Escape the Museum

by Game Mill

Product Features

• Unlockable hidden throughout the game, including the Antique Round.
• Captivating story line with adventure and suspense.
• Use objects in the museum to solve the puzzles.
• 60 hidden object levels with 10+ mini-games and 40+ puzzles to solve.
• Simple controls and easy to learn, with a hint system to help players find their way.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0031B2OR2
• Item Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: January 15, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,945 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Escape the Museum is a single player, hidden object game for Nintendo DS and DSi. Revolving around the story of an mother and daughter whoose trip to the local museum inexplicably is turned from an educational experience into a challenge with dire consequences, players must use their inquisitiveness and puzzle-solving skills to save the day. The game features 60 hidden object levels, with 10+ mini-games and 40+ puzzles to solve.

Story
What began as an exciting day for Caitlin and Susan ends in devastating suspense when an earthquake rocks the city. The earthquake causes damage to the museum and separates Susan from her daughter Caitlin. Susan must find and rescue Caitlin who is now trapped somewhere inside the museum. Barely able to move from room to room, you must help Susan navigate and work her way through the maze of the museum in a series of puzzles and frantic searching. Can you help Susan get back to Caitlin so they escape the museum together?

Key Game Features

• Captivating story line with adventure and suspense.
• Use objects in the museum to solve the puzzles.
• 60 hidden object levels with 10+ mini-games and 40+ puzzles to solve.
• Simple controls and easy to learn, with a hint system to help players find their way.
• Unlock the Antique Round.

Product Description

What began as an exciting day for Caitlin and Susan ends in devastating suspense when an earthquake rocks the city. The earthquake causes damage to the museum and separates Susan from her daughter Caitlin. Susan must find and rescue Caitlin who is now trapped somewhere inside the museum. Barely able to move from room to room, you must help Susan navigate and work her way through the maze of the museum in a series of puzzles and frantic searching. Can you help Susan get back to Caitlin so they escape the museum together?

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

41 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor design, January 28, 2010

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Eartha1973 (Montana) - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

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I usually enjoy seek and find games but this one is just frustrating. The objects are hidden under things and about impossible to find without tapping every area in the screen. Inventory tools used to find other objects don't always work. I regret spending $[...] on it and should have waited until more people reviewed it. I hope I save someone else from wasting his or her hard earned money.

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Escape the Game, January 23, 2010

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Dick Johnson (Oklahoma USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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The story is inconsistent and illogical. The likelihood that certain things would be working and available following an earthquake doing the amount of damage we see just doesn't seem possible. (See spoiler at the end of the review if you want an example.)

The journey from room to room is painful. Items have to be found, and while I don't want them standing out with signs pointing to them, I do expect them to be visible when I'm hovering right over them. That's just not so in this game.

Even when I've used the "Hint", instead of my reaction being "why didn't I see that", my reaction has been "okaaaaay, if you say so". You just poke around with the stylus and magically the item will appear in your inventory. Some items can be found in little expanding windows. I haven't actually seen many of the items, but, again, poking around will sometimes find something. These little windows are also used to solve the "what do I do with the items I found?".

This seems to be a game developed as a training exercise - but, instead of being sent back for improvement, it got put into production. A terrible story and impossible to find items add up to little enjoyment.

I'm over half way through this and I will probably finish it, but it's not something I'm looking forward to. Should I find any reason to revise this review, I will, up or down. If it wasn't for the interesting setting, I would have given this a one star rating.

SPOILER - ABOUT THE STORY LOGIC (or lack thereof).
In one of the rooms, amid major damage, is a vending machine in perfect condition and working. Also in this room is a museum display of coins. There is only one coin showing; and this "museum piece coin" works in the vending machine! Whaaaaat? According to all the material, it is a modern setting - and only one (presumably old - this is a museum and it was in a glass case) coin was needed? And, no, it wasn't a "museum piece" vending machine. Unfortunately, this isn't the only disconnect. END OF SPOILER

Note: I have seen a review of the Wii version of this game that says there is a way to expand the screen so items can actually been seen. I have found no way to do this on the DS version (other than the sometimes found "little windows" I described above). If there is such a way, it might make this at least playable even with the story problems.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing on the DS, February 19, 2010

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Donna Sanchez (Temple, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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I like hidden objects games, they're good to do when you're curled up in bed at night and trying to empty the brain and fall asleep. I've done several such as the Myster Case Files Mystery Case Files: MillionHeir and the Amazing Adventures Amazing Adventures: The Forgotten Ruins series -- I'm just sharing this to show there are hidden object games I really enjoy and which are challenging and a blast to play -- but this isn't one of them. Don't be taken in by the "museum" allure of the title -- everything's dark,there's no museum eye candy, and things you can see are mostly brown and in bits and pieces. I will slog through this to the end but there's no joy in the search. As a previous reviewer noted, you don't have "Aha!" moments, they're more like "Oh, I guess I found it with my random tapping." At the end of each room, you are shown a dollar amount for the relics you're rescued and then a number indicated the percentage of accurate taps -- mine is always around 9%, which indicates that anything with thumbs and the ability to hold the stylus can win the room. My dog Bart might even be able to eventually nose his way to victory. I can see how this would work better on a Wii played on a big screen, but I'm sad to say that everything's brown and blobby on the DS. Will be trading this in as soon as I'm finished, which won't take long. Although it is putting me to sleep faster than usual . . .