Beyond the Invisible: Darkness Came

I gave this game a day before deciding to review it but sadly my decision to write a negative review hasn't changed. First of all, I wouldn't call it a 'Hidden objects game' when there is only FIVE scenes, two of them are repeats which you'll have to return to again and find more items, so there are actually only three hidden objects scenes in the whole game including the bonus chapter.
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Now the story is a fantasy one. Yes, you start off as a detective who arrives in some town to solve a disappearance mystery, you even witness a kidnapping from an evil shadow right in front of your eyes. and they never mentioned what happened to that girl who was kidnapped. she just disappeared from the whole game.
After that, the game takes a fantasy turn with all the elves story- which I'm OK with if the dialogue was better and the story wasn't all over the place. I disliked the voice overs so much, especially the main woman. Everything sounded so forced and they don't say the same thing written in the subtitles!

I understand how these games are made but at least make things seem a little bit logical. Why would someone carry a lemon in their bag? Or why do I have to get water, putting it next to some raging fire to heat it up to melt some strawberries and get only ONE! And those actions takes forever to finish as the animation is pretty slow. Aside from that, the game is not clear at all with its objects. You'll have to find many scattered items in order to do a specific action. (I've played on extreme difficulty, it may be different with the casual one) Oh and mentioning the difficulty, there are THREE achievements related to gameplay mode. You'll have to play each one in order to unlock it which I find it very ridiculous. They should of let us unlock them all when we play the hardest difficulty, but nope, you'll have to play it three times to get 100%.

The only thing I enjoyed is the art of this game, the locations looked really good, details of the hidden objects scenes are good too. However I didn't like the characters design at all, none of them appealed to me.
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Fast traveling map is available and allows you to move from a location to another since there is a lot of backtracking in this game. The lack of journal made me sad however there is a detective board which shows you the progression of the story and some of the backstory of the characters (they are actually two) and the relation between the items you are collecting.

Pros:
+Fast travel map.
+Well done art, areas look really good.
+Steam achievements. (Require you to play the game three times to get 100%)

Cons:
-Bad Voiceovers.
-Not good story (Ended badly)
-No replay value.

The main character's humorous lines and jokes, whenever he encounters anything, wasn't funny at all, and his constant line of 'Hell's bells' was very annoying. I was debating on giving this game a thumb up but after playing the bonus chapter I knew this should be a total thumb down. The extra chapter was random. It doesn't explain why everything changed (even if its hallucination) why everything turned back to how it was before you arrived in the city? What happened to the scroll you took by the end of the main chapter? So many things were not explained and I'm sorry but don't recommend this game.

𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑐𝘩𝑒𝑐𝑘 𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝐹𝑒𝑒𝑛𝑎'𝑠 𝐶𝘩𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒

I love Hidden Object/point and click adventure games, but this was a a pretty bad one. The story starts off with a detective investigated a seemingly haunted town and then it turns into Warhammer Fantasy with High Elves (the leader of which looks like Evangeline Lily just a little too much) popping up let and right.

The story was pablum, the puzzles were dull and the hidden object scenes were subpar compared to what else is out there. The achievements were broken for me, although the publisher did post they have been fixed and I feel like I wasted two and half hours slogging through this thing. The English translation has issues too with several noticeable issues ranging from incorrect grammar/syntax on down to hidden object items being given completely different names from what they are actually called (in American or Queen’s English).

This is an easy pass.

This is very short mediocre game which I played on Casual setting. Took only 3 hrs.
You are a detective called in to check out odd happenings in a small town. You find that black wraiths have terrorised the locals who are locked in their homes quivering with fear. You learn from a stranger that they are hunting a girl. The topic of the game was good as were the graphics.
It was the gameplay that was frustrating....and in some cases very illogical. There are only 5 HO scenes which were all interactive and you had to come back to finish these off later. My beef is there is far too much backtracking. The map was useless as it didn't highlight active areas. You end up spamming the hint button because you don't know what to do next....or can't remember where a particular item is to be used.
Voiceovers were ok, but the sound effects, especially the siren gave me a headache. Puzzles were easy. Apparently there were trophies to collect which I didn't know about. Tried to click on one and nothing happened. You often had to click items many times.
Scrapes in as a pass because it had potential which was let down by bad game play. 5/10