Leeloo’s Talent Agency Review
Another sim time management/multitasking Mac game with a twist is Leeloo’s Talent Agency. Leeloo is born into a family of actors but she went the college route studying economics. However, as stories like these always end up with some connection to the past, Leeloo uses her education by opening up a talent agency looking for actors to play different roles for movies.
The sim play is easy to pick up with the tutorial. The many characters will arrive to take a chance at acting and making it big. Above their heads will appear what they want to do. An actor may want to look at scripts so you click on him and drag him to the chair to browse 
through treatments. He will ask Leeloo to come and select a script for him. You click on her to go and pick out the matching script. The role will appear at the top and the scrolling roles will appear at the bottom. You must click on the identical picture. Another person may want to go directly to the makeup table and another may want to go shoot their movie right away. After completion the actor will walk to the receptionist’s desk to sign his contract with Leeloo’s agency. The goal of the sim game is to meet the number of actors needed to cast in a movie.
The next part of the game is on the movie set where you will play a hidden object/seek and find play. Like other HOGs you will be finding
items for your inventory and with that object you may need to use it for repairing things such as finding 4 wheels and replacing it on the wagon train. The movie sets could be a western, pirate, family life or many other movie scenes.
With upgrades you buy equipment, foods or more stations to accommodate clients. There are puzzles within the sim play such as the 
photo shoot you do for the actors so they will have pictures for their resume portfolios. After shooting the photos, you have to fit the correct size pictures into the page. In addition to the movie related actions you must make, you have addition duties making food for your hungry actors. You must match the correct food items to what the actor requested.
There are many different plays in Leeloo’s Talent Agency from sim to hidden object to puzzles. I like doing the different plays instead of playing a straight sim time management. It gives you time to recoup before the next one. Of course, I do prefer HOGs to sim plays and
that may be the reason I like this game better. All the games are not difficult, but will increase in tasks as you increase in the levels. The music is light and lively and the graphics good. If you are a sim or HO player, this game covers both modes with a lighthearted story of Leeloo and her talent agency.
Features of Leeloo’s Talent Agency:
-70 Levels
-Hidden Object Challenges
-7 Different Movies to Make
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Kuros Review
Kuros is an adventure point and click, puzzle solving Mac game. There are some hidden object games where when you click on the scene, you will get a wheel of outlined objects you must search, find, click on, and drag the item to the silhouette. 
You play as a young woman who cannot remember who she is and where she is. Thus begins your search for her identity and why she is in this strange world. You can click on as many items you wish since this is a point and click game. You will combine the many objects you pick up along the way and use them for tasks or puzzles like putting the color gems to light up and open doors. Once solved, it will access different things. Be sure to take your cursor to the edge of the screen because many times an arrow will appear taking you to different scenes. In order to reach your next destination, you must collect all the map pieces. Once collected, you must put it together in a jigsaw puzzle.
There are many puzzles to solve before you can advance to another location. In order to reach the Oracle’s tree house you must complete 4 slide picture puzzles. Each completed puzzle will give you a land mass and get closer to the tree. If you wish to skip a puzzle, you must 
find a Scrying Orb in a scene. You may have to go back to the first few environments to find this and other helps you will need along the way. The Chromatic Lens will reveal random hidden objects. However, these helps are few and far apart, not to mention you do not know what they look like. Use these helps wisely and do not squander them because you do not want to do a particular puzzle. Most of the puzzles are not difficult and can be solved by a little logic like guiding the ball through the maze. The wand comes in handy for lighting the way in a dark room. Once you figure out how to light the room, you will no longer need the wand.
Kuros is not a particularly long game, but has a lot of puzzles you need to solve logically. I get the feeling that there is a sequel coming soon. I wouldn’t say this is a hidden object game because most of the time you are just point and clicking your way through until the next mini puzzle. However it is an adventure looking for this woman’s identity and whereabouts with original and creative drawings to look at. The voice over is fine and since you can click on the written words, you can move quickly by the story if you wish. I am both a puzzle and HOG person so enjoyed the mini games but wished the hidden object part could have been extended to searching for listed items. Try the demo and see what you think.
Features of Kuros:
-An Adventure Story
-Many Objects to Find
-Great Graphics
-A Lot of Logic Puzzles
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Letters from Nowhere Review
Mac game Letters from Nowhere sets the scenes for an interesting search for a lot of stuff. In other words it is a good hidden object play. The story begins with Audrey being followed by a stranger on her way home. Once there she waits for her husband, Patrick, who does not show up. The police are unwilling or unable to help so she starts the investigation on her own. Not entirely on her own. She finds letters 
from nowhere and thus begins her adventure into the unknown. Who is writing these notes, are they from her husband and what is she getting herself into?
As mentioned before, there are a lot of cluttered HOG scenes with a few mini puzzles. The HOG scenes will have the list of items you need to find at the bottom of the screen. Some of the objects will have to be put together to cross off the list. For instance, doll is listed but 
you will need to find the head and body to put them together before it will be removed from the listed items. The hint button is the magnifying glass to the right of the list and recharges quickly, however, if you use it, you will be lose a lot of points. You’ll lose more points if you click on too many wrong items. The points are important since you can unlock bonuses with them. One such bonus is the thermometer. When you find the thermometer in a scene, it will register hot/cold when you are close or far from a listed object.
The few puzzles in this game are easy to do and not very challenging. There are jigsaw puzzles and memory games. If you do the mini 
games and not skip them, you will win a collective stamp. There’s a Trophy room for all the awards you win. In addition there are 3 stamps in each scene. If you find all 50 stamps, you unlock the Unlimited Mode at the end of the game.
