Where Angels Cry

Don't let the "Hidden Object" tag deceive you! [i]Where Angels Cry[/i] is a mediocre point and click adventure with the environment progression of a HOG, but... without any actual HOG scenes whatsoever. Sure, it contains a selection of unimaginative puzzles and constant item collection - and it almost excites you with the promise of a medieval mystery as it starts - but sadly the game cannot avoid ending up as a short and tedious adventure with a distasteful plot presentation. It is the Year of Our Lord, 1286 and as I have stated before, we are promised a medieval mystery. We take the role of a nameless monk who'd be sent to a secluded monastery set high in the Alps from Vatican, to investigate the murder of a fellow monk and the miraculous phenomenon of an angel statue crying blood as we are already there. So far, so good. We have [i]The Name of the Rose[/i] atmosphere mixed up with Wainwright's [i]Stigmata[/i] storyline. Yet, the actual thing here has little to do with either of the...

This is a glorified hidden picture game with barely any plot and no significant logic puzzles worth mentioning. If you want something mindless and casual it may do the trick, but I regret the purchase.

So far this is a pretty well executed casual point and click game developed by a very small team compared for the price. Overall, I would definitely recommend this game, it is a casual game and a small casual game gem for the price, or while waiting for the 2014 game of your choice. It will transport you in that world. The game definitely has cinematic ambition for mood, plot, etc.. Settings are well thought and bring good mood. Designs are well created. Voice acting....while it is pretty good acting and it is the team's choice, I believe it is better to stick with original voice actor instead of trying to pull accents even though it is supposed to be in the alps, hopefully it does not dither to suspension of disbelief but it definitely can be confusing for very short time, so my definite choice would have been "speak English or Italian for a good majority of the acting and elder monk(s) or special key role(s) (for example) can use a mix. Character animation are limited and that is...

A rather short, but well made adventure. If you like games like Myst or The 11 Hour, this is something for you. It has some nice puzzles, minigames, dialogues, finding and combination of items and all of them are possible with logical thinking. Of course, it also has some strange puzzles where my first thought was "that was unnecessary complicated", but they were not too much weird, like using a rubberduck to build a trampoline. The price of that game is really surprising. The voice acting is well done, it has beautiful music which fits perfectly into the game (for the most time) and quite decent graphics, even though the world looks rather stiff sometimes and they could have animated a little bit more. But for just 5 euro you cant do anything wrong and i would say the game is even 10-15 euro worth.

I like casual point and click adventure games, and picked up this and Nightmares from the Deep on sale. I enjoyed the latter, but this? There is hardly anything here. No story, the object hunting is tiresome, ridiculously short, and the puzzles unoriginal. (Tower of Hanoi? Really, guys?) Give it a wide pass even if on sale.

Its a decent hidden object game. For 5 bucks I felt it was money well spent. The voice acting was ok, the storyline was somewhat interesting but I kinda felt urged to continue to play just to find more objects and puzzles. The storyline wasn't really motivating. Its certainly not a triple A title but I enjoyed most of the puzzles and digging around for hidden objects. This is like a stocking stuffer for people who enjoy hidden object games, I would definitely recommend it for anyone with modest expectations.

This is a terrible, awful, crazy-making game. The antagonists behave in idiotic, self-sabotaging ways; the voice acting would be an embarrassment in a game from 1995; and the puzzles simply make no sense. (Restacking crates magically makes a ruby appear? [i]Why?![/i]) And of course no bad adventure game would be complete without a generous dose of find-the-one-interactable-pixel scavenger hunts. [i]Where Angels Cry[/i] simply isn't worth its price point; even if it were free it wouldn't be worth your time.

Although I normally love this type of game and have an absolutely stupid number of them, this particular one is not passing muster with me. Skip to the end for the TL;DR version of this review. I could forgive the mediocre graphics. They seem simplistic and lackluster compared to some of the vibrantly detailed comparable games, but they get the job done. I could also forgive the simplistic and unoriginal puzzles. After all, most of these games recycle the same types of puzzles over and over again, and it wouldn't be the first time that I came across a tedious Tower of Hanoi puzzle. If you're looking for actual hidden object scenes, look elsewhere; I didn't find a single one in this game. These things aren't egregious for a simple time-killer of a game. I can forgive them. What I cannot forgive is the game-breaking bugs that will force you to either start over from the beginning or quit the game in disgust. I got to a point where I absolutely could not find another item I neede...

Unfortunately, the worst of a lot of things; pixel-hunting for hidden objects, the same puzzles several times in a row, and an ending that's going to confuse (and/or offend) people of a certain belief. While not offended, I was certainly confused by some of the logical implications. Thanks to game layout, I usually started collecting puzzle parts before I found any use for them, which made me one of the most puzzling things in the game, since I would wander in and start taking random things. And who the heck kept taking the bucket right back off and hiding it again? I just put that together for the third time in about six hours! Probably the sort of game someone might do in-between while doing something else, or stopping and starting frequently .

The scenery is interesting, but that's about all there is to this incredibly short point-and-click adventure game. The voice acting is sub-par, and the story flimsy. Most of the action consists in collecting random objects that everyone has carelessly strewn about the monestary. The logic puzzles are mostly achievable and mildly diverting, except for one mini-game near the end that consists of a bejeweled-style "battle" with a Knight Templar. It perhaps wouldn't have been so bad if it weren't a timed exercise. I nearly didn't finish the game on account of the task, but finally decided to skip it to press on to the uninspiring end.