Endless Fables 2: Frozen Path

A forgettable HOG you won't feel bad for not getting or not experiencing. Lame story, poor effects, and collectables that are so random that you will have to look up a guide to make any kind of sense out of it as the morph objects are NOT one per screen, and there are a bunch of different coloured imps that MIGHT be in the screen. And naturally once you reach some screens there is no backtracking allowed so you will easily miss them. Puzzles are not anything new, items you pick up somehow vanish into the aether after one use. Honestly don't know why they don't implement multiple uses for multiple ways of solving things. I would just make it so once you get the pickaxe you keep it till the end. Just run around chopping everything. Throw it at the ice sorcerer too or whatever. Problems solved. Also, I hate ice as a setting. Utterly boring. Apologies if I'm not giving the game a decent review - lazy game gets lazy review. Which is a shame too as I expected better from Artifex Mundi.

The game works, and most of the puzzles are good, which is not always something you can expect from "older" Artifex Mundi games. However, the story is bad, and, once again, Artifex Mundi doesn't understand or follow the actual mythology they are supposedly using. This is up in the top three worst portrayals of Loki I've ever seen, and I will engage with anything myth-based I can get my hands on. The other part that annoyed me was all the witch stuff, which I get, I guess, but it felt forced, hollow, and unnecessary, as per usual with this stuff.

Starts out well enough with yer bog standard HOGing in a seaside village, but the back 2/3rds of the game are below par, with dodgy art and dumbed down puzzles. Collectibles are good and challenging though. Was going to give this a thumbs down but I think the (much higher quality) bonus adventure juuuust barely redeems it.

A Hidden Object game and this time the story evolves around Northern Mythology. Well, story is said too much, mainly clicking from screen to screen, The riddles are ok, even though too many amulets and gems to open box after box in my opinion. All in all, the game is ok but neither sticks out nor motivated me to play through in one go.

Fun ;p

It's a competent hidden object game.