Veronica Rivers: Portals to the Unknown ?
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There Are Better Games Out There
Of the fourteen hidden object games I've purchased and completed, I definitely like this one the least. The story was weak and not very exciting. The puzzles weren't very challenging and the written narrative was less than good. In many cases the grammar was incorrect...so much so that I had a hard time trying to figure out what was being explained. I quit playing after 10 minutes but went back and finished it later because I had purchased it and hate for my money to be wasted. One thing this game taught me...play the free hour before you purchase no matter how cheap the game is that day.
January 6, 2012
Fun game initially, but becomes repetitive
I really liked this game initially. The hidden objects are challenging but not impossible, and there are some interesting variations on the puzzles. Unfortunately, the same puzzles were repeated in each chapter, so the game become boring. The graphics are nice.
December 5, 2011
Started out ok, then...
I began this game with 3 stars and it deteriorated as I went along. The HO scenes were okay and some items needed a good search. But the scans got tedious. The puzzles were very easy and, although they got a little harder through the game, they still posed little problem. AND - they were soooo repetitive. By the halfway point of the game, I was bored and couldn't wait to finish! The repetition really became annoying. The texts were problematic with the use of English. And the end made me shake my head.
December 29, 2011
Entertaining
One of my favorite game, fne story, locations and grafic, good variation in the game
November 20, 2011
Dear to my heart
Let me admit I have a soft spot for this game because it's the first one I bought from Big Fish. I probably wouldn't buy it now, but it does have some good points.
1. The story line works. It's very linear: basically you follow some geologists through mysterious portals until a final denouement.
2. The cut scenes which more recent games do as video clips are more like cartoons but work well.
3. The portals are admittedly quite similar but get more difficult as you go on. I love the way they spin and turn when you've got them right.
4. The sense of humour! (see below)
Things that might put you off:
1. You basically have two kinds of HO scenes: one where you find things and the other where you compare scenes. But you also have to take photos and find the place in a scene, and to find alien artifacts. Each time you find an object in one of the main HO scenes Veronica makes a comment about it, which I find quite amusing.
2. The mini games are rather repetitive. You have to draw alien symbols (that bit I DON'T like as it's easy to get them wrong and you might have to draw one a few times), locate your GPS position (untangling lines) and open
3. The locations are ok but the 'African' desert should be somewhere in North America (I think her GPS cracked up on that one).
I can see that some people might find it boring, but on the other hand you don't have to spend time trying to work out where to use an object and wandering back and forwards between scenes. As I said, I still have a soft spot for a game which I have played more than once.
February 6, 2012