Brightstone Mysteries: Paranormal Hotel (Hotel Collector's Edition)

Short, easy, full of cliches, but if you like adventure games you should play this one too. I give 7/10 . + Nice graphics + Hotspots + No tedious movement in this game ( doubleclick to move to next location, spacebar to speed up walking ) - No voice acting (except in two cutscenes) - Crashes on startup (just keep launching it, it will run eventually) - Lenght (about 3,5 hours if you examine everything, dont skip dialogues etc) - Only 4:3 screen format

I liked it although the conversations are sometimes long and ridiculous. But to pass the time enjoyably it was ok

"Lame" would be the best word to describe this apology for a game. Lame, lazy storytelling. Lame, cringey dialogues and characters that make you wonder what the hell the authors were smoking. No voiceovers, except for the opening and the final scenes. The puzzle "difficulty" is a joke (putting together an eight-piece letter, picking up the only collectible item and using it on the only active hotspot in the room, etc.). 95% of the time you're just running back and forth to perform one mundane task after another. The only good thing about this piece of... ahem, gamedev is that I managed to beat it in one sitting in under two hours—otherwise, I wouldn't have tolerated this nonsense any longer. Even if you're the most avid fan of good old point-and-click adventures from the 2000s, don't let your nostalgia get the better of you and just give this one a hard pass. Can't recommend purchasing it even at a discount.

The game overall was entertaining, but I regret having paid $10 for it. The full game only took me around 3 hours to complete and the puzzles/mysteries were not challenging enough to get me fully hooked on the game. However, I loved the old-style graphics and cut scenes!

Schönes Click & Point Adventure

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Mi spiace dirlo, ma la storia è un'accozzaglia di argomenti mischiati solo per il gusto di inserirli nel gioco. Dialoghi assurdi, enigmi nonsense, carina la musica.

Full disclosure: I got this in a bundle for roughly .56 cents USD, so I'm honestly basing my review on that price. I have to admit, I am not the target audience of this type of game. Point and click games usually require patience and a willingness to fetch quest, both things that I lack. Also, they require critical thinking skills, and I'm about as smart as a toaster. So I freely admit to spending the first hour wandering around and accomplishing things, even though they made no logical sense to me. I'\m used to hidden object games, and they are usually pretty good about dropping hints of what to do and where to go next. "Here, search this pile of stuff. Great! You got the thing! Now where would that thing go, hmmm?" And usually you discovered you needed the thing because the game told you you needed the thing. This game doesn't do that. At all. So I stayed out of curiosity. I really couldn't understand why the guide I finally consulted after the first hour of fruitless wandering was for a different game, then realized I had to catch up to the guide, and somehow I did. Then it started to make sense. I was being asked to actually think about things. Again, I am not the target audience, but I was dismayed the puzzles couldn't be skipped. I'm used to hidden object games, and as a rule, you can coast on by those puppies with a skip button. A few I solved my accident, a few by brute force, and a few using the guide as the steps seemed counterintuitive to me. Some I actually managed to solve all on my own and was pleased with myself, but those were hidden object standards. The storyline was what you'd expect for this type of game and the graphics were actually pretty in parts, though sometimes a bit murky and required pawing about the screen for the hidden in plain sight items. I'm going to still give it a thumbs up as I'm not the target audience, but even I managed to get to the end and it was kind of awesome.