Review anarchistica 2/5 · Dec 25, 2024
Subpar offering even for the genre
Playtime: 3 hours (completed)
Intro
Hidden Object Games are a niche genre which most people won't normally encounter. They're simple point & click adventures with mostly standard puzzles (rotate back and forth, make numbers add up, etc.) and hidden object puzzles. Staples of the genre are idiotic stories about evil magic, terrible animations, extremely dated graphics and voice acting done …
Playtime: 3 hours (completed)
Intro
Hidden Object Games are a niche genre which most people won't normally encounter. They're simple point & click adventures with mostly standard puzzles (rotate back and forth, make numbers add up, etc.) and hidden object puzzles. Staples of the genre are idiotic stories about evil magic, terrible animations, extremely dated graphics and voice acting done in someone's bathroom. Basically they're the B-movies of video games.
What works
In this regard, MotP does not disappoint, and almost all story elements are laughable here. Which i liked. About half of the puzzles are decent too. Crucially, the game has a map that indicates where you can take an action. The hint and skip buttons are there too, but those are rarely omitted nowadays.
What doesn't
The problem with MotP is that it's very short (3 hours), absolutely cannot be played without looking at the map icons and too many of the puzzles are bad. The "endboss" is especially awful, requiring you to click on pairs of icons with no indication of what constitutes a pair. You have to do this four times, and each time it gets harder - the icons get semi-obscured and moved around. Easily one of the worst "puzzles" i've ever encountered.
Conclusion
Even in the dumping ground that is the HOG genre there are dozens of better games than this. Don't bother.