About This Game The Hope Lake Boarding School was abandoned long ago, when one of its teachers drowned by accident. Many years later, all of the female students began to disappear, one by one. Visit the place where it all began. Try to pick up the maniac's trail and put a stop to his crime spree. Game Features: - 48 locations - 8 hidden object scenes and 26 unique minigames - an interactive map - a flashlight, an essential item for every detective - two game difficulty levels 6d5b4406ea Title: Hope LakeGenre: Adventure, Casual, IndieDeveloper:Far Mills, MysterytagPublisher:RunServerRelease Date: 3 Jun, 2016 Hope Lake Crack Serial Key This game was ok, but it was very confusing when it came to the seek and find portions. The list is telling me to look for a "Key" so I look all over for it and can't find it. Finally, I accidentally clicked on a "wrench" and it clears it. Likewise, when it asked for a "wrench" then I was looking for a key. Come on folks. I don't care what country you're from, a key is a key and a wrench is a wrench. I was hoping it would be a bit more challenging, but other than the aforementioned confusion, it was pretty easy.. Hope Lake is a pretty dodgy HoG. There's a lot of laughable logic (which is nothing new for the genre, to be fair), mislabeled items in the hidden object scenes (which is annoying AF), weird word usage ("caster" instead of "wheel" - though I guess it's nice for expanding your vocabulary) and the same song plays from beginning to end. The art is nice enough at least, the puzzles were fine, and the story was okay. It didn't smack you over the head with explanations, but I actually kind of missed the usual narmy *find clue* "Gasp! This must be why the villain is such and such!".Anyway, if you play a ton of HoGs just kind of on principle, this is perfectly acceptable, but there's a lot better out there. I wish there was a "take it or leave it" option, but I guess I'll go with not recommended since I'm not exactly raring to get people to play it. I'm just trying to make leaving reviews a habit from now on.. This game is frustrating. Many MANY objects are mislabeled.Examples:Pipe labeled as a trumpetKey labeled as a wrenchWrench labeled as a keyCan labeled as a bottle or jarGraple hook on a coil of rope labeled as a hook, the hook wasnt visible, only the coil of rope wasAnd the story is lame. I don't even care mostly about the story in these games, but this one was just really boring. Mostly it was told by reading notes that are way too much small type squeezed onto a too small page, so it is annoying to read.If you can get it on sale for $3 like I did, then maybe buy it if you really really like HOG but otherwise skip it.. Frame rate is waaaaay too high (in the 350-450 FPS range), especially for a game like this. Have to take frequent breaks so the game doesn't fry my computer. Game settings are minimal at best with zero options to adjust graphics for performance.Story is pretty good and the clues you find along the way add to it. However, the technical issues make this a big nope.. It's not a bad game, necessarily, but not good enough to recommend. The English translation is kind of iffy and often doesn't quite match the narration. The puzzles are interesting and fun, but objects are frequently misnamed, which makes hidden object scenes more difficult than necessary. At one point there was a hidden object scene with two ropes in, and the game asked you to find one rope. It had to be the one specific rope though; the other one had to stay so you could find it again later on down the line.The graphics are needlessly complicated and it can take a long time to transition from one scene to another, which is a problem when you only need to do one thing in an area and then leave to go elsewhere. Fortunately there's a fast-travel option, which cuts down a little on this.And the story, while interesting enough, is just kind of jumbled. The opening cutscene makes it clear we're looking for a missing girl. Okay, got it. A few scenes into the game, once the tutorial showing you how to gas up your car and inflate your tires is done, you find a drawing of what appears to be a witch scratched on a table. "What a terrible drawing," the main character says. Okay, looks like atmosphere-building. Sounds good. But if you check your journal it shows you that same drawing along with a caption that says, "This must be how the girls saw Mrs. Braun!" Wait, who's Mrs. Braun? What girls? Are we at the boarding school already?Nothing is established. I feel like this is the kind of game that needs a better opening cutscene, that rolls down the suspects and victims and actually introduces the characters we're going to be dealing with.Finally, after I exited out of the game, it just stopped working. Now trying to start it up gives me the black screen-o-death. But nothing is actually dead--task manager says the game is still running, and keyboard shortcuts still work. I still haven't decided if it's worth my time to try and fix it.. If you play a lot of these style of games you might get a bit frustrated like I did at times. The key is to keep an eye on the map feature when you get lost and be willing to not have names match some of the items in the hidden object sections.I probably wouldn't pay full price having played through it once given that I play a lot of these games and even though the artwork and voice acting is quite good the otherall game is a lot more frustrating and clunky than I expected given that it is twice the price of what I usually pay.All in all not awful but a few minor things let it down in the end and the ending is completely unsatisfying and unimpressive for something I just spent 3+ hours playing because I wanted to know the story. This game is very almost exactly what I wanted when I found it. So close, but I wouldn't consider it a waste of my time.. Ok, so I started out really quite liking this game. It was dramatic and pretty visually good. The music was ok too. Yes, the story was all a bit standard about some nutter kidnapping women and I had to solve the case, but all in all it looked like it would be ok.Then I started getting tired of all the usual failings of a hidden object\/point-and-click adventure game. The fact that you have to return to locations just because a new version of the hidden object puzzle has now activated is typical of many but the more you see it the more you realise how lazy it is.And then there are certain points where the game is just sloppy and broken. One hidden object puzzle requires you to put two keys in a chest to get an object inside. The keys are very close to the back arrow, and low and behold if you accidentally click on those you can no longer get the object inside and so not complete the puzzle. The solution to this common problem (see Steam forums)? To restart the game from the beginning and do it all over again!As the game goes on, the development gets even sloppier. Hidden object puzzles with objects that simply don't match their description. I have to find a cog? Ok, so I'm looking for something metal, round and with teeth. What? You want me to click on a brooch? How was I ever meant to know that was a cog??? And WHY do I get a puzzle which has a bow as an object to find and yet the perfectly serviceable bow tied in ribbon simply isn't the one I'm lookng for, it's actually the violin bow. How is that fun???I hate leaving games incomplete unless I can help it, or there's a real chance of throwing my monitor through the wall, but it doesn't really get any better from this point. It will kill a few hours, but given there are so many of these types of games, you could definitely do better.. The amount of mislabeled items in this game is so far beyond acceptable. Nearly every single HO scene contained items that were mislabeled so far from what they actually were the only way to complete the scenes was to repeatedly hit the hint button or randomly click around. Maddening. I'm not talking about simple mistakes... I'm talking about plumbing pipes being mislabeled as trumpets... and fishing rods mislabled as winches. The puzzles were brain dead simple too. Difficulty level on this one is incredibly low. Aside from the many dysfunctional gameplay elements and mechanics, the story itself was interesting, and the artwork isn't half bad.
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