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Famed writer Nathaniel Hawthorne has died during a freak storm, and his spirit comes to you for help! Travel back in time to the Salem Witch Trials to uncover legendary secrets!Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #15 in Digital Video Games
- Brand: MumboJumbo
- Model: 40359m Witch Trials
- Released on: 2010-07-13
- Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP
- Format: Download
Features
- Sequel to the hit Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy
- Explore the spooky terrain and structures of Salem village
- Interview apparitions, solve brain-teasing puzzles, and collect hidden objects
- Hawthorne guides you through time to unravel his mysterious death
- Complete 10 Adventure Missions
Editorial Reviews
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Midnight Mysteries: Salem Witch TrialsThe famed writer Nathaniel Hawthorne has died during a freak snow storm, and his ghost has come to you, asking for help. There's more to this case than first appears, and only you can help free his spirit. Why was it snowing in May? Could Hawthorne's powerful friends and the Oval Office have something to do with the author's untimely death? How do legends of witchcraft play into the death of a writer 170 years later? Travel back and forth in time from the scene of the author's demise to the 17th century, where a town is going mad with rumors of witchcraft and a woman is facing accusations and the gallows. Unravel the secrets of Salem's accused witches and solve the mysterious death of Hawthorne in this Midnight Mystery!System Requirements
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Customer Reviews
AMAZING GAME
This is a fantastic adventure
and hidden-object game. You are an investigator of the supernatural.
The ghost of the famous author Nathaniel Hawthorne ( who was born and
raised in Salem Massachusetts and is in reality related to one of the
Judges who oversaw the actual Witch Trials) appears before you suddenly
begging you to help him escape the chains of injustice that have bound
him to the earth by searching out the truth behind the infamous Salem
Witch Trials.
This is a beautifully constructed game with very
detailed scenes that have animated movement, the flicker of candelight ,
the moving of clouds overhead, eerie sound effects, and even many of
the items you search for are themselves in motion or animated in some
way.
There are plenty of hints available during the game in case
you get stuck, and no timer or time limit on searching for items, which
lets you advance at your own pace. This is a huge game, expanding to
over 400 megabytes, which enhances its visual effects and the overall
feel of the gameplay. Also, you can unlock an extra unlimited
hidden-object game by collecting a certain number of clovers during
regular gameplay.
The version I downloaded is for Windows and I
encountered no problem with it. This software should work well on most
Windows systems. The system requirements are 1.6 gig processor speed,
512 megabytes of memory, 460 megabytes of hard drive space, a video card
with 64 megabytes or more of memory, and Microsoft Direct-X 9.0 or
better. Most computers today running a Windows based system will meet
these requirements easily.
To see your processor speed and system
memory, right click on your "My Computer" icon on your desktop and then
select, "properties". You can find out your available hard drive space
by double-clicking (left mouse button) on the My Computer icon to open
it, and then right clicking on the "hard disk drive" icon or image and
selecting "properites". It will show "used space" and "free space".
At
various points in the game you will encounter puzzles that you have
solve in order to advance. For example, strange locks on doors that you
have to figure out how to open. These are relatively easy to complete,
it may take you a few minutes to figure them out but they are not too
difficult. However, the game provides a "skip" button that allows you to
skip over the puzzle and advance if it's too hard for you. The "skip"
button that appears for each puzzle is an outline image of a raven on
the lower right part of the screen that slowly fills in. When it
completely fills in you can click on it to "skip" the puzzle you are
facing.
At some parts of the game there are tasks that you need
to complete in order to advance. These do not have a "skip" button, but
instead require you to gather certain objects or manipulate certain
items in order to find or locate a key element of the game. Again, I
found these tasks to be not too difficult. However, two of the tasks
really gave me trouble. I am going to explain these, below, and give you
the answer to these tasks, so if you don't want to know.., and would
rather figure these out on your own, don't read the next two paragraphs.
At
one point in the game you are required to locate and obtain the corpse
of the Sheriff who arrested one of the victims accused of being a witch.
Finding the sheriff's coffin was not very difficult, but.., opening the
sheriff's coffin made me pause. I couldn't figure out which tool to use
to open it. I finally realized that you need to use the inventory item
that looks like a key, it's actually a wrench and will unscrew the bolts
on the coffin.
