Death and Betrayal in Romania: A Dana Knightstone Novel - A Hidden Objects Romance Mystery 4+

I've played all the Dana Knightstone series so far and have loved them, but this one seemed forced and gimmicky:
-the ghost dog from the previous game in the series shows up to help, which just makes getting things too easy at times (I can't reach it, so just ask the dog to get it);
-many of the mini-games didn't make sense to me at all, such as moving plates and goblets around to match colors, with no substantial way to know what the actual point was, the colors on plates and goblets didn't match, for ex., and in another mini-game, we are supposed to line up wood grains in shields, but they don't line up at all, leaving us to randomly move pieces around;
-in several places, we have to find pieces of a shield or picture or goblet, but then we don't get the challenge of putting them into place, just find them all and they snap into place automatically and move on;
-there wasn't a kind of diary where we could see what happened in previous scenes (or at least I didn't find it).

And it was buggy, as some people have written.

I know people work hard on these games, trying to keep them fresh and entertaining, but this entry in the Knightstone series just wasn't as fun for me as the others.

HELP! I'm stuck at an old house, have spent more than an hour looking for #6/6 broken sword pieces that I need to give to Constantin. I have carefully touched every part of every screen so many times, but that last piece isn't showing up. There's nowhere else to look, so I can't finish the game!

Unlike other users, though, up to this point I have figured out how to move past various glitches, and I found instructions for the games in the blue arrow next to the dog. I'm completely stumped here, guys.

I've enjoyed the other Dana Knightstone games, but this was pretty bad. Good first. Liked the story. Liked the map. Dog was cute. Bad now. AWFUL graphics. None of the games have instructions. I prefer to know what I'm doing, rather than mess up just trying to figure out the point. Had to use the guide to try to figure some out. I HATE doing that. Ended up skipping because I couldn't figure it out & didn't want to use the guide. Game was glitchy. You would put the correct item in the correct spot & it wouldn't work. Then I'd come back after trying 12 other things and put it in the spot 5 times and it would finally work. Also, the game where you reconstruct an item is hugely glitchy. Every time there were one or two pieces I found and touched but they wouldn't move! Grrrr! Plus, NO BONUS CHAPTER! Waste of time. At least it was only $2.99. Still a waste of time.