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ANNA AND RICHARD RETURN IN AN EXCELLENT NEW GRIM TALES

PostedMarch 28, 2019

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fromOh my, I almost forgot to put dad's skull in my handbag. He hates being left behind when there is a case to solve.

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5 / 5

Anna Gray and the Grim Tales series return with game sixteen – The Nomad. This long-standing favorite series with many gamers is also one with which I happen to have a love-hate relationship. Some of the earlier games had a tendency to be what some might consider a bit gritty but the later games have been far more to my liking. The Nomad happens to fall on the “love” side of the scale for me. From ...Show more

Anna Gray and the Grim Tales series return with game sixteen – The Nomad. This long-standing favorite series with many gamers is also one with which I happen to have a love-hate relationship. Some of the earlier games had a tendency to be what some might consider a bit gritty but the later games have been far more to my liking. The Nomad happens to fall on the “love” side of the scale for me. From the moment I began playing I found myself involved in what I consider to be one of the better stories of the series.

I generally am fairly outspoken about the lack of a “true custom mode” in games and this one does not allow the gamer to set their preference for the Hint and Skip times in a game. I happen to believe that customization should offer an open-ended scale for those times.

There is no need to recap the story as you can find that information on the game’s home page and when you play the demo. I enjoyed the storyline in the game and it is very well told as you progress with the gameplay.

When the game begins we have the general task to find items that we need to open either HOP scenes or Puzzles. Although the presentation of the HOPS might not be for everyone, I loved them and enjoyed finding the items, even the ones that were well-concealed. There is some variety in the HOPS but most are presented in the list find style that I enjoy the most. As much as I enjoyed the HOPS, I found the Puzzles to be even better. The puzzles might seem easy but they are still excellent and include many of my old-time favorites beginning with the one where we need to move the tiles to open a lock. This particular puzzle is easier than it has been in other games but I still enjoyed it. Of course The Nomad wouldn’t be a game from this developer if we didn’t find a missing zipper pull. Whenever I come across the missing zipper pull I have to chuckle because I know so many gamers hate having to open a case where one is missing.

With several of the last Grim Tales games we have the addition of Anna’s deceased father Richard whose skull is tagging along to help Anna solve each case. I don’t know many people who have an attachment to carting dad’s skull everywhere they go but Richard does add levity to the game. It took me a few games to get used to Richard but he has definitely grown on me and I think he is a needed element in the game. Some might think of Richard as a gimmick but he does provide some help when needed without being too intrusive.

The game has six chapters and I actually consider it to be a long game but that is because I don’t rush to see how fast I can get to the finish line. For me the enjoyment of playing is seeing every little detail in each scene and reading all of the news clippings or slips of paper that are found. CE games are my favorite since I love finding all of the collectibles and morphing objects. Yes many of the items are easy to find but not all of them jump right out at me. Another thing that I enjoy about The Nomad is that there is backtracking between the scenes. I don’t particularly care to pick up a hammer and then glance at the wall and find a nail that I should remove from a board immediately upon finding the hammer or any other tool. I love having a large inventory and then having to remember where I might need to use one of the items. Some might consider this to be a time-filler but I think it makes for a better game and is no more of a time-filler than having to play a puzzle in order to use an item.

Grim Tales: The Nomad is a wonderful game and perfect for the way I like to play. I purchased the game almost immediately and have had no regrets. The gameplay is entertaining and the storyline is excellent. I own every Grim Tales game since the series began with The Bride, and I often replay some of them each year. Even though Grim Tales: The Nomad is one I enjoy, please try the demo to see is it is a game that you will enjoy as well. Happy gaming! Show less

I recommend this game!

