The Esoterica: Hollow Earth

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Its a quick easy game

As far as Alawar hidden objects games go, I didn't have any complaints on this one. It was pretty standard fare. Plot was basically journey to the center of the earth. Not really all that much special to say about it other than if you like hidden object adventure games this certainly is one and you'll probably enjoy it. If you haven't played anything like it before, then this certainly isn't the game to get you hooked. Just one of many in the sea.

Well it is a strange game, graphics aren't good, no voice over, some puzzles are just irritating, some items needs a few clicks more, but overall you can buy it if found cheap and play it because it isn't long.

К плюсам этой игры отнесу разве что красивый арт, причем и в сценах поиска ничего в одну кучу не сливается, все предметы детально прорисованы, в общем глаза ломать не придется. Минусов же для меня хватило: странный перевод в сценах поиска заставлял искать совсем не то, например рубин за место сапфира или лейку за место воронки, сюжет клишированный особенно очередной "друг который в итоге не друг" и скомканная концовка. Головоломки в целом простые(порой слишком), но иногда подглючивали, а тому кто придумал "соедини точки" надо вообще по рукам надавать за такое.

A bug-filled, unpolished mess. Story is generic mystery fare, which made less and less sense as you play. HOGs are decent, though hitboxes sometimes leave much to be desired. Minigames/puzzles are outright atrocious; there are just so many problems with them. It could be straight up buggy to the point of being unsolvable forcing a skip. Or, it could come with completely unclear and vague instructions on how to manipulate puzzle elements to solve it. Or even be blatantly obvious but require tedious effort to solve. Or take straight up trial-and-error to solve.

*****

Great little HOG the ending was not what i expected but regardless nice graphics and easy game play recommend to buy on sale

90% worth getting for cheap, but be forewarned: some search words are mistranslated to English. They wrote "Watering Can", when the object was a Funnel. Still good art and puzzles.

What a load of nonsense. The clues and instructions for the puzzles were nonsensical at best. Please look up the word "instruction" in the dictionary and maybe try these out before you offer it up.