The Great Gatsby: Secret Treasure Reviews

I haven't read the book so I don't know about that aspect. I enjoyed it and all the achievements are obtainable. I always recommend waiting for a discount, but it's only $6.

DISCLAIMER: One of the first HOG I played. Thank goodness, right? Or I would have been turned off for life with this genre of games. Although never pay full price. STORY: Interesting – The Great Gatsby, cool, cool, cool. Atmospheric with no supernatural or fantasy elements. A bit of the film noir style going on. GRAPHICS: A bite dated these days. TRAVEL: Includes map allowing teleportation. Please and thank you! MECHANICS: Typical HIDDEN OBJECT SCENES: classic style and simple. Good for beginners. MINI-GAMES also good for newbies. LENGTH: Depends on player – this is a good game for an afternoon/evening. ACHIEVEMENTS: yep VOICE ACTING: For this genre it was pretty acceptable

[h3] Typical HO game [/h3] I originally played this a long time ago and for the most part enjoyed it. The voice acting is better than average for games of this genre. The story is more enjoyable if previously read the book. There is a problem with the achievement 'Expert Mode'. It has been reported in the forum a while ago and someone wrote a guide. Although it has helped others I just could not get the achievement to trigger. Time to move on. Worth getting on sale if you're not bothered about the achievements.

I played so many hidden object games and this one is a bad one. Story easy, puzzles easy, objects easy... Some of these games I have worked so many minutes for finding one object. This game... so easy. Voice acting horrible. Developers should watch some porn movies. They have better acting. 108 minutes to %100 complete. I have to go bathroom for 20 min btw. If you played and liked hidden object games. This is not a good one.

Interesting story. Not very challenging. The final puzzle stumped me though. It could have used a little better explanation. So I just clicked around until I finally got it. You are supposed to make the gems shine when they match up in the right positions. The map does not have fast travel so there is backtracking. Sadly pretty short. It is a little clunky but I wouldn't let that stop you if you like HOGs.

An HOG with a well done story but extremely short that was originally released in 2013 pros. nice story i like the map layout even though it does not have fast travel feature shocking ending easy achievements? cons. very short. (only 1 hour and 30 minutes for the main story) no bonus story no wide screen support meh voice acting the ending was kinda rushed despite being very short i enjoyed this game and recommend it but due its price i only recommend you getting it on a sale 5/10 for the game +1 for the cards =6/10

Be warned that this game will be in windowed mode. It makes the HO scenes more difficult because some of the objects are really miniscule! Beautiful art and remembrance of Gatsby's era. Music was unintrusive. Story was very average and there is a lot of backtracking. You have a map, but you can't instantly go to a scene. Story takes place at night and it is raining, so atmosphere can be depressing or mysterious depending on your mood. Controls were pretty clunky, especially in HO scenes. Puzzles were very easy. Took me under 2.5 hours, so very short. A pretty average game. Had a lot of potential, but didn't follow through. As I knew the story, there were no surprises. Buy on discount. Need a neutral rating. 5.5/10 from me.

One of the old school H.O.Gs with a mystery. Unless you already know what the Great Gatsby is about... Then you can just have fun walking around, doing stuff? H.O.s in this one are not too cluttered and good at hiding stuff. The puzzles... Puzzles are on the easy side. They don't need some intense math compounds to complete. I have noooo qualms with it... Apart for ONE THING......... THE FINAL ACHIEVEMENT. Play on Expert Mode and Skip nothing. Oh, do you think they are ONLY referring to H.O./Puzzles? Hell no! They mean EVERYTHING. This includes: Absolutely no cutscene skips / no dialogue fast-forwarding/skipping / no map usage / solve everything yourself / no Hints and...! You aren't allowed to let the character talk over her own words. Oh and do NOT check out your little book. With evidence. Just in case. (Most of these hints come from a person who actually suffered through the game... More than 4x and actually got the Achievement. Kudos.) Got that? Well guess what? You'll fail a few times... And you have to go like... Reeeeealllllly slow with everything. Well guess what again? Despite knowing all that... I still failed. Why? Apparently the MC talked over herself once or twice and disabled the Achievement. Thanks a lot... Screw it! I beat the game. Twice. WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!! ^-^ Thanks regardless!! :) :> (Oh and they don't tell you this, but... Watch out for your "Pocket Watch" activating. It will give you a glimpse into the past / a puzzle + an item. YOU NEED to do this, or you can't continue. If you don't know what a pocket watch is? Look it up! >.>)

