Voodoo Whisperer: Curse of a Legend (Platinum Edition)

The Good
This is pretty standard hidden object game with a couple of features that I liked and one or two things that I was not keen on. The story was reasonable, someone has placed a curse on New Orleans and Lillian, a trainee voodoo practitioner, has to wander around talking to the dead and lifting curses to find out who is responsible.

With a hidden object game the artwork in the hidden object scenes is important and here the artwork is generally very good. All hidden objects are hidden in plain sight, I did not have to open any drawers, move things to one side or combine items to discover an item. In some scenes the task of finding items was made harder by the overall greyness of the scene but the game has a magnifying glass that makes finding things much easier so I can forgive that.

The music is OK. I did not find the puzzles that hard but as they can be skipped with no penalty the difficulty is pretty irrelevant.

Unusually the bonus chapter comes in the middle of the game. I think I prefer this to the general rule of tacking something onto the end which feels a bit artificial at times.

The Bad
One of my pet hates in games like this is the misnaming of items, for example a * is NOT a wallet and I've never called a *** a domino in my life and I'm pretty old.

In all chapters of the game there is a natural progression from one to the next. There was either a NPC to say 'You should go to ...' or the main character would announce it or something like that. That's how I ended up in the bonus chapter, however when I had completed everything in the bonus chapter and I had the 'Area Clear' message showing in all locations there was no clue at all.

No spoilers but I did not like the ending at all.

The Bottom Line
This is a decent game that took me around seven hours to complete. There were a couple of paces where I had no idea where to go next but between the HINT spell and the strategy guide, which I found a bit patchy, I was able to muddle through.