About This Game The Hope Lake Boarding School was abandoned long ago, when one of its teachers drowned by accident. Many years later, all of the female students began to disappear, one by one. Visit the place where it all began. Try to pick up the maniac's trail and put a stop to his crime spree. Game Features: - 48 locations - 8 hidden object scenes and 26 unique minigames - an interactive map - a flashlight, an essential item for every detective - two game difficulty levels b4d347fde0 Title: Hope LakeGenre: Adventure, Casual, IndieDeveloper:Far Mills, MysterytagPublisher:RunServerRelease Date: 3 Jun, 2016 Hope Lake Download] [Password] of the dozens and dozens of HOGs I have played over the years, Hope Lake is probably the most broken game of the bunch. It is broken in design and implementation. So specifically what is wrong?1) The clues do not match the object. Discussed in other posts 2) The click area is sometimes so small clicking directly on the object is not enough3) The palate is so dark, I did not discover the auto map until 7\/8 of the game was complete (my fault, I did not do the tutorial)4) The return to prior screen indicator is far too fancy and it's sometimes hard to interpret where to goStory wise the game is a mess, as is most HOGs but this game is so totally wrong, it makes me wonder if there is a directors cut some where to explain the plot. The vilain's motivation makes sense and there is a karmic balance in his actions. The developers should have explored this side of the story and while it might not have been the typical fairy tale goody two shoes, in this story the dark side could have worked.The so called bad guy gets his "just deserts" in the end of Hope Lake. But when I played this game, I had some real questions about who was the bad guy in this story?. I play this game for 3 hours now and i think it's SO cool! Not to easy, not to hard, it's perfect :) You also need to think a lot. If you find an item, you need it for a room that's far, far away sometimes, so you have a lot of time (couple of hours) to play it. I'm really excited how it will end :). The game has an interesting story, amazing art, nice detective style BUT there is a huge bug you'll encounter in the first two hours of the gameplay in one of the hidden objects scenes, you will be unable to open a box and to solve this bug, you MUST restart playing the game, sadly. This is the boxhttp:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?id=865409570Aside from that I really enjoyed the game which I gave a chance after almost two months from leaving it due that bug, seems the developers doesn't really care about fixing it. You can find a thread on the discussion section of this game about it.https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?id=896458992https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?id=896363902Pro:+Beautiful graphics, especially the ending cutscene.+Interesting story with a good pace.+Mystery\/detective style.+Voice acting is OK+Good journal style with to keep tracking of the story, journal art is pretty.+Fast travel map.+Steam achievements.Cons:-A very annoying bug which requires you restart the game (A hidden object bug)-There is only ONE track of music which keep going over and over and over until you finish the game. It isn't bad, but quite annoying to keep hearing it from the beginning of the game until the end.-Short game.-Puzzles are extremely easy.The ending felt like an open one, plus He shouldn't be the only one to be punished! the girls did kill the governess and he witnessed it as a child, they were bullying him as he did to them so both of them are guilty.I recommend this game if you'll tolerate the bug and willing to restart the game after a couple of hours of gameplay. The game is short itself, around three hours and a half to beat.