Grim Tales: The Time Traveler 9+

Another great installment of the Grim Tales series! Even though Elephant is known for their monotonous gameplay of: find amulet, insert amulet, receive another amulet, repeat ad nauseum, somehow with this series they up their game and make the gameplay interesting. The hos are quite varied. Mini games are unique, and range from easy to medium in difficulty. The length of the game is about average. Both the main game and bonus have interesting stories. This was a really fun game to play!!
The cons: I really dislike having tasks or objectives come up on the screen, and as how there’s an option In the difficulty settings to do away with this irritation, they should go away but it never ever works! This is not just a fault of Elephant, but all the developers, and it drives me crazy. Especially so in this game, as the “completed task” and “ new task” take forever to leave your screen, and you can’t hurry them along or do anything in the scene until they finish. Ugh. Also, Richard is one of my favorite characters of all time, however they’ve changed the actor playing him! Instead of the deep, spooky, echoing voice, they’ve replaced it with what sounds like a whiny teenage boy! No emotion at all in his voice, he just reads the script and that’s it😔. Deducted a star for the annoying task messages and for the abomination of replacing Richard. Otherwise great game!

So I guess we’re down to one game a week now. No new game this morning. Very disappointing. Maybe with a stroke of luck new mngt will take over at big fish and get things running smoothly again. Maybe my review will actually be posted this time to which seems hit and miss lately. Come on big fish!

Same as the rest of this series with a few improvements. I’d like to point out that changing Richard’s voice, Anna’s dad, was a welcome change not bad like another reviewer said. Before it was long and drawn out and just painful to listen to so thanks for speeding that up! Same usual perks as we expect with teleporting map etc. guess I’m a little bored with this series. The first 3 were incredible and put elephant games at the top of my list but from that point they got shorter and shorter and less interesting to me. Grim tales: the legacy was the bomb, long and captivating story. I like more adventure and not a puzzle every 3steps but that’s a personal thing. I’m still considering buying. Maybe it gets better? Big fish has been increasingly failing us with less new releases and sales on games we’ve already played so if there’s no new release then maybe I’ll buy it, not sure. FYI..absolutist just released a new one. It’s different, ok.

I gave 4/5 stars because the gems were a bit confusing, & I felt the game didn’t give enough of an explanation on how we were supposed to solve it. The forest & the compass game,for example - I found the patterns fine, but it didn’t tell me a thing about which one to choose. All 3 choices were lit up!
That’s the only issue I had - the rest of the game was great! Heavy on the Games, & I liked the HOGs a lot. It’s like a fresh drink after being thirsty for a long time waiting for one between games!