It's a kinda fun 2 hour romp. Very quick however, and there's little replayability though. I bought it because well, i'm a huge fan of the novel. The connection this hidden object finder has to the book is minimal, but it's there. Wish it could've been expanded upon more. Honestly not worth the 5$ i paid for it, but if you find this on sale for a buck or so and you enjoy a quick Hidden Object game, it's worth. Minigames are kinda fun. The only highlight of this are the few segments where you get to visulize what Gatsby's house looked like before his demise. But yeah. Buy if you're bored, and you like The Great Gatsby. But don't blow 5 bucks like i did.

The Great Gatsby: Secret Treasure is an easy casual H. O. Game. The art syle, the graphics and the atmosphere are nice. It's a bit dark and that totally fits the storyline. The story is fine enough and it's realistic. At least there's nothing fantastic or supernatural like zombies, monsters, ghosts or vampires. It takes place at night, it's raining. All this contributes to the mysterious atmosphere in which the inquiry takes place. The music is not intrusive, it's not disturbing. It perfectly goes along with the overall ambiance. Voice acting is fine. The game isn't difficult at all.. that is, not very stimulating too. You go there, do that, take this, use it over there to solve a tiny puzzle and so on. None of the puzzles are original. Puzzles and H.O.Scenes are easy : no head scratching, no screeening or pixel hunting during hours.. that means not challenging too. And it adds nothing to the H.O. genre, it's very classic. Sadly that contributes to make the game lifetime quite short. It took me [b]9 hours to complete the game 4 times on Expert Mode[/b] and with that I got stuck during a long time on my 1st playthrough because I didn't understand something with the game UI. So, about that UI, be aware that sometimes you can click on a pocket watch or on car keys (bottom right hand of the screen). The watch can be use to relive scenes back in time and car keys are needed to travel to some far away places. If you don't get that, you'll soon be stuck like I was.. for days !! I eventually had to use the hint button once to understand that.. (probably because I didn't play the tutorial on my 1st run!). About "Expert Mode" achievement (no hint/no skip button, on expert mode) : Like I said, I had to go through the game 4 times to unlock it. First I thought the "no skip/no hint" to achieve "Expert Mode" was only applying to mini-games/puzzles and H.O.S. But when my 2nd playthrough wasn't enough, my guess was I still didn't unlock it because I skipped the 1st cutscene on my 2nd playthrough (even though I am still not sure of this). Since my 3rd playthrough wasn't enough to unlock that achievement, I don't know what I did wrong and what's the catch ! I am sure I have not clicked on the hint buttton by accident and I didn't skip anything (no mini-game and not a single cutscene!).. I wonder if that may be a bug. Unfortunately there are not many players and too little discussions topics for this one to be tackled. I gave The Great Gatsby: Secret Treasure a last try and it worked (on the 4th playthrough that is!). Like every H.O.G. The Great Gatsby: Secret Treasure has little replayability value. That being said, as far as H.O.S are concerned I want to acknowledge (since I ran 4 times through the game), that even though you'll often visit the same H.O.S. in a same playthrough, from one playthrough to another the objects you're supposed to find in a H.O.S are not always the same (that's the only thing that changes from one playthrough to another). Apart from that achievement glitch, there are a few other things I don't like about The Great Gatsby _ Secret Treasure: -The game being a bit short. The 1st time I reached the end of the game I was surprised that the inquiry was already finished. -The difficulty. Too easy, even on Expert Mode. -The map. It shows where available actions are, but it doesn't allow to travel faster from a location to another. That just makes the game seem to be longer but actually it's only forcing you to go through useless places many times. In conclusion, for those who are H.O.G. or adventure games beginners, getting The Great Gatsby: Secret Treasure on an interesting sale can be a nice way to entertain a few hours. But achievement hunters and confirmed H.O./adventure gamers should stay away from this one, though I hate to say that, mainly because I really liked the atmosphere of the game and the way it was rendered.