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Gallery of Things
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Are you ready to enter a world where Dadaism meets Hidden Object game play in a puzzling offering? This is the challenge that Tiny Little Lion places before you with its offering of Gallery of Things - Reveries. While this title allows you to adjust volume levels for background music and various sound effects plus make a selection from a choice of resolutions, it neglects to allow you to create profiles for different players as it only allows single player action to be recorded.
This game spreads its action over 35 levels that are identified by names such as Rotunda, Mindgrave, Equilibrium, Convergence, Nautica and Anticipation which seem to bear no relationship to what is yet to come. Each of these levels, which must be tackled in sequence, follow a similar pattern of action. You start with a cluttered Hidden Object collection of various scenes thus creating a kind of montage. A panel running across the bottom of the clutter display will provide clues as to the items you need to discover. Generally you will need to find 18 items with their relevant clues being displayed as images that can be located within the montage.
Within each level, one of the required items will be linked to a puzzle. Once this item is selected in the montage, you will be granted access to it. Very brief instructions will be provided as to what is required but not how this can be managed. Usually this set of instructions will be limited to clicking on items and move them to the correct position in order to solve the puzzle.
The puzzles offered in this game are varied. You could be asked to put together the irregular pieces of a jigsaw to complete an image; recreate a scene from strips of the original offering; or move sections from one image to another. Another puzzle could challenge you to fill a grid area with an assortment of different items as if you were packing a suitcase for a long holiday. While the Hidden Object game play does contain a Hint feature, this is replaced with a Skip option when dealing with a puzzle.
This game will certainly test your puzzle solving capabilities. I downloaded my copy of this title from Gamehouse.com where it is priced at $9.99. It is also available from Big Fish Games priced at £7.73. The game requires a 2.0 GHz processor with 4096MB of RAM and 1.32GB of hard disk space and a brain tuned to puzzle solving.
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