List Of Adventure Games (Part 2)

Looks cool, but you should start a thread about it in the New Games area. Besides, that looks like a puzzle game and this thread is for adventure games.

 

Found a few games:
Girl with a heart of
Love & Death: Bitten
Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove Collector's Edition
The Case Of The Mystery Vault

Sorry if any of these are rehashes, but I don't think they are. I'm not so sure the first one is a true adventure game because the description makes it sound more like you're just picking answers to dialogs all the time instead of actually solving puzzles or anything, but I thought I'd list it anyway just in case.

 

Here are a couple more that I don't think have been mentioned yet:

Escape Game "The Hide-out"
Escape Game "The Mystery of the Abandoned Factory"
Play Instantly! - by Big Fish Games

The last one is particularly interesting, because it's kind of like that App that was from IDAC (I think), except that here you have to pay a monthly fee to get access to their games. If there are enough iPad games you want this could be worth it.

 

I was kind of afraid that would happen, which I was kind of hesitant about splitting the list off. Guess I can't win for losing

 

Actually, those are both really good games. I wish they'd bring Mishap 2 to iOS devices, though.

 

I played XIII for a while this weekend. My first disappointment is that it's actually a hidden object game, and not a true adventure game like we're used to from Microids. That being said, it certainly has a plot worthy of an adventure game, and I personally think they made a mistake in their choice of game styles.

The hidden object scenes would be decent enough, except it's near impossible to tap things sometimes. I often have to tap an item 5-10 times (or even more) before it registers. The problem with that is after so many hits the screen goes dark and freezes you out for a couple of seconds. Annoying but livable if you're playing "casual" mode, but not fair if you're playing timed mode.

The mini-games are pretty weak an uninspiring. The one slightly interesting one was of the "move blocks around to slide one block out" variety, and the reason I say it's interesting is because you can slide any of the blocks in any direction. It almost makes the puzzle too easy. They also have the instructions messed up on all the mini-games, because most of them make reference to the first mini-game, which was a sliding puzzle game.

The graphics are decent enough, though sometimes even when the scene is zoomed in it's hard to tell what certain things are. The very first hidden object scene has an interesting layered effect where you actually have to tilt the device to see the whole area in the background layer. Unfortunately they've only used this technique in one scene so far, which makes it difficult to say whether it's good or bad. The sound effects are pretty good, but there isn't any spoken dialog, which is a bit of a shame. The music actually suits the game well and gives it a nice spy-like overtone.

I will say that I have become somewhat addicted to the game, but only because I want to know what the main character is all about, not because of the actual game play. From a story standpoint it's probably one of the best hidden object games available, but from a game play standpoint one of the worse ones (not worst, but certainly not adequate).

I have been playing this on an iPod Touch, so maybe the iPad version is better.

 

Actually, aren't the HD versions going on sale for 2.99, and not 99 cents (although 99 cents would be cool)?