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Returning misplaced items to their rightful spots will often result in an award or clue to help you on your quest. Puzzle items are items that interact with the house's environment. If you find all the pieces to a knife, you can try cutting open a pillow to see if anything's inside. The game does allow you to go all stab happy with the knife though, as objects that can be interacted with will become highlighted as your cursor passes over them.

Puzzle items are key to accessing new rooms in the manor. As Spooky Manor progresses, you will rely more and more on solving puzzles in one room to find an item needed for another puzzle. Granted, this is a simple premise, but soon you'll be greasing a grinding to stone to sharpen sheers you assembled, which in turn will allow you to trim rose bushes and find another clue.

It's whimsical fun, but that's the atmosphere the game strives for and it pays off. You don't have to complete the story by yourself either. From the start, four people can play at once and this is actually the preferred way to play.

By yourself, Spooky Manor is a fun time passer, but with a group it becomes a global effort. Spooky Manor won't replace Rock Band as the universal group gathering game, but it's a fun diversion nonetheless.

Scavenger mode is a competitive multi-player version of story mode. Basically, whoever finds the most pieces wins. In Ghost World, players are each designated an object and the first person to find all the pieces to their respective item wins.

Spooky Manor is a simple game, with simple a simple presentation, and simple graphics. The environments in which you search for items are well drawn, but look a little compressed. A little more gloss on the different rooms would add a little pizzazz to Beckett Manor.

The ghosts are more or less 2-D stills that float about the screen. Even a little animation would make the ghosts more efficient at their jobs. The added movement on screen would help distract players even more from completing stages. The soundtrack of Spooky Manor is fairly straightforward as well. A handful of tracks repeat throughout the mansion's stages. The music is a mixture of generic haunted house string and reed instruments, with a dash of Looney Tunes flare thrown in.

While the music has a slight goofy tinge, it resonates well like the gameplay with the game's overall atmosphere. Verdict There's not a lot to Spooky Manor, but that doesn't stop it from being fun to play. Regardless of its technical basics, the puzzles and general finding of items is quite challenging. Score distribution:. Positive: 1 out of 4.

Mixed: 2 out of 4. Negative: 1 out of 4. Since it would be considered a "casual" game in the first place, it doesn't offer a high-end graphics experience and isn't heavy on the presentation, but with multiplayer support and a second quest, Mortimer Beckett and the Secrets of the Spooky Manor is a graphic adventure with a lot to offer.

All this publication's reviews Read full review. Regardless of its technical basics, the puzzles and general finding of items is quite challenging. Don't knock it until you try to find a third of a brown doorknob in a room filled with brown tones and their complimentary colors. Worth Playing. It's a chore to make it through each room, finding the small split-up objects isn't all that fun, and ultimately it's a frustrating experience. Assembling a puzzle item is necessary for finding everything in every room.

Players will use puzzle items much like in adventure games; for example, assembling a key in one room will unlock a door in another part of the manor, which then gains players access to the next set of rooms. Giving a ghost butler a top hat, after finding all three of its pieces, will cause him to take his leave, which then reveals a few more items to find.

The graphics are below average. Unfortunately, there are too few songs to make the soundtrack truly varied. There are some nice twists here and there in the gameplay formula, but the game, otherwise, is unremarkable. The game does not shine at all from an aesthetic standpoint, and the gameplay hiccups make for a sometimes trying experience. Log In Sign Up.