Lost Realms The Curse of Babylon Game Review

Lost Realms The Curse of Babylon is a good IHOG that takes you on an adventure looking into ancient middle eastern culture. A strange marking has appeared on your friends hand and you, playing as Alexia, are the only one with the knowledge and skills to decipher the ancient symbol and investigate the origins, so that a deadly curse can be broken.

The story sounds good and it is, without too much kerfuffle, the game moves along true to the story line right to the end. Dialogue is kept to a minimum, allowing you to get involved in the story without too much information bogging you down. Hidden objects are not too hard to find plus with the use of a magnifying glass, things look bigger and bolder to the poorest of eyes.

Lost Realms The Curse of Babylon has 2 game modes, relaxed and timed. In the timed mode, you are allowed 15 minutes in each hidden object scene to find the items on your list. You have 6 hints available at any one time and as you use the hints, you can buy more at the Bazaar by playing games such as "where's the marble", a memory card game and an abacus match 3 type game. These are not mini games, they are purely there for buying extra hints if required. When you win a Bazaar game you are given 2 extra hints.

Lost Realms The Curse of Babylon graphics are superb and you can turn the sound down, or completely off if you find it a tad annoying. Mini games can be skipped with a penalty of one hint, yet some mini games must be played in order to receive inventory items. You sometimes need to go back to previous scenes to either interact with other objects or find something else within that particular scene. You can choose to go forward or back within scenes, which is great, as sometimes if you are a little stuck, reentering a scene can give your eyes a break and allow you to easily find a difficult object the second time around.

There are 8 chapters with each chapter containing at least 4 hidden object scenes, plus several mini games. Puzzles are challenging and an average HOG player should get around 4 hours enjoyment from the game in relaxed mode, depending how quickly they play and how much time is spent just enjoying the scenery. As previously stated, in timed mode you get 15 minutes for each hidden object scene, so multiply 8 chapters by 4 and you have a game length of at least 8 hours, if you take the full 15 minutes to complete each scene, which you won't anyway.

Lost Realms The Curse of Babylon is good value and a nice challenge without being too hard. Not exactly a Ravenhearst, but good story, good graphics and good length. What more could a fan of interactive hidden object games ask for? Download the free demo and see if this is one for you.

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