\ud835\udc39\ud835\udc5c\ud835\udc5f \ud835\udc5a\ud835\udc5c\ud835\udc5f\ud835\udc52 \ud835\udc5f\ud835\udc52\ud835\udc63\ud835\udc56\ud835\udc52\ud835\udc64\ud835\udc60 \ud835\udc50\ud835\ude29\ud835\udc52\ud835\udc50\ud835\udc58 \ud835\udc5a\ud835\udc66 \ud835\udc50\ud835\udc62\ud835\udc5f\ud835\udc4e\ud835\udc61\ud835\udc5c\ud835\udc5f \ud835\udc5d\ud835\udc4e\ud835\udc54\ud835\udc52 \ud835\udc39\ud835\udc52\ud835\udc52\ud835\udc5b\ud835\udc4e'\ud835\udc60 \ud835\udc36\ud835\ude29\ud835\udc5c\ud835\udc56\ud835\udc50\ud835\udc52. This game is frustrating. Many MANY objects are mislabeled.Examples:Pipe labeled as a trumpetKey labeled as a wrenchWrench labeled as a keyCan labeled as a bottle or jarGraple hook on a coil of rope labeled as a hook, the hook wasnt visible, only the coil of rope wasAnd the story is lame. I don't even care mostly about the story in these games, but this one was just really boring. Mostly it was told by reading notes that are way too much small type squeezed onto a too small page, so it is annoying to read.If you can get it on sale for $3 like I did, then maybe buy it if you really really like HOG but otherwise skip it.. Hope Lake is a pretty dodgy HoG. There's a lot of laughable logic (which is nothing new for the genre, to be fair), mislabeled items in the hidden object scenes (which is annoying AF), weird word usage ("caster" instead of "wheel" - though I guess it's nice for expanding your vocabulary) and the same song plays from beginning to end. The art is nice enough at least, the puzzles were fine, and the story was okay. It didn't smack you over the head with explanations, but I actually kind of missed the usual narmy *find clue* "Gasp! This must be why the villain is such and such!".Anyway, if you play a ton of HoGs just kind of on principle, this is perfectly acceptable, but there's a lot better out there. I wish there was a "take it or leave it" option, but I guess I'll go with not recommended since I'm not exactly raring to get people to play it. I'm just trying to make leaving reviews a habit from now on.. Firstly i dont hate the game...it is playable and some fun.... however the glitches with the game and next to no settings options make this a no no.... There are no resolution settings....its full screen or a windowed option... I barely had fun with it.... some of the puzzles were ok but sometimes clicks werent registered...ie one game i had to use hint button because and had clicked on the item it showed me 5 times!! ... and also names didnt correspond with items ?? (for example... since when was a house key a wrench???) anyways this has been my least favorite hidden object game.. This game was ok, but it was very confusing when it came to the seek and find portions. The list is telling me to look for a "Key" so I look all over for it and can't find it. Finally, I accidentally clicked on a "wrench" and it clears it. Likewise, when it asked for a "wrench" then I was looking for a key. Come on folks. I don't care what country you're from, a key is a key and a wrench is a wrench. I was hoping it would be a bit more challenging, but other than the aforementioned confusion, it was pretty easy.. I was so looking forward to playing this, and I ended up being fairly disappointed.There is a lot of good in the game in terms of artistic value and plot; it's exactly the sort of dark, mysterious story that I like. Some of the imagery was spot-on wonderful. Sound and voiceover work wasn't terrible comparatively speaking.However, that said.... I cannot make a recommendation on this.The puzzles are the usual fare for this style of game but seem to be far easier than most. I feel like puzzles should be...well, puzzling. At least a little bit. Some were also tedious to complete even though the puzzle itself was easy.The worst thing is the rampant mislabeling of items in the hidden object scenes. There are a LOT of scenes in the game (which is great!) but there needed to be a lot more quality control before they released the English version, at least. A few randomly misnamed items or typos don't bother me in the slightest, but this was in almost every HO scene and sometimes more than once per scene. It was too much even for me, and I'm generally pretty laid-back about things like that.Examples include wrenches labeled as keys (and keys as wrenches!) and a slingshot labeled as "forked stick" but there are far more examples and I could fill a page with them. Some are just irritating but some make it almost impossible to finish the scene without getting hints (i.e. a piece of pipe labeled as a "trumpet" is where I gave up and started hitting the hint button).It's not an expensive game and it has a pretty long playtime compared to comparable games, but the rampant errors and the boringly simple puzzles make it a "no" for me. That said, if the type of story appeals to you and you don't mind hitting the hit button constantly (or random-clicking and hoping for the best), you may still enjoy it. This is a title that could really use the "meh maybe" option for recommendations rather than yes or no!
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