The Tudors
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5
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Beautiful, Interesting Eye Strain
I bought this because I was a big fan of "The Tudors" TV show and wanted to visit that world again. Sadly, it is set after the death of Anne Bolelyn (when the show started getting overtly political and dull) - and the game reflects the kind of complicated plot (england/france/spain/catholics/protestants) that the show engaged in during the 3rd season.
However, once I settled into the story I was very interested to see how it would end. Story was great.
Other Greats: The mini-puzzles are challenging but not too hard. They seem to fit the story. The "cutouts" from the actual actors from the show are fun and make the story easier to get into. Scenes have variety (gardens, churches, ships, palace).
Not so great:
1. The scenes are beautiful - set in the render/3D type art - but they are so lush, that you can't see any other the stuff. Half the time I ended up using hints or just clicking around the scene to find the objects because I couldn't see them or make them out.
** good news: hints are generous, and there is no click penalty.
2. Scenes are repetitive. All HOG's have you going back to the same room or scene. But this has you looking for the same thing (I swear - you look for "a letter" like 10 times).
3. This game missed several good chances to end. After the final mystery is revealed and I was ready to call it done - there are 4 more HOG (3 of the looking for beads (the same object) and more dialogue. The prolonged ending made it much less enjoyable.
4. It is possible to get stuck. In one scene of "find the differences" - There was a difference on backdrop that was so dim and indistinct I couldn't tell what it is. I kept hitting hint and it kept circling the same area. So I would just click around. Because it was a scene and not a puzzle, there was no skip. So I just had to click and click -- after about 5 hint cycles, when I was ready to delete the game, I happened to click the right thing. (Still don't know what it was).
March 3, 2012
Tough
Loved the show and the game as well. However, your screen freezes sometimes and you can't go anywhere with it, except to quit the game. I have tried to uninistall and reinstall and it is hungup on one area where you find the differences with the rooms. I'm on the last item and the instructions at the bottom came up and will not move.
May 19, 2012
Enjoyable
Love the tudors and enjoyed the game. However the scenes were too blurred to accurately pick out the smaller differences. Also made it difficult to find items that were completely in dark spaces. Funnel game made no sense what so ever...... There should be more clues as to how they work. Lock puzzles too... should have have some way to find the code rather than randomly hitting buttons.......
March 12, 2012