[h1]Bug-ridden, broken mess of a game with zero developer support[/h1]
I actually found the game quite fun - the story is silly in a nonsensical, campy kind of way and the progression is quite good, however this game has so many serious, unfixed problems that I can't recommend it. Here are just some of them:
1) The mouse cursor doesn't refresh properly, leaving mouse trails that end up blocking all other objects within the inventory bar and outside the main location screen.
2) There is one piece missing from one of the puzzles where you need to piece together a broken object! How the eff the developers managed to do this I do not know, but in one of the later stages (I think it was level 20-something) near the end of the game, the boat repair puzzle lacks 1 piece, so you cannot complete it. The only good thing is that this doesn't break the game, because you have the option to solve a hidden object scene instead of completing this puzzle.
3) Clicks sometimes don't register. During a hidden object scene you may have to click more than once on an object before the game registers it as being found.
4) Puzzles where you must spot the differences between 2 pictures contain erroneous hotspots. E.g. If you spot a difference (the difference being an extra object added to the picture) and you click on the extra object in the first picture, it says you're wrong, because they only register the spot where there was no object (and not the spot where the new object was added) as the correct answer.
The language editing also leaves much to be desired. While for the most part the English was ok, there were a few puzzles whose English instructions had very obviously not been edited by anyone. If you're going to hire someone to do your editing, could you please ensure they edit ALL parts of the game and not just some???
[h1]TL;DR[/h1]
This could've been fun. Story progression was good and this game had a few unique HOG-solving styles (e.g. a device which could send heavy objects into another realm so you could see what was hidden behind them - yes, not kidding! Silly but it worked!). However the fun is largely killed by puzzles that have breaking bugs in them, and the screen/cursor refresh issue that other reviewers have also mentioned. Developer seems not to have cared about testing/fixing these before the game was released, and seems not to care now either.
[h1]UPDATE:[/h1]
Have completed the game and found yet another broken puzzle. There's one that requires you to throw rings into 3 bowls, near the end of the game. It's [b][i]impossible[/i][/b] to get any ring into the 1st bowl, no matter how hard you try. And somehow - as if the developers realised this - after you try multiple times, the first bowl suddenly disappears on its own, even though you didn't manage to get any rings into it.
