Forgotten Places - Lost Circus

Forgotten Places - Lost Circus is a hidden object title piping hot out of the Sungift Games’ oven. The story runs on Joy who is obsessed by nightmares of a strange circus. Each of this dream makes her bursting with tears. So you are to help her cure her mind from these feelings. Will it a decent addition to our casual game library? Will it interesting and challenging enough to play? Judging by its screenshots, it won’t.

To start with, game’s popularity greatly depends on its screenshots because they introduce game to us. The more vivid illustrations the more title is attractive. Looking at Forgotten Places - Lost Circus’s pictures, you hardly ever want to play this. Blurry and vague screenshots present this installment as a spooky hidden object adventure with extremely poor graphics. So, if you have some problems with your eyesight, this is not for you. Besides muddy backgrounds get ready to hunt for tiny objects. Strangely, if some game has dark graphics, be sure, there are tons of small hidden items. What a queerly tradition, isn’t it?

Hint system is also weak for this sort of genre. Because of tiny items to search you have to use hints more often than always. But it is simply discharged for pointing you to a zoom-in location, which is not really clear.  After such a “helpful” hint you have to look for the object all over again. Wait for any challenging mini-games in Forgotten Places - Lost Circus? There are none of them, we must admit. No tutorial for this game so you have to guess on what you are doing next. This is one of those games that can be easily missed.

12, November 2010