Skyland: Heart of the Mountain

nice game

nice

Games made by Artifex Mundi or Cordelia Games have a unique characteristic. Games that you can play with just your feet. Hahahahaha 🤣 Anyway, I thought I was done with this type of non-risky type of a game, but then a few minutes into the game I remembered why I started buying their games in the first place. I love their hidden object puzzles. I LOVE’em. And going through it again reignited my interest towards the genre. I’m thinking of buying a few more of their games now. Hahaha 😄

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This game was pretty good. The story jumps around a lot which can be hard to follow, but generally you get the gist of it. I think my favorite part of the game was the different location styles that the game's setting allowed them to create. But it's also a shame because not a lot of info about the setting is talked about other than a few small plot elements and the opening cut scene. Characters were fine, but could have used more info about them too. The achievements were mostly fine to get and could be done in one playthrough. I found the "finish a hidden object puzzle in 20 seconds" one hard, these puzzles were not easy compared to other games of this type, but if you need to you can practice them after and just play up to the first puzzle. I also had to play though again to get all of the collectibles, which I missed one of on my first playthrough. Although I'd like to say this was my own fault as there is a HUD item that shows the collectible status for each scene, which I love when these games do. There are collectibles in the game, with a HUD indicator, there is a bonus adventure, which I always appreciate, and I encountered no technical issues with the game, which is nice too. Easy recommendation, not the best hidden object game but far, far from the worst, a very good entry.

Pretty OK hidden object game with some fairly standard puzzle mini-games. Some of the mini-games require multiple skips to get past just one game, which is annoying if you're not really interested in wading through more generic puzzles. Graphics are nice, music is buggy. Sound effects involve a lot of thumps and droning prop noises. A few mini-games involve time-based challenges, which are clunky and basically suck. HOGs have some issues with wrong words used to describe objects to find, and with scenes that include multiple objects which all share the same name (pipe, hammer). Far from the best from Artifex Mundi, but it'll scratch a HOG itch. Recommended if on deep sale.

Unfortunately this game was not what I expected. There are hardly any puzzles and the few available ones are too easy. The story is okay and the sceneries are beautiful but the game lacks any true depth. Voice acting is not very good. This game left me feeling unsatisfied which is a shame because I usually love AM games.