Update: Upon playing this game again, the tapping has actually gotten worse! I had to tap on the toy trumpet over 100 times! I don’t know if iOS updates have affected this or what, but’s it’s ridiculous. So I knocked off another star.
I love the Grim Tales series, and even though this one doesn’t have Richard 😰, it was good. The main story and the bonus chapter do not make sense together. So you’re broken-hearted over your husband’s death, so you say a curse into a mirror to give you immortality? Okaaaaaaay....
The tapping in HOS is, as others have mentioned, an exercise in futility. Forget getting the “10 in 10” achievement, bc you have to tap repeatedly on some items to get them. I’ve tapped on an item 4-5 times, thought ok that’s not it, looked around, back to same item another several taps, looked again, finally tapped like 10 times and yep it was that item all along.
The game is lengthy, and after you complete the bonus chapter you can access the Hall of Memories, which revisits some HOS and puzzles but in a different way, with a story involved. Very cool. The puzzles are original, some easy, some harder, but all very doable. The scenes are beautifully done, love the Disney princess-type room, done in a grim kind of way. Collectibles are 12 statues scattered throughout the game, which allow you to play “movies” in the cinema.
All in all really enjoyed except for the taptaptaptaptap....