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Another Dark, Supernatural Adventure

Set in the unusually dark and rather foreboding English countryside, Edwina Margrave sets off on a journey of discovery to find out about her parents untimely deaths. She begins her journey at the cottage where her parents died, where everything is not quite as is it seems.......

Sticking with pack and the current dark supernatural themes of the moment, this is another run of the mill adventure / hidden object game. The game is full of the usual hidden object scenes with the usual annoying matchsticks, screws and outline sketches to test your skills and your patience to the limit. Developers shouldn't rely on silhouttes and small items to make scenes difficult.

Early on the game makes use of the torn up page puzzle a couple of times. It's a nice interpretation of the puzzle, but to see it repeated so early on does question how many more times it'll be reused and how many other unique mini games there are.

Like a lot of the current crop of top ten games the budget has been stretched to include speech in the game which gracefully, can be turned off as there are quite a few conversations early on that do drag on a bit. I know the developers are trying to set the scene and tell a story but having to sit through long conversations - or constantly clicking to skip is always a bit tiresome. The whole idea of a game being interactive seems to get lost in these sequences. It's much better when the story unfolds as you visit locations with shorter snipits of dialogue or movies..

Menu system is par for the course with the inventory bar remaining on the screen as apposed to the slide up and down system. Interesting hint with some spooky dark shadow locating the item in your list instead of the usual cluster of stars

Not a bad game. Worth a look if you have the time.