Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2020 11:06 pm
Mom Hid My Game is a Kemco puzzle game for the Switch, 3DS, PS4, and iOS. I played through the 3DS version.
This game is VERY short. I finished it in 75 minutes; it might have taken closer to 2 hours if I hadn't resorted to using the in-game hints a few times. Finishing the puzzle game unlocks an extremely simple minigame that one can replay for a high score.
Mom Hid My Game consists of 50 super-short puzzles. No puzzle spans more than two rooms. The puzzles are primarily point-and-click adventure style. Touching objects with the stylus interacts with them. Sometimes objects are collected into an inventory, and they can be used on various other objects. A few puzzles are more unusual.
Some of the puzzles have a surprising amount of creativity or "out-of-the-box" thinking. Others just deviate from the basic point-and-click formula, which itself can be perplexing. An in-game hint system ensures that the player won't have to look up any puzzle solutions in a FAQ (most puzzles are so minimalist that their "hints" basically are the solutions).
The basic premise of the puzzles is that the player is a kid whose mom has hidden his 3DS. While the kid searches for his 3DS, he can fail a puzzle and get a Game Over in any number of ways. Retrying a failed puzzle is extremely quick and easy, with no load times.
The art is extremely simplistic, and there is only a little bit of music and voice acting (outcries from the kid). All voice acting is in Japanese.
There almost isn't a story other than "Mom hid my game! I've got to find it!" I say "almost" because there is a genuine story-ending for playing through all of the puzzles, and this ending just might make paying $3 to $5 for a 75-minute game worth the money.
Then again, maybe not. Puzzle solving is very much its own reward in Mom Hid My Game. It was an amusing 75 minutes, at least.
This game is VERY short. I finished it in 75 minutes; it might have taken closer to 2 hours if I hadn't resorted to using the in-game hints a few times. Finishing the puzzle game unlocks an extremely simple minigame that one can replay for a high score.
Mom Hid My Game consists of 50 super-short puzzles. No puzzle spans more than two rooms. The puzzles are primarily point-and-click adventure style. Touching objects with the stylus interacts with them. Sometimes objects are collected into an inventory, and they can be used on various other objects. A few puzzles are more unusual.
Some of the puzzles have a surprising amount of creativity or "out-of-the-box" thinking. Others just deviate from the basic point-and-click formula, which itself can be perplexing. An in-game hint system ensures that the player won't have to look up any puzzle solutions in a FAQ (most puzzles are so minimalist that their "hints" basically are the solutions).
The basic premise of the puzzles is that the player is a kid whose mom has hidden his 3DS. While the kid searches for his 3DS, he can fail a puzzle and get a Game Over in any number of ways. Retrying a failed puzzle is extremely quick and easy, with no load times.
The art is extremely simplistic, and there is only a little bit of music and voice acting (outcries from the kid). All voice acting is in Japanese.
There almost isn't a story other than "Mom hid my game! I've got to find it!" I say "almost" because there is a genuine story-ending for playing through all of the puzzles, and this ending just might make paying $3 to $5 for a 75-minute game worth the money.
Then again, maybe not. Puzzle solving is very much its own reward in Mom Hid My Game. It was an amusing 75 minutes, at least.