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LOVE ANNA GRAY

PostedMarch 28, 2019

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I only played this game for about fifteen minutes, although I don't know why I did that. I knew from the start that I was going to purchase it anyway.
This is one of my top five game series and I have the whole collection. Grim Tales has always been an outstanding series, from the storylines, audio/visual, graphics,mini games and HOS, that has always left me wanting more. Thank you Grim Tales and ...Show more

I only played this game for about fifteen minutes, although I don't know why I did that. I knew from the start that I was going to purchase it anyway.
This is one of my top five game series and I have the whole collection. Grim Tales has always been an outstanding series, from the storylines, audio/visual, graphics,mini games and HOS, that has always left me wanting more. Thank you Grim Tales and keep them coming. Show less

I recommend this game!

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The Outcasts with a much improved Life

PostedMarch 29, 2019

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5 / 5

Based on the finished game with bonus material.

I play as Anna. My sister who works at a Museum calls for my help with a thieve. My special ability is going back in the past. I find a bunch of confused kids that have special powers. The story unfolds.

I liked the morphs, collectible statutes and puzzle pieces. The Archive has replays on 13 hops and 13 mini-games. The secret room has 61 ...Show more

Based on the finished game with bonus material.

I play as Anna. My sister who works at a Museum calls for my help with a thieve. My special ability is going back in the past. I find a bunch of confused kids that have special powers. The story unfolds.

I liked the morphs, collectible statutes and puzzle pieces. The Archive has replays on 13 hops and 13 mini-games. The secret room has 61 morphs to find in four different rooms. I thought the morphs were perfectly timed for my enjoyment. I would have liked to retrieve a missed item but I could not.

I liked most of the puzzles. Especially the jigsaw, follow what is played in that order, paint by number. They are fun.

It has six chapters + bonus. It didn't seem short to me. It took the normal amount of time for me but I like looking around and just enjoying. I don't get in a hurry.

I would have liked to have a moving screensaver of the moving Dinosaurs but you have 3 plain one's instead.

I would have liked to have wallpapers of the dinosaurs from the main game. From the bonus chapter, the Weeping willow tree. I know the makers are proud of their characters but I would have preferred these without anything else. I've been saying this for years.

I also would have preferred that the guide had the finished product picture of a mini-game with instructions. It had one mini-game that you had to place four items next to the picture of the four items. I placed them on the outside area. The finished product if you enter all the letters put you on the inside. I could have put them on the inside if I knew that is what was wanted if I seen the finished product picture. I just skipped it after I had them on the outside by their pictures. Also the lock didn't have a picture in the guide but they wanted the number only in the center and not on one end. I could have used a picture for that.

My favorites from this series is The White Lady, Graywitch and The Time Traveler. Show less

I recommend this game!

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Good Game.

PostedApril 4, 2019

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I enjoyed this. Need 5 star games to play. Pretty graphics.
Good music. Good story.

I recommend this game!

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Greys are coming

PostedApril 5, 2019

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Skill Level:Intermediate

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5 / 5

Very good game. I do like this series of games. Mystery and a bit of sleuthing.
Not spooky unless you get the willeys real easy. One does look around for items so if you don't like this this game is not for you.
There are parts that are a little dark but I feel it makes it harder to find items.
To me it was not a short game but I have it with hints and skips only so I do search around more ...Show more

Very good game. I do like this series of games. Mystery and a bit of sleuthing.
Not spooky unless you get the willeys real easy. One does look around for items so if you don't like this this game is not for you.
There are parts that are a little dark but I feel it makes it harder to find items.
To me it was not a short game but I have it with hints and skips only so I do search around more than most people I guess.
The story line was good I thought a little different but not really a game changer. Bonus chapter was ok with more searching.
A extra bonus was searching for items that change in 4 of the scene's which was a good bonus I thought.
If you like this series I recommend the game other wise try the trial game first. Show less

I recommend this game!

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The Grays Are Always Finding Lost Relatives.

PostedApril 8, 2019

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I love the Grim Tales series. I enjoyed this installment as well along with it's high standards of artwork, music and effects. It's not a scary story by comparison with some of the others, but i'ts very good. If I were to have any complaints at all it's that it was too short. The bonus chapter is definitely worth paying for the Collector's Edition.

