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Midnight Mysteries: Salem Witch Trials [Game Download] | ![Midnight Mysteries: Salem Witch Trials [Game Download]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61hlLeE6YcL._SL500_.jpg)
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Category: Video Games
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 698
Format: Download
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP
Genre: puzzle_games
Media: Software Download
Edition: Standard
Operating System: Windows Vista
Model: 40359m Witch Trials
ASIN: B003UD7RV4
Release Date: July 13, 2010
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| Features:
| • | Sequel to the hit Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy | | • | Explore the spooky terrain and structures of Salem village | | • | Interview apparitions, solve brain-teasing puzzles, and collect hidden objects | | • | Hawthorne guides you through time to unravel his mysterious death | | • | Complete 10 Adventure Missions |
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Product Description
Famed writer Nathaniel Hawthorne has died during a freak storm, and his spirit comes to you for help! Travel back in time to the Salem Witch Trials to uncover legendary secrets!
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 10
 AMAZING GAME July 25, 2010
Mike S. (Milford, MA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is a fantastic adventure and hidden-object game. You are an investigator of the supernatural. The ghost of the famous author Nathaniel Hawthorne ( who was born and raised in Salem Massachusetts and is in reality related to one of the Judges who oversaw the actual Witch Trials) appears before you suddenly begging you to help him escape the chains of injustice that have bound him to the earth by searching out the truth behind the infamous Salem Witch Trials.
This is a beautifully constructed game with very detailed scenes that have animated movement, the flicker of candelight , the moving of clouds overhead, eerie sound effects, and even many of the items you search for are themselves in motion or animated in some way.
There are plenty of hints available during the game in case you get stuck, and no timer or time limit on searching for items, which lets you advance at your own pace. This is a huge game, expanding to over 400 megabytes, which enhances its visual effects and the overall feel of the gameplay. Also, you can unlock an extra unlimited hidden-object game by collecting a certain number of clovers during regular gameplay.
The version I downloaded is for Windows and I encountered no problem with it. This software should work well on most Windows systems. The system requirements are 1.6 gig processor speed, 512 megabytes of memory, 460 megabytes of hard drive space, a video card with 64 megabytes or more of memory, and Microsoft Direct-X 9.0 or better. Most computers today running a Windows based system will meet these requirements easily.
To see your processor speed and system memory, right click on your "My Computer" icon on your desktop and then select, "properties". You can find out your available hard drive space by double-clicking (left mouse button) on the My Computer icon to open it, and then right clicking on the "hard disk drive" icon or image and selecting "properites". It will show "used space" and "free space".
At various points in the game you will encounter puzzles that you have solve in order to advance. For example, strange locks on doors that you have to figure out how to open. These are relatively easy to complete, it may take you a few minutes to figure them out but they are not too difficult. However, the game provides a "skip" button that allows you to skip over the puzzle and advance if it's too hard for you. The "skip" button that appears for each puzzle is an outline image of a raven on the lower right part of the screen that slowly fills in. When it completely fills in you can click on it to "skip" the puzzle you are facing.
At some parts of the game there are tasks that you need to complete in order to advance. These do not have a "skip" button, but instead require you to gather certain objects or manipulate certain items in order to find or locate a key element of the game. Again, I found these tasks to be not too difficult. However, two of the tasks really gave me trouble. I am going to explain these, below, and give you the answer to these tasks, so if you don't want to know.., and would rather figure these out on your own, don't read the next two paragraphs.
At one point in the game you are required to locate and obtain the corpse of the Sheriff who arrested one of the victims accused of being a witch. Finding the sheriff's coffin was not very difficult, but.., opening the sheriff's coffin made me pause. I couldn't figure out which tool to use to open it. I finally realized that you need to use the inventory item that looks like a key, it's actually a wrench and will unscrew the bolts on the coffin.
The other puzzle that baffled me, was near the very end of the game in the parlor at the House Of the Seven Gables, it involved opening the fireplace. There are two posts in front of the fire place, and when you press them they recede slightly into the floor and then rise up again automatically. I thought there might have been a certain number of times each post had to be pressed, but I finally figured out that they simply need to be pressed quickly in succession. Press one post, and as it is receding press the other post right away. This will open the fireplace and reveal the hidden stairway. At the top of the stairway is the final puzzle of the game, a locked door that requires you to fill in missing numbers in a sequence. It's much easier than it looks. Simply use the game pieces you find in the parlor and other areas of the game to fill in the missing numbers.
The only thing I was disappointed in is that I could not locate all 50 clovers during the game, I could only find 49 of them. Darn it. So I couldn't unlock the extra hidden-object game. I hope you have better luck on that than I did. Just be sure to check each scene carefully, the clover symbols are cleverly placed in discrete parts of the scenery.
