The Spirit of Wandering: The Legend
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Tedious and punishing
This game has several problem areas that even the most die-hard Hidden Object fan can't ignore.
Here's how the game is *meant* to work: You unlock 3-5 HO locations at a time and switch back and forth between them freely. When you get stuck, you can spend coins to get a hint. When all locations have been solved, you unlock a new character and another 3-5 areas and start the process again.
In reality, however, the game is riddled with problems that make it little more than a time-consuming, frustrating experience.
The biggest problem is the complete lack of balance. The coin recharge stage doesn't offer enough to make the hidden object part fair. Misclicks come with harsh coin penalties. The coin cost for each hint is too high. To make matters worse, the editing is poor, sometimes sending you on a chase after the wrong item completely!
The unlocked characters are pointless (they don't assist you in any way), the "story" rewards are non-existent and won't keep you entertained, and the ratio of rewards vs punishment is an instant turn-off.
The music and visuals are nice, and the game tries to break up the monotony by offering a little mini-game after every fifth item found in each location (completion of the mini-game gives back a very tiny amount of coins, but not enough to be useful). The game does offer a high level of difficulty, but the real "challenge" is spending hours just staring at the screen afraid to click on anything for fear of being punished for it.
My advice - try the free hour. The rest of the game is exactly like that, only harder (penalties cost more later on).
Come to think of it, it might not really take hours for each level. But it sure feels like it. And you'll never get that time back.
January 23, 2012
Save your $4!
Nothing but HOS. No story line at all. I got it for $4 after buying another game and now wish I had saved that for another time. Oh well, live and learn. You get what you pay for.
April 5, 2012
Boring Game
I found the game to be boring and couldn't wait for it to be over, one thing that was different than a lot of the HOG's is that instead of listing the items you are searching for by name it list them by description for example "A headpiece of a King" and so you look for the crown. I know this is not unique but it also isn't very common in the HOG's I've played. Bottom line though is I would not recommend this game.
March 24, 2012