I recommend this game!

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Excellent!

PostedApril 7, 2019

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Skill Level:Intermediate

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

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5 / 5

This is a super game. One of the best yet.

I recommend this game!

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THOSE POOR DYSFUNCTIONAL GRAY FAMILY MEMBERS

PostedMarch 28, 2019

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fromAnna's first name & appearance was revealed in #8 & shown younger in the bonus chapter-#10 She & Louisa had the same hair style at one point, Anna's hair was dyed brown in #7. Randy Hames is the voice of Richard in all games except #14 by Matthew Curtis ⛄

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Fun Factor

4 / 5

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Completed game approximately 3.5 hours
(including Bonus Chapter, & all mini-games)

The museum where Louisa Gray, works at has been robbed of a valuable artifact, in broad daylight during normal business hours, yet no one seems to remember any details! Louisa has asked her sister to investigate the crime scene after the police come up empty-handed because the robber seems to have a unique ...Show more

Completed game approximately 3.5 hours
(including Bonus Chapter, & all mini-games)

The museum where Louisa Gray, works at has been robbed of a valuable artifact, in broad daylight during normal business hours, yet no one seems to remember any details! Louisa has asked her sister to investigate the crime scene after the police come up empty-handed because the robber seems to have a unique paranormal ability to create vivid illusions. Anna Gray can travel back in time, with nothing more than a personal item, she can manipulate time itself to stand still. This particular case, however, hits a little too close to home as she makes a surprising discovery linking the robbery to none other than a Gray family member!

I liked this game, and it's leaps and bounds better than The Hunger! Grim Tales has always been one of my all-time favorite series, even though it got a bit weird with the whole daddy-Richard-skull in my purse scenario. Most of the scenes have a Morphing Object, and the staple Grim Tales Character statues and Jigsaw Puzzle pieces within Zoom zones have returned in this CE version. The Morphs are a bit too large and morph a bit too fast to make them challenging, and the puzzle pieces aren't very challenging either because the zoom zones they are located within won't close automatically until you click on it. I don't see the point in having to find jigsaw puzzle pieces to get 3 Screensavers if you don't actually get to assemble the jigsaw? Other than those CE extra's issues, I think this game is perfectly fine, although I do wish Elephant would give us the option to do away with the time-consuming, extremely annoying, "Task Completed, New Task" Banner that shows up constantly throughout the game!!!! PLEASE :)

I think Elephant did a fantastic job with the Mini-Games. They have included games for all levels of players and I enjoyed most of them. I do prefer to solve mini-games that make you think, especially ones that make you strategize or plan several steps in advance. Games don't have to be mind-boggling, to be fun! Below are brief descriptions of some of the games I liked during the game:

1-Use direction arrows and rotation gears to place dinosaurs correctly.
2-Swap & rotate pipes to allow liquid to flow through all points.
3-Recreate 3 different shapes by rotating each partial shape to change the projection.
4-Click directional arrows on each token to slide into the color-coded slots using other tokens as bumpers.
5-Flip 2 gears at a time to reveal matching pairs for each symbol shown in the center.
6-Use directional arrows & push all lock pins up by selecting rods in the middle.
7-Swap small tiles until each large tile displays a complete image & use arrows to move the finished tiles to their matching symbol.

The Hidden Object Scenes are mostly Listed or Interactive List Finds but there are also Silhouetted Shape Finds while scrolling through 3 camera monitor scenes, Keywords in Sentence Finds on 3 different book pages, Uncovering Matching Pairs, Multiples of the same Object Finds and Returning Objects into the Scene. There are only 9 Main Hidden Object Scenes, but there are 7 Smaller Zoom Zone HOP's of various types within the main game and 4 regular and 1 zoom zone HOP's in the CE Bonus Chapter.

