Such a good idea, gone so horribly wrong, Go play Missing millionheir instead.
Firsty the good. If you have played Missing millionheir then you will very easily pick this game up as it is very similar, if less successful in its execution. The general idea of the game play is you have an image and you click on the appropriate object based on a list shown above, or a picture, or text, or by sound. These later additions were a good idea to mix things up as I was getting quite bored. There a few other challenges that come along ever so often (spot the difference, crack the code etc.) but the main idea is the image screen challenges.
Now for the bad. The story, the music, the gameplay bugs. The only thing that didn't offend was the graphics, actually considering how easy they had it, yeah that sucked too.
1) Story β a journalist goes on holiday and gets involved with a Mayan mystery. It has artifacts, Professors that remind me of Sean Connery, and a scuba diver who gets involved because he wants to sleep with her (well its true!). That's where I stopped playing. The dialogue was so bad I originally thought someone has severerly re-edited my copy
E.G journalist: 'that Diego (the scuba diver) makes me so hot for him' . I started suspecting the makers of making fun of the public when one of my levels was to find 20 pieces of lingerie because ' I looove my lingerie.' That be another direct quote. Then I realized the whole game was actually meant to be a send up of the mystery style games when Diego says: 'I'm so upset I need my blankie.' At this point the journalist decides she will make him a 10 course dinner and I paraphrase here 'normally in some a remote area the ingredients would be impossible to find but of course on this paradise she just needs to look around on the floor.' Unfortunately the jokes sound like a 15 year old wrote them. Now do you see why I thought I bought a pirated amended copy?
2) music β cheesy cheesy B grade action movie music. Hello we're looking for popcorn and turning on TV's, why the aggressive music? Missing Millionheir at least gave you nice soft background music to help you concentrate. This should have been the first sign of how bad this game was going to suck.
3) Game play β you would click on an object and it wouldn't register, click on it again, nothing, starting tapping like mad on your screen and it docks you some of your allocated time. Also several times it will ask for object where there maybe more than 1 of the same item! Or sometimes someone will be telling you to pick a tea cup, sock, and a cup,, in a sentence format (most times you get a list that gets crossed off as you find things) and when you find it, it does not get taken off the screen! So then you have to remember which you clicked. This is not a problem until you clicked something by accident and have no idea what it was that you picked and now have no idea what you were up to.
4) Graphics βthe story is told with images and text bubbles, like a comic, but using actors. So why couldn't they get actors to use different expressions at different times? A local is upset about a curse and starts babbling like crazy in the text but the images they are still smiling. What the!? They had it so easy for graphics, they just needed good photos and they couldn't deliver there either.
So in the end, the gameplay has some bugs, which has they been fixed I would have enjoyed the game better. The game play itself wasn't bad but I've played other similar games where everything was executed much better. However the crappy story with every cliche in the book, which also might have been fun had they done it right, but they didn't. Then they tried to make a joke of it which fell flat. The insulting quests: looking for lingerie, ingredients for someone's dinner etc. The bad music and that god awful guitar.
Well its at that point where i said ta-ta and gave the game back to the store
Good riddance