'The Puppeteer' is a hidden object adventure and combines, as usual genre, a point'n'click adventure game with hidden object and brain teasers. In point'n'click part goes a long way, by inserting objects in the right places, where the puzzles are all fairly easy and the right solution practically imposes. If you should forget it once where a particular object belongs, you can fall back on his notebook, all the important discoveries are automatically transferred to the, or get help from the rechargeable hint feature. But the city is so small that you do not often have to resort to it. The items needed to solve a puzzle, you also frequently found near what saves long walking distances.
You get objects frequently when dissolving Wimmelbilder. These are fair and offer partly well hidden, but always searchable destinations and do not require translation errors. Who partout does not find an object that can use the hint function here.
The brainteasers fluctuate between 'extremely simple' and moderate, but can be also skip.
Well done is the background that makes the Brothers Grimm, the leader of a magical detective unit and as historical figures transformed into credible fantasy versions of themselves. The story is told quite straight, but knows how to captivate as the puppeteer seems always to be one step ahead. For gloomy atmosphere fits the nice graphics with the dark city and the sometimes morbid objects in the picture.
Less successful, however, is the extent. The town is very small and the puzzles are very simple, so you've seen even without tapping function for approximately two hours, the end, which is extremely short even for a hidden object adventure. Also get owners of 16: 9 monitors a problem because here a piece is cut off at the edge, which makes the hidden objects unnecessarily.
By the simple puzzles and the short playing time is 'The Puppeteer' perfect for beginners who want to test first if you like the genre. For veterans who constantly need new hidden object lining, it's not a bad buy, but there are better representatives of the genre.
Comparable with: Dark Parables
