Haunted Hotel: The Thirteenth Collector's Edition

This isn't any different to any other HOGA for the last 8 years. It started off really well, I've never come across a game where you're essentially playing as a ghost, so i had high hopes, but was dismayed when I started seeing endless, pointless shapes you have to fill in weird inexplicable places that make zero sense why somebody would have. I appreciate these games stretch incredulity, but to have a star shape on the floor, that opens a floor board, which reveals a safe that you need an a clock shape to open, then gives you a bird that opens an ornament that reveals a film reel that then reveals a number to open a gate is ridiculous. There's no real "puzzle", you're simply churning. By that I mean you have to find an object, which then needs another object, which then needs a key etc. and so on. The puzzles were very easy, have been done a million different times. The hidden object parts were well drawn, the story line was weird, but interesting to a certain extent. I just really wish developers could look at previous classics, such as Maze 360, Ravenhearst etc. to comprehend why they were so good. They were PUZZLE games, they were innovative and refreshingly different. If I see another morphing object or another knot puzzle I'll scream. Play it if you're new to the genre, but don't bother if you've played these for a while.