Monday, January 25, 2021 A Quest for DaVinci

I completed an important quest for Leonardo DaVinci today – just thought you all should know. I hadn’t known I was on a quest, but life brings the occasional delightful surprise. I’m not sure whether to be excited or embarrassed that it took me nearly 17 hours to finish this game – er, to complete this quest.

The first game of this nature that I played on my iPad a few years ago was called “The Room.” Each room in the game contains an ornate box or container and you have to solve puzzles of various kinds in order to unlock all the secrets of the box and then go on to the next level. Theres’ a story that goes with it, but it’s almost irrelevant to me. It’s all about the puzzles. I absolutely LOVED this game and could hardly wait for each sequel to come out and was never disappointed – each one surpassed the previous one in terms of complexity and design, as well as in the creative nature of the puzzles. Alas, after The Room 4 (“Old Sins”), the game designers decided to make The Room 5 only accessible to Virtual Reality platforms. Boo.

I decided to look for other games like The Room and came across “House of DaVinci.” Reading the reviews I came across someone who had given it a low rating, saying it was just a rip-off of The Room games. Just what I was looking for – sign me up!

Both of these games seem to be able to detect when you’re having trouble solving a puzzle and the “hint icon” begins waving its little arms (metaphorically), practically begging you to take a hint or two, but I’m loathe to do it, as it feels like cheating. And it’s so rewarding when you persevere and finally figure it out.

Having completed the quest of House of DaVinci 2 (although my character was in mortal peril at the end – cliff hanger!), I was instructed to invite my friends to play. And now I have.

This has been Monday Musings with Lynniebee. I’m pretty sure I lost 90% of my readership in the first paragraph, but I’m holding out hope that 10% of you got to the end and really want to try the game. Just do it!

I’ll probably go on another quest in the morning if I can find one. If not, I’ll delete this post.