Mysteries of the Undead Reviews

Unfortunately this particular HOG experience is a nightmare. I usually never use the hint button and always try to not miss-click inn hog scenes. This game makes it impossible as it suffers from a multitude of technical issues such as having interactive parts in hog scenes but the mouse pointer not reacting to objects that can be manipulated. This results in aimless clicking all over the scene in hopes of opening something. Having the hog items clickable area in worst cases be only a few pixels wide again resulting in several dozen clicks before the game actually pick the item up. Weird object naming which in cases assumably can be something lost in translation such as roller skates being "rollers" which is still somehow understandable but then ranging to very outlandish interpretations such as a trumpet being "pipe" to completely irrational ones such as a number 2 being "hunter" and an umbrella being "cup" ... It makes no sense at all. On the technical side, apart from HOG scene issues, I've had to skip one puzzle as there just was no apparent solution, the mechanics seemed broken. The story could be decent (as far as hog adventures come, let's face it, logic is not usually the strongest suite of these games) but is also ruined by some of the most frustrating, infuriating "acts" and primary tasks I've ever had the misfortune to come across. In the first part we spend what seems like countless hours of real time fetching a bottle of water to an injured guy who for reasons X refuses to move until we do so and obviously the only way to get this is to painstakingly filter this with a machine. In the second part this theme continues. We are surrounded by zombies (or whatever), the lab is about to explode. We come across this engineer dude who has a crucial data disk but is scared and refuses to move his ass when its imperative for his own survival. The solution is to get him a piece of his favorite chocolate because his ass is a tad peckish... ! The whole second part revolves around getting him this damned chocolate bar ... Not sure if this is intentionally making fun of the fuzzy dreamlike logic these games usually have, if so then kudos, but it only managed to rile me up since I was already irritated by the technical shenanigans ... Potential lost by stupid storyline and almost gamebreaking technical issues.

Most of the graphics are OK for an older game's standers and story line if fine, but HO is terrible. No indications where you can find objects that are blue (no pointer changes, or glimmer), items hard to see, many mislabeled items. Devs could have fixed this long time ago and put out a fixed version or a patch, but no one did anything about it. No voice overs and "music" is quite annoying. Stay away from this game and before you buy an other game from this developer find a free demo of the game so you don't buy an other badly made game like this again.

It looked really cool and I liked the story, but there were issues with it. I had to click the same spot over and over again to get it to register. Some hidden objects were mislabeled. Really appreciated the almost instant skip button for the puzzles, because I really didn't get some of the instructions`. The hint button took ages to recharge though, which is super annoying because there were times when I could see the object I was supposed to be clicking, but I guess I wasn't clicking the exact right spot