I really like the Grim Legends games. Very well made, beautifull artwork, cut scenes and animations. The puzzles and mini games are relatively easy, while the hidden object pictures can be quite challenging. In the last installment (The Dark City) I also experienced crashes that deleted the game save. The game only has one automatic save slot and that gets deleted somehow in the crash. I started making copies of the game state, every hour or so, to avoid having to begin all over again after a crash. But apart from this inconvenience it is a very pleasant and relaxed game experience. One star subtracted because of the crashes.
A console game with fixed save points. And random enemy encounters. And a tiring ever repeating evasion mini-game. All fighting amounts to an agility mini-game in a small square where you have to evade various sequences of enemy missiles. The mini-game is clearly joystick oriented and very awkward with the arrow keys on a PC keyboard. For instance, you have to move a heart icon along a circle inside the square while you are being followed by a squadron of rockets. Moving (fast) along a circle with arrow keys ... just try it. As a consequence, a lot of dying and repeating again and again the same sequence of puzzles from the last save point to arive at the point of the your last fight. The rest of the game are (mostly simple) puzzles and a lot of reading supposedly humorous teletype text.
