Doodle God

Doodle God

Operating System: Everything
Website: Official Website
Rating: 7/10
Comments:  This game is so addictive it's not even funny. I played it online first then couldn't help but buy it for my laptop. Such a simple game and yet it brings so much happiness. There is so much more content with the laptop one (well duuur) because you get quests, puzzles and artefacts that you can make.

Actually, the artefacts are really hard to figure out. I had to hint every single time because I got stuck all the time. The puzzles are pretty tricky as well. You only get a few elements and have to make certain things... I never got far in those ones.

I honestly can't count how many hours I wasted in this game. I imagine it would be great on a phone when waiting at airports. Great way to pass time and very entertaining.

Grim Tales: Bloody Mary

Grim Tales: Bloody Mary

Operating System: PC/Mac
Website: BigFish page
Rating: 3/5
Comments: Don't you just love when you find incomplete reviews in a random notepad on your laptop? Yeah, I don't either. But that's what this is... and I'm not replaying this so.... yeah... I half remember this game being kinda cool with the mirror world and all that jazz, but I don't remember enough of the gameplay to fix this review :C

The title screen was enough to make me excited about this game, but after playing Stray Souls the cutscenes seemed rather lacking.

The plot is this: your niece wants you to go pick her up because she's scared and the kids there are all acting weird. Damn creepy shadows kids... Turns out to be the "mirror kids", which of course are evil, have taken over the normal kids bodies and you have to defeat them.

 

The map feature. God I love those. Because NO ONE likes to walk back and forth and back and forth just to get a bloody paper clip or something stupid like that.

The Great Gatsby: Secret Treasure

The Great Gatsby: Secret Treasure

Operating System: PC
Website: BigFish page
Rating: 2/10
Comments: I seriously thought this game would be awesome and like the movie or something, or at least set in the same era? But no. Little glimpses into the past but not what I was hoping for in a game with "Gatsby" in the title.

You're some architect. That's right. An architect. Not a detective, not a paranormal investigator, not a secret agent. An architect. So anyway, you get called in to renovate the Gatsby mansion and then for some reason your flatmate gets kidnapped? I dunno, it's a bogus storyline.

The artwork was decent enough but compared to a lot of the new HOGs, it did seem a little dated and an older style. The game seemed to lag a little when travelling between screens (which you needed to do frequently) and by the end I just didn't care about the plot. This game was so mediocre that I doubt I'll even remember it soon.

Mermaid Swamp

Mermaid Swamp

Operating System: PC
Website: Official Website
Rating: 6/10
Comments: This one wasn't too bad... aside from the fact that I had to go through every single bad ending before I got the good one. Multiple endings give me the shits like that... especially when the characters don't need to die in the first place. :/

The story was really gripping in this one. The guy really thought it out. Mermaid legend turned ugly. And then creepy. And then so disgusting when you realise exactly how sick the truth turns out to be. This one is pretty badass, so I recommend just so you can also be like "OH WTF! This guy is SICK!"

The thing that got me was how much you had to walk from here to there, and since I had to play through 3 times before I remembered exactly where to save, I forgot what I was even meant to be doing most of the time. And the non-skippable intro killed me every time!

The chase scenes were annoying as usual because it took me a while to figure out where I was meant to be running... so there was a lot of reloads. Especially the axe chase. Far out! The amount of skillful dodging I did in that one was INSANE!

Palette

Palette

Operating System: PC
Website: Official Website
Rating: 5/10
Comments: This game is next in my series because it's also very simple. It's not a horror game, it's just a little girl trying to get her memories back. Memories that involve a murder of someone.

While I did get awfully confused and found it hard to keep track of the story, it was rather interesting the parts I did understand. The girl was just an outcast due to the bad things that happened to her... I think?

The most frustrating part of this game was how you couldn't really tell which parts of the map you had "completed" and which parts you still needed to explore. The main reason why this game took me so long to finish was because I had to keep back-tracking to every single map to eliminate whether I had done everything there or not.

Such a mind fuck. Seriously. Good game, just the map let it down.

Hello? Hell... o?

Hello? Hell... o?

Operating System: PC
Website: Official Site
Rating: 3/10
Comments: Ok, so it's been a while since I played a random horror RPG and I downloaded a whole bunch to play so here goes.

I started with the ones that looked the easiest and went from there. This one is one of the most basic ones ever. It does have multiple endings but I never realised that until I looked back on the main website and saw that on the comments after I had finished this game. It's short. REAL short. Like... might take you 30 minutes to play depending on how quick you do things.

I gave it a 3 because, while there wasn't much gameplay, the plot was a little intriguing and I was curious to see how it would play out. All you really have to do it answer the phone/doorbell when it rings to progress in the story. You can tell if you've progressed because the title screen "Hello? Hell... o?" adds more text the closer you get.

The thing that got me was how it mirrored for the female player, which I wasn't expecting. Nice twist at the end. Good to pass a bit of time if you want some fun but not a lot of substance.

UnReal World

UnReal World

Operating System: PC
Website: Official Website
Rating: 2.5/5
Comments: I honestly don't normally like playing games that people recommend me (mainly because I suck in general) but this one looked pretty cool so I thought I'd give it a shot and stop my griping. At first, I wasn't really sure what to do because I picked one of the storylines that lets you just do your own thing... it was a mistake. I had no idea what to do, my character is pretty much starving now and has no strength left to build any sort of shelter.

When I asked my friend (who is also my walking game encyclopaedia) how to actually pick something up the game got more fun. I also had to read through the forum post to understand the controls... most of which I still don't get all that well.

The main aim is to survive through the winter but daaaaaamn this game is hard! I enjoyed it, despite the initial epic fail start. That made me wish there was some sort of tutorial level just so you could get a handle on the game before playing as a proper character... because this game has permadeath. If you die, you stay dead. :C