The Mystery of the Crystal Portal (PSP Minis Review)
Hidden object games are a nice match for the PSP Minis range, with their relaxed nature passing the time on a commute or ad break with ease. Route 66 scored well with a 7 a few months ago, so let’s see what G5 Entertainment can come up with.
There’s an actual story here, as a young archaeologist (that absolutely does not look like Lara Croft) is searching for her father who went missing while searching for the Crystal Portal. It’s not exactly Fallout 3, but the effort is appreciated.
The levels take place around the world in America, Japan, the Swiss Alps, Guatemala, Africa and Russia; usually in a temple or villager’s hut/cave. Rather than have a list of items at the bottom of the screen to find you have to drag your cursor around the screen until it becomes a hand. Clicking on the item will then open up a sub-window with some black and white pictures of the items you need to find. Once you’ve found them, the original item you clicked may move to reveal something. There are typically five items with their own sub-collections in each screen.
It’s a bit annoying being forced to click around till something works and opens up a list. Finding the required items afterwards isn’t too difficult and some welcome variety is thrown in by them sometimes being drawn from a different angle than the list window. Unlike Route 66, the items are lying around naturally in very cluttered environments. You won’t find anything coloured blue in the sky for example.
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