Spirited Heart Review
The town of Aravorn experiences stronger magic under the glow of a full moon and when you see a shooting star, a creature is born. It can be human, elf or demon. Each character will carry its own mysterious attributes. This is the setting for your new adventures in RPG Mac game Spirited Heart.
The play for Spirited Heart starts with you selecting your person for this play. If you choose a human, they are common in Aravorn with strength and toughness but lacking in charisma and dexterity. Sounds like a few humans I know. The 
elven race is thin and graceful, not suited for manual labor, but excels in concentration and dexterity. The demons are rare creatures with charisma and creativity but are shunned by the others so will try to hide their identity. Each character has their own advantages and disadvantages, and their destiny is different from each other. This game has a long playability factor due to the many choices. The decisions you choose will also determine the end result or fate of each girl. I chose the demon girl whose farmer parents found her under a tree and decided to raise her as their own. She spends her days with animals and nature, and her parents are worried about her personal growth and sends her to the next town, Triberg to find her own path. She is a strong person with faith, cooking and gardening skills.
You begin your tasks with a value of 5 in your skills, and it will change depending on the choices you make. Your attributes will be modified each week with the type of jobs you choose. Each month the rarely used attributes will decrease so be careful. If you pay someone to teach you a skill, the faster your attribute will increase. However, the cost will be higher, the higher the skill. From time to time you will have special events that can dramatically change your stats. Both your morale and health are very important for your well being. Taking breaks from work will help you in these 2 factors.
You must watch your budget for the money is needed for skills, and in addition, the triannual tribute to the king will tax your earnings. It can be as high as 44%! You must be in Europe because as high as taxes are here in the U.S., it’s not that
high. You will have random encounters with men who may one day become your husband.
Spirited Heart is an engaging Mac game, and you get into the well-written storyline with its many options to vary your play. The game is similar to Cute Knight, but I think the anime-like graphics are much better in Spirited Heart. Also the game doesn’t abruptly end your play as it does in Cute Knight. However, the game comes to an end when you get married or 10 years passes. You will be 28. So under the full moonlight create some magic in the land of Aravorn.
Features of Spirited Heart:
-Many Storylines
-Choose Your Destiny
-Attributes and Skills
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Maestro: Music of Death Review
Outside of Paris there is a town where something horrible is happening to everyone in its border. Could this unspeakable nightmare occur and who is behind it all? It is up to you as an inspector to solve this heinous act and save the people.
However, before you can get to the village, guards stop you from entering. In this point and click adventure you go about searching for clues and answers when you come across a woman near the gate who escaped the curse but her daughter and nanny are still trapped in the city. She implores you to find them, but before you can answer a dark cloud swoops down over the guards killing all the men. Upon investigating the cause of death, you find all the soldiers had aged into old wrinkled men. Why do you hear music coming from the other side of the bridge? What could have caused such a horrendous tragedy?
Begin by choosing your level of expertise in these hidden object adventure. Regular mode will give you faster recharging for hint and skip buttons and will give you sparkles for you to investigate further. These sparkles will lead you to hidden object games or something to investigate and pick up. When the cursor turns into a hand, you can pick up the object. The cursor will turn into a spinning globe to navigate you to another location.
In the hidden object games the list of items you need to find are at the bottom of the screen. Any item you need to interact with before you can click on it is outlined in orange. For the most part the items are appropriate to the period and area. Most of the objects are easily spotted but if you need help, there is a hint button at the lower right.
Go from location to location searching for objects and clues you will need to use in later puzzles. You will find many posters, news items and notes giving you 
information to further your cause. You may need to go back to an area to pick up more items or find another hidden object game. There are many places, both indoors and out, where you will need to put back pieces of a plaque, sign, door lock and more to proceed with this game. The mini and hidden object games with the many puzzles will draw you into this story of death and revenge.
Maestro: Music of Death is an interesting tale with superb artwork and appropriate music. Since music is part of this story, you will find many puzzles with a music theme. If you are a hidden object, point and click player, this is one game you will not want to miss. If you are an experienced player, try the Expert mode to challenge yourself. If not, the Regular mode is just as fun. The only problem I have with this game is when I went too far down the screen with my cursor, the menu pops up making your adventure a little frustrating. Other than that, it is a great game with a balanced HOGs, puzzles to point and click adventure.
Features of Maestro: Music of Death:
-Mysterious, Deathly Tale
-Hidden Object Games, Puzzles and More
-Beautiful Artwork and Great Music
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Gemini Lost Review
A group of friends come across an ancient zodiac wheel on their way home and were transported through some teleporter to a strange land in Mac sim game Gemini Lost. Unfortunately for these 6 people the wheel exploded and spewed the zodiac signs across this mysterious region.
In order to return home, they must find all the keys to repair the wheel. However, life goes on and the 6 must start a village of sorts in order to survive. They must gather and grow foods, find wood and stones for building shelter, increase their knowledge to be able to perform many tasks, they must marry to increase and sustain their population and find all the zodiac keys to transport them back.
In addition to all that, there are puzzles and tasks to complete in order to teleport back home. In order to get across a river, someone needs to have the skills to build a bridge spanning the distance from your end to where the key is located. Labs will increase your 
knowledge level, working on the garden will increase your farming skills and the chapel will marry your couples so you can increase your village. Also after a time the older people will die off so raising the children is important. The kids however do not work until they are grown, but can pick up items for potions. The game is very good about giving you vital information and stats on each person. If someone is sick, they will be moving around slowly and will need to be healed. Potions can be made and the recipes are available in the log.
