Hide & Secret 4: The Lost World

3.5 out of 5 Stars

Category: Video Games
Genre:  Paranormal Adventure, Hidden Games
Console: PC Games

The fun continues with Will and Anna who are joined by a kidnapped Professor Columbia and Brad Pitt look-a-like Lord Rockwood and a Captain Winters.  Don't worry too much about them they pretty much sit this game out.

Jacques is up to his old tricks of trying to get immortality and his victim is Professor Columbia.

Through hide & seek you get valuable clues and items to continue to solve her release.  There is a side adventure where you help a local Chief find his family, but you can't get lost in locations.

Will Anna and Will stop Jacques and save the professor from her fate?

PS:  If you ever get lost (only locating one last mechanism for the telescope) there is several good walkthroughs online.

Hide & Secret 2: Cliffhanger Castle

3 out of 5 Stars

SPOILER ALERT IF CLICKED

Category: Video Games
Genre:  Paranormal Adventure, Hidden Games
Console: PC Games

This is the 2nd installment of the Hide & Secret games where Anna and Will act like a poor man's Tombraider adventure to uncover treasures.

This time your working with Merlin (yes that one) to locate armor of the one and only King Arthur of Camelot.  Then find the Excalibur which will save the world of today, but can only first be used by an heir in the bloodline.

Trouble with this game is the limited HINTS offered.  Also trying to locate some of the items are so hard that you get frustrated and want to turn off the game.  The plus side is when you run out of hints and still can't find everything you can restart the chapter and hope not to get the item that made you upset.

The main annoying thing is Merlin who pops up when you click too many times on the screen.

I would have given this game a 2.5, but the story was mangled, but still interesting to follow through.  Also when you complete the game you can go through the story without all the additional work.

Jodie Drake and the World in Peril!

5 out of 5 Stars

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Category: Video Games
Genre:  Paranormal Adventure, Hidden Games
Console: PC Games

Your a freelance reporter, named Jodie, who is sent to photograph amazing artifacts from what seems like lost locations.

Then one day a man hires you to continue the photos and locate the mystery location where a civilization that was lost once was.

But there is an alternative motive!  Isn't there always?  Ha~ha.

You travel to several locations and the mini games in between are mixed up are varied so your not bored with the same style.

Some of the items are hard to find, but since there is no penalty in clicking everywhere that is the alternative to using the HINT button.