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Alexandra Fortune: Mystery of the Lunar Archipelago was available as a giveaway on January 22, 2023!
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Join Alexandra Fortune as she sets out to find her missing grandfather! Unravel the age-old mystery of the Lunar Archipelago, a cluster of islands that contains remnants of every great civilization throughout history and hides a treasure of unimaginable worth. As you guide Alexandra through this thrilling Hidden Object quest, you'll solve ingenious puzzles, enjoy visually stunning locations and crack a mystery that has the potential to change the world!
Windows XP/ Vista/ 7/ 8/ 10; CPU: 800 Mhz; RAM: 128 MB; DirectX: 8.1; Hard Drive: 215 MB
196 MB
$9.99
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Whiterabbit-uk,
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Folks, please NOTE: This is another of those Toomky games that will tell you they're not for 32 bit machines, but they are. Not surprising considering it's a 10 year old game, though that's fine by me. You'll need to go into the game folder and double click on the icon that says Game, and that will work for you. If you want a shortcut placed somewhere, you'll have to make one with a right click and send or put it where you need it, and ditch any that the game made. Or right click those and change the target to the game icon in the folder.
As to reviewing the game, the other good folks have mainly said it. It has aggravations: goes directly to play instead of the main menu so you can tweak the options. Fortunately, this one doesn't drag on my old machine, which is the main reason I need to kill the custom cursor, so the lack of that option isn't hurting me, and the cursors click touch is precise enough. I assume it has a glitch or 2. I'm to the feather glitch many described in previous reviews, so I'll have to look back and get the workaround on that. It's the typical treasure hunt - find pieces and then use the pieces to open hidden places, or to just generally progress - plus some puzzles. That said, that's not a turn off for me. It's been mildly enjoyable so far. It features 1 type of plot play I despise, but can live with. The lazy or weird person that wants you to do chores for them. If I could have picked up 1 of the oars, I'd have gotten that lazy blob out of his hammock! And our little drummer girl! "My father (or grandfather or whatever) told me to hold down the fort" (so I'll just sit here and drum repetitively like I'm brain dead!). But, again, I can live with it.
Thanks Toomky, GGOTD, Whiterabbit, and the site community.
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Looks to be a good game. I played one level so far and I think we'll enjoy it
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Alexandra's grandfather gave her an amulet as a child, and now has disappeared unexpectedly leaving behind his journal referencing a place called the Lunar Archipelago with sketches that might resemble the amulet she was given. So Alexandra apparently watching too many Indiana Jones movies the prior weekend is off to try to solve the mystery of the Lunar Archipelago herself and hopefully locate her grandfather.
This is a 'Hidden Object' game with some humor, light puzzles and minigames to keep it interesting. Some of the items are well thought out in placement and can give you an 'Aha I found it' feeling while others are way too hidden to be found just by looking first which can cause less enjoyment with the game. In other words an item in the image not resembling the item to find or only a piece of it showing (since many items are just pieces of an item) leading to a lot of clicking. There is a multitude of objects to find and lots of them have to be combined for the puzzles which overall are of moderate difficulty so not great for younger kids. There is however hints available that help locate an item (which spins faster as you get closer), ability to skip a minigame, or a clue given as to what to do which may not seem obvious that can lessen frustration.
The tasks area might be a bit too hard to see the items to find since they are a bit greyed out before finding them, and perhaps there could be a magnifier to magnify the screen area around it to help locate items without giving away their actual location as the hint does which should be only available less often such as you earn one when finishing an area and a beginner mode that lets you use it all the time such as is the default. Maybe there could be more complete items to find rather than pieces since you still have puzzles such as to combine the items to complete. Its worth a download and I will certainly keep it for a single playthrough if you dont have many other games already you wish to play on hand and dont mind some of the quirks of hidden object games. Rating: C+
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DataDragon,
Thank you for your feedback DataDragon, appreciated,
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Today's game is a hidden object game where it appears you're exploring lost ruins type of scenes. The game builds upon the standard gameplay of finding objects we all know and love by having you work to build items to unlock areas in the scene and figure out the puzzles.
The one challenge you will find with today's game is that depending on your vision or computer screen size, you may find it difficult to find the objects on all the scenes. Objects are very well hidden in my opinion and I felt very frustrated at times. On the plus side, it appears the game is relaxed so you may need to take all the time you need to progress to the next scene etc.
The games graphics are basic but decent to the point where the game is playable, but still in low resolution as this was most likely made before newer games were upgraded or designed to take advantage of wide screen monitors. I did however like the animated water effect in the first scene,
If you like hidden object games you may like this one but as I said above the game might throw you for a loop due to the difficulty of playing it.
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sailorbear510 aka Jason,
Thank you for your feedback Jason. :)
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