About This Game A world famous castle, the mysterious, unexplained death of a romantic king, and anonymous clues pointing to a whole web of dark conspiracies—what more does a savvy journalist need for a gripping story—maybe one with Pulitzer potential? As an investigative reporter for the Irish magazine “Facts & Fancy,” Sarah Hamilton does not miss a beat as she receives hints that something strange is going on at the famous Bavarian castle Neuschwanstein. In the thrilling puzzle adventure Mystery of Neuschwanstein, Sarah and her new acquaintance Wolfgang Adler, a professor of historical criminology from Heidelberg, find themselves on a dangerous search for the truth behind Germany’s most famous unsolved death—the untimely death of the Fairy Tale King Ludwig II of Bavaria in 1886.Was his death in the shallows of Lake Starnberg the result of a successful suicide attempt, as the official sources claim? Or was it indeed murder? And who actually profited from the death of the monarch?This gorgeous castle is more than meets the eye. It conceals secret passages, hidden rooms, and other secrets! Sarah and Professor Adler will have to combine their knowledge and different skills to get to the bottom of things. But that is easier said than done when a mysterious monk starts passing on cryptic messages, and the first dead body turns up.The ambitious journalist and absent-minded Professor Adler will have to stay on the ball as they carry out their investigation; people are not as they seem, and some of them do not want the secrets of Neuschwanstein to see the light of day. What is hidden behind the polite facade of the castellan Beatrix von Lohen, and what is the Italian building inspector Francetti really up to? And then there are rumors about the “Guglmänner,” though nobody knows what role they play in the web of conspiracies. Will you be able to accompany Sarah and Professor Adler through this adventure and solve the mystery of the fairy tale castle Neuschwanstein and the unexplained death of King Ludwig II?Features:An exciting mystery story about Neuschwanstein Castle based on the true story of King Ludwig II of Bavaria Help Sarah uncover the secret of Neuschwanstein and the death of Ludwig II! Beautiful and challenging puzzles and complex visual scenes Hand painted scenes Atmospheric soundtrack With German and English voice-over talentsDeveloped by Chimera Entertainment 7aa9394dea Title: Mystery of NeuschwansteinGenre: Adventure, CasualDeveloper:Chimera EntertainmentPublisher:astragon EntertainmentRelease Date: 18 Feb, 2015 Mystery Of Neuschwanstein Download No Survey No Password I'm glad I picked this title up at one of the sales - it was a great historical mystery with many twists and turns and my inner historian was quite intrigued by the subject of King Ludwig II. I also appreciated that the hidden object scenes and puzzles were a little challenging, as in, you really have to look and sometimes use objects from your own inventory to access items in the puzzle. The mini games were a good challenge, though I admit to skipping some of them out of frustration... Besides the hidden object scenes, I enjoyed the 'hacker' challenges the most. I did wonder whether I should've tried to play it in German simply for language study's sake, seeing as it was set in Germany and many of the inventory maps included German keywords... Something to try next time.. I play a lot of HOG but this one had far too much talking in it for me. Puzzles were good but not a lot of hidden objects and a bit slow for me.. Boring story, as a mystery it sucked the bad guys were obvious but then there are only a few people involved. Puzzles were okay but the plot was junk and voice acting and cheesy graphics were disappointing. More silly ahistorical Templar, Catholic Church secret society garbage that Brown made a fortune off from the gullible. I thought that had gone the way of the dodo by the date this was released. This is overall a good enough game, but it also does have a decent enough amounts of faults. While overall I'm giving it a recommended because the good outweighs the bad, I'd advise to wait on buying for there to be some actual guides out there because this game sorely needs a guide.Pros: +NIce visuals. The style is very good and makes everything look really nice and prevents it from suffering from some of the issues that can exist in the genre.+Pretty good story. It's a nice mystery with a logical premise and doesn't rely heavily on the supernatural which does make for a refreshing change of pace.+Good characters. The characterization is pretty solid and the characters are reasonably interesting.+I loved the elements of the camera, UV light and night vision goggles. It was neat to be able to take a pic of something and use it for a puzzle later or the character would send it to someone and get an email back later about what the object was. Cons-The hint system is really not too good. Hints recharge fast, and that's awesome, but the issue is that about the most direction you'll get is what location to go to, but when you get to that location you have to figure out what to do and if you're stuck it becomes click around everywhere trying to find something new. If you are playing on easy at least you get some direction with blinking on items you can pick up and interact with, but I also found some didn't blink and it still led to some pixel hunting and guesswork.-Some of the puzzles are sorely lacking in direction. One example of this is some puzzles where you find zodiac symbols painted somewhere and some tokens. You got the order the tokens go in, but then you also have to put some decorations into the right order as well, with absolutely no idea how they should go and each token has 4 different combinations multiplied by 4 tokens total, which makes for a lot of trial and error to actually solve the puzzle.So overall, it's a good enough game, but some core gameplay elements will leave you frustrated and wanting to turn to a guide that at the time of writing this, doesn't seem to exist or at least my google skills are failing to find one. The game runs fine, definitely doesn't have any bugs that I've found yet, the main issue is going to be how little direction you are given and how the hint system barely is of any help and that makes the game harder than it needs to be.. This is a nice little game. Here are my pros and cons:+ beautiful design+ good voice acting in comparison to many other games in this genre+ puzzles are interesting+ use of tablet as communication device, camera, UV-light, night vision ..+ nice music, and I loved the ambient sounds- I like it, when you can adjust difficulty levels to customary preferences, here you only have the three default difficutly levels - they are ok, so no major thing- game crashed once when I switched to desktop, otherwise it ran without any problems- although I found the story interesting, I could have done with a little less dialogue or more playable content between the existing dialogue ;)If you like HO-games with adventure elements, I can only recommend this.. Very nice graphics and so far a great hidden object game. Love the settingPlayed a bit more and love the historical use of characters. Very nicely done
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