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Dream Day Wedding: Married in Manhattan
Posted by Jianyang Tan on August 12th, 2008 in Reviews

Dream Day Wedding: Married in Manhattan is a lovely, romantic hidden object game that doubles as a wedding gift. Appropriately, it seems designed just for that beautiful occassion; it’s the casual game industry’s answer to wedding gifts and souvenirs. The theme of marriage is so strong that it’s easy to feel out of place playing [...]


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Mystery of Shark Island
Posted by Nick Kojima on December 30th, 2007 in Reviews

Playfirst would like you to believe that their new game, Mystery of Shark Island “tempts everyone’s inner beachcomber.” To be honest, I’m not sure I have an inner beachcomber – I have more of an “inner guy who pounds fruity drinks, gets sunburns in uncomfortable places and ogles the co-eds down at Cabo on spring [...]


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Mystery Solitaire
Posted by Nick Kojima on December 14th, 2007 in Reviews

It’s such a patently obvious theme: Aloha Tripeaks meets Lost meets Mystery Case Files. Yet, like all the best ideas, it’s only obvious when someone else does it. And despite the somewhat Chinese-food-menu approach to design it takes, the overall game takes the best elements of all of its inspiration sources and creates an original [...]


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Travelogue 360: Paris
Posted by Nick Kojima on December 8th, 2007 in Reviews

Just when we thought the whole MCF thing was in danger of getting stale, here comes Travelogue 360 Paris. Yep – you are still finding candy canes and toasters in the upholstery, but now you are doing it in a foreign language – and that makes all of the difference.


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Dream Day Wedding
Posted by Nick Kojima on May 5th, 2007 in Reviews

Yep, it’s a clone. The screen looks shockingly similar; the object selection is in the same place, even the hints and the clock are in the same place. If there had been a Big Fish logo at the beginning and a title of “Mystery Case Wedding” you wouldn’t have blinked an eye at it. There, [...]


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