Die hard HOG players and 'wow' seeking gamers may have rated this low, yet if you enjoy a superb STORY along with your graphics (ie wine with your steak versus soda with junk food) PLUS enjoy truly great sound in your games... voice and music, as well as intricately detailed scenes (including the H0G scenes), check this out. I am thoroughly enjoying this great little tale... more 'scary' than the games with bells and whistles (to me) because you have to use your imagination and, in addition, it takes place in realistic, historically correct locations with accurate info. I suggest wearing headphones to truly appreciate the subtle quality in this game as far as the sound factor; it is TRULY IMPRESSIVE! Dialiect and accents are top notch; atmospheric sound... the best. Crickets chirping in the background, etc... nice!!! The dimly lit areas are appropriate to the setting and time of day of each scene. A quality, enjoyable little thrill.... check it out and remember to expect simply done quality, not quantity in terms of the whole package. Thumbs UP! :)

This is a straight HOG with mini puzzles. Very challenging. Minimal, lame storyline. Based on the demo. I'm buying it right now. Loved it.

I really enjoyed playing the 60 minute demo on this game. The graphics were good and I especially liked the interesting story. Caroline has to find her father and it takes her from Paris to Transylvania search a mysterious castle and beyond. This is a sure buy for me!

I like straight up HOGs. That's exactly what this one is. There's plenty of mini puzzles. I really like the fact that the mini puzzles & HOG scenes don't seem to repeat.

As a fervent HOG player, I really love this game! do NOT expect an adventure game, you will be disappointed. But if you are looking for one of the nicest PURE HO games, you have found a winner!! - nice storyline, very good VO's - HO scenes very large, sometimes even 2 screens - long lists of objects to find, which I love! - in every scene a bonus object - mini games can be replayed once you played them in the main game - music to intrusive for me, I muted it. All in all, one of the best HO games I ever played! Have to recommend it, for me it was an instant buy!

The best thing about this game is the story. Caroline's adventures while trying to find her missing father are very well thought out. Also, the minigames add that bit of fun needed in these kind of games while also contributing to the main storyline. Although the game has only one difficulty setting, it is made so that you don't have to be an enthusiast to be able to go through the whole story but also offers that necessary brain tease so that the boredom factor doesn't kick in. I would definitely recommend it to anyone that likes a well written scenario for an HO game. Thumbs up on my account!

I played the game and from the start has a little charisma in it. Its very nice compare to other games from the same category. Graphics are very good and the levels are challenging, The animations give a nice felling to each level. The different locations and various puzzles in minigames make a captivating hidden object game. There is No wide screen option and some of the objects are very difficult to see/find.

Finally, a hidden object game with great voice-over! To think that the producers endowed this mystery adventure with such great voice acting shows their attention to detail. This is also seen in the beautiful settings with unique atmosphere and music. The story is well chosen and will be appreciated by fans of vampire tales and movies all around the world. I would recommend this game to anyone who enjoys solving the occasional mystery and likes classical hidden object games - and this one has vampire flair.

I really liked this game, The story and music were really good and easy to follow. Though I do have some minor gripes, the first of all is kind of an elephant in the room, why is the game in parts? To be precise five parts (according to some info I uncovered) it doesn't make sense to me, I'd understand if it was in two parts, but five? I was lost there. Second, while I don't mind voice acting in games because I feel it adds something extra to the game, the accents just didn't seem to fit, especially the fathers accent and voice it just sounded so obviously fake/forced. Third some of the objects were just too hard to find, either because of the lighting/background or because they were so small that there were impossible to find because of said lighting and background. Finally we were timed and scored, why? Personally I don't like those kinds of games were we have to find things in a said amount of time. But that's just me. Anyway, this game is good and I am looking forward to the other parts in the future, I just hope that they aren't as short as this first part.

I do not understand all these negitive reviews, maybe they need glasses. This is a good HO game for expert HOers, lots of HO to find and they are not hard, challenging yes but not hard, if you are not in to HOs then you will not like this game. Why do these people "explain the game" in a review? The story line is good. The only thing I will agree with is Caroline popping up too frequently, but otherwise this is a good HO game as well as the mini games. I do not like music playing while I am trying to play the game, so I cannot comment on that. Visual is good,....dark? Yes, it takes place in 1928 and is about Vampires in a castle duh! But it is not so dark you can't see. The voice overs are really good. It is a good game. There should be more HOs like this, without having to go all over the place to pick up objects to bring back to another scene etc. This is a straight forward HO game! It's about time BF.