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Category: Video Games

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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

10 reviews
Sales Rank: 768

Format: Download
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP
Genre: puzzle_games
Media: Software Download
Edition: Standard
Operating System: Windows Vista

Model: 40359m Witch Trials
ASIN: B003UD7RV4

Release Date: July 13, 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

Features:

•	Sequel to the hit Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy
•	Explore the spooky terrain and structures of Salem village
•	Interview apparitions, solve brain-teasing puzzles, and collect hidden objects
•	Hawthorne guides you through time to unravel his mysterious death
•	Complete 10 Adventure Missions

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Famed writer Nathaniel Hawthorne has died during a freak storm, and his spirit comes to you for help! Travel back in time to the Salem Witch Trials to uncover legendary secrets!

Customer Reviews:

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Worth the price August 28, 2010
Ripley7700 (Houston, Texas)
I've downloaded several HOG games from Amazon in the past two months, and this is one of my favorites. I think it's better than the MM: Edgar Allen Poe game. It is similar to MCF Dire Grove in that you affirmatively move from place to place (you have a choice in what you can do - you can go back to places, etc.). Although seek and find is a strong component of this game, the story is the main element - even more so, I think, than Dire Grove. It had a good length and good graphics. I can't think of any complaints about unfair clues or impossible-to-find objects. I was irritated, though, because (nerd alert) I've read a couple of books on the Salem witch trials, and the story line is "loosely" based on what actually happened. Sarah Good was an actual person, and this game doesn't portray her very accurately at all. I wish they had just stuck to fiction because that was what by brain kept focusing on while playing: "That's not what Sarah Good was actually like..." Since I don't know much about Nathanial Hawthorne (and can't really remember HO7G very well), whatever liberties they took with him didn't stick out too much. He really was related to one of the judges. One more thing: for those of you with slow internet connections, this game is NOT 500MB. It's somewhere less than 200M (I can't remember the actual #).

3 out of 5 stars

Be Warned That Some Systems Won't Allow Save Games August 16, 2010
Jennifer Mitchell
I played this game for about an hour and a half on my HP laptop with Windows 7 before I realized that the game was not saving. It wipes out your username and each time you come back, you're back to being "Welcome, player!" and forced to start over. I contacted customer support at Big Fish games, and after having me run a diagnostic utility, and update my drivers, they were not able to help me get the game to save, but offered to replace the game with something else. There are several threads about this problem on various gaming websites. So be warned that you might not be able to quit and come back if you get this game. For the hour or so I played, I did enjoy it. I'm really more of an AG player than a HOb player, but it was atmospheric and cozy and nice overall. Shame about the save game issue.

1 out of 5 stars

not for netbooks August 12, 2010
dragon 1
Seek and Find games are fun, but only if the object being searched for can be seen on the screen.

Unfortunately this game shows a clipped picture on the 1024x600 most netbooks have these days. The game has an option to break out of fulls screen mode and run in a window. When activated, the desktop did appear. But the game refused to let me re-size or move that window. Even when done with a right-click on the task bar.

Trying in 800x600 resolution fared no better.

The game was unplayable on the built in screen. No doubt it may have been usable if attached to an external monitor. But what's the point of a portable netbook then?

3 out of 5 stars

Just okay. August 9, 2010
lucretia23 (New York, NY USA)
Not even close to being as good as Dire Grove! Graphics were so-so, puzzles were confusing, story was confusing, my next action was often confusing. I found it often frustrating, but I did finish it, so I guess I didn't hate it.

4 out of 5 stars

Attention Must Be Paid August 3, 2010
PCCnyc (New York, NY USA)
This is a well constructed game, with obvious attention to detail, right down to the dust motes swirling in a beam of light. The hidden object scenes are moderately challenging; I did not need any hints to find anything. The main challenge was in the scenes outside the hidden ones. You have to pay attention and thoroughly search them for inventory pieces (signaled by a grabby blue hand or sparkle)and information (signaled by an eyeball looking around, which I found amusing for some reason). There were fewer puzzles than in many of these types of game, and they were the easiest I've encountered so far. Which was just fine with me, because I don't want to always have to bust a brain cell just figuring out how a puzzle works like in the Mystery Case File Games.

Speaking of the MCF Games, I do not agree that this is better than Dire Grove, but it's up there on the tier just below. Dire Grove was more subtle in it's scariness, more creepy, while this game contains a series of sudden shocks, that make you jump at points. Interestingly enough, a wolf is part of both those games. How about a bear next time?

Only disappointment was that I thought this would deal more with the Salem witch trials, but that took a back seat to a historical mystery involving family curses and treaties and double crossings and whatnot.

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