![]() How in the HECK was that fishing lure hiding THERE the entire time? I really hate having to hit “help”, but I needed it a couple times. I was annoyed by the oddness of some of the items (green plants and lizards in an old sunken ship? Shades of SpongeBob!) It drives me crazy. Every time I got a screen up, I had to play it off even as my eyes were crossing trying to find a fishing lure or a tennis racket. Headache 2 is trying to explain what I feel about the game. (Oh, and make sure your touchscreen is properly aligned!) I hate to think what someone with a smaller-screened Palm would have to do! I truly got a headache playing the game for more than a few minutes. I was also angling the screen all over the place to try to resolve some of the images, especially darker things. I had to take off my glasses and hold the screen close enough to get nose prints on it. To pack all of the detail needed to make this work and to keep it a high enough level to excite most Palm users, the screen is pushing the resolution of my Palm T/X. ![]() Some are hidden by sheer virtue of all the stuff on screen- and tapping wrong items costs you oxygen! Dang! Some look a lot like other things- a metal diamond and a protractor look like natural parts of a metal fence. Some are partially hidden by other items, shadows, doors, etc. Some are camouflaged by surrounding items. This is, at heart, a hidden picture game. This is neither a surprise (considering all of the graphics involved), nor really one of the headaches. OK, so it is sometimes a little slow to load, and once froze my PDA. ![]() Rock solid gameplay- one of Astraware’s hallmarks. The gameplay is intuitive- tapping, basic joystick/D-Pad movement, simple interface. For $19.95, you get 17 rooms to explore, puzzles and challenges to solve, and a game that can reconfigure itself so even re-entering the same room can be a fresh challenge. This game reflects Astraware’s attention to detail, wonderful graphics, good game play, good demo policies, etc. Did I mention that you have limited oxygen for each dive, and doing things like tapping on the wrong things and asking for hints uses your limited air quicker? Because of the danger, you can keep any gems and other valuables you find, and you will also find some additional oxygen tanks, etc. The backstory is that you are looking for a fabulous treasure and artifacts. Hidden Expedition: Titanic is a game wherein you are going to dive and explore the wreckage of the Titanic. (In the screenshot, can you find the diver’s suit, key, stamp, butterfly, surgical clamp, life jacket, pipe wrench, watermelon, an old fashioned can opener, and the oxygen tank (which gains you more air)? What else do you see? What is that thing hiding in the air duct?)
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