Weeping Skies Reviews

The lack of voiceover I didn't think would bother me; but it does seem really weird. The HO scenes themselves are Ok, but there are great many objects where you need to 'do something else first.' That's fine, and often makes it more interesting. Here, though, the vast majority seem to be 'click on stuff until something opens or changes in some way.' Since you have absolutely no idea what is interactive, it comes down to random clicking on things. Nothing to do with observation or logic at all. There are numerous slight errors or outright bugs which gradually add up to irritate. A crowbar is a 'wrecking bar' (maybe that's common usage? I'd never heard the term before). A 'clock' in a HO scene turns out to be a pocket watch. At one point I tried to use a bird I'd collected on a balcony. I was told 'That should be enough oil.' You are told to exploit the fact that an enemy is made of wood, but rather than use the pheonix you have with you, you have to go through a convoluted sequence to set termites on it. There have been loads of these little gripes already, and I've only visited about 1/5 of the scenes. Oh, and the music? Not only repetative (hardly something new for a cheap HO game) but every so often there is a chime which sounds exactly a doorbell. I actually got up to answer the door twice before I decided to turn the music off. So; it's a more-or-less passable HO with incredible attention to lack of detail. (I put it that way deliberately.) I got it in a sale, and for a few pounds, it will probably be worth it if I can put up with the errors. If. Edit: I couldn't. I got only a few scenes from the end, and suddenly nothing showed up on the map as 'to do'. Using a hint just brought up the map. Totally broken. I certainly won't be trying again. Total waste of 4 hours, all told. (Which I suppose is why I got it, but it was at least supposed to be a mostly enjoyable 4 hours.)

Cannot pass the game: spader doesnt give me his flask and I cannot cook poison to save person because of broken scripts ....why we should solve every puzzle twice?

Glitchy, but still worth a couple dollars and a few hours of your time. Glitches seem to fix themselves if you exit/re-enter game.

what should a world do when Sherlock gets old? It needs you! there are a lot of hidden object games, and i love this genre, as every game has its own story, own design peculiarities, user interface, and great moves made to stand out from a crowd, to differ from any other game of a kind. And this one is no exclusion: you are looking for elixir of youth for old Sherlock trying to find a beauty that is a wife of a rich Puss in Boots )))) i recommend the game for anyone who loves playing hidden object games.

Are the voiceovers missing on purpose? That just seems weird to me and bothers me. The game is OK, but objectives are not always clear. Some things were not intuitive and I had to just keep clicking around until something finally happened.

Standard Fantasy HOG. Uses some fairy tale tropes. Decent if your in the mood for this sort of game. Not spectacular.

A clunky, but surprisingly good casual point-and-click adventure with some fun hidden-object scenes. The clunkiness has to do with some aspects being excellent, while others are bizarrely realized. The game world is evocative and smart, but the script and dialog are amateurish. The graphics and characters are gorgeous, but the 3D animations are rigid and primitive. Despite the flaws, there is enough diverse and exciting content as well as clever gameplay to please fans of the genre. If the team hires better writers and animators they can go to great heights! Final note: I have absolutely no idea what the name has to do with the game. There seems to be no relation.

A decent HOG that is worth the few hours to waste. Pros. ok story simple puzzles ok gameplay time ( a bit less than 3 hours for the main story) Cons. no voice acting no bonus story low resolution no support for widescreen ends up having black bars on the sides a bit buggy (encountered 2 bugs one where the hit point was very small and had to keep trying and the other were the item vanished from the inventory) How to fix the bugs --------------------------------------- to collect the spider venom you have to place the flask under its fangs and a bit to the left. keep trying and you will get it. you will notice after collecting the venom the item will not be in your inventory. don't worry! press esc save and quit to the main menu and come back to the game... Voila!! your item is back! --------------------------------------- overall despite those bugs i kinda enjoyed it. i really like old HOGs more than newer ones.. it shows (for most parts) that the devs cared making them... though for the sake of the game length... get it on sale. 7/10 for the game

I completed this game in January, 2023, on Windows 11. I like hidden object game and I think Weeping Skies is fine. It has magic, a 1920s theme, a few cut scenes, and a female protagonist. It's pretty much the formula for these games. It took about 4 hours to do the whole game. There are a few bugs in the game. In the hidden object puzzles, some items need to be combined or repaired before they can be collected. The game gives you a text prompt when you start interacting with a part of an item but you need something else to finish the interaction (two halves of a tool, for example). On a couple of occasions, the text prompt/hint was completely wrong. For example, I needed to mend a paper fan with a thread and needle. But when I clicked on the damaged fan, the text told me "If I had a magnet I could remove this paperclip!" [or something like that]. I rate this bug as NBD (no big deal). Also, sometimes I did the right thing, but I must not have clicked in the exact right place. I used the available hint highlight feature and the game told me to do exactly what I just did. I tried again and eventually clicked the exact right place. I consider this a feature, not a bug. Another NBD. Okay, the BIG BUG in Weeping Skies is literally the big bug: a very large spider from which you need to collect venom. Others have reported that this bugged scene broke the game leaving them unable to finish. The bug occurred for me as well. When I collected the venom from the spider, the vial of venom did not appear in my inventory. I moved around the map a few places trying to figure out what to do. Finally I saved and exited the game. I restarted the game, and VOILA! The Spider Venom appeared in my inventory. Then I successfully completed the game. For me, playing a hidden object game is like watching a cop show: the more formulaic, the better. I just want to zone out and complete the story, vanquishing my foes. I was able to do so, therefore I'm happy. I hope you can get past the one big bug.

It's a typical adventure hidden object game, though I quite liked the aspect of keeping at least one object in your inventory and it is usable throughout the game unlike most other HoGs. However, I am quite disappointed in a bug as far into the game as I've gotten. Once you poison the plant you can't further proceed to finish the game which is a shame. It's a bug people should be aware of before purchasing.