The CE version Bonus Chapter takes place shortly after the main game's time-frame. You play as Jared who finds himself trapped by his own souls' dark side. Richard tells him to visit 3 distorted personal memories to collect 3 soul shard's which will let him return to the real world. There are 5 Mini-Games, 4 main Hidden Object Scenes and 1 Zoom Zone Hidden Object Scene within the somewhat long Bonus Chapter. There are 9 Morphing Objects, and 4 Character Statues remaining, and you'll complete the final Screensaver when you pick up the last 12 Zoom Zone Jigsaw Puzzle Pieces.

This Collector's Edition version has 8 Wallpapers, (why do they always plaster a character on them, can't we just have the scenery view?) 8 Concept Art pictures, 3 Screensavers (collect Jigsaw Puzzle Pieces to reveal 2-12 piece jigsaws and 1-24 piece jigsaw) 5 Music Soundtracks, 23 Achievements to Earn, an Archive Room with 13 re-playable Hidden Object Scenes and 13 re-playable Mini-Games, a Secret Room to search for Morphing Objects in the scenes, 12 Collectible Gray Family Character Statues, 48 Zoom Zone Jigsaw Puzzle Pieces to get 3 Screensavers (auto-complete, you don't get to assemble them!?) 27 Morphing Objects, 6 Main Chapters +Bonus Chapter and a built-in Strategy Guide.

GRIM TALES SERIES LIST
Title***Collector's Edition Release Date***Average Rating

1-The Bride (August 4-2011) 3.9
2-The Legacy (January 5-2012) 4.6
3-The Wishes (July 12-2012) 4.5
4-The Stone Queen (January 3-2013) 3.9
5-Bloody Mary (August 1-2013) 4.3
6-The Vengeance (May 15-2014) 4.5
7-Color of Fright (November 6-2014) 3.7
8-The Final Suspect (May 16-2015) 4.0
9-Threads of Destiny (October 7-2015) 3.9
10-The Heir (February 25-2016) 4.3
11-Crimson Hollow (August 25-2016) 4.1
12-Graywitch (February 2-2017) 4.0
13-The White Lady (August 3-2017) 4.0
14-The Time Traveler (January 25-2018) 3.5
15-The Hunger (July 19-2018) 3.6
16-The Nomad (March 28-2019) n/a

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I recommend this game!

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A nice addition to this series overall, with some bugs

PostedMarch 31, 2019

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I played the Sneak Peak of this game (original called Grim Tales: Outcasts) and liked it enough to want to purchase the game when it was released. I am a fan of the Grim Tales series (love the father!) and this one was a little better than the last one. Although some have said this was a short game (and I HATE short games), I did not feel that it was short at all. I have to admit that I'm getting ...Show more

I played the Sneak Peak of this game (original called Grim Tales: Outcasts) and liked it enough to want to purchase the game when it was released. I am a fan of the Grim Tales series (love the father!) and this one was a little better than the last one. Although some have said this was a short game (and I HATE short games), I did not feel that it was short at all. I have to admit that I'm getting a bit confused by all the family members that this series has introduced. Seems I will have to start replaying some of the older ones to figure out who is who. My only complaint with this one is that I found that the bonus game was full of bugs. I had to quit and restart three times before being able to finish. I also had to skip the Sewing Machine game because I just couldn't get it to work. So much for getting all the achievements! Hopefully they will issue a fix for these problems soon. Do I recommend this game? Yes, IF you like this series. If you are new to the series, I wouldn't bother until you played the others. You wouldn't miss much if you waited until the regular version comes out. The bonus was okay, but not worth the CE price. As always, try the demo for yourself. Show less

I recommend this game!

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enjoyed the game!

PostedApril 1, 2019

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Level of Challenge

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Storyline

4 / 5

well, I quite enjoyed the game - I have all of the Grim Tales games. My only "complaint" - I missed a couple of the collectibles - and could not go back and collect the few that I missed in the "extras" section (once I completed the main & bonus games).

I recommend this game!

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