The game will allow you to choose how you want your villagers to proceed when you leave the game. If you want to be involved at all times you are on, you can do so or you can have the people go about their tasks even when you are not on the computer. This part of the game is different from other games of this nature.
The tutorial is easy to follow and will get you started on your village without any trouble. I did find it curious when I left the game with 2 skilled people building a bridge, and when I got back, no progress was made and the 2, nowhere to be found. I suggest you keep track of your people’s names because when they grow up while you are gone, they are like strange new person you’ve forgotten. It gets a little confusing.
For the most part I liked this sim develop your own village type game. This one seemed easier to train people, and they didn’t mind working very hard each day. When they get tired, they will rest in the hut, and when they get hungry they will feed themselves so you just need to watch the upper part of the screen to see how much supplies you have and will need. The computer will announce any changes such as a baby being born or someone who passes away. This game is appropriate for children because they take care of birth and dying in a discreet manner.
So create your own village full of people to your specifications and search for all the zodiac keys for your ticket back to civilization.
Features of Gemini Lost:
-Puzzles and Mini Games
-Zodiac Signs
-Your Own World
Similar games: My Tribe, Wild Tribe, Virtual Villagers 1 and 2
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Bud Redhead Review
Bud Redhead is an action-packed, side scrolling fun platform Mac game for all ages. Its story begins with Bud and Rachel strolling through a park, and a green creature appears through a light and kidnaps poor Rachel. Bud could only grab part of the creature’s arm before the two disappear through another light. Bud is then approached by 2 grey aliens who explain to him that the green monster is Feyatta, and they, from the Cosmic Federation, are chasing him for galactic evil deeds. The electronic piece Bud grabbed from Feyatta will prevent the creature from escaping to his space ship and leaving for the unknown. They could track Feyatta, but the 2 grey men cannot chase the criminal on earth due to galaxy restrictions in interfering with earthlings. It is up to Bud to help Rachel get back and put away this desperate galactic criminal.
Bud’s adventure will take him to 4 different locations and 4 different time periods. Music also changes in each location. The places vary from a forest over 8000 years ago to a spaceship orbiting Saturn way into the future with Medieval Castles and Ancient Egypt in between.
The play is easy to pick up using the arrow keys and jumping with the control button. There are helps in forms of monitors along the way. You can stop and view them or you can ignore them. There are thousands of coins (which you need to exit the portals), jewels and fruit to get for your score. This is your basic run and jump game where you will find secret areas in each land, moving platforms, many tiered trees, levers, ropes and the dreaded but fun slippery floors.
Bud Redhead is an awesome play in the style of the Mario games. The artwork and graphics were great, and some of it reminded me of Japanese anime. The backgrounds were drawn in detail and rich colors. The ending is a big surprise. So if you are looking for an excellent family fun, try Bud Redhead and venture out into the timeless unknown.
Features of Bud Redhead:
-20 Levels of Adventure and Fun
-5 Levels per Different Worlds
-Thousands of Coins, Jewels, and Fruit
-Secret Areas
-Big Boss Levels
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Unsolved Mystery Club: Ancient Astronauts Collector’s Edition Review
Whether you believe in aliens from outer space or extraterrestrials walking amongst us or not, you can still play Unsolved Mystery Club: Ancient Astronauts Collector’s Edition and learn a few things about the unusual phenomenon throughout the world. Why is it so prevalent everywhere, especially in isolated and distant areas? This game will take you from Mali, Africa to the frigid regions of Antarctica while teaching you of mysterious sightings documented by completely different groups of people and cultures.
Begin by taking on the first case of missing photojournalist, Sarah Brightside. She was getting close to some answers regarding the legend called Nommo in the Dogon 
tribe. It had to do with the Sirius cycle occurring every 60 years. Unfortunately none of her pictures came out and she disappeared before any answers could be resolved. It is up to you as a member of the Unsolved Mystery Club to find her and the others who went missing when they were just about to explain the untold stories of extraterrestrials.
According to this game this is based on a true story and events. It begins with you choosing between the casual and expert mode. One giving you faster recharging hints and skips. However, I thought the recharging for the casual took a long time and the expert mode took forever. After deciding your level of expertise, you land in some unspecified warehouse in the desert talking to Henry Hudson the curator. He needs help from you to search for missing Unsolved Mystery Club employees. The first person you look for is Sarah Brightside who went missing in Mali, Africa while researching theories of ancient astronauts. Your job is to find the missing 
people and uncover the mystery of these ancient beings. This game will take you all over the world from Mali Africa, Palenque in Central America, Egypt, Peru, and to Antarctica. There will be some helpful people along the way, but others will not be as kind. This game is mostly a point and click adventure with a lot of puzzles to solve including some hidden object games (remember the items listed in blue need addition interaction before you can pick it up with your cursor). It balances the search, HOGs, completing the Black Sun by finding all the gems and puzzles (many to figure out how to get to another place in the game) to make an interesting story. It has all the elements for a great game.
Unsolved Mystery Club: Ancient Astronauts Collector’s Edition is voiced in parts and has beautifully drawn sceneries and items. The music is appropriate for the many themes and locations. Most of the puzzles are fun to work out and if you have any trouble with them, you can get help from the hint, skip buttons or the in-game strategy guide. With 5 different locations and researchers to find, the game is not short but will take a few hours to complete depending upon your skill level. Have fun with this intriguing story and help the Club recover their people.
Features of Unsolved Mystery Club: Ancient Astronauts Collector’s Edition:
-Explore 5 Different Regions of the Planet
-Rescue the 5 Unsolved Mystery Club Members
-Puzzles, Hidden Object and Mini Games
-Collector’s Edition for Bonuses
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