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Does it seem like people around you have a better idea of what's going on in their lives and where they're going than you? I always thought so. Especially when I was in school... it always seemed like I was the last to catch on to certain things, and I got tripped up over experiences that other kids just sailed right through. Probably I was just spending too much time playing computer games and reading horror novels. But at the time I wondered if most of my classmates might have been reincarnated and thus subconsciously "had a clue" whereas I was on my first ride around the ferris wheel of life and to me it was all new.
These days I don't really believe in reincarnation or other new age spiritual gobblety-gook like religion and pyramid power and sky elves, but it's sometimes fun to imagine. Reincarnations: Awakening, by Vogat Interactive, is a new hidden object game all about past lives and reincarnation. You play as Jane, a thirty-six year old mother of two and freelance magazine writer. Your current story on reincarnation is taking forever to finish, and the scientific journal has rejected your first draft because it's lacking in personal experience. What's a curious and determined young woman to do? Luckily, the mysterious hypnotist and past lives expert Dr. Herzle seems hellbent on getting you into his clinic for a regression session. The wily German doctor quickly puts you under and you wake to find yourself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that are not your own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. Oh boy!
Reincarnations: Awakening is a hidden object adventure game. You navigate the game world with your mouse, clicking to examine items, interact with objects, or move between different scenes. Not as much emphasis is placed on navigating around environments as in other games of this type; most of your clicking will be to open up hidden object scenes or puzzles. You have an inventory of items that slowly fills up as you find interesting objects (both inside and outside of hidden object scenes) and it is these items that you turn to when it comes to solving the many ingame puzzles.
The hidden object scenes, denoted in the game world with sparkles (which seem to be the hip new way kids are announcing their hidden object scenes these days), give you a list of items to find. Big surprise there. However a fun addition are objects printed on your list in yellow. These yellow words signify objects that need some sort of interaction to find, and there is at least one in every scene. For example, you might have to open a drawer to find a key. Or play a record to get some music notes. Or give a cabbage to a rabbit to get a cabbage core (cutest puzzle ever heart heart). After finding all the hidden objects, one item will be added to your inventory... to be used later to solve a puzzle, of course.
If you can't find an object, there are plenty of hints available to help you out. And they recharge quickly. You can random click to your heart's content and no annoying warnings or buzzing sounds or unauthorized mouse pointer movements get in your way. Vogat Interactive has clearly decided to make as stress-free a game as possible, and I salute them with a crisp, professional military salute!
The puzzles aren't the most unique in the world, but there are certainly plenty of them. They involve memory games, swapping puzzle pieces to restore a painting, playing the correct notes on a flute, etc. Each and every one can be skipped, if you'd rather just hunt for hidden objects. But you'll have to wait thirty seconds or so before the skip button becomes activated. I found a few of the puzzles to be rather difficult (cursed string flower bloom puzzle), whereas the hidden object scenes semed to be on the easy side.
Jane has five past lives to puzzle through, each with a problem that needs to be solved. (Her past lives are not all female, either, so she gets to experience being a guy... And a dog!) There's certainly plenty to do in Reincarnations. Don't switch off the game as soon as you hear the opening narration, because that's a low point and the game quickly improves as you begin exploring the offices of Jane's publisher. (There are plenty of tutorial tips if you want to listen to them. Luckily, Jane's voice is much more pleasant to listen to than the narrator.)
Overall I was very impressed with the game's graphics. Everything is presented in crisp high resolutions, so it's rare to stare in confusion at a blurry jumble of knick-knacks. The game is a tad bit "clip arty," if you know what I mean. Not all objects seem to fit with their backgrounds, whether off slightly in color, shading, perspective, or resolution. They just look like they were pulled from a clipart CD-ROM. However those are exceptions and the developers did such a good job with particle effects, background animations (you can click on all sorts of scenery and get a response), and the nifty interactive hidden objects that for the most part I ignored any flaws and just followed Jane on her adventure.
Now it's time for my break! I'm going to watch Peking Opera Blues because the music in the second chapter of Reincarnations (Abuja's life) reminded me of the soundtrack to that excellent Chinese film. If you haven't seen that fantastic adventure-comedy yet, make plans to watch it soon with someone special!
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You should give instruction that what we have to do first and after that.A person who plays first would not able understand that how to play the game.So, please give instruction before the game.