Mind Snares: Alice's Journey

Translated into French by mental trap: the story of Alice, MInd snares: Alice's journey is a hidden object game edited by the specialists of artifex Mundi and created by their Polish compatriots of world loom, to whom one owes in particular the series lost Grimemoirs. Screenplay Alice Dahl is a young woman very professionally solicited and who accumulates frustrations. Following a road accident, she finds herself in a strange world with steampunk inspiration in which she will have to face challenges to regain a normal life. Game gameplay matching the classics of the genre. You need to explore the environment and complete SOC to find objects to combine or use to solve puzzles or access mini-games. A system of clues is available to those who would need help to progress. It takes between 3 and 4H to complete the entire game without any help. Artistic direction here we find the usual standards of aesthetics of this kind of games with a theme revolving around tales, witchcraft, death, dreams and nightmares. Technical aspects nothing noticeable to report so much, if not some translation errors in SOC. Final evaluation we quickly understand that Alice finds herself in a dreamlike world in which she confronts with symbolic versions of her fears, emotions, memories or regrets. She will accomplish an initiatory journey in order to defeat her inner demons, she will try to find the thread of her life following the plot of an intriguing red line, she will decide to now better listen to her desires and carry out this adventure that will change his life. The topic is therefore rich and offers the possibility of multiple development. Unfortunately, we are only in a hidden object game and the whole thing lacks depth. Even mini-games and puzzles remain of undisarming simplicity and are not the height of the symbolic challenge that heroin must face. In fact, the chapters are chained up very quickly and the end seems to be totally botched. The scenario leaves only glimpses of doors that will never be opened but as a game of hidden objects allowing a little seasoned public to think games to spend a few hours of good time, it nevertheless fulfills its task. To buy on sale at-70%.