Letters from Nowhere is a good solid HOG. Its not too easy and you may need to use the hint button, although it will cost you. However, it is not so hard that you will get frustrated. The artwork is good and the sound okay. The side games do not distract from the main play and the awards and stamps only add to the play. The story, however, did not engage me that much and the ending left you hanging. I guess that may be the whole point and you have to wait for the sequel. I give it a 3 out of 5 for all the scenes and objects.
Features of Letters from Nowhere:
-Good Hidden Object Plays
-Find the mystery of Patrick’s Disappearance
-Trophy Room and Stamp Awards
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The Clumsys 2: The Butterfly Effect Review
This sequel to The Clumsys takes up with Grandpa returning home from the past in his homemade time machine, only to find he brought back a dead prehistoric butterfly. Everyone knows when you disturb anything in the past, it alters everything up to the present. This is proven by the historic photos Grandpa keeps on his wall to make sure he doesn’t change anything while time traveling. Helen, his 
daughter, takes matters into her own hands and decides to go back to the past and make things right again.
The Clumsys 2: Butterfly Effect is just as good and enjoyable as the first hidden object Mac game. The historic facts are brought to life when you search through Thomas Edison’s home looking for pieces of the famous phonograph. After searching rooms for all the pieces, 
you must put the machine back together again. These subtle historic facts are fun to experience in this detailed hidden object game. The items you need to find are pictured on the screen. After finding all the pieces, you recreate the broken inventions, and then you must remove the things that do not belong in the past like cell phones, cassettes and other more modern gadgets.
There are many discoveries by man and Helen has her hands full finding each one to repair and make correct. After a few inventions, you get the hang of putting things back together again using simple logic. Whenever you move your cursor over an area and it changes to gears, you need to exam that area closer.
Much of Clumsys 2 is reminiscent of the first Clumsys and could get tiring after awhile, but the educational aspect of both these games are 
great for children. I liked the facts that were given for each invention or discovery. It brought back memories of many hours of studying but in a pleasurable way. The hidden object part of the game is not challenging, but still a hoot to play. If you should need a hint, they are available and interesting in their own right. The artwork is good, clear and entertaining (unlike some other HOGs where you can’t make out the item). The sound effects are appropriate and Grandpa’s ranting is very funny. Enjoy yourself going back in time and re-inventing the many innovations of mankind.
Features of The Clumsys 2: Butterfly Effect:
-Help Helen Correct History
-30 Puzzles
-90+ Scenes
-3 Gadget Tools
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Light Quest Review
Making its grand debut on the Mac App Store is a new type of adventure puzzle game Light Quest. It’s a scrolling platform play using laser beams and a stranded robot named LQ.
LQ was headed home to his beloved wife and puppy when out of nowhere came a big blob. It turned out a dump ship was spewing debris all over the place and almost banged into poor LQ’s spaceship. Luckily LQ is skilled in dodging meteors and such. The console started beeping rapidly, and LQ realized all the expert maneuvering he performed drained the batteries of its power. Only thing to do was to land on a strange unknown planet and try to recharge at a refueling station.
Your adventure begins at the deserted station where LQ finds himself. He or you must follow the laser beam and lead it back to the 
spaceship to recharge. Using the arrow keys you can travel right or left and the up arrow to jump up. Also if you like to use your left hand the A, W and D keys will work the same way. While you are following this beam of light, you collect lug nuts, mirrors and beam splitters along the way. The lug nuts really do not do anything for you but it’s like any other platform game where you collect as many as possible some item usually fruit or coins. Also it’s just fun to do. Jump as high as you can, run as fast as you can to collect all of these things for another challenge.
The mirrors and beam splitters, however, are important and extremely functional. Without these items you cannot get anywhere. In order to enter doors, power elevators and move objects you will need to aim the laser beam you have been following at light receptacles. They usually are rectangular with a red and green light. Once you do that the doors will open, the elevator will go up or down, and you can use the other power equipment. The mirrors (2 sided and 1 sided red ones) and beam splitters will bend the laser beam so it hits the 
receptacles. It’s up to you to figure out the correct angle to reflect and bend it at the right projection. Just like the lug nuts you touch the mirrors and beam splitters to acquire them. They will go up to the right upper side of the screen until you need them. When you find these items, you know you have to use all of them to get the beam a certain angle and sometimes a lot of bending is required. However you must used them sparingly so you get to your final destination.
The difficult parts are when you have to go back and forth from one location to another to make sure the beam is aimed correctly because you may not be able to view the entire situation. Another hard part for non-platform players is the jumping to another elevation. Sometimes you need to continuously press the right or left arrow until the correct time to jump. When you press the big red button, it will move objects, but watch out because they may move back.
Light Quest is for puzzle playing platform gamers who want a new and exciting play to meet their thirst for a challenge. The different environments (although a little dark, but you need that for the laser) you will encounter will take some thinking on how to reflect the laser 
beam through different floor levels, out doors and through objects in order to refuel LQ’s little space mobile so he can return to his home planet and to his family. Light Quest reminded me of Mac game Bob Came in Pieces. It didn’t have the humor like Bob, but the feel of the game is similar. With Bob you also go through dark corridors and places to get him home again. Try it out and see if you have the skills to play this original and creative game by bending light.
Features of Light Quest:
-10+ Hours of Creative Gameplay
-5 Original Music Scores
-Collect the Lug Nuts
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