*Note: I received the game for free for my honest review. Thank you to Ogre Pixel and Stride PR for the Nintendo Switch game key!
I've liked all the Ogre Pixel games I've played so far. Lonesome Village and Tiny Sticker Tale were a lot of fun for me, so I was excited to check out their next game, Hidden In My Paradise. One thing I will point out is that in the settings for all of their games the music and sound is very loud for some reason. Luckily, it's easy to adjust it to a comfortable volume which I did quickly. Hidden In My Paradise is a hidden object game with little missions within each level. There's a quick easy to follow tutorial at the start with a fairy helper explaining what to do.
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| Learning how to find hidden objects. |
The toolbar has pictures of the objects you're supposed to find. I thought it was pretty cool that you can move the items in the picture around when searching for objects. The game encourages it in fact because some things are hidden behind other objects like trees. You can also change the time of day, another thing the game encourages because certain items show up better at sunset or evening. This is where the mini missions come in. In each level, you have two photos called snaps. You have to examine the photo closely, then find the objects in the picture, and then place them to match the photo so you can take your own photo. If done correctly, you get a little green checkmark and some bonus coins. There are also chests hidden within each scene that also give you coins.
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| Learning about snaps. |
There is a shop with a gacha capsule machine. Sometimes you find gacha tickets which you can use on the machine to get different decorations. You can also use your bonus coins to buy various decorations. These can all be used in the sandbox mode to create your own scenes and hidden object puzzles if you like in sandbox mode.
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| Getting things from the gacha machine. |
Sandbox mode is another feature of the game I found to be a lot of fun. Not only can you decorate your own scene and choose objects to be hidden, you can share them online with others. You can also check out their scenes and play them finding all the hidden objects. I had a lot of fun checking this out and it was great seeing all the different types of scenes other players came up with.
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| Checking out sandbox mode. |
Needless to say, the art for Hidden In My Paradise is adorable and true to Ogre Pixel form, full of whimsy and tons of lovely things to find including hidden fairies in each scene. It's a lot of outdoor scenes, but no two are alike. Ranging from camping in a pretty forest to a nighttime garden full of animal friends there were so many wonderful things to see in each hidden object puzzle. If I had to critique anything, it's the controls. Picking things up and moving the camera are the same button and sometimes when I was trying to pick an item up, it would drift and I would accidentally click the camera. It's not a big deal, but it's noticeable. I'm hoping in a future update they adjust that so it plays a little better. Hidden In My Paradise isn't very long; with doing everything in the main puzzle area I finished in about five hours. The nice thing is you can play as much or as little as you want, playing a few puzzles at a time or playing them all. There's no pressure and no rush making it a great relaxing and charming game. Ogre Pixel gave us another terrific indie gem.
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| One of my favorite scenes, nighttime garden. |
*Hidden In My Paradise is available to play on the following platforms: Nintendo Switch, Steam, and Mobile
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