Vampireville Review
It’s that time of year to be scared out of your mind. Boo! Vampireville may not scare you but it has a haunted house to search high and low for clues to why Jim Johnson went insane.
The hidden object/seek and find/point and click game with many tasks and puzzles begins with chapter 1 and goes all the way to chapter 24. Your game will save after each chapter so don’t leave in the middle or you will have to start the same chapter again.
The story starts out with you, Michael Christensen, being ordered to go and appraise Malgray Manor that will be up for auction soon, and because Jim Johnson, your colleague, went crazy. The house itself is large and spooky looking from the outside and even more so on the
inside. You meet the not so helpful butler, Glenfield, and are directed to different parts of the home. You ask for a floor plan but Jim apparently tore it into many pieces. Now you need to look for the scraps of paper and put it back together. You search for things needed to complete tasks like unlocking chests and repairing and starting a boiler. Since you are not penalized for clicking on wrong items, you need to click away to find the hidden objects behind things, in a cabinet and around curtains. 
Follow the arrows or sparkling stars to a different room or to another section of the same area. You are basically on your own except for the hint button. It will at times only twinkle the spot you need to search. If it is a task, you need to figure it out but on the most part it is not difficult. There are related mini games to play. There are jigsaw puzzles, memory game where 
you click on 2 cards with the same dogs on it, find the object that does not belong in a scene, and you will need to look for numbers to place on a dial to access a chest.
Michael comes across Rover a ghost dog who helps him through the game. Rover will threaten to bite your head off but his bark is worse than his bite so you do not have to fear him. However, you will need to watch out for the butler who looks a lot like the 300 year old paintings on the wall.
Vampireville is more a humorous story than scary, but it is entertaining. The artwork is remarkable and each character interesting, 
especially Michael who looks a lot like Keanu Reeves. The voices, however, didn’t seem to fit the characters except maybe Glenfield the creepy butler. A minor annoyance is the loading of the chapters can be a little slow. The music is appropriately mysterious. The play is not challenging but is fun to do. I give it a 3.5 out of 5. Don’t get bitten!
Features of Vampireville:
-24 Chapters
-Lots of Objects and Tasks
-Spooky Characters
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Love and Death – Bitten Review
With the popularity of the Twilight Sagas, both movies and books, Mac hidden object game Love and Death – Bitten is the next step to the vampire love stories. Damon is a vampire kept in a crumbling castle by an evil vampire witch. In order to satisfy their appetites, Damon must search the countryside for fresh blood. That’s what vampires do.
The local village is not going to take it anymore and is organizing to fight back or have their town destroyed. Damon is amused by all the ruckus down below when he spies his next victim, Victoria. However, he does not know who he is up against when he lures her to the forest. Victoria is the niece of the local politician who blusters his way through the story. Victoria is a headstrong, beautiful young adventuress who 
bravely goes after the vampire. Of course, she falls in love with Damon and helps him search for the potion he needs to rid himself of this vampire life and free himself from Celeste the vampire queen.
In this hidden object game you are Victoria during the day and Damon after dark searching for the needed potion to return Damon to a normal life. You play the HOG when a raven enters the scene with a list of items you need to find. Some objects must be placed to complete, such as the fruits. They must be placed in a bowl to cross out the item. The jars must be lined up to complete. There are many of these secondary actions to follow up on in a scene, but they do not distract from the main HOG play. The rechargeable hint button sometimes will only give guidance and is not all that helpful at times. The mini puzzles are the Fates way of testing your mental prowess because they are 
reluctant to reveal anything. You must look for 100 golden leaves in order to get answers. The side games are fairly easy but can be skipped if you need. The other seek and find plays will have you thinking a bit before you figure out what to do. Finding rocks and putting them in your inventory will prepare you to use them on the broken boat across the river.
Love and Death – Bitten is a familiar theme but will still intrigue you to look and search for the answers. The storyline will keep you playing until you finish, the pleasant voice acting is appropriate as is the music. The balance of HOGs and puzzles, even though you go back to the same scenes, is good with beautiful artwork. This game kept me interested and challenged with its many plays, but the ending left you wanting more. Sounds like a sequel is in the works.
Features of Love and Death – Bitten:
-Play Victoria by Day and Damon by Night
-Over 30 Locations
-9 Puzzles
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Sinister City Review
Sinister City is not so sinister. This Mac hidden object game is more camp than scary or gruesome. Another vampire themed story about love and love lost. You can’t have enough of them.
John and Nina are newlyweds starting their new life as husband and wife when suddenly Nina mysteriously disappears. John goes to Sinister City to search for her because she was last seen there. He stumbles into a hotel where the clerk aids John in his search for Nina. After finding items and pieces of equipment for the hotel clerk, John uses a telepathic hypnosis machine to try to contact Nina. He enters another 
dimension where he sees Nina’s head warning him to not go looking for her. Afterwards another huge head appears. Count Orlok with vampire fangs threatens and laughs at John. The big head reminds you of the large one of the wizard in the Wizard of Oz.
The play is to search for objects like keys or receipts and pieces of items like torn map or broken mirror in different scenes. In each scene you will find different rooms you may enter and areas like an armoire, dresser, cage or box where you can zoom in to look for items. Most of the items are easy to spot but some are almost impossible and you will need to use the hint button that will recharge quickly in the casual mode. This point and click game will let you click as much as you want without penalty, but some of the areas you need to place your cursor will be difficult to spot even in the casual mode. There are items that you will need to move to uncover an object you need, but the cursor does not change so you must click away to find these spots. If you use the hint button, it will circle where the item is located but will not take you to the room the item may be in. Also when doing tasks you must click on an object to take to a spot but if you try to place the object on the spot, it may not take. You have to use the cursor arrow to place the object correctly.
The mini games are easy and can be skipped after waiting. There are jigsaw puzzles, connecting lines and placing the gears. The gear
puzzle shows in silhouette where each gear and connector pieces are to be placed.
Sinister City has good, if not unusual, graphics and nice music that does not bother you, but the story needs work, John’s movement is stiff 
and the voice acting of the hotel clerk grates your nerves like fingernails scrapping the blackboard. The play is different with the main character moving around your scene, but he does get in the way when you are trying to do a task, and when you are clicking areas near a door, he’ll take you to another scene. The play is fairly short but you should try it out for yourself. For the reasons given, I give it a 2.5 out of 5.
Features of Sinister City:
-Campy Vampire Love Story
-Hidden Objects
-Mini Games
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