Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy
August 4, 2009
Rating: +82
OS: Windows XP/Vista
CPU: 1.0 GHz or faster Processor
RAM: 256 MB
Hard Drive: 232 MB
The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy will definitely be a hit among “HOGs”, but others should not miss out on this one. This unique game will take you into a world that is truly mesmerizing and magical.
Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy review
One of the most interesting aspects of the game Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy , is that it fuses popular literary figure with the hidden object games. This game is also no different, and is equally fresh and engaging along the lines of Agatha Christie or Edgar Allan Poe’s works. In this game, you are a renowned mystery writer, who uses his supernatural pocket watch to find the murder. This game is fast, racy and a thriller, very much like an Edgar Poe‘s works. The game is replete with wacky imagery that is reminiscent of Poe’s works and to find the murderer- which is the 160-year-old- curse, you will have to do a lot of investigation, which includes collecting clues, interviewing witnesses etc, ultimately arriving at a conclusion.
Much of the game-play will be familiar to the die-hard Hidden Object Games fans. You will have to click first on an indoor scene or outdoor scene, which is splattered with objects listed from the bottom of the screen. These scenes have a plethora of objects and also include clues. You can find black crows, which will help you locate objects. Another visual element that keeps coming time and time again is a hissing black cat, which scares off the crows. All this adds to the drama, mystery and adds to the inherent repaly value to this game.
Every scene is full of adventure games that will thrill you and at the same time engage you. There are a lot of things that you need to do in the course of the game. For eg, you might have to locate a buried object, read engraved words in stone, read scriptures, to find out a secret map, you might even have to open a bottle. All this adds to the mystery and enigma surrounding the game. It also adds to the inherent old world charm that one associates with Poe.
Graphics wise, Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy is a beautiful, mysterious, and haunting, that will leave you speel bound and captivated. Its animated story sequences and woofer-like sound effects is a sure add-on. Add to that its mystic music, and you have a game that is a winner all the way.Like most of the popular hidden games, this too has its share of mini-games laced elegantly throughout based on logic and deduction.
Conclusion: This game is not perfect and has its share of flaws. For instance, when one clicks on the hint option below, more than one option appears. This makes it cumbersome. Also hurting the game’s replay value is the fact that there are only one game mode and the objects that appear remain stagnat each time you set out to play. All this makes this game slightly tedious and cumbersome. Having said all that Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy will definitely be a hit and is likely to fulfil their desires. This is because Hidden Object Gamers are already familiar with Poe’s works, his style, his world and of course the controversy surrounding his death. However, even non - Hidden Object Games should give this game a shot, because of its stunning imagery, mini-games that are engaging and its stunning back ground score.
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