The Odyssey HD Lite for Android

If I could, I'd give this game 2.5 stars. I am a huge fan of puzzle/adventure games, and this one does a good job of turning The Odyssey into a game. You play as Odysseus, who faces trial after trial while attempting to get home after the Trojan war. Pros: tells the fantastic story of The Odyssey and the puzzles in this game can be quite challenging. Cons: 1) Only does an okay job of telling the story (this is more of a personal pet peeve than a real complaint); 2) the graphics are really basic; 3) whoever wrote the game was obviously not a native English speaker and if somebody helped with the translation, they did a pretty poor job. The writing is pretty bad and should really be revised by somebody who is fluent in English. 4) Even though I love challenging puzzles, parts of this game seemed impossible without hints. This wouldn't be a huge subtractor, except that there is no "hint" button or guide. The only way to get hints is to go to the game's facebook page and scroll through all of the posts to either find a walkthrough that the developers have posted, or to find a posting from somebody who was stuck at the same spot as you that the developers have answered. I think this was the biggest draw back of the game for me - facebook is a really ineffective way of providing hints! The game closes every single time you need a hint, and there is absolutely no organization to the Facebook posts so it's hard to find what you're looking for and takes a while. Honestly, while this game is okay, I feel like it could have been done much much better. The Odyssey is one of the greatest stories ever told, there is so much potential to make a fantastic game. While the story gets across and the puzzles can be challenging, this game did not measured up to my expectations.