00:00
00:00
Newgrounds Background Image Theme

dreamygf just joined the crew!

We need you on the team, too.

Support Newgrounds and get tons of perks for just $2.99!

Create a Free Account and then..

Become a Supporter!

Reviews for "The Lost Child"

Why Ruin Such a Great Idea?

When I initially saw this in the Flash Portal I thought it would be like the Jack French series of old. The kind of mystery games that the internet has been yearning for. I was further drawn in by the story line of the kidnapped daughter and ransom note demanding a formula. I was greatly disappointed when I found out this was just another corny I-Spy type game with nothing more than a mystery overtone. Why can't we have any good stuff for this genre, why must it all deteriorate down to this I-Spy crap?

herumph!

I will give you a 5 because Hanna Montana wasn't in it. What's wrong with her, she's great.

Boring But Good

Nothing Special
Art was good but games like these are produced so much there's no more originality. I'll give you 10 cause it was hard to make I'm sure but just advice. It was BROING.

Great idea

Ive seen loads of downloadable games with this idea that make you buy the rest.
Great art and well planned out, well done.

Didn't play it to the end, but...

... I get the idea.

It would be nice to know up front that the game saves automatically, or if there's a way to save the game. I'm not going to blow two hours in one shot on something that's this repetitive. And some things could be more clear - "mouse" (especially after "cat") doesn't automatically mean "computer mouse" so I had to blow a hint to find it.

Also, the "puzzle piece" in the bedroom may or may not be buggy: I found it just in the nick of time and got BOTH the "out of time" AND "you found it!" messages.

Then there's the whole issue of "looking for a random list of stuff" -- what the heck does any of it have to do with a kidnapping? Nothing. If you're going to have a narrative game, it should ALL be relevant (or there should be a reason why it's not, such as the kidnapper demanding this random list of objects -- or maybe that's in the intro; I skipped it because it seemed like it was the same as your intro text above).

So: lots of effort to make a narrative game that looks pretty good, but without a cohesive narrative. 5/10.