Eh, it just looks like one of those boring "find the hidden object" games. Pretty sure they made a Les Miz one a while back. A game where you get to run around slitting throats, now that would be awesome.
I got really excited until I saw that it was a hidden object game. I hate those. (I love mystery computer games, but all they have these days are those stupid hidden object ones.)
I can't play who the girl reminds me of. Kate Beckinsale a little bit
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
It is an uber lame hidden puzzle "casual game"--a shame as the story could be a great, old style adventure game (I don't plya a lot of video games but grew up obsessed with classic adventure games like Sierra's Gabriel Knight trilogy--the creator of which, Janes Jensen, has a low budget, but great, new game Grey Matter out).
You used to be able to, and prob still can, play a free hour online... And they obviously were inspired almost completely byt he musical and no other version...
I'm actually a player of those "lame hidden object games" but mostly cos I like the puzzle thst are required to procede. The developer for this one tho is pretty lame. AND they were def "inspired" ( or ripped off) the Sondheim version . I did the trial but it was so bad I didn't finish. There is a Phantom of the Opera on that isn't too bad. ( so I've heard) BigFish is a pretty good site for these type of games. Just don't expect this bunch to be part of their demographic( female middleaged, w health problems/mostly grown kids) but they are world wide and growing so somebody out there must be doing something right!
That "faux Sweeney" score and singing are pretty funny. I just watched the game trailer without downloading it, and, while it's not full-on plagiarism, it's clearly a direct nod to the film musical.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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EricMontreal and sabrelady, I have played a bunch of these "casual adventure/hidden object games" too, and I agree that it's unfortunate that the real puzzles are so scarce and the plots so thin. I keep playing them because developers just aren't putting out many true adventure games anymore (Gabriel Knight was fantastic, by the way, though I enjoyed the tongue-in-cheek Monkey Island series the most). BigFish is porting these to the iPad at a rate of one new game every few days, so clearly they are selling a ton of them. It's just too bad the market isn't bigger for games with more/better puzzles and fewer screens that I just tap on like a morse code operator until I find all the stupid hidden items.