Amazing Adventures: The Caribbean Secret

SpinTop Games offers you to visit the jungle and have a nice trip across the Caribbean Sea in a new adventure game named Amazing Adventures: The Caribbean Secret. 

Each location presents you a list of ten items to find and your first task will be figuring out the objects the list is describing. Though sometimes you’ll be told flat-out that you need to find pliers or a coffee cup, more often you’ll be directed to search for a “finder of nuts,” or “gun with wheels.” In each level, you must complete an action such as “light the lantern” or “complete the deck” by finding a particular object in the scene and moving it to the appropriate place.

As for the environment, it is simply stunning, bursting with color and detail. Objects are, thankfully, sized to make them visible, but well concealed by taking advantage of a location’s shadows, shapes, and colors. You won’t have to squint to try and see a minute stogie lurking in a corner, but you will have to look carefully to realize that the palm tree out the window is more than what it appears to be. If you get stuck, you can use a rechargeable hint, but hold off as long as you can; finishing a scene without any help nets you a fat point bonus. 

After you finish each hidden object sequence, you’ll have to solve one of a variety of puzzles to reveal your next location. There are straight-up jigsaw puzzles and find-the-differences that are quite interesting, so you don’t get too tired of them, but they’re not skippable either. The Amazing Adventure games have all been excellent, and Caribbean Secret is no exception. From the music to the visuals, everything has been polished to perfection. The setting isn’t exactly hard on the eyes, either - if you’re going to go poking around the landscape, it may as well be the gorgeous landscape of tropical islands. A nice game to play!

26, November 2009