Cadenza: Music, Betrayal and Death Collector's Edition

I had an enjoyable time with this, including the bonus prequel chapter. I really enjoyed the variety of minigames/puzzles, and the story/character work was remarkably effective for a HOG. The hidden object puzzles themselves they tried a number of different approaches to and sometimes I found them a bit fussy, like having to figure out what parts of the scenery needed to be pushed aside to find the object on the list. All told, this felt like a "premium" experience for this genre; I'm actually looking forward to checking out their big genre pivot Scars Above since I see that's on sale at time of review.

I have a separate section in my library for 'state of the art'. This must rate top of this list. Absorbing story, great acting and the music is fantastic, to say nothing of the HOGs and puzzles. There are two independent songs which are beautiful, and although uncredited can be downloaded. It took me 9 hours to play both the game and bonus game and I'm still going through the extras. only quibble is the achievement that says completed in 5 hours - no way

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DISCLAIMER: Play time is not taking into consideration dinner and hot tub break folks. STORY: Interesting – EVEN MORE New Orleans jazz scene shenanigans. Musical score is jazz centered and cool, cool, cool. GRAPHICS: Nice, a step up from years gone by TRAVEL: Includes map that lists things to do or objectives to accomplish. Allows teleportation. MECHANICS: Typical HIDDEN OBJECT SCENES are not classic conventional but a mix of require you to interact with various objects to obtain others, riddles, wood cuts etc. MINIGAMES are at time simple and other challenging. BONUS FEATURES usual LENGTH: Depends on player – this is a good game for an afternoon/evening. ACHIEVEMENTS: if you’re a seeker there are plenty here. VOICE ACTING: For this genre it was pretty acceptable FYI…Stay for the credits – they are very amusing with each member of the team providing a personal comment.

Really Great HOG! music and puzzles are engaging and grateful for the colourful characters too.

Loved the jazz music, atmosphere & the in-depth storyline. Very unique! The HOG scenes are excellent with lots of variety in the things to locate & ways to find them. For example matching pairs & combining things. In fact, the HOG scenes are like their own self contained mini games! Great fun. The puzzles are 75% absurdly easy and 25% moderate, normally I prefer a bit more of a challenge. I like that the bonus chapter used new scenes, I find it lazy programming when bonus chapters repeat scenes. Despite the easy puzzles, those awesome HOG scenes made up for it. A good game overall. UPDATE: After the game is over, check the extras for more minigames and help the music shop owner rebuild his shop! Nice touch & happy ending! :)