Treasure Seekers: Visions of Gold
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While searching around the basement, a brother and sister called Nelly and Tommy discover their pirate grandmother's diary containing directions to a hidden treasure.
Treasure Seekers: Visions of Gold is a hidden object game that shares the same gameplay mechanics of Artogon's previous title, The Mystery of the Crystal Portal. Instead of having the usual list of required items at the side of the screen, the game has hotspots that open a circle with surrounding pictures of necessary objects. The objective is to find these hotspots and drag and drop the required tools and objects from the scenery to the circle. After gathering everything, some of the hotspot circles disappear revealing a key item underneath them.
Some places open a separate window showing another point view of the room, or the contents of a container. Multiple windows and circle hotspots can be opened at the same time.
Sometimes a logic puzzle appears on a separate screen, where a mechanism must be tinkered to fix or open something. After about a minute, the skip button at the bottom left fills up allowing the puzzle to be skipped. The hint button highlights the position of an object, and takes a few minutes to recharge after use.
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- Легенды: Тайна старинного сундука - Russian spelling
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Average score: 75% (based on 5 ratings)
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Average score: 4.2 out of 5 (based on 7 ratings with 1 reviews)
The Good
A fairly standard hidden object game with a flimsy storyline and a glorious disregard for health and safety.
I grew up in the 50's and 60's where most of the fun things we did are now either banned or illegal but here we have a heroine who does stuff even I would never have attempted. Early on in the game she gathers tools to fix the mains wiring, then she fixes the fuse box, collects her brother and off they go. They build a raft, learn to fish and cook their catch, explore a mine, go underwater, find treasure and still get home before tea. Somewhere along the way they also fire a canon and I think they use dynamite too.
There's no voice acting in this game, the music and the sound effects are OK though I ended up listening to the radio while I played. The artwork is good and the objects to be found, though well disguised, are not hidden behind something else - a pet hate of mine from another game where I was looking for an elephant or something similar and only its tail was visible. None of that here.
The Bad
There's nothing really to dislike here, this is a good solid game. If I had to pick up on anything it would be that the dialogue of the characters is very twee. Phrases like "You brave and clever children..." are not uncommon, it's as though the game is trying too hard to be wholesome.
The Bottom Line
I completed this game in one sitting, play time was around three hours. To be honest I finished it because I do not like giving up on a game and not because I was enjoying it. For some reason, for me, it just did not feel fun to play.
Windows · by piltdown_man (236385) · 2023
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Game added by Macs Black.
iPhone added by Sciere. iPad added by me3D31337.
Additional contributors: formercontrib, OFF, vicrabb, GTramp.
Game added November 24, 2008. Last modified February 22, 2023.