Entwined: Strings of Deception

I fairly good HOG with a good story and some caveats. Too many hidden object scenes and I had to run all over the place to find them randomly. Although I liked the fact that these scenes sometimes improved my vocabulary, a number of times the object being looked was not visible or just unidentifiable. No steam achievements. If you do a hint outside the hidden object scene - it tells you everything about the problem. Finally, I had to do the final minigame multiple times before it worked - and I am sure I did it correctly.

This was a thoroughly enjoyable ride despite its old age! Sure there's a lot of back tracking and moving around (actually... I only just realize now that I almost never opened the map to see if fast travel was possible... silly me...) Well, even so, I really enjoyed the investigation, slowly bringing the pieces together. Good HOG scenes, though sometimes the precision for the click is a bit too demanding especially with thin objects, better to try clicking on the thickest part of those. But, if you like HOG games, I totally recommend this one ^^

Voice acting is so bad it absolutely ruins the game. It's very obviously computerized. In fact, the developers didn't even bother to change the sound of the computer voice. It is the same robotic woman who reads your texts to you when you're driving in the car. My GPS sounds more lifelike! There are also strange translations that don't always make sense. At one point, the butler dramatically says that the maid is a "chary" character. I realize the developer is Pakistani. However, considering the fact that England colonized that region for several centuries, was it really so difficult for them to find someone who could properly translate the dialogue for them? Were there really no English holdovers from the old days that could do the voiceover work? Even the characters looked robotic. If you look at the woman on the store page, her eyes look lifeless, like a doll's eyes. Her fashion sense was nil. A game like this relies upon its story and actors to make it interesting. This game had absolutely no life to it. The characters sounded like those automated messages that annoy everybody. Not worth the $0.89 I paid for it on sale.

Starts off sort of interesting, and then it gets annoying without a map you can jump around. That said, it did take 3hrs because I wandered back and forth all over the place until I started looking at the hints cause I just wanted to finish. Buy for less than $1 only.

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Surprisingly pleasant detective/HOPA game! Despite its older interface, it's easy to play. HO screens were the best kind, the ones where none of the listed objects seems to be present at the first glance. And it has a decent, coherent story. 8/10

[i]<Native res: 1024x768, 4:3 aspect ratio>[/i] The first unique thing I noticed about this game is that it uses exclusive fullscreen mode. The reason I've been noting the native resolution of the hidden object adventure games I review is because most of their fullscreen modes just scale to whatever the desktop resolution is. Most of the HOAGs I've played were built with the Spark Casual Engine, which has no exclusive fullscreen mode. I change my desktop resolution to match the resolution of the artwork so screenshots are at the native resolution of the artwork, which is usually very low resolution. There's no need to do that with Entwined because it changes the display resolution to 1024x768 in fullscreen mode. Entwined must be an old game, judging by the 4:3 aspect ratio. It has a display mode called, "widescreen correction." This is basically windowed fullscreen and it displays at the full desktop resolution. Unlike other 4:3 HOAGs with widescreen modes, this doesn't crop the artwork to eliminate pillarboxes. The game still appears at 4:3. Enough about the technicals. The game is a very basic version of a hidden object adventure game. There aren't any gimmicks or unique mechanics. At first, it looked like I might have to decide who was responsible for the murder, but it's not that kind of full-featured adventure/detective/mystery game. You can't decide whom to accuse, but the game does have an unusual amount of freedom to pursue goals for a HOAG. It's not completely linear. Entwined has the highest density of hidden object scenes in any game I've played in the subgenre. I was constantly sifting through scenes. There's a lot of backtracking and a lot of replaying scenes to find different items. Hidden object scenes become available again in previous rooms without indication. So if you get stuck, go back through every room to find sparkles. There's also a hints book that explains how to accomplish tasks. I used it once when I got stuck, before I realized hidden object scenes I've already completed can randomly become active again. The game's description claims this is, "A stunning Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure Game." While I appreciate how close they come to the name I came up with for this sub-genre, Hidden Object Adventure Game, I don't think it "stuns" in any respect. The visuals use a lot of ancient-looking CGI that hasn't aged well. For some reason, these developers got away with using slightly-modified images of real-world products. From Fruit (Froot) Loops, Coleman camping gear (I doubt this was sponsored like Final Fantasy XV), Heineken beer, Del Monte canned fruit, and Niagara spray starch cans for ironing clothes I remember my parents used in the 1990s. There's an anachronistic Linux penguin, too. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2969793427 So yeah, I wouldn't call this stunning, but it's alright. I'll recommend.

A bit too chaotic

Great Game!

I enjoyed the who done it. Story line was interesting with multiple hidden objects.