Five-BN Games

I use my iPad for a lot of things - so much so that I no longer have a traditional lap top anymore. I love to paint and create digital art on it and have been doing that since the iPad first came out more than ten years ago? One thing I also like to do is play games with my husband. It’s a mindless way to spend about thirty minutes most evenings before we settle in to watching tv. When it’s nice outside we sit on the west facing balcony and play. Otherwise it’s on the couch. It started out with Big Fish games. Since Big Fish doesn’t make them anymore I’ve searched for other adventure/hidden objects and recently came across FIVE-BN games. They are a lot more difficult than others in that these are “free” and I’m too cheap to buy hints. So we end up watching a lot of adds. But the games are also more difficult. So whenever we see a clue that we know we will need later on I always try to remember to take a photo of it so the image is available to help solve the problem. Now my iPhone is getting filled with dopey game images that need to be deleted as soon as I remember to do it. I’ve always liked visual content and my husband is such a good sport about going through this exercise. It does help keeping your mind sharp. And we all can use a bit of that. 

The Butterfly’s Dream

I love Big Fish games. Every night my husband and I spend about an hour playing these adventure hidden object games on my iPad. It’s a great way to spend even more time together. He doesn’t like it as much as I do but he’s a good sport. I am much better at solving visual games; he is better at math and analytical games. But something has happened to Big Fish. They haven’t been producing new games recently. So I have been forced to look for different options and haven’t been very impressed with them. Then I came across “The Butterfly’s Dream” - for free - and we attempted to play it. We actually got pretty far in to chapter one but got stuck at the mountain where you had to yell at it. Frustrated, I found the walkthrough guide and finally got out of there. It was such a pleasing game - and much different than what we were used to - that I didn’t want to get thrwarted and be forced to stop. The next evening we got to an even more difficult section and found a You Tube instruction video. This is when my husband said it just wasn’t worth playing if it took that much work! I haven’t deleted the game from my iPad - yet. Maybe this is one of the few I will play on my own. The artwork in the story is beautiful and for that alone I may just keep going. Playing these games really illustrates the difference between my husband and me. I will keep working at something until I get it done; he’ll stop if it takes more than a couple of tries. We tend to complement each other in so many ways. Playing games like these really makes it obvious. (Screenshots are from the app)