Yawn......yawn (Mystery Case Files: Millionheir (DS))

Member Name: Donf18

Product:	Mystery Case Files: Millionheir (DS)
Date:	22/02/09 (270 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Absolutely none

Disadvantages: Numerous

I had bought my wife that Professor Layton game for Christmas and found it to be most entertaining. Having finished this game my wife was looking for something along the same lines as Professor Layton's Curious Village, and had seen advertisement for Million Heir and thought that's the one.

She didn't want to trade in the Professor game but I persuaded her since it was finished and she'd just be repeating old puzzles. A trip to game got her enough on her card since my son had traded some games in and already put a tenner on a card for his mum's new game. (What a kind son................Daddy gets stuff all by the way). So she had forty quid on the card and the game had been advertised at £39.99. On the Monday she went in to get it but there were none in stock so it was Thursday before a copy could be bought.

I left her alone with her new game on Thursday night, and waited until Friday before passing comment. How's your new game I asked, crap was the immediate reply. I thought you liked a good puzzle game I said. Yep but this is hardly a puzzle was the answer. So I took it upon myself to try the new game out.

Yuck after about 15 minutes I was totally bored out of my skull. The initial screen had pretty graphics and everything looked like it was going to be as pleasant as Professor Layton, but it was way way short of this. Up pops this weird picture with all sorts of different things hidden in the trees and woodwork or whatever. On the top screen is a list of items contained and hidden within the picture. The picture being bigger than the screen meant that you had to use the stylus to manoeuvre the picture to check out different areas. This really wasn't so much of a hassle, and most of the items a 6 year old could have found, although to be fair some are pretty well hidden. Great I've found all eight items....................Pop another set of things to find, but on the same picture, boy was I getting bored. There was the promise of puzzles and challenges, and once I'd finished a few of these extremely boring picture things I though I was on route to getting a puzzle. Voila up Pops a puzzle, a sliding puzzle of another boring picture, no challenge there then. These so called puzzles pop up every so often in between they annoying tedious and simple find the dart pictures.

Almost thirty smakeroonies for this piece of childish pretence at a proper puzzle game, I was livid. No way did the advertising set me up for this kind of disappointment, it had me on the edge of my seat waiting for my turn, talk about falsely advertising this was blatant misguidance. I played it a bit longer I the hope that there might just be glimmer of entertainment value to be had, the colourful pictures were weird to say the least, but they had to be to hide the ludicrous selection of obscure items you had to find. Many colours kind of merged in a feeble attempt to hide a feather for example. I think that even for a child to play this they would pretty soon also find it boring and tedious as well so I really can't see who is going to get any entertainment value from this.


Half an hour later and totally without any entertainment achieved, I almost threw the DS back to my wife. On getting her precious device back she promptly removed the offending game and placed it in its pretty case for future return to Game as a trade in. The really annoying thing is that the £29.99 was really only for a total of 4 hours play between the three of us, all of whom were full of disappointment and disgust that such a piece of garbage could cost this much. It now is worth less when traded in so there is another loss. Don't have this loss incurred on you buy something that is decent and not this piece of junk.

Summary: Garbage, just total garbage