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Grim Facade: Sinister Obsession Collector’s Edition 
$ 13.99 USD or 2 credits
In Grim Facade: Sinister Obsession, you have been summoned to a lush vineyard by the maid of a wealthy family. When you arrive, the frightened girl hands you a mysterious diary that reveals the murders of three women – but who is the murderer? Signs point to a member of the Conti family, yet Signor Conti and his sons are away… As you delve deeper into your investigation, you realize that all is not as it seems on this rural Italian estate. Can you uncover the truth before you become the next page in the killer’s diary?
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 Content
- Integrated Strategy Guide
- Concept Art
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Game System Requirements:
- OS: Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows 7/8
- CPU: 1.4 GHz
- RAM: 1024 MB
- DirectX: 9.0
- Hard Drive: 606 MB
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Grim Facade: Sinister Obsession Collector?s Edition
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Great gameplay and scenes, but what the heck is happening?
If you don't focus on a storyline that gets more and more confusing (Who is Maria? Why is she the one? What about an orphanage? Who were the three people who died? Why? We're stabbing dogs now?!), the gameplay is decent and I love the "store buys." But seriously...the storyline is insanely distracting.
I'd recommend it for the play and the bonuses but not if you're a sucker for a neat clean-up and informative diary/journal.
July 12, 2012
Disappointing
I really liked the previous games in this series, but I was disappointed in this game. While it has some clever innovations (like buying objects vs. just collecting them), it still seems as though the developers threw something together without a whole lot of planning. It's basically simple and boring. I sure don't recommend paying the CE price; maybe the SE.
July 7, 2012
Way too easy
OK, I know there are plenty of excellent reviews on this game but by all means, I could never give a five star review on this one. ERS is known for good games. But when you start the game, you know immediately it's ERS, not only because of the cursor but also by the way the graphics are done, and truly, I woudn't call them phantastic, they are - as quite often - just grainy. The cut-scenes - there are very little - I just found awful (I'm sorry to say so).
The game play is extremely easy, even though sometimes you don't even recognize the objects really well. Was there a story-line? I hardly noticed one.
I bought the game nonetheless, because I liked the HOS at the beginning in which you had to find objects in order to continue. But half-way through the game, you just had the same old HOS. Boring.
Maybe it's a game for beginners, but if you've played as many as I have, you'll find the game too easy - even in expert mode. Why ERS always gets these incredibly good reviews I cannot quite figure out. I know there are reviews that say, the developper gets better and better. I do not share that opinion.
July 7, 2012
Disappointing game -not for experts
After reading the other reviews I was excited to try this game. Unfortunately my excitement was short-lived.
I downloaded the demo and was impressed by the graphics. The game ran smoothly, and both graphics and sound are excellent.
The rest of the game, however, is so-so. The opening movie was okay, but nothing special. I found the puzzles very easy, and the constant (and unnecessary) tip boxes, despite playing on the hardest level, were annoying. The story was really nothing new - disappearing women, family members suspect, you have to find the truth. The dog that leads you to the next step is cute, but not enough to raise this game above the ordinary. Certainly not worth the price of a CE.
After 10 minutes I was bored and uninstalled the game. Technically the game is fine, and may be OK for beginning and intermediate players, but I think expert players will not find it challenging enough.
July 6, 2012
Don't get it if you liked the first Grim Facade!
I enjoyed Grim Facade: Mystery of Venice, so I went ahead and bought this one when there was a sale without playing the demo first. I have to say, that was a mistake. Mystery of Venice was pretty well done, and was enjoyable to play. This one is not well done, and is somewhat painful to play.
The story for this game is just not good, and doesn't make a lot of sense. Part of why it doesn't make a lot of sense is that a good portion of the details are missing. Who are all these women? Where are the sons? (The description on this site says they're away, but the game certainly never gives a clue.) Why is the maid the one who called you to solve all of this, given the rather odd ending? (That's not really revealed in the bonus material, even if it does give you more info about the maid.) Why are all these dead bodies just sitting around the villa, anyway? The diary/notebook has almost no info in it, even though you collect items for it, so it's not helpful to the storyline either. (Frankly, I see no point to the diary/notebook with how badly it's done.) Unfortunately, the huge gaps in the story and the lack of any organization it follows isn't evident until after you've finished the game. And the bonus gameplay doesn't help clear it up either.
The graphics are okay, but not great. I somehow remember them better in Mystery of Venice, but perhaps I'm just remembering as better than it was. In this one they're grainy and just meh. The music gets repetitive and old after awhile, so I ended up eventually turning it off. There's very little challenge to the game, other than occasionally trying to remember where you saw you needed an item you've finally picked up. (Sometimes you find things you need immediately, sometimes it takes long enough you can't quite remember.) The hidden object scenes are really, really easy if you've played any other hidden object games as well.
The lack of challenge, meh graphics and sound, and very poor storyline make this game somewhat unenjoyable. I will say it's nice it has three challenge levels, but unfortunately none of them provide much challenge given the ease of the game in the first place. The bonus gameplay is just as poorly done as the game, so it's not much of a bonus.
Ultimately, I definitely wouldn't recommend this as a CE edition - the bonus stuff doesn't help it at all. I wouldn't even recommend it as the SE edition, since the main game just isn't good. I really hope if they come out with any more Grim Facade games that they do a much better job in the future; this is just a very poorly done game, even without comparing to Mystery of Venice.
December 20, 2012
i don't understand quite well about the story
the story line is weak, even i finish the extra part, i still don't get it. it is a good game but not an excellent one.
September 7, 2012
you wil not be disapointed
The sound and graphics are good. The game has a good storyline and different. Fun HO and getting clues to use are fun. Some moving around but the game will keep you interest and you do not want to stop till the end.
August 13, 2012
Unimpressed
Not particularly impressed, if you could ignore the story & went the way they planned possibly okay but if you went a different way then there?s a lot of back and forth. The plot made no sense at all; it was like a bad first draft. Things that should have been quite dramatic were merely brushed over with the supposed main theme of the game left unexplained while cute but unimportant things got a more focused attention.
The music became irritating after a while but at least the HOS were clear. The diary was odd in that it told me things before I got to them and skipped things I felt it should have been mentioned. I didn?t get why they had to have those repeated cut scenes, felt like just a time filler. The ending of the main game was especially disappointing with this push to get people to buy CE so they can ?finish? the story even though in this case I don?t feel that they finished anything at all.
August 1, 2012
Good, but short for a CE
The grim facade games are always great. This time you are searching for a murderer of young women on a wine estate. Not the usual HOS, some very unique slants here, like interactive silhouettes. Puzzles were good, but very long skip button. VOS and characters excellent, and we get to see our friendly shopkeeper again, so be sure and collect those coins. You also collect fans to bump up your hints. Nice music. A few scary scenes. Only complaint is that, even with bonus chapter, game was only 5 hours on casual play. The SE a better deal, but the bonus chapter is a good wrap up on the story.
July 22, 2012
Really Disapointing
I was really excited about this game after the trial hour. But a little farther into the game I realized I regretted my purchase. One good thing, game play was a little innovative. But it seems there was too much time spent on how to make this game different and none on what it was about. By the end of the game I had no idea what had happened. Literally, I don't know who was dying or why or who the killer was. Cut scenes are ambiguous to the point they shouldn't have even bothered. And in my opinion the bonus play should be part of the regular game. Otherwise it's a really abrupt ending. All in all it's just an ok game. And imho not worth the CE price. And I think a lot of people will be very disappointed when the SE is released. They'll be lost with such an abrupt ending and lack of any good story telling.
July 13, 2012
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