Insider Tales: The Stolen Venus 2

Insider Tales: The Stolen Venus 2 is a new hidden object title from Intenium that has you playing as a female master of investigation. The event takes place in Italy at a great museum where the Venus has been stolen for the umpteenth time.

This hidden object adventure starts out quickly, and we like to see the welcome screen that dives you into this game atmosphere at once. Insider Tales: The Stolen Venus 2 takes you through lots of locations filled with different situations, some that are perplexing but not extremely difficult. This is a standard hidden object title where scenes are clearly drawn. Most objects are appropriate for the locations without the junk pile feature of some similar games, and cleverly hidden. The hint button recharges pretty quickly about in 30 seconds, and every puzzles are equipped with skip option, which you can use after a minute.

Graphically, Insider Tales: The Stolen Venus 2 looks very well. Traveling around these locations you catch yourself at enjoying their vivid scenes and illustrations. However, the music isn’t anything special, generally plain enough to spoil the game atmosphere and mood. It’s certainly not crucial point but rather a sad fact. So far there isn’t any repetitive sound-effects, but none of them fits dark game environment.

To crown it all, some locations are much larger that the visible area of your computer, and you have to scroll to see the important details. We do not care about this issue very much but we find it a bit sluggish to scroll.

Overall, this title looks quite bright and clean, which will please players getting sick and tired of ghosts and evil-doers. Intenium offers a good hidden object experience, but we cannot say that it is particularly “unforgettable” or “thrilling”. Moreover, an advanced player will probably do not like its solid hidden object gameplay. 

23, March 2011