About This Game These days the Chestnut Lodge Asylum is abandoned and forgotten, but many years ago a terrible tragedy unfolded behind those rusty gates. Every year, patients disappeared from the asylum without a trace. Neither the nurses nor the police could find any clues. But one day, everything changed. My dreams draw me to the asylum and I yearn to return to my normal life - a life without nightmares, premonitions, and fears.... Explore the Asylum and its surroundings, find out the true story of this place and face your fears in this gripping Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure! 7aa9394dea Title: Abandoned: Chestnut Lodge AsylumGenre: Adventure, CasualDeveloper:Lazy Turtle GamesPublisher:Tri Synergy, Inc.Release Date: 1 Apr, 2012 Abandoned: Chestnut Lodge Asylum Unlock Request Code Keygen I really enjoyed this game :)The story is really catchy, the art style is great ... the musics are a little bit short but they still put you in the ambiance.Also, one of the cinematics could be the most scariest sh*t I've seen recently in a game!. Story: Reoccurring nightmares bring a young woman full of questions to the abandoned Chestnut Lodge Asylum after seeing a news report concerning yet another mysterious death at the place she recognizes from her nightmares. During the course of play the answers about the mysterious deaths and her own reoccuring nightmares are revealed. Gameplay: Creepy (just another dark and stormy night and that whispering voice), slightly scary (a mystery boy, a terrified policeman, and six skeletons in very odd places) and full of mystery (Why, oh Why is any of this happening, that age old question). I kept expecting jump scares but that just might be because I played Enigmatis lately, or from the initial and later nightmare scenes.The game plays in 3D causing the screen elements to move and the entire screen to move side to side (unless the gamer adjusts it to widescreen.) Adds to the creepy atmosphere and the internal fear guage of the unknown. Just a warning if playing in this 3D mode, check the side edges of your screen for new areas and hidden object find items. (I do believe there are complaints over this from the easily annoyed and the less exploratory gamers).This is a true hidden object game, with hidden object finds nearly exclusive as the puzzle elements and plot movers meaning the inventory reward item. They are a bit on the challenging side, with at least one very well hidden find. Also the developers used at least one obscure, if not very obscure clue per hidden object scene. For example calling a grater a grinder, or a spool of thread a cotton reel. (That one made me smile even as I said "jerks".)There are few actual puzzles in this game comparatively speaking, making the true puzzling aspects of this game how to do something, like open locked doors, slide across a wire or just exactly what purpose that television has. Some of the actual puzzles found in this game are rarely used by any game developer, which makes them fun and challenging.A few words about achievements: The bulk of the achievements (22 of 27 in fact) come from finding the morphing\/shifting objects. These morphing\/shifting objects in a few cases can be quite the challenge to find. I had to look up four, two I knew were in the scene but could not find, the other two were really well hidden and I missed them completely. Finding those objects is a challenge all by itself.This game plays well for all level of player, novice to expert. One final note in this game all achievements can be completed in a single play through. Well almost the final note I forgot there is no game map. (I forget about maps since I rarely use one or there are penalties for map use.). Fun game, has nice puzzles and nice graphics as well. The story is not half bad, all in all a nice game to play!Recommended!. This game lacks a lot of things I've come to appreciate in hidden object games: a map, a fast-travel system, and most importantly hints to point the way. Hints in this game only work in the same room as the current objective. -_-I was gonna go for expert mode and the "no hints nor skip" achievements, but the above plus the slow pace of the game encouraged me to turn back to casual and hint myself through the latter part of the game. Except that the hints weren't that good, as mentioned. There are better HOGs around, buy those instead. Unless there's a sale, because then everything goes.. One of the most unique and good HOGs I've played in a long time. There are very few creepy or scary HOGs in existence. This one sits right at the top of the list.. This, like many HO games, has a recommendation with a "get it on sale" caveat. There are many, many better games out there, but this one is perfectly passable if you've exhausted many of the other options.Plot is a little lackluster in terms of depth but it does really do well with the creepy factor, especially later in the game, and also especially because the deserted asylum setting, although hackneyed, never fails to give us chills. There is no real bona fide horror involved, unless you're like me and find clowns and dolls absolutely terrifying. You'll see what I