Riddles Of The Past

Pros : Puzzles & Storyline And the Nostalgic 50s/60s Ambience Cons : the hint button with the dog was to big and annoying

Solid point and click adventure that isn't too taxing and fun at the same time. I enjoyed the crazy robot story and appreciated how the game play prevented me from doing certain things until I had already completed some other steps.

This was an interesting HOG game. Very easy to complete and not very long. The story was a bit melodramatic for a HOG game, but overall this wasn't a terrible game for this genre.

Игра простенькая, но с достаточно интересным сюжетом

Нуу.. в принципе неплохо. Игра проходится на одном дыхании. Да, она довольно короткая, но тут это скорее будет даже лучше, чем просто затягивать прохождение. Головоломки легкие, но так же присутствует возможность пропустить их, что мне понравилось. Конечно, сюжет – то ещё клише, но на один раз почему бы и нет. Мне так же очень понравилось, что все достижения за простое прохождение, и тут не надо как-то потеть, чтобы выбить ту или иную ачивку. Хотя, наверное, за всю стоимость брать не стоит, лучше дождаться скидки..

Histoire sympa (pas très développée), graphismes moyens, court (moins de 4h, pas de bonus), gameplay déconcertant, puzzles soit trop faciles, soit trop durs. Dans l'ensemble un jeu moyen.

Playtime: 2-4 hrs Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ [b]Riddles Of The Past[/b] is point & click, "hidden object", mystery puzzle game from the publisher who made Hope Lake. I explain the apostrophes later in this review. I gave negative review for the Hope Lake and this game wasn't too far from getting it too, but i'd say this is better than the one mentioned before since Hope lake had actual bugs and all. This game has flaws and some things that i didn't like, but i'd say they are mostly personal preferences therefore i give this an thumbs up. [b]Plot summary[/b] - It begins with Emily (You as a player), who have had amnesia for multiple years is starting to find some bits and pieces from their past. They travel to a abandoned post apocalyptic looking town which resembles like american road side village with iconic diners in the 60's. Town is called Riverside and it's taken over by robots. You meet some familiar faces from your past who help you reveal more what has happened to you. It's hard to tell any more specific without spoiling the whole game. I wouldn't say the plot is anything spectacular, it's kinda boring and used already if you ask me. Basic popular kid and nerd fighting for the same girl and if i can say it's kinda like 'teenager high school drama' type of a plot. It wasn't completely terrible tho, just not interesting, wouldn't recommend this game for the plot. What comes to the [b]game play and mechanics.[/b] Really big negative thing about this game is that they say it is a HO game and to certain level it is, but also it isn't typical one. There's no HO scenes at all and by that i mean like the ones where you have pile of trash for example and you need to find 10 mentioned items from there by name, shape or something else. This game when said hidden object, means you have to find items around the map and connect them to proceed in the game. Not actual hidden object scenes, which was a bummer. I usually just categorize games like that to more point & click genre (Like Deponia, Monkey island etc.) than HO's like Artifex Mundi games, but i do understand why they can say their game is also HO. So kinda my own fault i didn't make sure what type of a game i bought. Otherwise the game play at least for me was decent, it's pretty straightforward and not too hard. Sometimes i noticed that it was hard to find some objects, because they blend to the background due to the graphics being little bit low quality and items same color as the background, but i don't think i had to use google not even once. There was [b]no steam achievements[/b] to get, that was kinda let down since i like to collect complete games to my profile. I have started to notice this pattern in older games and also games that are published by some small publisher. Sometimes it seems like the game is made originally for another device like mobile and just posted without thinking too much to steam. Even tho i said earlier the items blending to the background sometimes, [b]i liked the artwork and ambient music.[/b] I didn't find the music or sounds too repetitive, at least not that much that i would have noticed anything like that. There was [b]voice acting[/b], which wasn't terrible, but would say that wasn't the best. So kinda have mixed feelings about that, but i'd say voice acting in these types of games probably doesn't have huge budget or anything so it's kinda predictable that they also don't sound that high quality. [b]Price[/b] isn't crazy high for this genres games, but still when it only took me a couple hours to play i wouldn't pay 6,99 EUR (7,61 USD) for a game like this. I bought it from sale so i think it might come to sale sometime again. Plot and game wise it wasn't that scary or didn't have anything crazy spooky or gore content nor it wasn't that hard to play, i would recommend this to all ages except for really young kids and that is only because there is robots, fighting etc to some extend even if its not blood splattering everywhere. I'd say this is something like 12+ game. Pros • Artwork • Music • Straightforward, not too hard or easy puzzles. • Good amount of mini games Cons • No actual HO scenes • Items sometimes blend in tho the background • Plot was below average Story □ Bad ☑ Could be better □ Decent □ Good □ Enjoyable □ Immersive Artwork □ Bad □ Could be better □ Decent ☑ Pretty good □ Beautiful □ Amazing Soundtrack □ Bad □ Could be better □ Decent ☑ Good □ Immersive □ Eargasm Minigames difficulty □ Toddler could solve □ Easy ☑ Medium □ Advanced □ Hard □ Had to check on google Overal gameplay difficulty □ Toddler could solve □ Easy ☑ Medium □ Advanced □ Hard □ Had to check on google Audience □ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Young adults ☑ Adults ☑ Seniors