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<title><![CDATA[East Side Story comments:]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Alexis]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/east-side-story/#comment-64519</link>
<description><![CDATA[Please giveaway again this game. I wasnt capable of downloading it and i really want it. Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have a nice day. God bless.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 13:42:06 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexis]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Bob]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/east-side-story/#comment-64256</link>
<description><![CDATA[The game is great.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:27:34 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bob]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[By: heather]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/east-side-story/#comment-64135</link>
<description><![CDATA[I was very disappointed that day, I tried all day many many times and your site was jammed.  Must have been a busy day.  I was looking so forward to downloading this game.  Will it be available again anytime soon?  I hope so.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:53:52 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[heather]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Dianne]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/east-side-story/#comment-64105</link>
<description><![CDATA[I did finally get this file to download, but I found the game play so confusing that I deleted it from my hard drive.  It is a very pretty game, but takes a lot of patience unless you like this type of play.  It moves very slowly, so instead of going quickly into the adventure, what I found myself doing was trying to fill the blankety blank watering can with water for the cucumber (never did find the water).  It wasn't interesting to me to continue. So I didn't.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:08:37 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dianne]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[By: lil]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/east-side-story/#comment-63970</link>
<description><![CDATA[I'm so mad i missed this download, i've been wanting this game forever.
post more games like this!]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:47:22 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[lil]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[By: guitarzan]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/east-side-story/#comment-63961</link>
<description><![CDATA[I gave up looking in this site
Does anybody have any suggestions?]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:26:38 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[guitarzan]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[By: moo]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/east-side-story/#comment-63952</link>
<description><![CDATA[Nightowl, I missed the three holes the first time also. They're in the second set of binoculars to the left of the first pair. Just go slow, and the spyglass will appear. Luv this game.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:47:52 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: nightowl]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/east-side-story/#comment-63938</link>
<description><![CDATA[I downloaded and installed this game when it was offered last weekend, but after playing half the game I can no longer move ahead as there's a glitch in it. I got as far as the Belvedere, but the binoculars will not give me the clue I need to move on to the next scene. I thought maybe I had missed something along the way, so I googled for a walk-through and I have done everything correctly up to this point, and I followed the steps used by the writer of the walk-through about using the binoculars but Carol never says she sees the 3 green holes and that she knows were to go, therefore, I do not get another place added on my map that I can go explore. I had spent nearly three days retracing her steps in hopes that I would find something I had missed before I resorted to looking for help from someone who has played the game before, only to find that I had not missed a thing, that there is a glitch in the game, and that I know that I can't download and reinstall the game because of the 24 hour limit. 

The game took me over two hours to download, with a dual core processor, two gb of memory on a Dell XPS and with no other programs running except the download, which was bad enough, but to then get a lousy copy really sucks. (I used my old laptop to play another game while I was waiting for the download to finish.) If I went to big fish and bought the game, how do I know I wouldn't get another corrupted file? After I got the walk-through, I went to a gamers' site to see if anyone could help me with a workaround and several people there said they bought the game online and got a corrupted file too, so that makes me leery of buying it online.


I am disappointed in the game for other reasons as well. Carol rarely ever interacts with other characters, and those she does meet are just still pictures of people.  It would be far more more interesting if she met and interacted with other characters, even if they played no role in giving her clues to solve the mystery. 

I like the fact that you can't see her character, you are Carol, so you see through her eyes, but you can only pickup or look closely at items that will help you solve the mystery. It would be nice if Carol could pick up extra things within her view also, like the photos in her home, even though they would be "red herrings" in the mystery, it would help build her character and that of those people she meets along the way. 

It's really odd that there is never anyone on the streets or anywhere she goes, except those few people who give her a clue here and there; it's like being in a world alone after a nuclear disaster. The concept is very good, but as I said, there is a too much missing for me to give it five star rating on any level. Since I can't finish the gave because of a major glitch with no workaround, I have to give it a two and half stars for ease of use. I would give it four stars for the ideas put forth, three stars for playability and one and a half stars for character development. 

Adventure games are usually fun in my book since they allow you to use you head, not a joystick, and they help you to think analytically, about the plot of the mystery, instead of requiring you to run away from someone, jump over something or to shoot at someone or something which any halfway coordinated monkey can do. Most older folks, like myself, want something more realistic to do than chase aliens or rob banks, and my friends and I all want something which stimulates our brain cells instead of our heart rates.

Thanks to give way of the day and to the game program developers who contribute their wares here for us to use.
BL aka Nightowl]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:03:29 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[nightowl]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Jean]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/east-side-story/#comment-63934</link>
<description><![CDATA[Very cool game.  Downloaded and installed great.  BUT, got to a point in the game where it froze!!  I even went back and tried it again.  Major disappointment...anyone else experience that??]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:28:39 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jean]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Abha Agarwal]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/east-side-story/#comment-63905</link>
<description><![CDATA[I hate to say this, but I gave the game a big Thumbs down. Reason? Well, for SUCH a huge file, and the time taken to download, it's a pity that the game is a one time play. Nice and engaging, but what to do when you finish it??? I must say I am glad I am not paying for this. Nice graphics really, interesting way of hooking up the player, (i couldn't help myself). But only a one time affair...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:01:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abha Agarwal]]></dc:creator>
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