Amaranthine Voyage: The Shadow of Torment Collector's Edition

This 3rd entry in series offers pretty much the same as the 2nd: a confusing, forgettable story wrapped in polished hidden-object gameplay. Once again, the soundtrack is great, and there's a large amount of content, but otherwise the game has nothing special to offer. Note that the 1st game in the series, [I]The Tree of Life[/I], was very different and very good.

Very good hidden object game. This one was pretty long. (Most are way too short.) Note there is both a bonus chapter and a souvenir hunt in the Extras. If you like the genre, it's likely that will like this. Nothing is perfect. Here were a couple of (potential) cons: + Many of the hidden object scenes where a list of pictures (not really sillouettes). That's not a problem with the game, but that's my least favorite kind of scene. + The bonus chapter was good, but there were a couple of small glitches of things being identified wrong in hidden object scenes. + It seemed as if you couldn't click on an item in a hidden object scene while the previous one was still being processed. (Not sure what you call it, but when you click it, and there is animation before the item is removed from the list.) It was just annoying because you'd click and nothing would happen, and I'd think it was the wrong item, even though it was the right one. (I also wonder if that counts as a "mistake".)

excellent