Affair Bureau Tomorrow's New BF HO Game

I just saw on Gamezebo in the forum that this game Affair Bureau is suppose to be tomorrow';s game here at BF! I dont know this for sure just repeating what I read you can check it out in there forum its right on top so you wont have to look to far. It sounds like a HO detective game! Thought I would let you all know.

thanks Tix!

Picman didn't post any picks so guess he's not going to now at almost 10 PST.
Could be wrong on that though!

Thanks but the important thing is did they say if if was any good?

Picks are posted with a full 15 minutes to spare. I have yet to miss a Monday since I started this new 'game'!

Paul

picman050967 wrote:Picks are posted with a full 15 minutes to spare. I have yet to miss a Monday since I started this new 'game'!

Paul

And I really appreciate it!

Thank you Picman, Sir, much appreciated

I played this game for about 10 minutes. I'll play some more tomorrow. So far:

No timer
Unlimited (recharging) hints

Some of the items are TINY and/or don't look anything like what they are supposed to be
To get past the dialog parts you have to actually click on the OK - it's not good enough to just click wherever your mouse happens to be

I played for about 15 minutes, but my curser kept getting stuck. Is it just me, or is Alex like the hotest guy you've ever seen? Just kidding. I will try again later. If anyone knows, let us know how long this game is. Thanks

Was really looking forward to it but no, lot's of errors, items listed do not match pictures (ex. vent on list, plunger in scene). Some items really very small, couldn't tell what they were. Mini game to match dirt, kept getting checks then never finished, ended up using solve button ... stopped playing after 25 minutes ... alas, a no sale ...

I lasted as long as I could in this game and that was forty-five minutes. The objects are so teeny-tiny! My eye's can't take anymore.

Just got thru playing, and for the most part, it 's OK. I didn't have trouble finding any of the objects, although some of them are misnamed IMO. I was able to finish the dirt mini-game as soon as I realized that you have to click on all of the petrie dishes til you come up with the six matches. I'm still contemplating as to whether I will buy it or not. It's untimed , but there's not much explanation with the mini-games The plot is leaving a little to be desired , but I like the rechargeable hint The game is definitely different, but I like that . The jury is still out on this one until I get more feedback from our fellow pond dwellers.

is Alex like the hotest guy you've ever seen?

LOL.... when I was playing the game the first thing I thought was that Alex was a bit on the dorky looking side.

Alrighty, now we are talking about a game with a bit of challenge.

No timer.
Rechargeable hints.
Great graphics.
HO's were well placed in the scenes (not like a junk pile of random stuff just blew up).
Challenging mini games (puzzles) which have varied so far. Not the same two over & over again.
Story seems interesting, but it's hard to tell where it will go & for how long in just 1 hour. Which means it's either a long game (since I barely scratched the surfface of it) or a short game with a lame story.
The game is not the same-o-same-o HO game altho it did remind me a little of The Women's Murder Club games.

I had a couple items on the word list that did not match the HO's. ie: shovel = hand mirror & fly = moth.
The last item in my inventory when my demo quit was a CROWBAR!

Some HO's were small, but I didn't have any real problem finding them. They weren't as small as in the Hidden Mysteries: Civil War game. I have a 22" flat screen monitor & computer glasses, so that helped a lot.

My biggest is for the mini games! So far I did - putting the picture pieces back together (one of the most challenging I have found in this type of game because they are usually too easy for me) - testing dirt in the lab - putting the reels back in the proper order. The mini games were not too hard to figure out once I took a minute to think about what they wanted. I liked the fact that there was no real "hand-holding" instructions so I could use my brain to figure it out by myself. I didn't skip anything and only used about 3 hints for the items that were mislabled.

My biggest was the mislabled items. If there are only a few, I can live with that since the rest of the game was pretty good.

I'm going to buy it since I wanted to keep going after the demo quit. I have game credits piling up, so why not?

It's also a Felix Favorite!

Hmmm... I need a Detective to figure out how I feel about this game...

First and always top of the list Untimed. Clear, clean graphics, if a little dark. Some things are named incorrectly due, I suspect, to translation issue. I mean there must be translation involved otherwise the name would not be "Affair Bureau", would it? So a lantern is a flashlight, a pair of head phones simply called phones, what I swear was a deflated balloon a flask...? So basically I've been clicking on anything remotely associated with any item I'm having trouble finding, which in a weird way is adding to the game.

I like the story and am interested to see where it goes. I enjoy the little blurbs about who each character is and how they fit in the story. Who is Ms. Wang (really? ) and will our Hero find his Father and/or a Dentist? The cut scenes are short and interestingly presented.

Of the mini-games I played so far they have either been different than the usual or, in the case of a torn photo jigsaw, more challenging than I first suspected it would be. I rather liked one where you had to unpack a crate. It wasn't hard, but interesting, figuring out which bit needed to come off first. Matching dirt samples was like a spot the difference in reverse. However instructions are very minimal so you are on your own figuring what needs to be done. I like that, but many don't. There is a "Solve" button if you get stuck and a refillable Hint system on the Hidden Object scenes.

I *am* concerned, and this is why I can not give full Poodlebear Approval, because it does seem glitchy. My cursor has frozen briefly a few times, when I was doing the crate game it suddenly exited the game. I thought it was because my hour was up but I still had 20 minutes. I was able to get back in the game just fine and continue where I left off. I had to re-do the crate and the 2nd time there was no problem. So the potential glitchiness and mis-labeled items means no approval. Buy at your own risk, I am going to and still feel I can give it a:

Yippee because I have already bought it....holding my breath here waiting for the Poodle's Review.....Yippee ....Now I feel better about spending 7.57 on this game!


Edit: Now I feel doubly good about buying it with Scotcat's too!!

Good grief - Poodle and Scotcat approved??? Off to buy!

I played for about 20 minutes. I'd have to give it a great big

10 minutes play, uninstalled, and gave it a .

Someone made a bet with me: "I bet you won't find the object; I'll give you all the tiny objects, hidden among a lot of trash, thus you will have to wear 3 pairs of glasses, in order to advance"... And another bet: "you will need the hint button all the time - it's a proof I am smart!"...

English is not my first language, so if someone wants me to find "wine" - I don't know if to search for a bottle or a glass. Yes. sir, you are very smart - but I have the money! You didn't think that I will refuse to be tortured - and you lost!

Keep your game and play it yourself. Forget about profit, you don't deserve it.

Rebeca_Lily wrote:10 minutes play, uninstalled, and gave it a .

Someone made a bet with me: "I bet you won't find the object; I'll give you all the tiny objects, hidden among a lot of trash, thus you will have to wear 3 pairs of glasses, in order to advance"... And another bet: "you will need the hint button all the time - it's a proof I am smart!"...

English is not my first language, so if someone wants me to find "wine" - I don't know if to search for a bottle or a glass. Yes. sir, you are very smart - but I have the money! You didn't think that I will refuse to be tortured - and you lost!

Keep your game and play it yourself. Forget about profit, you don't deserve it

OUCH!!!

I played some more of the game, but need to quit and go to bed. Yes, I am a night owl.

Really liking this game...still. I'm not having any problems with small HO's (or any glitches). Every mini game has been a new adventure so far. Wait, I did have to go to the lab again, but that's Ok.

The HO list must change because I am not being asked to find some of the stuff that was on other people's lists. So far, I have only incountered 2-3 mislabled items. Maybe I got the "good" list this go round. I just hope this game isn't too short.

Cracked me up when I saw "The Big Fish" as one of the clues on the notepad list used by the bad guys. The bouncing fireman arcade game was cute, but a tad long for me.

So far it's still a from me.