Chronicles of Mystery - The Legend of the Sacred Treasure Reviews

The graphics are beautiful. But clicking on the objects in the hidden-object doesn't work. Edited: I also own the disc of this game, and it works. This really is a beautiful game.

Bad puzzle design, made for frustrating play trying to work out how to solve. Particularly the test tubes. I found the entire waste of time and effort and equally poor ending.

Compared to the first one this is a lot better. Pros: Lot's more hidden object scenes. Cons: Puzzles are pretty much guessing and frustration. The Fishing game was just ridiculous. Still a very short game.

+ The music was great. + The story was very interesting, it kept mystery until the end, it ended very simplistic, but I somehow wasn't disappointed by the ending. + You can collect hidden coins and use them to skip puzzles. - The hidden object minigames makes you collect lots of stuff you don't need. It extends the playtime I guess, but it does not connect to story or anything at all. - There are very few puzzles. Some were great, some were abysmal, tape puzzle was painful, it did not even made sense. There was one puzzle I didn't get and just pressed random buttons until it solved itself, but the last puzzle... The last puzzle was so stupid, I couldn't figure it out so I used coins to solve it and the dumb solution mindblown me, it was such a stupid puzzle, also the whole idea of that puzzle was stupid protagonist should've done anything else instead. - Whole story and conversations are in text exept for the cutscenes, I wish that conversations had voice acting. 7/10

It seems that the previous adventure games did not sell well (I wonder why? Could it be the overused Lara Croft archetype? Or the derivative plot? Or the overabundance of illogical inventory puzzles?), so it seems that some excel spreadsheet overlord over at City Interactive decided to cut costs - and in the process, the whole gameplay was gutted, leaving behind a strictly low-effort hidden object game with occasionally badly made puzzle (no, that broken pottery pieces do not even match, but why should they?), and a homeopathic dose of a plot (professor this, artifact that) that makes no sense - after juggling lab equipment for awhile, our protagonist decides to visit a random African dictator living in what looks like a Mongol yurt - because why the heck not? A good reason to unclutter the inventory. Anyway, it's not probably worth your time, let alone the asking price, whatever it is at the moment.

Yep, terrible pixel-hunt HO scenes with poor graphics by today's standard. I didn't have the issues reported by others but it's dreary, there are no achievements or cards, the mini-games are bad and the story just ends unexpectedly. I saw a comment in the discussions that the creator split the continuation into a second game. Avoid this one.

One of the worst HOGs I've had the misfortune of playing. Rife with objects that make no sense, objects that exist multiple times in a scene but of course only one is accepted, time limits, objects that cannot even be distinguished even after a clue, etc.

This game made me angry at how ridiculous it was. It's not that it was so difficult (though the developers probably congratulated themselves thinking they had a real pisser of a challenging game). The problem is they don't tell you how to do any of the puzzles and don't even give you clues at any point in the game. Unless you're a chemist, you won't know how half the early "puzzles" work. We are expected to know our way around a chemistry lab including knowing how to use various lab equipment and machinery. I hated chemistry in high school and hate it in this game. The developers forgot that it's not about getting every little scientific detail correct. Then you have the HO parts which once again are someone's photograph of a busy room taken from too far away so you can''t tell what anything is. Or you are expected to place items over their shadow on a table, but the shadows are often far too light to see. Then there are certain items that make no sense whatsoever which may be a translation issue or more likely the dumb developers again finding obscure cultural artifacts to try to teach us something. Nobody cares about learning anything if they're losing points in a game through no fault of their own! On top of all that, you have items in the HO which are completely ridiculous. I just had one that told me to find a line in a sea of items. A line? Considering anything with straight edges has a line, what did City Interactive expect from us? Another time they asked us to find a hammer and I counted 4 hammers on the screen. There are a lot of those. They find real photographs of things and use them to design the game. That doesn't work for HO puzzles! Players don't consider it a challenging game if you don't give them the tools to be able to complete the puzzles! Some players really don't like it when they lose points and are penalized again and again because of decisions made by dumbass developers. They don't consider this a fun or educational game. They consider it a ripoff and a FAILURE. People are paying MONEY to play a GAME which is supposed to be FUN and ENJOYABLE. Across the board, this game got awful reviews and wasn't even reviewed professionally by the major gaming websites. It's not surprising because it's really not even worth their time. I'm upset that I spent any money at all on this. I like HO games and I like adventure games. But you don't just throw people into the deep end of the pool without ever having showed them so much as a doggy paddle. It's infuriating what these developers did here. It's a ripoff and the idea that they never addressed this and never even tried to fix it in the next game shows they do not give a flying fig about anything but what THEY think a game should be. Some loser shut-in of a programmer probably had a chemistry set as a kid and thought it would make for a good game segment. The game doesn't even make sense half the time. The character development is ridiculous and grossly phony. You have a busy scientist who can't even raise her eyes when she hears of a murder of a colleague because she's got to get her work done for an important event, but then asks a total stranger without any scientific expertise to analyze lab samples and heat test tubes! You had one job City Interactive! Make a game that won't make your customers feel ripped off. You just couldn't do it.

Yet another game from City Interactive which cannot be played. The HOG games are broken. I click and I click and I click on the object required... and nothing happens except it freezes. The game doesn't recognise when I find the objects so I do not recognise this as a playable game.

There's no start button and everything is timed. No hints either. Hidden object games should be relaxing. this one is not