mean if you play.Art\/graphics are decent in the stillshots and quite nice in the cutscenes (taking into account the age of the game and general quality of HO game animation). The HO scenes themselves are challenging, with items really blending in sometimes. Minigames are less frequent and are the usual fare, but are still entertaining.The one major complaint I have with this game is the very badly done object naming for the HO scenes. Other than blatant misspellings (I spent forever trying to figure out what a "hummer" was until I accidentally clicked on a "hammer" and it counted), some of the object names are so patently bizarre that I don't even understand where they came from. A couple examples: a milkshake being called a "milk cocktail" (WTAF?) and "yarn with spokes" that baffled me until I realized the "spokes" were actually knitting needles. This sort of thing makes me absolutely crazy and seemed to get worse as the game progressed, as if quality control went out for lunch partway through, got swallowed by tigers, and never made it back.The game would have benefited from a map system and what I call the Zoom-Zoom option, which is being able to jump directly to a particular location without endless back and forth, and there was a LOT of back and forth. The progression of the game wasn't always intuitive either, so the more modern map function of "here are the places which have objectives remaining" would have been very helpful rather than making the player wander around the whole area looking for something they may have missed or a new HO scene that opened up.So overall, I did enjoy the game with a few exceptions, and if you've exhausted the generally-excellent Artifex Mundi catalog and are looking for another decent game, this one will do you just fine, especially if you can nail a good sale and you aren't too picky about the little things.. BE PREPARED FOR JUNK-SORTINGOtherwise not too bad. Weird ending.. I remember having some minor beefs about this game but honestly nothing comes to mind at the moment. It's a decent HOG reguardless.. BE PREPARED FOR JUNK-SORTINGOtherwise not too bad. Weird ending.. Abandoned: Chestnut Lodge Asylum is one of those HOGs that has been sitting in my library forever, and when I finally decided to give it a go for another HOGful evening - I wasn't disappointed. It is the first HOG from Lazy Turtle Games' catalogue that I've played, and if all their games are even remotely like this one, I can recommend the developer with eyes closed.We take the role of an ordinary man, who has been haunted by a very vivid nightmare for as long as he can remember. In his dream, he is running for his life in an old, abandoned building. As he reaches the end of the hall, he desperately calls for the elevator and when it finally arrives, he barges in - only to find that the cabin isn't there. He falls to his death - then he wakes up. It is the same disturbing nightmare, night after night until he stumbles upon some news: "Boy's Body Found", "Boy falls into Pit" and the image of the very building that he has seen in his nightmares: Chestnut Lodge Asylum. He immediately decides that the only way to find out the truth, would be going there... and another HOG adventure begins!From there on, it is more like a light weight adventure rather than a HOG in the conventional sense, with a greatly presented atmosphere. All environment art is successfully creepy, and you keep expecting your worst possible nightmare with every door you manage to open. Depictions are realistic rather than cartoony. Is it really scary? No, it is a HOG in the end, but it all is creepy enough to support the immersion. There are some cinematic sequences that I found to be exceptionally well-done, and the whole idea for the plotline is an interestingly disturbing one too. Voice acting isn't the best, but there are not many NPCs to stumble upon, so they wouldn't annoy your very much. Sound effects though, - like a distant moaning, a constant dripping sound, the creaking of some tweaks in the winds - will haunt you properly during your playthrough.For the adventuring part, you will go for a long, long item hunt throughout the Asylum. Some items\u2019 use will be immediate and obvious; but most will linger in your inventory for sometime. There is no map, and with the amount of item combinations at hand, you\u2019ll endure some backtracking. HOG scenes are not glorious, with dark tones making most items hard to locate, but if you\u2019d enjoy the challenge, you\u2019d find that mostly appropriate. All HOGs contain some item combinations also; and puzzles are the reimaginations of some good classical ones. Also there are some morphing objects throughout the game for achievements' sake.At the end of the day, Abandoned: Chestnut Lodge Asylum is a great HOG, even though a bit aged. It would serve as a great introduction to the genre, and a good addition to every HOG lovers library. Enjoy!Please also check out Lady Storyteller's Curator page here - follow for regular updates on reviews for other games!And also Lady Storyteller's HOG Gems here - for casual games and HOGs you may enjoy!
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