Mountain Trap - The Manor of Memories

4.5 out of 5 Stars

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

Your girlfriend Amy is getting married, but before she takes the plunge you and she go skiing close to the haunted manor near the mountain top.

You loose communication with Amy who stayed on the slopes when you returned to your hotel ~ so like any good Friend you track her down.  Which brings you to the deserted haunted manor.

Only to encounter a ghostly bride who was imprisoned by a love-struck cousin (that's right I said COUSIN) who didn't want her to marry.

You help her hoping this will lead you to your missing Friend and you travel through the manor (inside and out) finding mysterious items that could break the bride free.

Along the way you find Amy unconscious and must break the spell the cousin (dead ghostly cousin) has over her with the items.

Surprise twist, which I liked, but the 'to be continued..." I didn't.

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.

Deadtime Stories

41/2 out of 5 Stars

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



Do you mess with Voodoo and not remember that there is always equal justice for those who abuse it?

Your doing the bidding of a rich woman, who refuses to pay for your services!  You'll will fix her wagon!

Along the way, however, you must help the souls trapped in several Louisiana locations.  You will collect ingredients and correctly put them together back in your shed at your home.

Great voice, info about voodoo and you really can't get lost, but be ready to ride in your carriage to several locations to gather what you need to solve puzzles to go forward.

Angel Code

3 out of 5 Stars

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

Your a reporter who needs to locate the "Holy Grail" because it is your destiny!  And God is sending you her own personal guardian Angel to help you! 

WHAT???!

You're following up on the leads an old priest started on the search and you overall the story is fast paced, but some of the items to find are outlined in total darkness where the only way you can find them is clicking all the area or use the HINT button.

The ending?  "What?  That's it?" Basically it stopped short where a little animation would have lessen my disappointment how short it was and there wasn't even a choice by the player to see if 

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our dear Raphael becomes human or remains an angel.

Vampire Mansion Collectors Edition

3 out of 5 Stars

LINDA & TOM

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


Above is a screen shot of our "Hero's" of the game trying to stop an evil group of people resurrect the one and only Cain from Cain and Abel.  And yes that dude is a Vampire.

We are searching for the mysterious rare books, but later find out it is to an ancient spell to bring a very pissed off Cain back for payback.

You need a special book, blood from a descent, and a body to hold him (a~la the vampire).

Can you trust your teammate or will you discover your own truth?

In some of this hide-and-seek and the annoying mind Mastermind game where you have to find the right pattern of marbles and the right colors to boot with some many chances to figure it out.

Some items are darken in the scene to find and you can click until your hearts content because there is no clock to find the items.  If you need help there is a HINT button, of course.

The BONUS scenes are like 5 and BORING. 

Linda should have let Tom do one thing ~ get to the end to see what she turned down.