[Android] The Lost City (2012)

How:
Read some review on Adventuregamers after explicitly looking for more Android games to play.
Pros:
- Beautiful graphics and very fitting animations
- Nice, well-balanced puzzles
- Fitting music
- Immersive atmosphere
- Nice game for some relaxed, light-hearted adventuring
Cons:
- Music is a bit repetitive, could be much better with a different theme per season
- Underwhelming, almost non-existing finale
- The overlaid text is too much in the way
- Essentially a back-tracking game, can get tedious
- Some mechanical puzzles can be solved before the PC has a way to find the solution, but the game does not accept the solution even if correct (e.g. combinatorial puzzles)

[PC] Dark Parables: Rise of the Snow Queen (2011)

How:
Played the demo from BigFishGames after reading about it somewhere (possibly just browsing through the website after playing some Mystery Case Files episode).
Pros:
- Very nice in-game animations
- Voice acting
- Abundance of cut-scenes
- Generally better graphic quality with respect to previous episodes
- Story is somewhat interesting and connecting to previous episodes
Cons:
- Quality of cut-scenes is very inconsistent and generally mediocre
- Very similar to previous episodes of the series, with the usual arbitrary collection of medallions, shields and goblets to collect, statues to activate, and doors to open
- Graphics quality feels heterogeneous (e.g. some items are evidently re-painted photos, some characters are cartoony while others are more realistic)
- The children sound way too mature for their age (having a little child scream "Help, detective!" is quite unnatural)
- Very little variety in puzzles
- Voice-overs,  although abundant, are generally mediocre

[PC] Dark Parables: The Exiled Prince (2011)

How:
Tried the demo and liked it, bought it right away on BigFishGames.com, together with other two episodes.
Pros:
- Neat graphics
- Good pace and well integrated cutscenes
Cons:
- Heavy on the HOG side
- Overabundance of inventory items and collectables (jars, tiaras, potions, etc)
- A lot of backtracking
- Boring and repetitive music

[PC] Dark Parables: Curse of Briar Rose (2010)

How:
Tried the demo of the second episode on BigFishGames website, liked it and bought the whole series.
Pros:
- Beautiful graphics, fitting music
- Some amount of non-linearity
Cons:
- Adventuring elements are limited to very repetitive inventory puzzles, the rest is pure HOG
- Shallow storytelling
- Lots of backtracking
- The diary gives away some puzzles
- The puzzles per se are trivial, one specific puzzle appears at least three times (place colored balls on colored tile)
- Only a few events, no character interaction (starts with the princess appearing, to never see her again) 

[PC] Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate (2007)

How:
Being a fan of Mystery Case Files (essentially Dire Grove and The 13th Skull), didn't think twice when a new offer came up on Bigfish.

Pros:
- Very good graphics in a nicely disturbing setting
- Some interesting Rube Goldberg-like puzzles close each level
- Fun ending twist linking to the Ravenhearst game
- Good voiceover for Madame Fate
Cons:
- A neverending, yet possibly pleasant HOG with a few rooms and frequently recurring items
- The word games can get really tedious
- Few motivations: you, the detective, find yourself in a mysterious amusement park

[PC] Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst (2006)

Cons:
- Pure HOG with a letdown story and few motivations
- Hidden object scenes are always the same, often need to find the same objects over again
- Cannot detect objects quickly, have to wait some seconds after each detection
- The diary puzzle sections are silly
- Overly lengthy and repetitive
- Repetitive sounds and spare music

[PC] Azada: In Libro (2011)

Pros:
- Neat graphics, good variety of music
- Nice settings
- The crying unicorn!
Cons:
- Sometimes the graphics don't match (e.g. the notary at the beginning)
- Some events are foretold in the diary, in general there are problems with continuity
- Ending is underwhelming and anti-climatic
- A very small world
- Extremely light (not challenging and no hidden object sequences)

[PC] Dracula: Love Kills (2011)

Pro:
- Divertente spin-off ibrida adventure/hog del gioco originale, con alcuni riferimenti interessanti (es. il puzzle con gli angeli e i demoni che si incastrano)
- Ottime sia grafica che musica
- Ottimo doppiaggio (tranne Igor che è un po' ridicolo)
- Le parti di hog si incastrano abbastanza bene con il tutto
- Buon bilanciamento di puzzle (alcuni abbastanza difficili)
- Bella scelta di ambientazioni (Venezia, Lousiana, Londra, ...)
Contro:
- I puzzle alla fine sono quelli classici
- Un po' troppo guidato
- Non si capisce cosa cambia a mordere o no le ragazze

[PC] Mystery Case Files: 13th Skull (2010)

Pros:
- Puzzles are well integrated and of average difficulty, making for a pretty casual long game (around 10-11 hours)
- Many human characters to interact with
- Excellent art and production (as always), with human actors well integrated into the environment
- Engaging mystery
Cons:
- The game tells you what needs to be done
- A handful of hints and objects are useless as they refer to the Collector's Edition
- Acting skills are sometimes dubious
- Dialogues are one-shot and there is not much of a choice
- A couple of ill-posed puzzles
- Many silly puzzles, e.g. dispose rubbish, make gumbo and look out for brushes and dusters for the housekeeper
- At times, the diary reveals facts that are still to be discovered

[PC] Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove (2009)

Pro:
- Belle atmosfere
- Ottima grafica
- Ottima musica ed effetti sonori
- Molto avvincente e piuttosto longevo
- Buon uso di FMV sia ingame che nelle scene di intermezzo
- Enigmi non banalissimi e mai frustranti
- Le parti di hidden objects non sono invadenti e hanno un loro perché
Contro:
- Storia già sentita
- Finale un po' brusco
- Recitazione altalenante che a volte lascia un po' a desiderare
- A volte troppo semplice, il gioco dà troppi aiuti
- A volte ci si ritrova a rivisitare a caso le stesse location per cercare nuovi oggetti