An acceptable game with some usability issues.
The overall presentation of this was fine, I didn't have any really bad issues with it.
The story, art, and music were all serviceable, although I found the story to be convoluted to follow at times, there is a lot of family tree stuff and history of past generations involved in the story, so maybe I'm not great at those kind of narratives, but I got the overall gist.
The puzzles in the game were fine and came in 3 categories; 1) standard hidden object scenes, 2) standard puzzles that require you to figure out a logical pattern, align or sort object, and so forth, and 3) a matching game where you are given a scene like the kind you would normally use for a hidden object puzzle, but in this one you click on things and match them to another item in the scene that is a logical pair.
The puzzles conceptually are fine, but I had issues with many of them in different ways. The hidden object scenes sometimes had things labeled wrong, perhaps due to a translation, or sometimes would have a word that is really obscure and that I don't think most people would intuitively understand what it means. There is also a delay every time you select an item, so for some of the achievements like selecting 5 items within a few second or finishing a puzzle within 1 minute, not being able to select another item because the animation for the last one being selected causes issues; sometimes I would second-guess myself because my click didn't select the item only to find out later that it just didn't register it because I clicked too soon after selecting the previous item. It was frustrating. Sometimes the names of things seemed close but not an exact match for the item that I was looking for. As an example (this isn't an example exactly from the game but just to get my point across) you may have a puzzle where one object is called 'cleaver' only to find out that the object is actually a kitchen knife. Things like that.
The logical pair puzzles were in theory good, I enjoy a change of pace, but this suffered from similar issues; either a mistranslation, or objects that just didn't seem to logically pair together or that I would never guess would be a pair. Things like that. though the hidden object puzzles were by far the biggest culprits of the issues I list.
The normal puzzles were fine, occasionally there would be a puzzle I didn't understand what it expected me to do, but they at least include the instructions you can read by clicking a button.
I wish I could say that was it, but the game overall has weird usability issues as well. The intro screen of the game for example has an illustration of a grim reaper-type of figure holding out a contract, and every time you start you game you have to wait for this elaborate animation where he reached out with the contract and then the word "Play" appears on the contract and I found myself wishing it would stop so I could just play the game. Maybe do this once, but you cannot skip it and I felt impatient waiting for the animation just so I could play the game.
There are even more weird choices in the game too. There will be sub-scenes that show a more detailed version of something at a location like many hidden object games do, and this would have an "X" button in the corner to close this dialog. But then many of these had yet a second level of detail you could bring up too, like a document in that detail scene. And instead of having you use that same close button in the corner, there would be a separate close button for this second detail scene that's in a weird place like in the middle of the document. Often I would click the "X" in the center to close the document and close both screen by accident because of how confusing and unintuitive this was.
The game had other animations that felt like they were overly long, instances where you would have an item in your inventory that you reasonably could use to accomplish something only to be told no, or sometimes I would have to try and use objects multiple times because I didn't click on just the right spot on a scene to use an item from my inventory.
It was long enough that I wouldn't say this wasn't worth the price, but the annoying usability issues really reduced my enjoyment of the game. Unfortunately I have to say this is a skip for me, I wouldn't recommend it when so many other games exist that just play and feel much smoother and more responsively than this game does.
I didn't experience any technical issues with this game. This game does not have collectibles. This game does not include a bonus adventure.
