Mystery Manor: hidden objects

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I’ve played Mystery Manor since it first came out on Facebook when it was ONLY available on PC. And I progressed incredibly far into the game during that time. It was abandoned by GI, they informed us they would no longer make updates for it. It was devastating to hear because it was years of gameplay just thrown away. So, I attempted to try the iPad version of it, I hated it. I didn’t like there was no option to connect to Facebook and have friends to help like there used to be. On the Facebook version, we used to be able to help each other, send collections, battle whatever was roaming outside of their manor and so much more! The game was fun and there was always something to do. I recently just downloaded this alleged “new and improved” version - it seems their original app was abandoned just how Facebook version was - and it still seems to be backtracking rather than moving forward. Facebook connect STILL doesn’t seem to be an option. Why not? Why should I invest my time and money into another version of your game when I’ll lose everything just because you want another “big upgrade”? Let us connect to Facebook to save our progress as you update. Please. I’d truly love to play this game again.

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I keep hearing from GI that our feedback gets taken into account. Only if they use it to make the game more impossible. They take 2 beautiful rooms and redo them so that you can’t see the items you need to find. So, they improved the zoom. however the items were too small and indistinguishable to begin with. A blob is still a blob no matter how big you make it. Then update 2.15.1 makes the text for the names of the items you have to find too tiny. I play on a 12.9” iPad. The text shouldn’t be that small. Then there’s the guilds. The brilliant plan is to stick everyone in a guild. You can leave but you just go to a different guild. You can’t opt out! How hard is that to put in as a function. As a result the players that want to be in Guilds and do the events are hampered by the ones plopped into their guild that have no interest. Plus the rewards you can buy with guild points, like everything else in the game, are so many points you will only be able to collect one a year. This is not GI listening to their players! Keys to play rooms are impossible to earn and rooms that need to be unlocked require so many items that can’t be gotten it’s too ridiculous. Don’t tell me time and patience! I think 6 months to collect items to open rooms is excessive! Each update of this game makes it much worse. I will be deleting it and I played the original MM for the iPad and wrote a help website for over 6 years.

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This game is fun for maybe a week, but then it becomes expensive. Your energy accumulates so slowly, yet the amount of energy needed to play a room doubles. By a certain level, this gives you about 15 minutes of game play for an entire day, even with daily prizes. I have no problem spending a couple dollars here and there for a good game, but the prices for gems/energy are too high for me. It’s apparent that the developers created the game play with too much greed. I’m on level 18 and pretty much at a stand still. The rooms don’t switch “modes” until you play them a few times, which costs energy. I have several quests that require me to find an item in a room with a certain mode; with the lack of energy and high price of playing a room, it could take days to line these factors up correctly—only to not actually get awarded the item once you do, and start the whole process again. I really wanted to like this game. I like the graphics, story line, daily prizes, and guild competitions, and can appreciate that this all took some hard work and dedication from the developers. But I can’t afford to spend hundreds of dollars to make the game enjoyable. If vast improvements are made in that respect, I’d be happy to change my rating/review to reflect the other great aspects of the game.

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Let me just say that I know GI has worked hard on the game, but there are a couple things they should change. First, there are too many popups. They’re not ads or anything, but every time I am about to explore a room or come out of a room, a pop up asking me for money to get food or unlimited energy for 30 minutes would pop up. This has just gotten a little annoying. Also, I don’t appreciate the amount of times you have to be in certain modes like words or silhouette in order to complete a quest. You would have to either explore the room a bunch or just spend gems to get the room mode you need to complete a quest. And really? Match three? I thought at first that this was a hidden objects game, but apparently for a game to succeed you would need to add in a half-luck-half-skill based game. You have to play the same game multiple times to possibly get one quest item, which is not very fun since the levels get increasingly harder. I haven’t progressed that far into the game (I’m only level 11), so I may be missing some things, but overall, GI needs to change the luck and some mechanics on this game.

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I am a long time player of their old game and decided to try the new one. At first it was very exciting, because it was new. Now it is bogged down in problems that aren’t being fixed. Energy takes too long to replenish. I am at level 37 and have entered zodiac mode and 3 of my rooms are locked down because I don’t have the ability to search them because keys are almost impossible to get, I am unable to participate in the daily contest or guild events as a result of this. In essence, unless I want to spend a lot of $$$$ I am getting nowhere in this game until they fix a bunch of stuff. I have only touched on a few in this review. UPDATE: Mar 2019 - Level 67 - things improved slightly for a while and then with each update more negative changes, progress taken away from players, costs keep going up, impossible quest strings........GREEDY developer. Ready to be done unless good, real, positive changes are made. Fix drop rates, stop making quests impossible to complete, stop baiting and switching rooms. UPDATE: Apr 2019 - drop rate HAS NOT IMPROVED. This game could be so fun if the developer just made it a bit easier to advance. They are well on the way to destroying this game - at least by U.S.A. players who don’t want to spend a lot of $$$$$$.