One Response to “Margrave Manor 2 The Lost Ship”

1. P. B. Sharp Says:
   June 5th, 2010 at 6:45 am

   The art work in this game is of the highest order. The renditions of the heroine, Edwina Margrave, and Tom, the guy who found the suddenly surfacing ship and takes her there, are really excellent. They are not the junky cartoon -like figures that frequently appear in Hidden Object games.

   The game opens with a derelict ship tossing violently in the thrashing waves …a stunning opening scene that will put you in the mood to explore the abandoned ship,the Aurora Dusk. All of the scenes are beautifully hand-painted and are not static because something is always moving: a spider or cockroach climbs up a wall; a skeleton’s lower jaw clacks up and down; the ship’s wheel creaks back and forth; a brilliant sun appears when it stops raining, and when it is raining that rain is amazingly effective and realistic.

   But…the game is too long and too repetitive and your enthusiasm begins to lag. 24 times you have to piece together torn sheets from journals and diaries of the vanished crew. I lost track of how many times you visit each room on the derelict ship. The objects are hidden differently in each location but you quickly lose interest because the scenes become too familiar as you visit them again and again. And they take a long time to load. The ending is rather abrupt unlike the rest of the game but you’ll be glad when you finally get there.

   In the game, Edwin Margrave’s granddaughter, the intrepid Edwina, is trying to locate the hidden treasure that her Grandfather searched for over ten years earlier when he and his crew set off in his boat the Aurora Dusk. “Neptune’s Treasure” was supposedly hidden in the lost Continent of Atlantis. But where is the treasure? Where is the crew? And where is Grandfather?

   Along the way there are the usual mini- games consisting of spot the difference, math and logic puzzles, jig saws and sequencing puzzles. Although a puzzle of connecting pieces of a pipe is rather old hat, now, the pipe puzzle I found the most fun of the mini- puzzle group. But none of these are really outstanding. You can skip them all if you like.

   In summing up, this is a game that requires patience to finish, the game play not living up to the quality of the graphics.

   Rating: 3 / 5

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