Reply With QuoteMike Gallant account.Originally Posted by Kael
Drawn: The Painted Tower was one of my favorite casual adventure games. Cool puzzles, stylish graphics.
I just noticed the next game in the series is out, Drawn: Dark Flight. I'm excited, I thought I would mention it in case others were interested.
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I'll check it out. I usually get 1-2 casual games a month, the time management ones are good timewasters and the adventure ones are, well, pretty much where adventure games are at these days other than Telltale.
Yeah, I'm a sucker for adventure games (and season 3 of Sam and Max is awesome!) but the first Drawn game was one of my favorites.
Hmmm... the Big Fish relation makes me not trust it. How does it compare to others in the genre, like recent Sam and Maxes, or older, less humorous stuff like Darkfall?
That doesn't make any sense. There are a lot of good games on Big Fish's site, they are mostly just a distribution service.
Its a completely different sort of adventure game than the Sam and Max's (which are great). Its a very thin story as a setting for elaborate puzzles, not story driven pieces like you mention.
There are a lot of crappy games on Big Fish's but there are some great casual games buried in there (Fairway Solitaire, Be Rich, Mystery Case File games and of course Drawn).
The nice thing about Big Fish games is you can try their games for free for an hour. Give it a whirl and if you like it buy it, if not there is no investment (except your time).
I thought the Dark Tower was a very so-so affair, not quite sure why it got all the love it did.
Concerning BFG:
I quite like the "Nightfall Mysteries" these days.
Good graphics and nice hidden object scenes + some good story.
Go for "Asylum" first since "Opera" continues the story (but you can also only play Opera and won't miss out that much).
Ooo, I do like puzzles. Are we talking Myst like clever interaction with/ observation of environment, Longest Journey monkey dances, or just a string of independent puzzles held together by the barest of threads?
Hmmm... that actually might be part of why I have a bad opinion about the company. I downloaded a demo of one of their games, only to have it suddenly end in the middle of play. I understand why that might be a sound business tactic to get my money, but it mostly just made me angry and not want to try to the company again.There are a lot of crappy games on Big Fish's but there are some great casual games buried in there (Fairway Solitaire, Be Rich, Mystery Case File games and of course Drawn).
The nice thing about Big Fish games is you can try their games for free for an hour. Give it a whirl and if you like it buy it, if not there is no investment (except your time).
Also, I have vague memories of thinking their distribution scheme was overly "intrusive" with to much "overhead." Of course, I am not much for casual games, so I did not lose much writing them off.
Pretty much the latter one. Drawn (the first one, anyway) is a glorified hidden object game, although one with considerably more polish than average.
I've played both of the games in this series now (with my 8-year-old, who loves games like this), and for old-school adventure fans they're a good time. The puzzles are mostly on the easier side, with a couple of serious exceptions, but you don't feel like they dumbed it down for the "casual" gamer. They feel just right for the breezy art style and missing princess storyline.
If I had to guess I'd say the demographic for this series is "women age 25-49", but I don't care. These are fun, short games for when you don't want to bang your head against something hard.
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