Demon Hunter 5: Ascendance

10th Hidden object game I've played and 100%'d. Despite 100% completing it, this game bugged out and wont give me three of the achievements, which is great. Both collectable-related achievements did not unlock despite me collecting every single collectable with 100% certainty. This game tells you when any are on the screen and it straight up says I have them all in the collection menu, it just didn't pop the achievements. One of the story achievements also didn't unlock by the looks of it. Awesome! So I'm really annoyed by that as it prevents me from 100%ing all my hidden object games like I planned to, just because the game is buggy and poorly made. It also crashed at one point, first time I've had one of these games just straight up crash on me, and the dialogue lines cut themselves off sometimes. I see other people having issues with the collectables so this particular hidden object game is just very poorly made. A shame, as if it worked I'd rate this positively. I liked the story as far as HOG games go, and I enjoyed some of the silly adventure game logic. Most of all I just liked the atmosphere & the dialogue/characters were slightly better than average for this genre. Also …

Worked fine, puzzles are okay, voice acting is awful, story is insipid but also wrong.

I expected more. I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed... Whelp.

I think I've thumbed-down the entire series at this point so the only reason this one gets a blue thumb is because it stands alone (there is no connection to the previous four games) and arguably has more quality applied to it than previous outings. That's not to say that it's a good game, mind you - it's just kinda okay. Most importantly, it leans heavier into straightforward adventure game and the H.O. scenes are sparse. Most of the game is inventory puzzling like classic PNC adventures so if you're into that, great. If you're here for the scenes... there aren't many and what's there is pretty easy. At least they got rid of morphing objects! It took long enough. There's little in the way of saving graces, but as always, the scene art is pretty good and the environments are well-realized so you're never guessing at what you're looking at. Some of the elements are reused from previous games, but it's nothing to get upset about. Other than that, the story is ridiculous, the human characters hit a weird uncomfortable space where they're not quite uncanny-valley, but they're not quite easy on the eyes, either. The voice acting is what we usually expect from these games and for some r…

yes I would recommend Demon Hunter 5. It was fun, yet again some of the mini games don't explain what they want you to do

Fun puzzle game, the extras add to the game's appeal. The puzzles are not too hard, but I did have to skip a few. And I was not able to get the achievement for not using hints.