" in a hidden object scene is not a musical instrument with holes in it.)
Unattractive graphics, annoying game play that requires clicking arrows to advance the threadbare "plot." (I use the word loosely.)
Don't spend money on this game. Ask Big Fish to require proofreaders or something to catch the ESL errors that pop up from foreign countries.
This game looks like it was designed on a PC using ClipArt in Microsoft Word.
Barf. (There, I have shared my real opinion.)
January 8, 2012
A Zero Star Beauty
You actually have to download the demo to realize how bad that game (if you can call it that !) really is and how right all the reviewers who awarded it one star have been. In fact it's worth no star at all. It's not a game, it's a farce, the perfect example of what an adventure should never be like. Not exactly a booster for the image of Dargaud-Lombard (Dargaud-Benelux#, the famous belgian publisher, specialized in comics, mentioned in the credits section #alongside with the belgian developers of the game#, and who published the original comic book this flop is based on. I first got irritated by the constant blah-blah in the form of scripts popping up every 10 seconds. Then I wondered how on earth anyone can produce such lame graphics which actually seem to be hastily shot photos, and I don't call that artwork. I was gratified with the same two pitiful scenes #the house and the street# during the first 30 minutes of the trial, without any possibility of getting out of either until the game decided I could; I hate being babysitted ! Many items in the HOS's are just impossible to find without hints, especially in the fourth scene #street#, where you get the black silhouettes of what you are supposed to find; only snag, these silhouettes represent nothing identifiable. In all cases, listed or silhouetted, the items are given one by one, a feature I don't really like. And how exciting these searches are !.... find, cotton pieces, towels, laundry, 10 mussels #on the beach#, 10 roaches.... ! Wow ! Don't count too much on the hint system either: not only is it stingy but it also fails to work half the time. Now, you might think the disaster is limited to only that, and that something, somehow, somewhere will sparkle your interest. Forget it. I haven't told you the worst. Puzzle #1: the most difficult jigsaw puzzle ever invented !.... You have to place ONE large piece in the right spot.... there is only ONE spot ! Then a FPS minigame in which you have to kill 9 or 10 bad guys...click, click and you're done. Pathetic ! The cherrry on the cake ? Puzzle #2: slide the taxi out of the parking lot; sole problem, the cab doesn't face the exit #it's not on the same axis, but above it) and can only be moved left or right, not up and down. No way to solve it, you have to skip it ! Do I need to add that I exited after 40 minutes of this nonsense ?
December 11, 2011
Talking b-grade comic book
This game is just awful. If I wanted to ruin my eyes looking for miniature HO and reading a comic book, I would buy this game. Yukky, better luck next time :p
November 28, 2011
Skip this game
There is far too much dialog and you cannot skip through it. The graphics are poor and the game is not challenging at all.
November 29, 2011
click, click.....
Don't know if I'll buy this. At first I couldn't get the objects to go when I clicked. must've clicked 10 times before it went bye-bye. was beginning to think I was crazy. Once I started hitting it, I was ok, but didn't very far in the game.
November 29, 2011
Didn't even finish the demo
To me the game was too simplistic, especially after playing games like MCF Ravenhurst. Too many buttons to have to remember to click, the storyline held no interest for me at all, and the one mini-game I tried to play I had trouble maneuvering through because of buttons you had to click before you could move the jigsaw puzzle pieces. If you like a pretty simplistic game with not much challenge, this game is for you. But not for me.
November 28, 2011
Nice Fun Hidden Object Game
A nice entertainment. Games should have difficult, be nice and funny. And this one has it. I just played the free trial, one hour, and I liked of what Id met.
November 29, 2011
A boring game
I found this game to be redundant. I am not enjoying this type of game from this producer. Always the same just different scenery and story line. This game is very easy and does not provide any challenge. I keep hoping this will change each time a new game appears. Very disappointed.
January 4, 2012
No good things to say
I groaned when I saw the interface on this game. I don't like any of this developer's games.
The story and graphics are right out of a bad comic book. Interface and game play are tedious. Objects are sometimes almost impossible to find.
I lost interest after 28 minutes.
December 7, 2011