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Friday, January 30, 2009
Cassandra's Journey: The Legacy of Nostradamus
Cassandra's Journey: The Legacy of Nostradamus is a hidden object game, created by Joybits. You are the granddaughter of a famous fortune teller, and it seems you have inherited some of her talents.Gameplay: It's a standard hidden object game. There are hints (that don't always work correctly; see below) that highlight items if you can't find them. You can purchase additional hints after finding enough gems. When looking for differences in some of the pictures, consider things like color, shape, size, and location. On one, I could not spot the sandwich on the table. :)
Mini-puzzles:
1) Prophecies: Hangman. There is a random quatrain that you must decode in less than 10 errors.
2) Jigsaw: It's really a switch place, not as much a jigsaw. You click a piece, then select another piece where you want to place it, and the two tiles will switch places.
3) Rune Concentration: Memory match. Flip two cards; if they match, they will disappear.
4) Rune Match: Find an adjacent combination of 2 (or more runes). Once a combo of tiles are selected, the tiles will turn from red to green to complete the puzzle. You can shuffle the tiles 3 times.
5) Tarot: You must unscramble 4 Tarot cards from the moving ones in the frame. This is how I solved it: I placed the cursor in the middle of the large left frame until a card fragment appeared. I then moved my mouse slowly, and a card started to take shape, sort of like a jigsaw. It will look like a central part joined by 4 other pieces - then click and drag it out of the frame.
6) Lock: You direct fire balls at the locks, using the fleur de lis tiles. As an additional hint, the flower tiles teleport the fireball to another location.
What they did well: there is a nice mix to the type of hidden object games. The mini-games were relatively fun. The art was good.
What could have been better: The story. Frankly, the story was terrible. There were spelling errors and sometimes it made no sense. Clicking through the text was painful at times. I found several bugs: sometimes there would be something that would fit the item description, but only one was correct. The hint button did not always work correctly, especially when down to the last two objects. It consistently would not highlight the object, which was very frustrating. The "divinations", which unlock as you progress along the story, were disappointing.
Overall: It's a decent game, one that fans of astrology and hidden object games might like. If you like a good backstory, this would not be a game for you.
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