Showing Tonight: Mindhunters Incident

Very interesting looking hidden object game, although it isn't typicall for the genre. The graphics and sounds are solid. The story is based around b-production horror movies, therefore the plot itself is a bit bizzare. I like the silhouette mode, keeps you busy, and overall, this game, in terms of puzzles and challenges, wil make you think. Very few things "just to click on". Some of the things considering gameplay and storyline could be better explained, but in a strange way, it suits the theme of the game.

Showing Tonight: Mindhunter’s Incident, developed by Phime Studio, is a point-and-click, adventure puzzle game with a hint of Hidden Object scenarios. After first viewing the trailer, screen shots and the store page summary, I came in with some high expectations. I was hoping for a fun, creepy adventure in my very own B-Horror film. Instead, what I got was a gimmicky puzzle system, horribly rendered cut scenes, an unexplained, unfulfilled and poorly-told story, and a complete lack of Hidden Object sections. You play as Nate, an avid movie-goer who’s become somewhat obsessed with a new film, “Someone Ate My Clapper.” In fact, he’s seen it so many times that the clerk knows his name, and hands him the ticket without needing to ask. Once in the theatre, Nate falls asleep. He awakes just moments later, but not in his local cinema. Rather, he finds himself inside the movie. With the help of Gabriella, a character in the film, Nate must… actually; I can’t really explain the ...

For the price, I shouldn't expect much of a "HOG" game (especially one that offers achievements). That being said, the game was done pretty well for $1. However, it should be noted that as a HOG game, there aren’t many HOG scenes. I was actually losing hope of seeing a HOG scene until I got to Chapter four and saw my first one. The story also seemed a bit lacking to me, although I did like the idea of it. About the game, it was nice to see different kinds of puzzles in games like this one. However, it got old quick. After a while, it was a bit annoying to have to shift items to fit a shadow to be able to use them. Some of the puzzles were done a bit oddly, like a safe puzzle where you can't actually turn the dial. I don't like having to click constantly to finish a puzzle that should have taken three seconds to complete. Another puzzle that I thought was done very oddly was a tangram puzzle that had to have the pieces placed in an exact place, even though the another same size piec...

I am a huge HOG fan but this game was not a very good one. It was the first time I actually requested a refund for a hog game. The voice overs are terrible and the graphics are pixelated on wide screen. Also for me it's just not a fun game with a good story line. I don't recommend this game despite the other flood of positive reviews but try it for yourself and see if you want to take the chance. I did give it a fair half hour gameplay to see if it would get better but by part two I could not take anymore.

Truly mediocre. Clunky and unintuitive, a lot of empty space and repetitive play, and the plot is barely worth mentioning. There is really better games in the genre out there. If you can get it with a voucher, then I guess, but you can really do better.

OH MY GOD I HATE THIS GAME! Now that I have that out of the way. I've never been more pissed off to have to play a bonus chapter then this game. OK. Pros. Hackney B movie storyline. It makes sense considering the plot. Puzzles. Lots of Puzzles. Puzzles you won't find in another HOG game. Fiendishly difficult puzzles. The cons. Glitchs. Lots of emm. You clicked on that section and it closed out. If you come back you might be able to click on it again. There will be nothing there of course. You'll just waste your time thinking you missed something. The clicking on the thing basic gameplay of any of these types of games is a little wonky. So be prepared for that. Crap map. Only shows the basic areas. NOT the parts of them. Not a huge hassel but a bit annoying. Lastly. THE #@R$@#@#$ PUZZLES. Some of them are really good and make sense. SOME. Others? Well I hope you like randomly clicking on things with other things cause that's what your doing for half this game. Need to get rid of a wall...

Classic HOS game, but for one thing : silhouette HOS .. they look like HOS but you actually end up manipulating objects forward and backward, moving them from left to right.. untill they fit the perfect shape to a certain angle. I found these quickly boring. Some achievements will require you to accomplish them under a minute. As most games of the genre, the story isn't ambitious but it gets the job done, driving you from many nice and somewhat easy puzzles to few classic HO scenes and some silhouette HO thingy. I still recommend it, especially if on sales. One big pro : The more or less chip music of the retro arcade video game "Flap for Life" (a game in the game) with many chip sounds of 8-bit music. That was a good and enjoying surprise!

This game should come with a medical warning. It's a 99 cent acid trip with a significant chance of a brain damaging freak out. It was so nonsensical, my jaw dropped several times when I finally figured out the next random sequence of object interactions that drove the "plot" forward. At first, this was frustrating, but then it got funny - really funny - laugh out loud funny as the game moved on (the use for the piranha wins the prize for absurdity). I have completed the game and its bizarre epilogue, and I still have no idea what was going on. I've got to believe this was intentional. It's as if the developers took the half-baked ideas and glaring plot holes from a dozen different low budget Sci-Fi movies and used a random number generator to assign them a position in the game's "script". This isn't merely a language translation problem (though there were several of these throughout the game) this is total lack of pyschological coherence problem, and it is (intentionally?/unintention...

After huge initial troubles (more on that in the next paragraph) the game started working and is actually quite enjoyable. My initial troubles: It froze my system multiple times, even after reinstalling. And the controls wouldn't respond. Only after I deleted the game entirely with the help of external tools, it started working. The framerate keeps to skyrocket for no apparent reason and there is now way to fix it. For the price I got it (1$) the game has much to offer. The advertised new shape mechanic is incorporated very often in the game.

I really liked this game. Finished in a few hours, but it was fun.