Customer Reviews

Escape the Museum

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(9)

 

 

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.

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.

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 . . .

I really enjoyed this game. I did read the reviews before i opened it because i purchased it before knowing about the reviews. But i played on both my ds and dsi xl and i found it to be quite fun and entertaining. Hard at times yes and difficult to see items yes but that is because they are not meant to be found yet. There is a secret to the game i found out right before i completed the game. with your lists of items your cursor changes when you are over the item. hope that helps. so it is not that it is grainy or anything it is meant to be harder to see.

I beat this game in about 3 or 4 hours. Awful game. I love hidden object games, but like other reveiwers have stated you can't find some of the items. It's like they are buried underneath other objects with no part of the item visible and by randomly tapping all over the screen, you will find it. The puzzles are even worse. same problem with finding items that can't be seen, but then some items have to be combined together in ways that don't always make sense. And then the order you may or may not have to use them in is confusing. I would get a message that I couldn't use an item here, but the item would be gone and used. IT made no sense. I was really disappointed with this game. The storyline is the worse. ***SPOILER ALERT: who would ask someone who is stuck in a museum, after an earthquake, trying to get back their daughter to stop along the way and collect artifacts? Better yet who would actually agree to do it? Especially when the building is falling down? How stupid. END OF SPOILER***
This game is not worth the money at all. Try any other hidden object game. Any one is bound to be better then this game.

I'm really not sure why everyone had so much trouble finding items in this game. A few items were a little hidden or obscure, but the hint button solved that. I'm 45 and my eyesight isn't great, but I had no problem finding items. The storyline was a bit boring, but I have yet to find a hidden object game with a great story. For that, I play adventure games. Overall, it's a basic hidden object game with a few twists and turns in having to combine objects to use to open things or find other objects. Most made perfect sense to me. Overall, not a bad buy for under $20, which is about what it costs now.

I thought this was going to be more of a search and find, but it is a bit more difficult then that. I don't really care for it that much, but it is interesting.

I got this game for <$10, so for the money, I thought it was okay. The storyline is odd - there was an earthquake and they're "escaping" the museum. The hidden objects are super frustrating at times, and sometimes, it was very difficult to figure out what you had to do to finish the level. I had to consult online walkthroughs for some levels, but at least with those, I was able to finish the game. Not horrible, but definitely not my top pick.

Game is a waste of time to play. Don't bother. Not fun....so boring. I paid for this game, but not worth playing even if it were free.

This was not a good game. Wish I had waited for some reviews before spending my money on this one