Five stars for overall creepiness. Hungama did a great job on the atmosphere–you can practically smell the interiors, and feel the wind in your hair outside. It’s almost worth playing just for that.

However.

There’s a fine line between challenge and frustration in casual games. Unfortunately, Bodie is more frustration than challenge. Some of the components are really hard to see, some of the puzzles are just plain tedious and the timer is extremely annoying.

With a few tweaks, this could be a great game and here’s hoping the next one in the series resolves some of those issues.
Rating: 2 / 5

I literally couldn’t wait to be done with this game due to the horrible graphics and quite possibly the stingiest hint-system I’ve seen on a HOG. Unfortunately, because the game resolution is so poor and many items are in black or dark gray, even though they wouldn’t be in real life, you actually NEED the hint system in some of the more dimly-lit rooms… which is about 65% of the game.

Assuming you actually find the items — including mis-labeled ones such as the dressmaker’s dummy which the game creators inaccurately call a mannequin — you’ll face puzzles at the end of each level. One type of puzzle involves putting together pieces of a tombstone then hunting around for barely visible objects “scratched” onto the tombstone. The other type involves finding 7-15 differences between two sets of photos, with the differences at times being as small as an itty bitty button on a coat, also made difficult to see due to the cruddy graphics. But guess what? You get NO hints for those, and NO you can’t bypass them. Fun, huh?

Oh, and just for the fun of it, the game has a deadline involved… or so you’re told when you’re given a pocket watch by a ghost. Except, know what? Even though you have to listen to the tick-tock-tick-tock and get repeatedly warned to hurry up, it doesn’t matter because the deadline is a sham. That’s a good thing because, unless you’ve got a killer monitor and very, very good eyesight, this game will take quite a long time to finish… not because you’re spending the time hunting for an assortment of items, but because the graphics are so horribly done that you can’t see what you’re hunting for.

Save your money. Play something else. I know *I* will never, EVER play any game by Gaming Hungama again.
Rating: 1 / 5

I have to say, this game was *very* short and extremely easy to complete. It’s basically a combination of seek-and-find and puzzle assembly, and not very complex ones at that; although, I’ll gladly give its creep factor and visuals the thumbs up (especially considering its very affordable price).

If you’re looking for a challenge, I’d probably recommend that you look elsewhere, but it’s a fairly enjoyable way to pass time during study breaks, or while your partner is hogging the television because his team is playing.

Rating: 3 / 5