First Time in Rome Reviews

Playable in Dutch! Speelbaar in het Nederlands!

Casual, fun gameplay. Not just hidden objects but puzzles as well. Low computer requirements.

As well as dropping their price point ($7 full price, introductory offer of over $5) this has new welcome options. So this will appeal to the traditional old school of HOG players as well as those wanting an easy 100% game and for those in between and depending on how you play, the time it takes you will vary GREATLY. In this the 2nd game in the series they have introduced a ‘skip story’ feature for the story mode and it does just that. No people, no story just one HOS or puzzle given to you one after the other. Although you can click through the story if you choose to see the story, and there is a skip button on it, you have to click ‘skip’ on each section. I don’t know why on these types of games there isn’t a heavier edit button on the story as even one small paragraph before each scene would suffice but they do go on so I do think it’s a great idea to offer this option. So, for a lot of people not wanting a story and just want to play HOS and puzzles they finally addressed it. They also have added a ‘misclick penalty’ option, and a custom mode which mostly is for how quick your skip or hint is but you can also have ‘minigame locks in correct position’ option as well. You can zoom in with a scroll or right click to have a magnifying glass. As this is a quality HOG game by a quality developer (Boomzap) there is nothing near pixel hunting even for the collectable but it helps to focus. The collectable in these games are “?” in each HOS. When you find one it gives you ‘fun fact’ about the place in the theme of the game, here it’s Rome. There was a good bit of research that went into it and made the game a lot more interesting but what’s good if you aren’t interested in it you don’t need to find them. Gameplay for story mode is a variety of styles of HOS. Once you have played a scene there, it is opened in unlimited mode. Unlimited has each scene with all choices of HOS (although it says there are 8 there are only 7. In the previous game there was a ‘collection’ mode which is find ‘x’ amount of same item which is missing here). These are straight list, missing vowels, find pairs, silhouette, image (which is similar to silhouette) scramble word you are looking for, riddles. HOS - 19 different original scenes, 11 of them have both night and day options. So 30 different scenes. Puzzles - 38 main puzzles. This is the CE version. - Replayable main puzzles in the photo journal - In game achievements - Play storymode - Play bonus chapter - Unlimited mode - Soundtracks/wallpapers - Profiles [H1]100%[/H1] There is a superhint, which if you use at the beginning will show you all items - the hint button shows you one item. I don’t think it will show you the collectable but the collectable is quite big, look for balloons or topiary/flower shaped. A couple of times it was shaded well on a road. - Play story mode and bonus (if you keep clicking continue in story mode you will play bonus) - You only need to do 10 main puzzles without hints/skips there are 38 puzzles in total some really easy – swap tiles, find in large picture the small portion of picture, jigsaw etc. - The mini subgames are ones you find in HOS – find differences, rotate rings (without one ring affecting the other) super easy. - Wait until you finish story mode before doing following as you do play multiple times a scene in story mode. - In unlimited you need to find all 5 collectables if you found 2 already in story mode it counts and will tell you here how many more you need. You don’t need to do the scene just find the “?” and leave (this is different to the Paris game where you had to finish the scene). You can choose whatever type it doesn’t matter, just find the 1 collectable in each scene 5 different times. - That achievement popped when I went into the in-game achievements afterwards OVERVIEW With the new choice of options, new pricepoint, the ‘fun facts’ regarding the theme, choice of type of HOS (although not the ‘collection’ sadly) and replayable HOS and puzzles this is a VG standard of a straight HOG. No adventure here just pure optional story with HOS and puzzles. The story I felt was weak in the first one so I skipped this one and I love the option of being able to do so. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40751408/]Ginger’s Games Curator page[/url]