Untold Mystery: Angel’s Cry

https://youtu.be/eHtusEojAvg Playing an undercover Monk solving mysteries is a rather compelling concept that is not what this game delivers on as you make soup and talk to ghosts in oddly undramatic ways.

Where Angels Cry is basically a hidden object game without hidden object puzzles. The game consists of finding items hidden all over the place and completing puzzles. There are a couple of good puzzles, a couple of decent ones and two or three bad ones - most notably a colour-matching puzzle with incorrect colours. The story is suitably cheesy but very very flimsy. You only see the antagonist at the very end, there's no interaction and he never speaks. Most of the interaction with NPCs is you doing jobs for them. There's also a guy who is supposed to help you but who can't even command his own men to let you pass... for some reason. Where Angels Cry completely lacks a map and i got stuck a couple of times because i didn't notice some small area on the floor i was supposed to click on. Overall it's a very slim offering in the casual puzzle genre and i wouldn't recommend it.

Pues bastante regulero, la verdad. Cortísimo, no llega a 2 horas. Ni una EOO aunque sí hay que ir encontrando cosas por los escenarios. Los puzzles son tontísimos, el puzzle, más bien, porque son 2 mismos puzzles todo el rato con diferentes variaciones. Lo peor de todo la historia. Irreverente y absurda. Ya sé que es una fantasía y que los creadores se pueden tomar todas las "licencias poéticas" del mundo, pero madre mía, que patadas a la historia. En fin, no lo recomiendo, lo siento.

Quand je relis les commentaires négatifs après avoir joué Where Angels Cry, je me dis qu’ils sont justifiés… et injustes. Justifiés parce que, oui, les graphismes ont un air vieillot ; le scénario est somme toute assez faible ; ce n’est pas un jeu de SOC (ce n’est plus mentionné dans les tags à l‘heure où je tape ces mots) ; les puzzles passent, tantôt pour vicieux, tantôt pour trop aisés ; il y a des incohérences dans le scénario, c’est vrai. Mais c’est souvent le cas, même chez les meilleurs éditeurs de ce type de jeu, notamment pour le scénario qui est la partie qui m’intéresse le plus. Il y a toujours quelque chose qui cloche. J’en ai pris mon parti en me concentrant sur ce qui m’intéresse. Je pratique une forme d’immersion sélective et à cette condition j’arrive à apprécier les jeux a minima. Cela dit, ça ne m’a pas empêché de constater que la musique m’a carrément déplu, il faudrait vérifier qu’elle est inspirée de l’époque pour en justifier la mièvrerie. Détail agaçant : les textes des dialogues sont parfois en partie illisibles parce que mal isolés du fond. La traduction est de bonne tenue. J’ai trouvé les puzzles de bon niveau même si j’en ai passé un bon nombre pour me concentrer sur l’histoire. De bon niveau mais classiques. Là encore, c’est le genre qui veut ça. Au final, le scénario est simple, oui, mais quiconque décortique le scénario des histoires les plus populaires s’aperçoit que c’est une constante ! On peut y trouver toutes les incohérences du monde (relire pour cela les évaluations négatives), c’est vrai, mais c’est une affaire de choix à mon sens. Quand on regarde un western, on peut aussi choisir de compter les balles tirées par les revolver et trouver incohérent que les gars tirent jusqu’à neuf-dix pruneaux sans recharger… Ce que j’essaie de dire, c’est que ce jeu, comme pas mal d’autres, est imparfait et que c’est l’indulgence du joueur qui peut en faire une expérience sympa. Non, ça n’ira pas plus loin que « sympa » mais c’est pas mal pour 5 euros. C’est donc la première fois que je me retrouve à songer à une évaluation neutre. Comme c’est impossible mais que je ne veux pas sanctionner le studio pour si peu, j’évalue positivement Where Angels Cry.

Boring

El juego es muy bueno, sino fuera por el final que lo estropeo todo para mi. No lo recomiendo solamente por el final, si quieres, bajate la demo donde obviamente no esta el final, porque la demo es muy buena y cubre bastante del juego. [spoiler] En el final hay que matar un angel en un ritual lo que me parecio algo casi satanico para mi que soy catolico. No digo que haya sido intencional, hay que matar al angel para liberarlo de su cuerpo supuestamente, no matarlo por matarlo, pero no me parecio bien. [/spoiler]

This game failed to function twice on me. I'm giving up. First, I had collected 3 nails, and I put them into the horseshoe. I went to find the 4th, only to have the game refuse to let me use the 4th nail, meaning I could not advance further. I restarted the game, and this time when filling the pot I realized I was missing the watercress. I found it, went back, only to learn that now 3 of the flowers I put into the pot moments before had disappeared. Again, I could not advance any further without the items that somehow disappeared.

Truly, this game is proof of miracles. The year is 1286, and through the good workings of our Lord, tomatoes have arrived in the Alps centuries early! Provided this is Italy (they really aren't clear) tomatoes arrived in 1548. Why care about such a trivial detail? Because it's a period piece or supposed to be. As other reviewers have pointed out, this is not a hidden object adventure. This is a click and point fetch quest in the mysterious part of the Alps where a character may sound Russian, Italian, or maybe a bit of Bronx thrown in? There's even an Irish accent at one point, because hey, why not? It's honestly hard to believe this is the same studio that turned out the sequel. Here, apparently, you are investigating the loss of a brother of the unnamed order. Orders always have names, but not this one. Nor does this order have a patron saint, I'm just saying. Anyhoo, the wolves eated him up. Or he ran away. No one knows or seems to care, but the new boss man forbids a search. Hmmm. There is also a statue that supposedly weeps blood, I say supposedly because the dried blood looked like red paint. It's honestly puzzling if this game meant to be this funny but I'd say wait for a deep discount. For the learned men of their time I wouldn't trust any of these monks to read or write. They aren't exactly what I'd call the brightest and I feel more like I should be a sweet old gran investigating a ghastly murder in a tea parlor. If not for everyone starting to speak like ye olde Shakespeare in the park extras. Several centuries before his birth, I might add. As for gameplay itself? After a while it dawns on you there are no hidden object scenes and it's just a weary and uninspired slog where you go through each scene carefully with your pointer to pick up objects, some of which don't even appear on the screen. Many are in plain sight though. So it feels kind of lazy. Some puzzles solve themselves and most were frustrating variations of mini game standards. Taking it all in, I'll have to give it a thumbs down. It's one of those games I stubbornly completed just to see the ending. Then I stared at my screen wondering why I had to struggle through so much blandness to get to it. Oh, watch out for the collectible angel statues. Not for an award, but because the homely suckers need some love.