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Sunday, December 21, 2014 8:23:42 AM

The Flying Dutchman Review (Nebu)

I could forgive the spelling mistakes, since it seems like English is not the game developers' native language. However, the game suffers from several flaws that make this (thankfully short) experience pretty painful. For a "hidden object" game, the picture quality is atrocious, as if the game assets were saved as low-quality jpegs. Some of the objects you're asked to find are ambigous, such as being asked to find a "bird", but only one of the four birds on the scene will actually count. Other times, the objects are completely mislabelled, like being asked to find a "duck" when they mean "swan", or being asked to find a "flute" when they really mean "grasshopper".
There's only really 6 scenes in total in this game, but the game forces you to replay the scenes over and over as a form of padding, I guess in an attempt to stretch out the game. It doesn't work: Once you've found the pelican the first time around, it's really not that hard to find the same pelican at the same exact location the 2nd, 3rd and 4th time you're asked to replay that scene.
I bought the game at 50 cents, and I'd say it was just barely worth it for the laughs, in the "so bad it's good" sense.