Black Viper: Sophia's Fate

https://youtu.be/hHMJyPDyEeM A broken hint system will misdirect players more often than assisting them. Most puzzles must be solved in a strict linear fashion reducing the sense of freedom to players.

This game has the dubious pleasure of being one of the worst HOG:s I've played. Unlike another serious contender to the title, "Al Emmo's Postcards from Anozira", this game at least looks sorta good. Except Sophia. Not sure what's up with her barely buttoned shirt and that ridiculous catsuit. But that's neither here nor there. I actually quit playing midway through, because I ran into a bug where I didn't pick up a thing before triggering a trap [spoiler] - poisonous gas - [/spoiler] which prevented me from going back and fetching said thing. Since the game up to this point had been a pointless pixel hunt for things I seldom understood I needed from the actual told story, I saw no need to play through that first half again only to be rewarded with more nonsense. There are far better HOG:s to play.

Never before have credits been such a welcome sight. 0 chungi / 10

ЧЕ ИЗДЕВАЕТЕСЬ? ГДЕ МОЙ РУССКИЙ ЯЗЫК?!

This game suffers from the lack of direction and a flawed Hint option that doesn't help. Instead of giving you a hint of what to do next, it will majority of the time falsely direct you to a room you can't interact with or directs you to use something you've not completed to use. Sometimes it sends you through a loop of the same rooms over and over, making it difficult to tell what room you need to interact with. I gave up when you're meant to find several keys to a statue, but the hint system doesn't point out where the keys are or which room to use, it just keeps sending you back to interact with the statue that still needs the keys to function. Items on the screen are mostly difficult to tell apart from the other objects and backgrounds. I tried scanning what I felt was the whole area, but there still was no sign of the last two keys I needed. At this point the cursors ability to zoom in on rooms broke, which made it more difficult to try and find the missing keys.

Voilà un jeu d'objets cachés qui semblait devoir se distinguer favorablement de ses semblables en renonçant aux univers traditionnels (les pirates, les vampires ou les fantômes), en mettant en avant une femme contemporaine policière le jour et héroïne masquée la nuit et enfin en adoptant apparemment pour un design moderne. A l'arrivée, les personnages n'ont aucun charisme, le scénario est inintéressant, la jouabilité est catastrophique. On passe son temps à cliquer partout au hasard, on déclanche des événements illogiques, on récolte par inadvertance des objets d'un pixel de côté invisible dans le décor. On sait pas ce qu'on fait, on sait pas ce qu'on cherche. Le journal de bord n'est d'aucune utilité et même le système d'aide est totalement fantaisiste. Bref, aucun intérêt. J'ai même pas cherché à finir ma partie.

I got it for free so it was worth the price, but i would be super dissapointed if i had to pay 9,99 for it!

I think the game was a pretty good hidden objects game. Not the best one on the market, but well worth your time if you are into hdden object games.

Красивая игра в жанре "поиск скрытых объектов".

Now hidden object games aren't that great to start with - but this one, oh boy.