About This Game Someone is killing the guests at a mountain resort, and you could be next if you don't solve the mystery at the heart of this chilling thriller! Take the role of a doctor who's summoned to a remote hotel to tend to a patient, and hold on to your sanity as you discover the first victim moments upon arriving at the retreat. As you search for clues, crack brain-bending puzzles and read newspaper clippings that reveal the hotel's horrific past, two questions will take shape in your mind: What ties do you have to the hotel? And why did one of the victims claim you are the killer? The answer will shock you! Play Mountain Crime today to discover the truth! Key features: •Two difficulty modes •Map with available actions •Interactive conversations •Fully-voiced characters •Step-by-step tutorial 1075eedd30 Title: Mountain Crime: RequitalGenre: Adventure, CasualDeveloper:Alawar StargazePublisher:Alawar EntertainmentRelease Date: 24 Dec, 2011 Mountain Crime: Requital Activation Code Another decent hidden object game, but as with many in the genre it has its problems, which while not game breaking annoyed me more than normal, but overall it had an interesting enough storyline and the gameplay was fairly decent, so still a fairly decent game overall, especially for the fairly neglible price (especially when on sale).The story has you as Quincy MD crossed with MacGyver trapped at a hotel during a storm where you almost died getting to your rich new patient. People start dropping like flies around you and you have to investigate and try to stop the killer before he runs out of victims. The plot is a bit of a mixed bag, a lot of it is shown in news clippings and details of the history of the hotel and all the people being killed who all seem linked back to an arson a couple of decades previously, so you have to race to uncover the identity of the killer. At one point there is the hint it might be an interesting denouement in the nature of identity\/memento or some other psychological thriller, but in the end it feels more like a daytime soap plot (except for the body count).Still that part is okay enough to provide the background for the gameplay, so that breaks down into the hidden object scenes which are of the construct an item style of HOG, which is where you go all MacGyver and construct all sorts of items from things found in one place, so at one point you collect a safecracking kit (and then proceed to use the screwdriver to take the entire safe door off ignoring the rest of the kit you painstakingly searched for), some sort of miniflamethrower, a hot air balloon (because you didn't want to just lift\/push the basket off the item you needed).While very inventive it all feels pretty bizarre (more so that normal for the genre even, which is pretty bad by and large). The imminent peril of people dying of snakebite, or being strapped into a chair at the mercy of the killer, and then you go around repairing a globe, or a piano, most often just to get common household tools - that you generally discard after one use so there can be another convoluted puzzle to get yet another screwdriver or whatever later in the story. You rarely get any explicit story hints of why you should be interacting with these objects, just they are the only things on the map which can be interacted with left, so that must be where the latest essential tool can be found.Anyway that gripe aside the scenes play fairly well and feel somewhat naturalistic, the puzzles also tend to be unexplained - I guess the hotel owner likes messing with his employees and forcing them to play puzzles to open doors and otherwise do their job. No wonder all the staff seem to have disappeared before the story starts. The puzzles themselves are mostly fairly easy, with a reasonable variety, but the controls are frequently wonky and things don't always move how you want them to - this even forced me to skip one puzzle as I couldn't move the piece far enough right to finish it. There were a couple I found more difficult but I think it is more down to me being bad at those types of puzzle (the 4 shape overlapping rotating puzzle right at the end being the main one). Of course with no achievements you can actually use the skip\/hint buttons if you really get stuck without it forcing you to replay it later to get the last couple of achievements (and forcing you to find a way to do those puzzles or consult a walkthrough anyway).Overall it is a recommendation, especially given the price, but don't expect too much, it has a lot of flaws to go with the good points. Also I laughed out loud (literally) immediately after freeing the Senator from the chair - I don't think this is the intended reaction...anyone else do the same?. What the **** did I just play? I don't even know where to start. Very random stroyline that technically makes sense, but is incredibly dumb. The voice acting is AWFUL, but it actually made it more entertaining.The HOG were a nightmare. The items were way too small and aften scattered in places that were almost covered by the circles that told you what to look for. As for the lead...possibly the most pumped dr the world has ever seen, has no real sense of urgency when peole are in trouble and can apparently fix anything. So random. So, so random.The ending was appalling. Mountain Crime: Requital is a murder mystery Hidden Object game where you play a doctor who finds himself trapped in a hotel with guests dying around you. Initially you try to help the guests as a doctor but as more backstory reveals itself, you start trying to solve and prevent murders before you eventually realise you might not be there by accident.The graphics and sound are a little dated but otherwise good enough. The voice acting is ok, and the animations are terrible! (Particularly where characters walk around the scene, they look as if they were modeled on a ape walking around on two feet.) There is plenty of story and backstory, most of which is revealed in text format through letters and clippings, so if you tend not to read text or skim over it, the story might be lost on you. The puzzles were easy for the most part, and there are plenty of HO scenes although most of them are quick. There's a map that shows actions needed and locations but there is no fast travel.Overall, the game is above average thanks to it's story which tries to be a little original and not follow the tired "find a loved one missing due to supernatural events" that most HOGs can't leave alone, and the only real annoyances are the large amount of back tracking you need to do, revisiting the same locations again and again, and for the first half of the game, it feels like you only carry one item in your inventory at a time, the item that you need to progress to get the next item, and so on ... if you can get through 90 minutes of that, the game opens up a little. at over 3 hours to complete, it's a nice length, not too short and not too long. HO fans will enjoy the story and the difficulty level suits players new to the genre.. pros+ this game feels like more adventure game than hog. there is an Agatha Christie style intriguing murder story and you want to learn who is killer and what's gonna happen in the end. + hidden object elements are fun. i found hog scenes easier than the most hog games i ve played. + easy puzzles (if you don't want to challenge)+ good looking graphics+ good voice acting + hint system very helpful+ well made cut scenes+ there is auto saveCons- abrupt cliffhanger ending is rushed and clearly designed to set up a sequel.. Convoluted story, bad voice acting, and I'm fairly certain the protagonist is literally mentally handicapped, despite somehow having a medical license, with how often he throws away useful items, that he ends up needing to find replacements for later. Seriously, how many screwdrivers do I need to find...Crazy amounts of seemingly needless backtracking (y'know, cause I needed another new screwdriver, or box-cutter\/knife\/sharp-object)
- lemasonephcolt
Mountain Crime: Requital Activation Code
Updated: Mar 22, 2020
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