- Mike Silverman
Gorgeous graphics and gripping story! July 25, 2010
P. B. Sharp (Las Cruces, NM)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The guys who gave you "Midnight Mysteries: the Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy" have created another excellent game with beautiful environments and a grim, interesting story. Contrary to another reviewer`s observations that you can't save your game, of course you can! Simply press menu, then exit and the game will remember and take you precisely to that spot when you return. The opening scenes of frenetic screeching witch hunters and a girl about to be hanged get you in the mood, and the wonderful hint mechanism, the raven, returns again to flap across the moon to locate objects you can't find. Click in too much of a frenzy you get a hissy black cat instead of the raven and the cat won't go away until you stop your nervous clicking on the wrong objects. The hints by the raven, however, are very limited so you're just going to have to find all the objects listed.
The ghost of famous New England author Nathaniel Hawthorne asks you for help as his spirit is chained and he implores you to set him free. Nathaniel dies mysteriously in a freak May snowstorm. You will travel in time from Hawthorne's death back to 1692 Salem, a small Massachusetts town under the spell of madness, where no woman is safe from the witch hunters, where the little town is under a dreadful pall. Witchcraft!
What has Hawthorne got to do with witchcraft when he died over a century and a half later? Did his influential friends, even the occupant of the Oval Office play any part? Did they have anything to do with the author's untimely death? What is Abraham Lincoln's train doing in the picture? You will shuttle back and forth in time meeting and appeasing many ghosts along the way. Jealousy, spite, greed and ambition are all alive and well in this adventure tale.
Midnight Mysteries 2 has perhaps the best story of any Hidden Object game and the hidden objects actually take a back seat to the story. However, many artifacts will land in your lap and the game isn't holding your hand here. You have to figure out what to do with the objects, a gavel, a pen, a walking stick, sugar cubes, beef jerky. Many of them you have to combine, such as a pen and an ink pot.
You must unravel many secrets and solve the mystery of Hawthorne's death and set him free. You will discover who killed Nathaniel Hawthorne but you have a lot of work to do first. You will encounter many mini-puzzles, some hard some quite easy, as you go on your way in this adventure that is so very rich in visuals and sound. An exceptional production in every respect. Don't miss it!
Great Fun July 19, 2010
Jennifer Mccormack (Florida)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This game really gripped me as soon as I started playing it. I bought it Sunday afternoon and played most of the day because I couldn't tear myself away. Unfortunately, I finished it the next day. So thats my only disappointment is that I had it done in a short amount of time. I paid $6.99 for it but it was worth every penny.
Absolutely fantastic -- better than MCF Dire Grove!! July 24, 2010
Carter's Mom (Washington, DC)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This was a fantastic game. Per the other review complaining about saving his progress, I had no problem saving my progress. I played the game over several days with my son, and we both loved it. It's gameplay is similar in format to the MCF Dire Grove game (the most highly rated HOG game on Amazon downloads). It combines hidden object, solving mini puzzles and requires the player to combine inventory items to move forward through obstacles. The story is interesting, filled with accurate historical facts and some fictional components to further the story. The game is challenging, but not frustrating. You are required to go back and forth between locations to solve each chapter in this series. The hint system is quite good. If you get stuck and aren't sure how to move forward, your "journal" usually has the clue. I did resort to internet cheats a couple of times. I could not recommend this game any more!! If you loved Dire Grove, you should enjoy this game.
 Attention Must Be Paid August 3, 2010
PCCnyc (New York, NY USA)
This is a well constructed game, with obvious attention to detail, right down to the dust motes swirling in a beam of light. The hidden object scenes are moderately challenging; I did not need any hints to find anything. The main challenge was in the scenes outside the hidden ones. You have to pay attention and thoroughly search them for inventory pieces (signaled by a grabby blue hand or sparkle)and information (signaled by an eyeball looking around, which I found amusing for some reason). There were fewer puzzles than in many of these types of game, and they were the easiest I've encountered so far. Which was just fine with me, because I don't want to always have to bust a brain cell just figuring out how a puzzle works like in the Mystery Case File Games.
Speaking of the MCF Games, I do not agree that this is better than Dire Grove, but it's up there on the tier just below. Dire Grove was more subtle in it's scariness, more creepy, while this game contains a series of sudden shocks, that make you jump at points. Interestingly enough, a wolf is part of both those games. How about a bear next time?
Only disappointment was that I thought this would deal more with the Salem witch trials, but that took a back seat to a historical mystery involving family curses and treaties and double crossings and whatnot.
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