Department 42: The Mystery of the Nine [Download]super

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Join Department 42, a secret organization devoted to protecting the world from black magic. As your first assignment, you have to track down nine malevolent artifacts that disappeared during a mysterious fire at Grimstone Mansion! Explore strange locations and solve clever puzzles to protect mankind from a new nightmare and restore order before the sun rises on a dark new age!

• Recover Stolen Artifacts.
• Cure Werewolves.
• 20 Challenging Puzzles.
• Protect The World From Black Magic.

Department 42: The Mystery of the Nine [Download] Reviews

Department 42: The Mystery of the Nine [Download] Reviews

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful Good Gaming At A Great Price, January 2, 2010 By  Katherine Berry "of "Housewife How To's"" (Kansas) - See all my reviews = Fun:  Amazon Verified Purchase( What's this?) This review is from: Department 42: The Mystery of the Nine [Download] (Software Download) This isn't as visually stunning as, say, the Ravenhurst games but it has an intriguing story line and fun, challenging mini-games. The gist: you're an agent working for Dept. 42, which investigates paranormal activity. Seven powerful artifacts have been stolen and scattered around the country, and they're wreaking havoc. You must find them, and find the source of their power, to save the world. You'll travel through various locations -- a werewolf's lair, an Indian reservation and cemetery, a town under the power of a Voodoo sleep spell, among others -- and retrieve the artifacts. In each setting you'll encounter several rooms or settings where you'll hunt for hidden objects, using some of them to solve puzzles in the process. To obtain the paranormal artifact that's harming that location you'll have to solve a harder puzzle, though none are so difficult that you'll be pulling your hair out. The game has a helpful hint system, although it seems to take... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you?  Report abuse | Permalink   Comment 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful Interesting and challenging!, July 26, 2011 By  P. B. Sharp (NM) - See all my reviews          Amazon Verified Purchase( What's this?) This review is from: Department 42: The Mystery of the Nine [Download] (Software Download) In Grimstone mansion a fire erupts and nine evil artifacts which had been stored there are missing. Nine evil artifacts loose in the world, creating and spreading evil. You play as Alice Wright, an agent for an organization that investigates the paranormal and your job is to find and quarantine the nine objects which are already causing havoc, as mysterious and wicked events are already occurring. Even if you're a guy you play as Alice as no male agent is offered. As an HOG Game, Department 42 is quite complicated, requiring many steps as you unravel the mysteries. This game is excellent and the mini game puzzles are far better than average, and some of them are quite hard. You have to be a very precise clicker and you can easily miss something if you don't get your mouse aimed just right. In one location I was trying to unscrew four screws with a knife, a screwdriver not being handy. You have to attack all four screws and they don't "unscrew" so you may think like I did... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you?  Report abuse | Permalink   Comment 6 of 7 people found the following review helpful Great hidden object/puzzle game. Far more original than most., April 22, 2010 By  Carter's Mom (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews    = Fun:  Amazon Verified Purchase( What's this?) This review is from: Department 42: The Mystery of the Nine [Download] (Software Download) After playing at least a dozen of these games, I was pleasantly surprised by this one. You are a secret agent trying to recover several important artifacts dealing with supernatural powers. The hidden object scenes are well done: clear graphics, interesting objects, hidden in a variety of ways. You will have to go back and forth between several scenes in order to complete each of the separate chapters. The puzzles are not your run of the mill, predictable types found in many of these games. I found many of them to be more challenging than others, but still doable. A couple of the puzzles required more luck than skill, which I thought was a little lame. However, because of the originality of the game and the types of puzzles I was able to overlook that. This game did have a couple of major flaws: 1) as others mentioned, the hint recharge takes a LONG time (somewhere around five minutes -- that is just insane) and 2) the dialog at the beginning of the game and each chapter was S... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you?  Report abuse | Permalink   Comment

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