Unlock!: Mythic Adventures

Based on Jules Verne's novel, you do indeed have 80 minutes to solve this one rather than the standard 60 minutes, so it fits Unlock's usual pattern of having the third game in a box be longer and more difficult. In many of their other box sets the third game is also the best designed, but I thought this was more middle of the range, an ambitious game with plenty of good ideas but also plenty that didn't work so well.

It opens 'in medias res' partway through, before jumping you back to play thr...

Professor Noside, Unlock's recurring villain, is back for a fourth game; this time, instead of trying to foil his latest plot, you're helping extract him from a predicament of his own making, after an accident with his latest Animal-o-matic invention has left him trapped inside the body of his pet cat. This being a device to transfer consciousness into another creature's body, you need to navigate the game's obstacles by switching between a series of different animals, using the advantages of ea...

Where I’ve disliked Unlock games before, it’s pretty much always been due to confusing puzzles or overly harsh penalty-giving. In The Clutches Of Hades doesn’t particularly suffer from either of those problems, but managed to put me off it through the two gimmicks that are unique to this episode.

The first of these is a feature in the app where you can draw objects to ‘create’ them and make them available to you in the game. This is because your character is a carpenter and able to make wooden ...

Unlock! Mythic Adventures is therefore probably the strongest overall box of all the boxes so far. All three adventures are coherent, entertaining and convince with quality. Even if some adventures from other boxes are perhaps even ahead of "In the clutches of Hades" or "Around the world in 80 minutes", we would unreservedly recommend Mythic Adventures.

Unlock! Mythic Adventures is therefore probably the strongest overall box of all the boxes so far. All three adventures are coherent, entertaining and convince with quality. Even if some adventures from other boxes are perhaps even ahead of "In the clutches of Hades" or "Around the world in 80 minutes", we would unreservedly recommend Mythic Adventures.

Unlock! Mythic Adventures is therefore probably the strongest overall box of all the boxes so far. All three adventures are coherent, entertaining and convince with quality. Even if some adventures from other boxes are perhaps even ahead of "In the clutches of Hades" or "Around the world in 80 minutes", we would unreservedly recommend Mythic Adventures.