Myths Of Orion: Books of Power

A really nice HOG. it is definitely a highlight of Cateia Games' catalogue. Graphics and voice acting are very high quality and the story is serviceable. It reminded me of the old Artifex Mundi games. As usual with Cateia Games this game reuses some of the assets and puzzles from their other titles but it's not a major issue.

It's not bad; the graphics are decent (for an HOG), the dialogue and plot aren't horrifying (for an HOG), the voice work is absolutely okay (for an HOG), the actual hidden object puzzles are good, and it's pretty darned fun. In fact, the only downside are the mini-games, which almost entirely revolve around sliding object based puzzles, culminating in the absolute worst moving crate puzzle ever (rules are clumsily explained, and even if you watch a walkthrough, I suspect you will still be at a loss as to how to progress through the puzzle). Prepare for frustration as I did if you are trying for the achievement for not skipping any mini-tames! In summary, it's a pretty game with a lot of enjoyable moments let down only by the monotonous reliance upon sliding object mini-games, climaxing with an appallingly opaque moving crate puzzle. Still recommended, but it's not a perfect HOG by any measure.

Really love this game and the game play. The voice of the young girl would be ONLY critique. Great Hidden object game I give it a 2 thumbs up.

Decent HOPA game. The story, graphics, music and atmosphere were good. But at the end it gets shorter and shorter. The puzzle with boxes was pure sadism. What I disliked is that there's no interactions with characters after being done with kingdom. They could've [spoiler]say goodbye to Meredith after getting books or acknowledge that she's the reason why kingdoms are in such poor state. Writers brought this up a few times, but it didn't mattered in the overall story. Also it was a little weird that the Wizard allowed Meredith to go for healing potion.[/spoiler] 6.5/10. Worth playing if you enjoy other games in this genre!

The interface and interactions points are sometimes annoying. The map action marker is sometimes imprecise or missing. Some puzzles are very difficult with imprecise explanation. Anyway the game is engaging, with a nice story and VA.

6/10 - It's okay, with a few illogical puzzles and incorrect translations.