Lost Lands 4

Another great Lost Lands game from Five-BN Games! Nice storyline with challenging puzzles. I enjoyed the hidden object puzzles (HOP) - you don’t just find a list of objects, but you use the objects you find to help you access more objects, which gives a feeling of purpose to the HOP searching. I found some of the pop-up puzzles much harder than previous Lost Lands games. The harder games were a little frustrating for me, but overall I thoroughly enjoyed this game. TIP: I highly recommend taking notes about each room to help you keep track of what items were needed & where because this is a delightfully long game with lots of areas. When you find a needed item, you can search your notes to help you remember where it was needed - otherwise, you may have to research rooms to figure out where to bring the things you find. The one thing that I HATED about this game was all the “hidden collection” items throughout the game which REQUIRED A LOT OF RANDOM CLICKING if you wanted to find them all. Google claims that the in-game map is supposed to show which areas still have hidden items - I’m using an iPad, and my in-game map game gave me no indication of which areas still had hidden items. These hidden items are just extras, not necessary to complete the game, so my advice is to just skip them. However, you do need to find them if you want to play the extra mini-games and puzzles after you finish the main game and bonus game. This is the first Lost Lands game that I actually bothered to find all the “hidden collection” items. The extra puzzles & mini-games were ok, but not worth the torture of having to search for all those hidden items. I will not bother in future Lost Lands games - the random clicking was just too aggravating for me.

Always good, I’ve played all of the games from this publisher and they are fun and challenging. There is a bug in the game though. When you are 35% through the bonus chapter you have to draw symbols using dots and after I draw the first symbol it turns read but doesn’t progress to let me try to second symbol. Same this happened in the main game toward the end with the same mechanics.