So I downloaded and installed Mysterious City – Vegas, hoping for a similar experience that I got with City Lights – taking a well known city and bringing it to life in a hidden object game. I couldn’t have been more disappointed had the game been set on Mars. In fact, Mars might have been more interesting.
There are several flaws with this title. First, it’s boring. Sorry, that’s BORING. I never really got too involved in the gameplay or the story. In fact, the story is just a tacked on yawn of an experience. There was more story in City Lights, which is sad, since in City Lights, I was just a travel guide writer. That’s not much of a story. Luckily, Mysterious City – Vegas was a lot shorter than City Lights. Which meant I wasn’t bored for that long, I guess.
Another flaw was how little hidden object game there was. Instead, the developers threw in a variety of other activities, like slots and poker. But these games were more boring than the story. It just felt like a useless time waster that had no effect on the game at all. And they weren’t even fun time wasters. There was a puzzle segment too that was easy and – am I using the word boring too much?
The hidden object aspect of the game itself was OK. There were a couple of variations. Sometimes, instead of a list of words, there’d be an outline of the objects. Then there was the find the differences segments as well. Unlike some other games, the find the differences actually proved to be challenging – and if there is one redeeming aspect to this game, that would be it.
To say that I hated this game would be an overstatement. I just generally wished I didn’t spend the couple of hours it took me to complete it, because for most of it, I was sitting here yawning. It’s not worth the purchase price, to be sure.
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