Amaranthine Voyage: The Shadow of Torment HD - A Magical Hidden Object Adventure 9+

I wasn't sure about this game, but I got it to try. I had bought it after an hour. When I first started it, I almost deleted it because of the HOPS. I thought there was going to be nothing but HOPS! When you go into your 1st one & finish it, it turns into another one & then another one & then a hard riddle! I about gave up. There are morphing objects in the 1st HOP scene. There are collectible flowers in most new scenes, if you're into that.
The play is fun. The hints are quick. You have an interactive map, but the hint will also let you transport. The graphics are outstanding!! All of them have good graphics these days, but I think these are really beautiful. I wish I could crawl into some scenes & live there.
My only complaint is too many HOPS, but once I got used to them, it was ok. They go fast & you have the option of playing a bubble game which I've never seen as an option before, where you shoot different colored balls, trying to position 3 in a row of the same color. It's kind of fun & I've used it several times when I get down to 1 or 2 objects & get frustrated.
Happy playing.

I tried this game for a second time and there were no crashes. The HO scenes are the "find the shape" variety which I don't really like, and you can switch to another "bubble" game format, which I didn't do. The map was good and allows you to teleport. The hints were good. The puzzles were okay and some were different. I was annoyed when I did the puzzle where you had to move the center piece to create the artifact, because I didn't do it in the order the game wanted, it seems, because, even though I had put everything together correctly, I couldn't get to the last piece! I wasn't about to start over, so I skipped it. But the puzzle is to figure out which pieces need to go first. I wasn't in the mood for trial and error so I skipped it. The game shows potential, but too expensive for me.

I really like the theme of this series of games. It would have gotten a five stars, but twice I had to delete the game and start over from the beginning, and where you had to pick the gems for each planet in order, it wouldn’t work. I had to go back to the menu, restart at that spot 6 times for it to acknowledge that I was hitting the gems, and in the right order.