Romance with Chocolate - Hidden Object in Paris. HOPA

A rather fun little HOG.
The story line is interesting enough and the puzzles are simple.
Not the most challenging of games but a fun way to relax and the background music is quite pleasant.

Games like this make me wish there was a neutral rating. It was annoying to not have a windowed mode available. If you're not using the game's very generous hint system you'll beat it within three hours. The achievements are all obtainable. I liked it well enough but the scrolling aspect of zooming in from forced fullscreen really threw me off.

If you like "cookie-cutter" HOG's, this one isn't for you. If you like scenes that look like paintings with a wonderfully appropriate soundtrack and an engaging story, you'll like this game. The HO's are found by pairs, by names or by silhouettes, and yes, they can be down right difficult to see or even look different from what you'd expect. The hint system is unlimited so I don't stress when I am stuck on the last 1 or 2 items. You are able to zoom in and you can pull the scenes up/down and side to side to find all the items. There are puzzles too, like spot the difference or rotate tiles to finish a scene. For the price you can overlook the quirks of this game and just enjoy the art and the music! I've played many of the games by this studio and this is one of my favorites.

tldr: buy at a discount after you've exhausted the more than hundred better HOGs on Steam.

One of the worst hidden object games (HOG) I've played in years, and I've played a lot of them (about 130 on Steam and more elsewhere, so I can make comparisons).

They did their HOG like they were done more than 10 years ago. Images are ugly and blurry, totally random objects are thrown on screen, abysmal story (granted, HOG stories are never Pulitzer material, but still), even the interface sucks.

There are 4 ot 5 puzzles if I remember correctly, all very easy except one a bit more annoying. The rest is HOG scenes, of three types: find an object by its name, shape, or find pairs.

The game is short (1 to 2 h) and 100% achievements is relatively easy, like all HOGs.

While I enjoyed it a little, it was too simple and boring. Oh, and short as well.

A pleasant but short hidden object/puzzle game.

You can replay it though, as the HoG scenes change.
You can also choose chapter.

Cute but extremely short.

Search your grandmother's home for the family chocolate recipe and instead find her questionable number of hookahs and stolen art. Kind of a strange game and it's so frustrating at points (hidden objects are sometimes literally hidden behind the menu button and can only be found with zoom) that it kinda made me hate the french.

P.S. Sorry to the french. I don't hate you.

I'm unable to recommend even though I really wished I could. The objects don't usually represent what they really are, text it proceeding too fast, the story is just characters saying some things. There is a rating system of how you did at the end of each puzzle which is really dissapointing and it's really hard to get 3 hearts. Has great potential but it's not how I expected the game to be watching the videos as the game was advertised above. If you want to try it out, wait for the sale. 3 Euros is a lot if we take the same kind of games into accont. Anything under 1 Euro is a good deal for this game.

This is literally the worst game in the HOPA genre that I have ever played. I've played at least a dozen of these types of games. I was really looking forward to playing this game. Chocolate + Paris = sign me the fuck up for some Jenna Marbles style me-time.

Well, I want my me-time back. A full play through is really only about an hour long, maybe an extra half hour to figure out achievements. I left this on on accident while cooking dinner, hence why it says it took me 2.3 hours to beat the game -- but that's still a very short game.

This game contains a mix of a variety of types of hidden object puzzle games, namely...

- find matching pairs (find matching 'cakes')
- find a certain number of a given type of item (find a number of cats)
- find items based on silhouette
- find items based on a word clue
- spot the difference (hidden object-y)
- rotate a mosaic puzzle to form an image (not a hidden object puzzle, but typical of the genre)

I have no issue with any of those types of hidden object puzzles. I love variety in my HOPA games. However, the issue is with the execution of those types of puzzles in this specific game.

- Matching Pairs: starting with the very first level, in which I was supposed to match up 10 cakes...not only were various items I neded to match not cakes but general pastries, one of the pairs doesn't really match. Nine pairs were identical. One pair was of two different white cupcakes, one with a violet topping, the other with an orange topping...which doesn't make them a matching pair, in the context of that given puzzle.. It's weird that one random pair would not be a perfect match, when the other nine pairs were all the same.

- Find a certain number of a given type of item: There's a ghostly cat in the cats puzzle that doesn't count towards the total number of cats you're supposed to find. When developers put in unfair fake-outs like this, it's very irritating. There is also a puzzle in which you are supposed to find a certain number of 'antiques'. Various old looking things in the puzzle do not count as antiques. For example, there are at least three dolls/mannequin type of things in the image...but only one counted as antique.

- The silhouettes used for silhouette based puzzles are generic clipart silhouettes rather than exact silhouettes of the items you are supposed to be finding.

