Lara Gates: The Lost Talisman

Quite impressive and eye-catching screenshots for Lara Gates: The Lost Talisman turned out to be just a bright beguiling cover of an unsavory candy. It must be confessed that the developers, Big Fish Games, have done poor work on their product.

To begin with, Lara doesn’t give any introduction. How can we guess what to do and what’s going on at the very first set-out?! Well, in few words, you have to find ten elements of the ancient talisman in order to bring them together and to restore the original amulet. Even abstracting away from the incompleteness of the plot, you face these or those difficulties during the gameplay itself. You can note a defect in each of the numerous Hidden Object scenes. From time to time the items are “hidden” so intricately, that they are very difficult to find. In some cases the objects are set too closely to the screen as well. All in all, it seems like it’s the developer’s first attempt to create a Hidden Object game who leaves a lot of things undone which would really improve the game.

Sometimes the similar cases with the games are ironed out by music or artwork. But accompanying sound is a failure of Lara Gates: The Lost Talisman, too. In fact, it is null completely. You have to strain your ears to catch the phrases, or turn the sound up to the extreme.

The graphics are worth criticizing, because most scenes are as if stretched towards the screen top thus giving an odd angle of view. Besides, the locations are made in a bit cartoonish style. This fact lays emphasis on the general primitivity of the game.

Upon the whole, Lara Gates: The Lost Talisman can hardly provoke interest of those, who have tried Hidden Object games at least once. Only if you have never even heard about what it is, you can choose this one as a trial.

19, July 2011