Mirror Mysteries 2 Reviews

Edited Review: Initial Review Negative: Bugs, Crashes, Game stopping A relatively easy point and click hidden object game that suffers from low resolution and game ending bugs. The first encountered was in the first hidden object scene. It could not be played around and the game stopped due to the bug. Even on sale, it's not worth buying this until the bugs are fixed. Revised Review: The scenes are lovely and detailed. It is a pleasure to have a hidden object game that is not solely about horror. Although the game does not support wide screen resolution or larger resolutions well, it can be played in the windows 7 operating system with modified settings. (It still crashes at unexpected times. I missed a mirror shard quite deep into the game. As I followed the hints back to it, the game crashed predictably before I could get back to the shard. This made the game unplayable.) Please see other forum posts for details of Windows 7 bug fixes. Having Started a new profile in order to play through from the beginning, and perhaps not miss the mirror shard that caused the last game-ending crash, I find the angel-wing bug back. The game crashes again, despite the fixes. It looks like it would be fun to play if not for the bugs.

I might go with a mixed review if I could. It works better under Windows 10 than the first Mirror Mysteries, but there is way too much pixel-hunting. I’ll go with a thumbs down since I don’t think the evil mirror is a believable villain. In the first game, the mirror wasn’t that bad. It just wanted the heroine to fix a bunch of mirrors that her kids broke. In this game, the mirror is bent on world domination.

...as expected, not much revealed about the identity or the origin of the said Mirror in this sequel. Sadly, there aren't as many worlds in this game compared to the first one either. The game play is flashier, yet pretty much straight forward. Kinda liked the first game better, actually. Adding some animations doesn't establish a keen atmosphere really. All in all, it is not a must, but it has been fun in the sense of basic genre.

Pros : - Good soundtrack and graphics - very easy to play, and possibility to skip the puzzle - there is a story and you interact with people to help them for a stuff. Cons : - some bugs, I needed to quit the game as I was stuck (missing items) - when you have to look for items (see pictures 7 & 8)... personally I click everywhere, as the hidden items are VERY WELL hidden - sometimes there are non-intuitive actions to do.

Beautiful graphics. A lot of work went into this. It picks up the story from Mirror Mysteries 1 and ramps up the artwork. Instead of the usual hidden objects, you look for parts and pieces of objects to assemble and use. I wish, however, such an amazing work of art and intelligent design would steer away from the occult. Great job, developers!

i enjoyed the first game, but this game was completed in just over 2 hours. Not much of a story line at all and very little to recommend it. Even if you only pay 39p for it, still wouldnt buy it.

A pretty good sequel. The story was ok and the voice overs as well. The gameplay was pretty fun, because this time even the HOS did something to the world around you. The minigames where pretty easy, but it felt really short, shorter even as the first part. Still a nice game with a little giggle in the end. I can recommend it

The second Mirror Mysteries are slighty different than the first one. The graphics are a bit better and the locations more interesting (for example the first world which I liked the most is nicely inspired by art deco and maybe even by the Bioshock). The story again revolves around the same bad character as the previous game but this time it's much better (but still nothing deep). The voice acting sounds more professional and the cheesiness from the first game is gone (that's a shame I liked it :D). There are also more and much better puzzles (but they're skippable if you don't want to solve them). Also the gameplay is slightly different this time. Besides the standard hidden object finding there are also some point'n'click adventure elements blended in. So all in all if you like hidden objects finding you are on a good address. Pros: -More interesting puzzles -Better story -Less cheaply hidden objects -Longer than the first game Cons: -Sometimes it's hard to find where to put a completed object -Still a little bit short -Puzzles are too easy to solve

I played the first one last weekend, so I figured I might as well wrap up the second while I'm here. Apart from general bad temper, I'm not sure I get the vocal-minority hatred here for Mirror Mysteries 2: Forgotten Kingdoms. It's true that it commits the scarlet sin of not being exactly the same as the first game in the series, although it's actually pretty close. It's a short, easy, slightly silly excursion into a few realms in the lands the malevolent Magic Mirror, which once again has no sense of humor and intends to take over the world and destroy everyone muahaha. If that sounds a little like the original, well, yeah. The first had an easier forward-pressing pace, which this one trades for vaguer goals set in more fantastical worlds. The core mechanic of assembling sets of hidden-object items to move from one location to the next is pretty much the same, as is the enraged mirror that taunts you through the settings. This time, instead of playing Tommy and Charlotte's hero mom, you're a detective sent by adult Charlotte to track her grown-up brother Tommy, who has disappeared after chasing down an unusual mirror, because he has dim memories of another mirror when he was a child, and so forth, la la la. Artwork here is more ambitious - I especially liked the future city in the clouds, which is a little bit steampunk, a little bit Rapture, and a little bit Syberia. Gameplay doesn't throw any unexpected curves, and once again I ran the game in two and a half hours, so mere mortals should get through it in around two. As you put together the pieces to resolve each environment you'll collect mirror shards along the way to get the next portal working, and these are pretty clearly indicated. Voicing is minimal and not quite as good as the first, but the art is much more interesting, though sometimes the goals aren't as clear as they could be. This time, playing as a detective and not a mother, there isn't any call to tidy up, sew, or do any of the household tasks that plagued the original: here it's all putting machines under power, making the train run, restoring water and flowers to the peaceful glade. Hmph.

Not a good as the first one. Decent hidden object point and click. But.. they changed the mirror's voice. The humor is gone. The game has become more creepy. And the music now sucks. It also shorter than the all really short first one. Get it cheep. Use a sale or a coupon cause it's only worth a buck.