All this sucks. The bigger issue is the controls.

One of the "features" of this game is that you can scroll and zoom around a scene. Well...I'm playing this on a Macbook with a trackpad, and using the trackpad causes me to both scroll/pan and zoom at the same. Panning is very slow and often times you have to pan to places that are hard to pan to in order to get items for a given puzzle. The fact panning is busted means that for some players, it's feasible they won't be able to figure out how to make the weird panning system work, and they won't be able to have a fun time.

The low resolution graphics make various hidden object scenes very unfair, as do various shitty "gotchas!"

There's a scene where you need to find a black mask. There's a black sleep mask and a black costume mask. Only the black costume mask counts.

There's a scene where you need to find a "heart" -- which is really just a leaf shaped like a heart. It's another gotcha.

The worst gotcha -- you have to find a bunch of bats. One of the bats is LEGO BATMAN. You can't make this up.

What makes this game unplayable:

- poor, low resolution graphics
- the issue with the panning system
- the gastronome achievement is unclear, I think it means you have to get 3 chocolate hearts out of 3 (scoring system) on 10 different stages? There's a meter for this, on a scale of 0 to 10...But it only went from 0 to 5 to 10 (10 getting the achievement), with 5 triggering a bunch of times during play.

What makes this game unpleasant:

- poor/cheesy story
- cheesy animations -- no walking animations for the main character, for example, she merely slides across the ground

Somehow just isn't fun. Most of the clues don't have anything to do with the story and it quickly becomes a grind. Also a lot of the things to find are very difficult to see. And the whole thing took me 1.2 hours to finish. The long time stamp is from an early install and start, but didn't finish then and it had been running the the background for quite some time. So ignore that - play time was just 1.2 hours - much too short for this type of game.

Can't say I recommend it. The story is lack-luster, the puzzles have nothing to do with the story, and it's super short. They try to put replayability into it, but it fails. no reason to play this one again.... or at all.

I played through the whole thing.. what an enjoyable little game. I quite like these sorts of games. Was definitely fun. The objects can be a little hard to see sometimes, but overall... it's good to pass the time with.

Though listed as a hidden objects "puzzle adventure", this is more like a visual novel with some hog sprinkled in as window dressing. Supposedly you can go back and replay it making different choices, but honestly, I'm pretty sure even the Completionist would find it unrewarding to bother with. There are only five achievements with the fifth one being going back and fiddling around replaying it. Hardly noteworthy. It took me less than an hour to run through. And though I'm of intermediate skill level as far as HOGs go, this would still be extremely easy for a beginner... Should they even decide to play it. That's all on the gameplay front.
On the story, art and sound... Meh.
The story was barely existant. The art was okay at best. The music wasn't bad but it Was forgettable.

A unique seek and find experience. Was very straightforward plot-wise (no time travel or bringing dead women back to life) and the music was soothing. A very casual game with many hints available should you need them. The ending was a little abrupt and the play time was very short (you could definitely finish it in half an hour or less if you wanted to). Overall, a pleasant experience and a nice change of pace from the usual over-the-top, mysticism-filled HOP games.

The story is thin, very shallow. At least that was my first impression. Since I didn't like the hidden object scenes very much either, I got my money back for this one.

So, a love story. One might argue that there isn't very much to be expected story-wise. I have to say, it could at least be entertaining, something light-hearted between all the gloomy, magic tales of cursed kingdoms and haunted houses in the HOB-universe. If only the story were written with a little bit of passion and talent. Alas, it's not. It feels awkward. Cringeworthy. Maybe that gets better after the first two hours. As I had it refunded I don't really know, but I didn't feel compelled to find out.

The hidden object scenes look pretty at first glance, but they just weren't fun to play. You have to scroll around in some scenes in order to be able and see all objects. Something I don't really like and the objects often look like stickers applied to a surface, not like they're really part of that scene.

Sound was aweful, i wanted to turn it off, but didn't because I thought I might be missing out on dialogue or something.

To be honest: I wouldn't even play it if it were a freebie

Cured psychosis with the help of this game. 10 relaxing out of 10.

Got this for the short achievements!
Graphics are bleh & somewhat hard to see the objects you're trying to find.
Was pretty cheap during the Winter Sale.

I'd rather go with a different hidden object game.

So, this is an HO game with a mild plot, no adventure, and allows you to compete with others online (at the end of a stage, you get to see a leaderboard). For what it is, it is decent.

Just this is fun.

Great game! Lovely Parisian locations, different tasks to do, perfect game balance make this game one of the best in HOG genre. Really addictive! You can pass levels multiply to do the best and write your name to leaderboard! Achievements are present, no need extraordinary efforts to get. No trading cards yet.