Halloween is just around the corner and I have to say living with a girl who treats it as her own personal holiday is a little strange. This morning, I went to take a shower and happened to look up while I was soaping up and there were bats over me. I admit I may have screamed a little and almost jumped out of the tub. Who does that? It’s a little weird.
Anyhow… all this Halloween stuff made me want to try a game that was as far away from all the creepy crawlies as I could get, so I picked Odysseus: Long Way Home. Can’t get much further away from Halloween then ancient Greece…
I sat down and began to play. It’s a hidden object adventure game, so it pretty much has it all. You begin at the very end of the Trojan War, and you play the character Odysseus. The graphics were good, nothing super spectacular or noteworthy, but good and seemed to fit the theme of ancient Greece pretty well. Your first job is to put an end to the war and if you know your history, you’ll remember it was that famous Trojan horse that put the final nail in the coffin of the Trojans. So your first job is to build the Trojan horse.
The game mixes puzzles and hidden object scenes as you move around and try to figure out what to do next. I admit, it wasn’t super obvious to me at times what to do, but I was playing on the more casual mode so the hint bar filled up pretty quickly, and I just had to hit that for it to tell me where to go next.
You do move a lot between scenes, which was a little annoying because I wanted to pick up some boards in one scene, but it wouldn’t let me until I actually got to the part in the story where I needed them. And some of the puzzle games are pretty challenging. I actually had to skip a few because I just couldn’t get how to solve them and that’s really not like me.
Overall the game was a good one, especially if you enjoy the story of Odysseus since it takes your through his 10 year journey home after the Trojan war, touching on various pieces of the real story by Homer. So, if you’re like me and want a break from all the horror, gore, and things that go bump in the night that’s going on right now, then take a look at Odysseus: Long Way Home.
