About This Game An exciting adventure of a brave girl who found herself in a fantasy world. She is forced to fight against the Black Horsemen sent by evil forces to annihilate every living thing. Lost Lands: the Four Horsemen is an adventurous hidden object game-quest with puzzles and mini-games that tells a fairy-tale story about the world with never-before-seen races and folk types. One fine day an ordinary good-looking housewife was walking down the car-park of a shopping center when she got into a cloud of mysterious fog turning out to be an interdimensional portal. As a result, Susan returns to the fantasy world of the Lost Lands she has been before. There has been a talk of her for years - the brave woman from another world is known as Susan the Warrior. This time it is a Druid hermit, whose name is Maaron, who called her on. He had a vision of liberation of the Lost Lands from the oppression of the Four Horsemen: Heat, Coldness, Death and Darkness. Maaron decides on to seek support of the woman from the other side; the one who has already saved the world from the forces of evil once. Susan will set forth towards the encounter with Four Horsemen with an aim to confront them. But first, she has to eliminate the Horsemen forever in an uphill battle by finding the weakness of each… Game features: • Explore over 50 stunning locations • Complete over 40 different mini-games • Challenge yourself with interactive hidden object scenes • Assemble collections, gather morphing objects, and gain achievements Immerse yourself in an amazing adventure in a fantasy world Meet the peoples of the Lost Lands Solve dozens of puzzles Stop the Black Horsemen Save the world from a danger threatening to annihilate every living thing 7aa9394dea Title: Lost Lands: The Four HorsemenGenre: Adventure, CasualDeveloper:FIVE-BN GAMESPublisher:FIVE-BN GAMESRelease Date: 14 Jul, 2015 Lost Lands: The Four Horsemen Activation Code [full Version] its fun and it keeps your intrest...well driven.. This game was really great. Have just bought the Lost Lands Package. Enjoyed the story line, graphics very realistic for a fantasy world. Definitly going to look out for more Lost Land games.. In general, I like FIVE-BN's games, so it's difficult to give this one a thumbs down, but having completed the main story (I haven't played the bonus story yet), I cannot recommend it. It's not a bad game overall, but the last 25% or so of the main story was nothing but frustrating, not fun. I did enjoy the first 75% of the main story, so it's hard to give a thumbs down, but since there are so many positive reviews, this one negative review won't hurt the overall rating.The problem I had, and the only reason for me not recommending this game, is the insane amount of backtracking required. For the first 75% or so of the game, you proceed normally, finding items, performing actions, going back and forth a bit (nothing drastic or annoying), and generally having fun.Somewhere around the 75% mark, however, things take a drastic turn. I don't know if they had a different designer for this ending portion of the game or if they just decided the play time wasn't long enough, but after this point, there is a ridiculous amount of backtracking. I don't mind backtracking in general, but in the last 25% or so of the game, I feel it was done exclusively to artificially increase the play time. The problem is that you aren't backtracking to recent areas, you're backtracking across the entire map, almost constantly going from one end of the map to the other after every action or every other action. You'll find an item you need to use in a scene you played six hours ago or you'll find a key you need to unlock a cache in a scene you played four hours ago, and in that scene, you'll find an item you need for a scene you played 15 minutes ago, and then, in that scene, you'll find an item you need to use in the first scene of the game. It keeps going like that, constantly bouncing you around from one area to another, ruining what had been a very enjoyable game.Some people may not mind this backtracking because the game does have an interactive map which not only allows you to immediately jump to any location, but also (depending on the difficulty setting) shows which scenes have available actions. However, I found that even using the interactive map, I spent far more time jumping between scenes than actually performing actions. It took what was an enjoyable game and turned it into a tedious, annoying exercise in frustration. I cannot imagine how anyone would be able to finish this game without the map showing which scenes have available actions.So, if you like hidden object and adventure games, and you don't mind an insane amount of backtracking, then you'll probably enjoy this game. If, like me, you find constant backtracking to be tedious and annoying, then you may want to skip this one.. Good storyline and good puzzles.. I love all the Lost Lands games. Every game features the protagonist Susan. In the first game, she goes through a portal to the Lost Lands to save her son. Every game after that involves someone from the Lost Lands reaching out to her for help. It's fun because you feel like all your hard work is actually appreciated, lol. The citizens remember you, or they know legends about you (time moves differently, so sometimes it's been like a 100 years in the Lost Lands since Susan was there). This game is the 2nd in the series (Dark Overlord is the first), so it's the first time Susan is called upon for help. I think this is first game where you meet a wizard character and a dwarf character who come back in other games. I like playing these games in order but it's not strictly necessary, because you never HAVE to know something about a previous game, they'll fill you in if it's important. Anyway, I recommend all of them, including this one. Lots of fun, cool setting, good characters.. This is a good and lengthy game to play. It took me over 7.5 hours to play both the main game and bonus chapter.The game has a map where you can move to instantly instead of back tracking. I found all the morphing objects and machine pieces easily. Puzzles ranged from easy to difficult. HO scenes only had the shadow of the required item which needed to interact with the scene. Story was good and believable. You meet many citizens of this fantasy world which was well crafted and graphics were good. Music was menacing at times and suited the story. Good value for money and I will definitely buy the other 2 games of this series. 8/10. I'm right on the borderline of not recommending "Lost Lands: The Four Horsemen." It's a shame, because it's very obvious that a lot of work went into the game (good story, graphics, and even puzzles). But, there are aspects to it that are horribly frustrating:- The voice acting is horrible. The first couple of characters you meet are fine. But, after that, pretty much everyone's voice acting is cringe-inducing. Worse, once you meet a dwarven guide, he (and others) insist on giving you an ear-bleeding travelogue of stuff you don't need to hear. It made me want to not click on things because they'd talk at me.- The Hidden Object Games (HOGs) aren't really HOGs. My definition of a HOG is a screen full of objects with a text list of objects to find. Every HOG in this game is what I call a Chain o' Objects Game (COOG). In these, you've got a "list" of outlines. You have to find a starting point in the scene and follow the chain of objects until you get to the end point. Personally, I pretty much hate those COOGs. It doesn't help that the ones in this game are difficult to do.- Some of the Achievements are really frustrating. In my case, I had issues finding some of the collectables. They're so well camouflaged that after examing each scene minutely 5 times, I finally had to resort to the in-game Strategy Guide to find the last of them. Similarly, I had another Achievement that I swear I should have gotten, but couldn't without multiple run-throughs. And, finally, there's one ("Artist") where the timing is so tight I physically can't move the pieces fast enough and I've given up (my OCD is driving me nuts). EDIT: I finally managed to get this last Achievement after 50 or so tries.- A few of the key/lock pairs are so obscure that there's really nothing to indicate you should be doing something except that there's nothing left to try (the spinning top "key", for example).- And, finally, a lot of the key/lock pairs are so far apart (not just physically, but temporally) that by the time you find the "key" that fits the "lock" you've not only forgotten where the "lock" is, you've also forgotten its very existence.It's really a shame about all of the above. I liked the previous game ("Lost Lands: Dark Overlord") a lot, and it had much the same design philosophy. I think this game frustrated me so much because these issues got more prevalent in this game (either that or I shouldn't have played them back-to-back). Still, for the price, and for the amount of gameplay you get (14.9 hours total: 9.6 in the main game, 1.9 in the bonus chapter, and another 3.4 hours back in the main game trying to finish up those Achievements), it might be worth trying even at it's current list price of about $7. A lot of good work went into this game (with a lot of good ideas) and it'd be a shame to not at least try it.
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