In Hidden Mysteries ™: Buckingham Palace you must peel back the curtains on one of the grandest buildings in the western world to look for treasure and uncover its deepest secrets. Learn fun facts about several royal locations while you search for hidden objects and play ingenious mini-games. Follow romantic notes strewn across beautifully rendered scenes in this exciting sequel to Hidden Mysteries: Civil War.
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Hidden Mysteries: Buckingham Palace ™
My Thoughts on Hidden Mysteries Buckingham Palace:
Hidden Mysteries: Buckingham Palace has great graphics and decent sized objects, the only major complaint that I have about the Hidden Object genre as a whole is that all too often game developers seem to equate tiny objects with challenging gameplay, I personally find that this just ends up giving me a headache, so I’m happy when I can find one where the objects aren’t so tiny. Fortunately, Hidden Mysteries: Buckingham Palace doesn’t have this problem.
It seems like each new HOG game has a new twist on the gameplay and Hidden Mysteries did a great job in developing a creative three-tiered hints system where you spend Hint Credits to buy different levels of hint. One hint credit reveals an item’s silhouette, three credits shows a picture of what the item looks like, and five hint credits will reveal the item’s location.
What’s more, certain key items on your list can be added to your inventory and used to solve puzzles by clicking on “hotspots” in the scene – such as using a lighter to light a candle after you’ve placed it in a candelabrum.
I’ll admit that for my tastes, the story isn’t the most important element for me when enjoying a game, if I want to hear a good story told I’ll pick up a great book, but Hidden Mysteries: Buckingham Palace doesn’t really try to weave together a story line, instead each level provides you with some related factoids.
My only other complaint was that for hidden object games, I like to have the ability to skip the mini games, most hidden object games provide the opportunity to skip the mini game, but not in the case of hidden mysteries. It’s not a major complaint, and perhaps I’m getting to set-in-my-ways, but I like the option to skip, especially if I’m enjoying the hidden object levels.
The last game that I played was Steve the Sheriff, and one of the things that I like about it was that the objects felt like they belonged in the scene. My only real complaint about the Buckingham palace game was that many levels feel like the objects have no business being in the location and certain levels come across as being a collection of out of place objects that simply don’t belong in the location.
Overall, Hidden Mysteries: Buckingham Palace is a good hidden object game with an clever hint system, but it’s a game that could have been even better if a little more thought and effort had gone into storyline, item context, and how items were placed in the scenes
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