Mind's Eye: Secrets of the Forgotten

aka: Mind's Eye: Secretos de los Olvidados, Mind`s Eye: Das Geheimnis der vergessenen Kinder
Moby ID: 45835

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Gabrielle is a journalist investigating the apparent suicide of Vernida City's mayor. In an effort to uncover hidden information, she starts to take part on a scientific experiment using a device to explore the subconscious mind of people involved with the case.

Mind's Eye: Secrets Of The Forgotten is a hidden object game with adventure elements, where most of the time the objective is to find and click on all the items listed at the bottom of the screen, on locations filled with assorted paraphernalia. The screen can be scrolled sideways to show the full extension of the scene. Entries written in red only become available after performing an extra step, like opening a container to reveal them or using one of the inventory objects. Some of the items are stored in the inventory, that can be summoned by clicking the suitcase at the bottom-left corner, sliding upwards and covering the list to show its contents.

As in most graphic adventures, the inventory objects have to be dragged and dropped on logical portions of the scenery to perform an action or complete a task. The hint button is a camera at the bottom-right corner, showing the position of one of the required items when activated, but taking twenty seconds to recharge after use. Mini-games appear on separate screens, where the player has to manipulate a mechanism of some sort to solve the puzzle.

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Average score: 50% (based on 1 ratings)

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Average score: 2.2 out of 5 (based on 4 ratings with 1 reviews)

Decent but short

The Good
A fairly standard hidden object puzzle game with puzzles.

There were a couple of puzzle variations in here that I had not seen before which I liked. The scenes are extra wide and I spent a lot of time scrolling left/right looking for tiny items that a shift in the parallax view may reveal, there was just one scene near the end where this changed to scrolling up and down. I've not seen this for a while and I liked the extra challenge.

The game has a rapidly charging hint system and in addition each scene allegedly has a hidden roll of film which grants a bonus hint, I only managed to find three of these hence the 'allegedly'.

The Bad
My main problem was that it saves at the end of a chapter. I had played through to a word puzzle and was working on it but I needed to take a break, this gave me a choice, quit the game and replay to get back to the puzzle or skip the puzzle and play to the end of the chapter.

There were points when the artwork showed its age and some of the items were a bit hard to make out, on the other hand many items were very well hidden in plain sight.

The game has no difficulty setting which may be a problem for some.

The Bottom Line
I installed the game today, started playing this evening and by midnight I had finished the game and I had submitted screenshots. Probably three to four hours to complete.

Windows · by piltdown_man (254199) · 2024

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Game added by Macs Black.

Additional contributors: marley0001, Rainer S.

Game added March 29, 2010. Last modified August 10, 2024.