Taken Souls: Blood Ritual Full 9+

Great Concept: Poor Execution

This would have been an automatic 5 stars for me due to the variety of sleuth-type puzzles: finding shoe prints & fingerprints, taking in-game photos, lab work (which I did not understand but was able to succeed on most). Music could be changed in game once selections were found in game. Map is available and shows areas not completed, completed, and action available. My kind of game, for sure.

What really annoyed me enough to post a lukewarm review, however, was the maze puzzle. Despite having to hit an area precisely throughout the game for the controls to work, this puzzle took the prize in that a few essential springs were NOT visible or accessible on the iPad. Saw walkthrough to learn that a blue & purple spring does not appear for me in the game. AARRGH! Absolutely hate skipping such puzzles since I enjoy them.

Perhaps the game is better developed for the PC.

Developer Response ,

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Different and great game

Great to see a new game from Absolutist! A long time waiting! I check weekly as you’ve been a nice alternative to big fish games but it’s been several months since you’ve added a game of this type. Thank you kindly! I love the puzzle adventure games with ho scenes added here and there but not the straight ho games so much. They’re a dime a dozen and boring. This was a perfect mix of adventure, puzzles, ho scenes with a who done it story line! I really enjoyed this! There were some glitches such as some mini games did not respond and better directions needed on some but a good mix of easy and more difficult. The ho scenes were nice, also not easy but not overly difficult. They were all of the morphing object and straight forward finds so maybe more variation in your next installment? Graphics were excellent! Transporting map marked clearly. It was sometimes difficult to know what was expected. At times there was no instruction or dialog when opening a window leaving me to guess at possible solutions. Maybe that was the intent? It was usually something that was not ready to be solved yet but could be later in the game. Overall I was very entertained and drawn back to this game any opportunity I could find in my day. Finished in 2 days but the game length was long! A great buy! I highly recommend it! Thank you Absolutist and I truly hope you start adding this genre game more often again! Great job!

There’s good and bad

There are some great things about this game. I like how well the info collected is auto recorded. The diary/journal is really helpful

Unfortunately it glitches on some parts. The maze part is fully glitched. I can’t skip it, start it or do anything with it. Meaning I would have to restart the whole game (several hours) and hope that the maze actually works. I’m not willing to put in the time for the chance so I never got to finish the game.

Developer Response ,

Hello! Sorry for the inconvenience! Please email us about this issue at support@absolutist.com. Please describe the problem in more detail, and send screenshots so that we can solve it faster. We will be happy to help you!