Best Of

12 Labours of Hercules IV: Mother Nature(7.1 hours): These games are like the Teddy Floppy ear games......I can't stop won't stop. Didn't realize they had pumped out more of the 12 Labours games so I have some catching up. Appears that the assets and engine are still all the same so they pretty much just need to build cut scenes, create levels, build scripts, and map menu for all new games. Currently the most expensive game in the series is $4.99 while everything else is $2.99; cheap games that give you 5+ hours of game time.

Just another installment of time management. Pretty much they are just mashing stuff together and creating new stories so they can sell another game. Really think they have their price range set correctly if they truly are reusing as many assets as possible. Graphics and gameplay haven't changed a bit from the previous games(go check my other reviews). On normal things aren't hard at all and I manage gold time every map without any fretting.

Plot for this game is that nature has been destroyed and you travel around with your wife to clean everything up. That is of course after the gods try to kill Hercules but we all know that will never work.

After the murder plot fails and the gods aren't sure what to do they sort of come up with a trick. Using some special mirror they create an anti-Hercules. This adds a new element that is not explained and shows they are doing fixed time table with no slip. Whenever anti-Hercules shows up you just need to click on him and the real Hercules boots him but they never tell you that and there is no indication he is even clickable. While he is sitting on the map he scares away all your servants, slaves, and prevents them from accessing that part of the map. Very simple to deal with but it slows you down a tad late game on a map when it becomes busy. Warps were introduced except executed poorly as well as tunnels. Once I realized what that stuff on the map was I started ignoring foot paths and just watching for circles around items to appear to indicate they were now reachable.

Humor is still there.

The story really only goes through 4 stages and would have been fine just to kill it there but they tacked on a lame 5th chapter that felt like management said we always have 5 we have to have 5. Guys you are making a cheap installment series where instead of calling it DLC you are releasing new maps at $5 a pop as a new game.

There was one interesting bonus map that used servants on the bottom and Hercules on the top so you have two parties in different sections of the map until you clear it. Presented as a nice concept after the standard maze like maps from mid game forward.

My super duper complete gold time temple thing.

Games Completed: 126
Time: 5 weeks 127.96 hours