Lost Lands 5 12+

I was wary of this genre of games. Usually, they are very “low end” with crude graphics, lame puzzles, unimaginative story lines, and requirements to pay money after you get sucked into the game.

The Lost Lands series are all great, and keep getting better. Very well done graphics, real voice actors with believable dialog, a nice music sound track, very interesting and creative story lines, and some of the most innovative puzzles that are often challenging, but all doable. They have an ample free hint with each puzzle, and if you get stuck or just want to move on, the “cost” is to watch an ad, which runs from 5 to 30 seconds max. You can actually buy hints for money, but I would never do that.

I’m guessing this business model is working for Five BN because they pump out a lot of good stuff.

It was pretty good, I only had a few problems with it, and these could just be me but over all I liked it: it feels like there’s less story/exposition in this game, same with the next one. It could be bc there are less lost manuscripts to find this time, 13 compared to the 20 of the last game. It also felt as though we really didn’t get an explanation for much, in those manuscripts, before, past games had a manuscript for most -if not all characters, and had a decently detailed explanation of what they’re done/who they where, same with the enemies. Now it could just be bc there isn’t a whole bunch of villains this game, and there weren’t really any new places in the Lost Lands to explore, but I was disappointed in the fact that it felt like there wasn’t much to do this game. This could be bc there really wasn’t anything new, or it could just be bc there wasn’t a whole lot of explanation going on, or that there was just 1 villain this time, that really didn’t do much. I also didn’t like the ending very much, it felt kind of cheap, with what happened, and just leaving it, no resolution, especially since the next game (spoiler) doesn’t mention it, at all.

First off Five-Bn has set a whole new standard in escape games. I only compare their games to themselves. So Lost Lands 5 easily blows other developers escape games away. But compared to the 1st 4 in this series it’s the least of the bunch for me. Not as much heavy lifting this time through. Pretty straight forward. Maybe 1/2 page of notes as opposed to at least a page or more from other games. Still great to play though. Story lines and graphics are next level.
As far as puzzle glitches, as some were worried about, I did not experience any functional glitches anywhere. I did, however, have to carry the info card on the dragons venom bottle with me the whole game. No biggie. On a side note. For an environment of few people they sure lock everything up and tend to lose keys a lot. 😬 keeps us busy though.
Finally, I love the fact we’re not inundated with ads. You only watch as many as you need for hints. Or none at all if you wanna buy coins packs. Fantastic model. Great work Five-Bn.