InsaneJournal

Nancy Drew is kinda like Barbara Gordon, anyway
Via penknife, I discovered freestuff, which does what it says on the tin. There are several recent posts with codes for free Big Fish Games, including several hidden object games. Now, I didn't know they were hidden object games when I downloaded them. I didn't know there were hidden object games when I downloaded them. I had expected mysteries, seeing as how they're from a series entitled Mystery Case Files. Searching a screen filled with random crap in order to find a certain assortment of random crap is not fun for me, nor does it constitue solving a mystery. But I finally figured out why I like Ace Attorney: I like mystery adventure games, doy. For some reason I had circumscribed my gaming into first-person shooters, MMOs, and sims, and had stopped considering other types of titles. So I've spent the day on a tear, looking for mysteries to solve. I procured Nancy Drew Dossier: Lights, Camera, Curses!, which turned out to be more of a casual game than an adventure game, but, to be honest, I'm kind of rubbishy at puzzles, so a game that is structurally incapable of devolving into "look at everything, take everything, use everything on everything else" is good for my sanity. (Lights, Cameras, Curses! review at Adventure Gamers; at Jay is Games.)