Time Mysteries: Inheritance - Remastered

Hidden-object-puzzle point-and-click story game. You have recently won an award in Physics and are eager to show your father. However, on returning home he is nowhere to be found. Instead there is a talking crystal ball and seven odd rings with which to find him, somewhere in space and time. Fix the ball (after it gets broken). Find the rings (after you drop them). Find your father. Dig through piles of crap. Artifex Mundi specializes in hidden-object-puzzle-based story games. These aren't hidden-object-puzzle things like Where's Waldo, or even A Park Full of Cats. These are story games in which you're trying to figure something out, and along the way you occasionally need a special thing, and you need to dig through a pile of crap to find things on a list of crap to get the one special thing you need. This isn't necessarily a horrible thing, especially if you like hidden-object puzzles, unless it's done horribly. If the image of the pile of crap is clear and not fuzzy and not muddy-colored, if the list of crap doesn't contain obscure items you might need to go look up to recognize, if there's some sort of hint system for when your eyes give out, and especially if there's a zoom-in option, it can be great for people who like hidden-object puzzles. I don't consider this game great. Hidden-object-puzzle games are not my go-to, but aside from that this game had issues. I thought the pile of crap images were fuzzy. There didn't appear to be a zoom-in feature. While the items on the list of crap were for the most part not obscure, it was certainly hard to recognize some of them: I'm more familiar with baseball bats than cricket bats, but I couldn't spot either one except by accident. And all I ever saw of the golf club was a thin black line. The music wasn't bad, and not obnoxiously distracting. The voice-acting for the cutscenes was a nice attempt, but the dialogue itself was tiresome at times. And the mouth movements on the characters was weird and sometimes disturbing...the first time I saw the female lead's mouth move, it made me think of a giraffe trying to yodel. Maybe there's a decent story there, but so far little I saw left me compelled to find out. At least the hidden-object puzzles could be skipped by instead playing a match-3 puzzle, though I'm not a fan of those either. And this is supposedly the "remastered" edition, which makes me cringe at the thought of what it must have been like before, some time over twelve years ago. Got it in a Humble Bundle, so likely for around US$1. At this writing it's listed in Steam at $1.49, on sale from its usual price of $15. I wouldn't pay $15, and at this point I might not pay $1 unless it was in a bundle with something else I wanted. Maybe I'd play it if they paid me instead. Maybe.

Time Mysteries: Inheritance is an interesting game, with a decent story, beautiful music and exciting places to visit. I enjoyed those parts very much! On the other hand, there are other things with this game, that makes me want to not recommend this game. The fact that this is one of the older Artifex Mundi games makes it very much different than the newer games, especially with the hidden object puzzles. I'm actually happy with the amount of hidden object puzzles in the game, as I just played a newer games from Artifex Mundi, where there were almost none at all. The graphics and how the items are put into these puzzles makes it really hard to see the items though, and I feel the amount of time I spent on these puzzles also took some of the focus away from the actual story. It's not fun when you have to guess, instead of actually solving the puzzles. The worst thing however with this game, also related to hidden object puzzles is actually something that almost made me throw up, even feeling nauseous, and made me physically ill. Some of the hidden object puzzles, especially the ones in the "main location", had a feature where it would turn the light up very bright, and then dim it again. My eyes hurt, and I had to put my blue light filter on my monitor to level 4, and that's with windows night mode on already! So yeah. If your focus is on the game and story itself, I would recommend it, but for people like me that enjoys to do puzzles and achievements without help, well maybe you should pick a different game.

Time Mysteries: Inheritance es un juego de Objetos Ocultos y Puzzles en el que acompañaremos a Vivien, la protagonista, y una misteriosa bola de cristal parlante en una aventura a través del tiempo explorando distintas épocas para salvar a su padre y atrapar al misterioso viajero responsable de su secuestro. La historia deja que desear, la idea es buena pero no se desarrolla, solo al principio y al final te cuentan algo, lo que es entre medio del juego mientras vas avanzando no hay nada relevante, solo son encuentros con personajes con diálogos que no aportan nada a la trama. Los puzzles son buenos tienen algo de dificultad, lo malo es que no te explican en ninguno de ellos que es lo que debes hacer, algunos son intuitivos pero otros no tanto. Los escenarios de objetos ocultos son difíciles pero no por la razón correcta, la falta de calidad de las imágenes dificulta ver con nitidez las cosas, además, son repetitivos a lo largo del juego. Las traducciones de los objetos en general están bien solo hay uno que otro objeto con una traducción muy española que no se entiende a que se refiere pero son pocos los casos. Visualmente no es un juego muy llamativo que digamos, en cuestión artística hay de dos sopas, lo que son los escenarios de objetos ocultos y de pequeños puzzles pese a la baja calidad son bonitos, están aceptables, pero por otro lado lo que son los personajes y las animaciones están espantosas, son feas, como que no cuadran con lo demás, es como ver recortes de revista de actores pegadas en pinturas clásicas, y las actuaciones de voz, bueno, al menos tiene... Dicho lo dicho has con esa información lo que quieras, por mi parte le doy recomendado, lo jugué por los puzzles y los objetos ocultos y me gustaron, me la pasé bien, ¿Es feo? si, ¿Tiene carencias? bastantes, pero a ver es un juego originalmente del 2010 y posiblemente el primero de Artifex Mundi, seguro hicieron lo que pudieron con lo que tenían en aquel entonces.

Hidden Object, Strategy, Mini Games, Time Travel, Story line - This game has it all. Interesting but same -o every level starts the same but different encounters. Different Characters but Main character is connected to all in some way. I just kept playing, it keeps drawing you in. Usually, I play awhile then come back. This one I played and came back twice I just couldn't stop.

a good hidden object game, find items, solve mysteries in a pursuit to find your father

I wouldn’t recommend it. Don’t let “Remastered” in the title fool you — the game looks and feels old, and it’s not an HD remaster. There aren’t many details about this game; my guess is it’s a remaster of something from the mid-2000s. Voice acting is awful. Puzzles are boring. And I know we don’t come to hidden object games for the story (the story and characters are also not inspiring), but the most important part — the hidden object screens are not very well drawn, and some objects are easy to spot while others are a pain to find. You don’t get any fun out of it. At least the achievements are easy, but keep in mind everything needs to be completed in one profile.

i used to obsessively play this on my ipod touch as a kid and was feeling nostalgic. tbh? child me had terrible taste. this is corny as hell and the graphics look like a potato

The music is very pleasant, but the visual quality is horrible. The object scenes are plentiful, especially compared to most HOG's out there, but it is quite frustrating to play when you're looking at a vague pixelated screen. It's a pity, because the game could actually be fun had it not been for that. It's also short, without any bonus. I bought the series on sale, so I hope the next editions are a bit more HD.

Pros: * Abundance of Hidden object scenes * Compelling Story line * Intriguing Concept * Hint recharged fast * Good Antagonist * Decent Writing * Good Voice Acting Cons: * Horrible Animation ** Mouths didn't always sync up with voice acting ** Characters Heads would constantly bulge and distort before returning to normal * ZERO INSTRUCTIONS FOR ALL BUT ONE MINI GAME * Anti-climatic ending ** No definitive solution for Antagonists problem. We must simply assume Merlin makes everything better for the Antagonist The story was good enough for me to actually finish the game, however, I've never been so utterly disappointed by a game from this company. I absolutely don't recommend this game.