Yard Sale Hidden Treasures Lucky Junction Review

All alight at the Lucky Junction!

Story: Hanna Harlow’s Heavenly Homes is holding a contest on interior designing! And you, as Lucky Junction’s budding interior decorator, have decided to try out your luck in Hanna Harlow’s program. Get into designing your neighbour’s rooms and collect the items you need from their Yard Sales! Complete interesting projects and vie for the crown of the top designer!

A fun story definitely, coupled with the silliest detective subplot I’ve seen in years!

Gameplay: New ideas are fast flowing into the Hidden Object genre so that now there are plenty of games beyond finding clues, escaping and going after your lost fortune. Decorating rooms – now that’s a real novelty! In fact, it is much more captivating than the hidden object part.

You, as the unnamed designer, are employed by the townspeople to refurbish their rooms. You gather up the required objects from Yard Sales from around the town of Lucky Junction (that’s the HOG part) and then use them to create innovative projects. However, most of the yard sale screens are too cluttered to help you make much out – there should’ve been more hints. Although nowhere is it said so, you can gather more hints by clicking any star shaped object you find. Remember that!

The activities involving the projects are really fun when you do them, yet they’re little more than cleaning and painting. It is probably the anticipation of what the complete product will look like is what feeds our interest. Such minigames at the end of each project might look easy to err on, but honestly, they’ve a huge margin of error, and it doesn’t seem to me that it is even possible to get anything beyond 100%.

From time to time, these painting or spraying jobs will give you the opportunity to shake your can or refill your brush. Most of the time, you wouldn’t need anything of the sort.

The game menu has several choices. You can play in the Career Mode, which is the story mode, either with or without a timer. After you’ve finished with the career mode, the Lucky Junction Tour Mode is opened up – that is the pure hidden object game with a time limit to boot. So the game retains its replayability perfectly!

Ambience: Yard Sale Hidden Treasures Lucky Junction has a host of funnily drawn characters with absolutely rib-tickling names – like an Egyptian lady is christened Faye Rowe (Pharaoh), and an Eskimo named – guess what? – S. Keymo! Other characters include Mother Goose, Father Time, Rick Hoffen, Trish Thrasher, Grizzly Jones, Nikki Darking, Robort Robot, R. Master and Charly Pullman.

Boldly colourful and coupled with zippy music, this game does surprisingly well as a soothing casual game.

Bottomline: Hardly a glitch or a point of irritation. The silly and the cute combine to end in a breezy game. If you’re a HOG fan, or will love an addicting HOG game, this game is a must play. Why don’t I give it full marks? It isn’t unforgettably good, and it is too frisky for my tastes.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5

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