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This is the first game I’ve finished all at once in at least 18 months. Considering I used to buy EVERY Big Fish game as they were released when I first started playing these type of games, that says a lot. Storyline is interesting, graphics are comparable to others in the series as is most other attributes.

Have loved this series since the first game and nothing has changed. Great puzzles,creepy characters. This one is more of the same.

Another great installment of the Grim Tales series! Even though Elephant is known for their monotonous gameplay of: find amulet, insert amulet, receive another amulet, repeat ad nauseum, somehow with this series they up their game and make the gameplay interesting. The hos are quite varied. Mini games are unique, and range from easy to medium in difficulty. The length of the game is about average. Both the main game and bonus have interesting stories. This was a really fun game to play!! The cons: I really dislike having tasks or objectives come up on the screen, and as how there’s an option In the difficulty settings to do away with this irritation, they should go away but it never ever works! This is not just a fault of Elephant, but all the developers, and it drives me crazy. Especially so in this game, as the “completed task” and “ new task” take forever to leave your screen, and you can’t hurry them along or do anything in the scene until they finish. Ugh. Also, Richard is one of my favorite characters of all time, however they’ve changed the actor playing him! Instead of the deep, spooky, echoing voice, they’ve replaced it with what sounds like a whiny teenage boy! No emotion at all in his voice, he just reads the script and that’s it😔. Deducted a star for the annoying task messages and for the abomination of replacing Richard. Otherwise great game!

So I guess we’re down to one game a week now. No new game this morning. Very disappointing. Maybe with a stroke of luck new mngt will take over at big fish and get things running smoothly again. Maybe my review will actually be posted this time to which seems hit and miss lately. Come on big fish! Same as the rest of this series with a few improvements. I’d like to point out that changing Richard’s voice, Anna’s dad, was a welcome change not bad like another reviewer said. Before it was long and drawn out and just painful to listen to so thanks for speeding that up! Same usual perks as we expect with teleporting map etc. guess I’m a little bored with this series. The first 3 were incredible and put elephant games at the top of my list but from that point they got shorter and shorter and less interesting to me. Grim tales: the legacy was the bomb, long and captivating story. I like more adventure and not a puzzle every 3steps but that’s a personal thing. I’m still considering buying. Maybe it gets better? Big fish has been increasingly failing us with less new releases and sales on games we’ve already played so if there’s no new release then maybe I’ll buy it, not sure. FYI..absolutist just released a new one. It’s different, ok.

This is my favorite series. Unfortunately, it is appallingly brief, with almost no story or goals. They also changed the voice actor for Richard, exchanging a deep, spooky voice with an almost high-pitched speaker. Richard is no longer edgy, but accommodating and sweet- an big loss for the series. Anyone know why, even though there are 390 reviews, I can only read 10 of them? I can see my favorite reviewers anymore. Also, anyone know how I can filter out the annoying gambling or stellar games, such as “Can’t Be Die,” when trying to find HOGs by release date? Anyone know why the, “a new game every day” company doesn’t even have a new game twice a week anymore?it used to be related to updating their software, but that’s been a year now. Come on! I think it’s time for me to break my HOG habit...

I played the short demo, and refuse to pay $6.99 to unlock the game that is a carbon copy of all the other games. Woman drives down the road; she crashes; she has to perform a ritual; then, go here, solve a puzzle, get an item, go back and use the item, find another lock to get pieces for, find the right tool for each puzzle, get the ghost to give you something, unlock the door, play the HOP, find the morphing objects, find the puzzle pieces, ad infinitum. Blah, blah, blah. None of these games are worth $6.99 EVER. I’ve been playing computer games since 1985, some that took days to finish instead of a few hours. The games have become so cliché!

Pros: Some fun puzzles, custom levels, nice graphics, easy but enjoyable HOs, plenty of things to find (collectibles, morphing objects, puzzle pieces), no issues on my iPad Air 2. Cons: I have no idea what the story line is since I skip over the glowing skull guy which is just a way to waste time before giving me what I need; I skipped several puzzles which are blatant time wasters; there really is no bonus story - the main game suddenly cuts off and then picks up again as the 'bonus' portion.

The is another great title in this series. I have run into a brand new frustration playing on my IPhone X. Now that there’s a home indicator on the screen itself instead of a home button on the phone, it’s very difficult to select items from the inventory without accidentally swiping the home indicator. Apple has outsmarted themselves. The inventory on all these games needs to be moved to side or top of screen.

I’ve seen this before with BF games, there are image rectangles floating all around the screen after the cut-away videos. When tapped, the rectangles enlarge to show a very washed out image, without details. I’ve removed/reinstalled the game, but that didn’t fix it. Using an iPad 7. Thanks for any help.

Underneath the good graphics and animations, this is basically a hidden object game. Figuring out where these objects go after you collect them is easy... no... I’d say obvious. The only challenging part of the game is the mini games/puzzles and some of those don’t make sense or are just boring. This game kept me entertained for a little bit but just got repetitive and boring after a while. Good time passer at the airport and on a flight but I won’t be sealing out additional titles from this developer... at least in this series.

Not worth anyone’s money. Why are these games so, so short and non-sensical. In the past I have bought so many games and now I can’t find any of them. Why? I would really like to know why. Games in the past were better than what they are now. I know times are hard for everyone but Developers some people are on a tight fixed income and this is their only enjoyment in life. Have a heart and I hope this shows up with the rest of the reviews. It won’t allow me to rate only 1 star!

Can someone please tell me why Big Fish games is still selling games that are not compatible with the current iOS versions? And why is it okay with Apple that they continue to make money on games that no one is willing to update so that they are compatible? If Apple is not willing to continue to support the older games and the game owners aren’t willing to update their games then they shouldn’t be allowed to continue to make money from them.

Before paying for the game make sure it works through the first scene. I bought for iPad iOS 14.2, visuals fragmented. Got a free game from Big Fish, but had to buy on their app. The coupon redemption directions did not fit with my app. So tried game on my iPhone with iOS 13. It worked! However apple sent out new emergency security warning, so had to upgrade to iOS 14.4. No longer works. Back to fragmented scene.

There are still white boxes around all the items that are interactive. Graphics are too choppy for gameplay at this point. Removed the game from my iPad and reinstalled, and it’s still the same. Hope I’ll get my refund... it’s too bad. I’ve finished at least a dozen puzzle games by Big Fish (love them) and never had any problems.