The other puzzle that baffled me, was near the
very end of the game in the parlor at the House Of the Seven Gables, it
involved opening the fireplace. There are two posts in front of the fire
place, and when you press them they recede slightly into the floor and
then rise up again automatically. I thought there might have been a
certain number of times each post had to be pressed, but I finally
figured out that they simply need to be pressed quickly in succession.
Press one post, and as it is receding press the other post right away.
This will open the fireplace and reveal the hidden stairway. At the top
of the stairway is the final puzzle of the game, a locked door that
requires you to fill in missing numbers in a sequence. It's much easier
than it looks. Simply use the game pieces you find in the parlor and
other areas of the game to fill in the missing numbers.
The only
thing I was disappointed in is that I could not locate all 50 clovers
during the game, I could only find 49 of them. Darn it. So I couldn't
unlock the extra hidden-object game. I hope you have better luck on that
than I did. Just be sure to check each scene carefully, the clover
symbols are cleverly placed in discrete parts of the scenery.
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Mike Silverman
Gorgeous graphics
and gripping story!
The guys who gave you
"Midnight Mysteries: the Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy" have created
another excellent game with beautiful environments and a grim,
interesting story. Contrary to another reviewer`s observations that you
can't save your game, of course you can! Simply press menu, then exit
and the game will remember and take you precisely to that spot when you
return. The opening scenes of frenetic screeching witch hunters and a
girl about to be hanged get you in the mood, and the wonderful hint
mechanism, the raven, returns again to flap across the moon to locate
objects you can't find. Click in too much of a frenzy you get a hissy
black cat instead of the raven and the cat won't go away until you stop
your nervous clicking on the wrong objects. The hints by the raven,
however, are very limited so you're just going to have to find all the
objects listed.
The ghost of famous New England author Nathaniel
Hawthorne asks you for help as his spirit is chained and he implores you
to set him free. Nathaniel dies mysteriously in a freak May snowstorm.
You will travel in time from Hawthorne's death back to 1692 Salem, a
small Massachusetts town under the spell of madness, where no woman is
safe from the witch hunters, where the little town is under a dreadful
pall. Witchcraft!
What has Hawthorne got to do with witchcraft
when he died over a century and a half later? Did his influential
friends, even the occupant of the Oval Office play any part? Did they
have anything to do with the author's untimely death? What is Abraham
Lincoln's train doing in the picture? You will shuttle back and forth in
time meeting and appeasing many ghosts along the way. Jealousy, spite,
greed and ambition are all alive and well in this adventure tale.
Midnight
Mysteries 2 has perhaps the best story of any Hidden Object game and
the hidden objects actually take a back seat to the story. However, many
artifacts will land in your lap and the game isn't holding your hand
here. You have to figure out what to do with the objects, a gavel, a
pen, a walking stick, sugar cubes, beef jerky. Many of them you have to
combine, such as a pen and an ink pot.
You must unravel many
secrets and solve the mystery of Hawthorne's death and set him free. You
will discover who killed Nathaniel Hawthorne but you have a lot of work
to do first. You will encounter many mini-puzzles, some hard some quite
easy, as you go on your way in this adventure that is so very rich in
visuals and sound. An exceptional production in every respect. Don't
miss it!
Absolutely
fantastic -- better than MCF Dire Grove!!
This was a fantastic game.
Per the other review complaining about saving his progress, I had no
problem saving my progress. I played the game over several days with my
son, and we both loved it. It's gameplay is similar in format to the MCF
Dire Grove game (the most highly rated HOG game on Amazon downloads).
It combines hidden object, solving mini puzzles and requires the player
to combine inventory items to move forward through obstacles. The story
is interesting, filled with accurate historical facts and some fictional
components to further the story. The game is challenging, but not
frustrating. You are required to go back and forth between locations to
solve each chapter in this series. The hint system is quite good. If you
get stuck and aren't sure how to move forward, your "journal" usually
has the clue. I did resort to internet cheats a couple of times. I could
not recommend this game any more!! If you loved Dire Grove, you should
enjoy this game.
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