PuppetShow: Porcelain Smile Collector's Edition

[i]PuppetShow: Porcelain Smile Collector's Edition[/i] is an adventure, mystery, hidden object game developed by AMAX Interactive and published by Big Fish Games. It is the 15th game in the [i]PuppetShow[/i] series although, at the time of this review, only the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 15th (this one), and the 16th (the latest release) are available on Steam. You play a character who receives a letter from your friend DeeDee, a university friend, who invites you to her home for her birthday. However, once you arrive at DeeDee's place, DeeDee is immediately kidnapped by a masked assailant. Add in the whole mystery of puppets being at the center of mysterious events happening in DeeDee's town and you get the gist of the story. It's up to you to rescue DeeDee and unravel the mystery. I'll stop my story synopsis to avoid spoilers and all that. As for the gameplay, [i]Porcelain Smile[/i] has pretty much the same gameplay as previous installments of [i]PuppetShow[/i] games. The gameplay consists of hidden object scenes, mini-games, and areas where you have to pick up items needed to progress. In addition, there are collectible bells which represent previous [i]PuppetShow[/i] games as…

Very fun Hidden Object game and not too short (like many of them are)! I recommend the entire PuppetShow series. I've loved all of them. Pros: Many different kinds of little hidden object-type scenes. Decent enough story for my tastes, lots and lots of things to find. The actual hidden object scenes were pretty good and some were quite fun. Some of the puzzles/scenes didn't make complete sense, but I'm okay with that for this kind of game. It was fairly linear (not a lot of back and forth or hunting around). Usually that bothers me a bit because I love having to hunt for things, but this game was so fun I didn't mind. (Some people might prefer it.) It didn't have a ton of the standard mini-puzzles, but lots of little mini-mini-puzzles. The Mini-puzzles it did have were for the most part not just the same ones that some developers use over and over (though some might have been similar) For me about the only cons were: If you zoom into something and there is an item you can pick up, it basically makes sure you pick it up. I like having to find them for myself. The other was that some things were a bit too easy, like a little jigsaw puzzle that shows the outline of the pieces as yo…

All the Puppet Series games are fun!

Utterly garbage compared to the previous games. The story makes zero sense, is full of plot holes, forgets half of its own story just minutes after explaining it, and it's not even pretty with lots of very low resolution artwork. Has no connection to previous PuppetShow games except for a recurring character, whose story here makes no sense because they forgot what they were even doing with him. And why is there a Japanese theme? This is just embarrassing. My played time is because I had the game up in the background overnight.

5 Stars

Interesting story and puzzles. HOGs are fun.