Echoes of Sorrow

Sunday 30 March 2014

It is the shortest hidden object game I ever played. Has great design and good supported soundtrack but with narrow plot. The good things: unlimited click, fast reload hint button and easy hidden object location.


It was about Rose, a wife who had found the reveal of his husband was a psychopath who had killed her twin sister, college boyfriend, the janitor and father, by a train which took her to a dream world in her coma.


In the main area, she found a huge woman statue with her heart chained by 4 fire stones. She felt a strange resonance between the stone heart and hers.

The first place was a house. She found the vision of a car accident. Her memory begun to come back to her as she recalled a happy childhood, playing with her twin sister from whom she were inseparable, on a beautiful spring day. And the unthinkable happened as she helplessly watched her sister died.



The second place was a college. Passion and regret washed over her as she saw a spirit of young man. He was her college boyfriend. She remembered her boyfriend carved their initials in a tree and their first date was under it. In her college days, romantic love replaced the guilt of her sister’s tragic death. But nothing is perfect and trivial argument led to unfrozen consequences. A devision man saw an opportunity and kill her boyfriend after she left him alone.


The third place was a prison. She saw a spirit of desperate man claiming his innocence. And then the dead man walking to a execution room. She then enter the sherif’s room and found a file that showed that there was no way the janitor could have been at the scene of the crime of her boyfriend’s murder.


Her memory went to her college life. The janitor stepped out of line when he followed her and her boyfriend and her boyfriend gave him a punch for not doing thing like that anymore. And while they walked away, they heard the janitor said that they will regret. And it was not so long from her boyfriend’s death and it was easy to suspect the janitor and he was executed.


The last place was a church. In her vision, she looked her father was worried, looking at her sister’s grave as if he was trying to tell her something, and looked desperate as he kneels next to her wedding photo. Then she found another truth revealed.


Father: Ever since I first met my daughter’s husband, I’ve felt there was something not quite right about him. I’m going to follow him on one of his alleged business trips and see where he goes.

Father found his daughter’s husband had stalked his family for ages and he told that to her daughter but she didn’t believe at all. And he was then being her husband’s next victim. A few weeks later, he pushed her Dad from the window of the upper room of the church till he died.


The stone heart is now free and the chains burdened it were the guilts she kept for years. And now, she remembers everything. Her husband was the teenager behind the wheel who hit her sister. He stalked and killed her college boyfriend and then framed the janitor till he had been executing for something he never do. In her fragile state, it was so easy for him to get closer with her and no need long time for the marriage. And the last was he killed her father because he had uncovered his black secrets. Her father’s death opened her eyes. She threatened to leave her husband and report him to the authorities. And she realized he was going to kill her, too.


All her memories were back and the train took her to the real world. She wake up from her coma and wanted to tell her husband’s crime to the police. The way she did to prove it was by recording her conversation with him. And he said that it was true that he had killed her sister, boyfriend, janitor and father to get them out of their togetherness.


That justice has been served and she finally can let go of the ghosts of her past.


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