Hidden Objects: Missing Hearts

Unable to continue playing, it keeps crashing at the barrel and paint game.

Attention players! FYI, this series is the replacement for Dark Romance, where you play from the vantage point of two love interests, in this case a vampire and a vampire hunter. Once again, this is not a true CE game. No strategy guide except for collectibles, no match-3 alternative, no ability to play mini-games or HO scenes over, so basically no extras. Well, you do get one extra HOP if you obtain all 140 drops. It wasn’t worth the trouble. To make matters worse, once again I had the mini-game screen embedded over the entire gameplay interface. If I had to pay for this game, I wouldn’t have played it. Attention: thank you to both Soopercoop and Pessce for giving me prices. It is apparent that you are not getting your money’s worth of gameplay, as there is no strategy guide or match-3 alternative. You are basically getting a game that is falsely billed as a CE game! You cannot even play mini-games or HO puzzles, as there is no true extras section. Plus, you are subjected to those timer clocks! Ugh, I have to write to Oleg, but he doesn’t listen anyway. All players who are unhappy with this new format, kindly say so in your review! We need to revert back to actual CE games with all the bells and whistles. The game was lengthy. I wasn’t crazy about the storyline, but I’m not into vampires. This would have been more suitable as a Halloween game. There were plenty of mini-games but most of them were boring and rotational. At least a labyrinth was tossed into the mix. Most of the inventory usage was basic (fanning fumes or smoke, digging, screwdrivers and wrenches) but there was some more novel use of products as well. I thought there was too much fixing of machinery, and it detracted from my enjoyment of the game. The other detractions were the sales timer clocks (two hour-long timers) and the embedded mini-game buttons (no excuse, poor quality assurance.) I felt this game was merely average and that the aforementioned issues outweighed my pleasure in playing it. My true rating is 2.5 stars.

Once again, no strategy guide, no match 3. Also, the back arrow on the tool bar was obscured by the picture of the current player. The map quit working in the bonus chapter and the screen froze twice in the bonus, requiring restart. Other than that, not quite as bad as the last game, but still only worth a 2.