The Clockwork Man JC
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April 28th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
The Clockwork Man
This is a Hidden Object game with a surrounding narrative that takes you through a story that gives you reasons for finding objects. Every once in a while there are different kinds of puzzles to solve in order to progress. The game has a few innovative features, such as side scrolling and zooming into and out of the picture. I found the search difficulty to be medium to a little hard. I did use hints a few times, mainly to understand what an object looked like since my image of what an object was did not always match the description. There is no time limit so you can feel free to take as long as you like.
The Options screen has controls for music and effects volume, but unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be any music or sound effects included on the disc. The only sounds I heard were voices when characters were talking. Otherwise, the game is silent while you’re doing the puzzles, which is kind of boring. At least the artwork is very nice.
Also, I ran across what I think is a bug in the game. Pretty early on you find a box that requires you to solve a series of logic puzzles to open it. I quickly figured out what had to be done, but one of the pieces would not present me with what I had determined to be the solution. Since this puzzle is apparently randomly generated, I think it somehow generated a set that was not solveable. Fortunately, there’s a skip button.
On the whole, though the concept is interesting, I found the game to be too much talking and not enough puzzling, which makes the game feel really short. (I finished it over a couple of afternoons.) Once you’re finished with the first pass you can play it again, supposedly with different things to find, and there’s a free play mode where you can just do only searching for objects without sitting through the narrative. Frankly, I have no interest in continuing to play this game. For the most hidden object fun I recommend the Mystery Case Files and Mystery PI games.
Rating: 2 / 5
April 28th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
I liked this game ,a little repetative in it’s floor plan but you can finish it and is a good seek and find with interactive parts. Some objects are a little hard to find but I like to think it is because the game wizzards are good at hidding them and it is not my eyesight. I would recommend it.
Rating: 4 / 5
April 28th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
my wife and i played this game together, and found it to be a very fun loving game. we played it and really had a good time figuring out the puzzles and finding all the objects. we look forward to playing more games like this.
Rating: 5 / 5
April 28th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Story line a bit thin. Interesting find its, A couple easy solve its. Could have been developed and deepened. OK for a few easy hours amusement.
Rating: 4 / 5
April 28th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Game is great, but the thing froze my computer the first couple times I tried to install.
Rating: 4 / 5