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Vacation quest the hawaiian islands review12/20/2023 ![]() But Short Vacation never plays up the dangers of children roaming around without adult supervision or protection, instead adopting a whimsical attitude toward their exploration.įurthermore, Kwon and Seo use the girls’ journey as a means to ponder the small, visible ways in which history can be measured. As the girls drift further away from the city, their phones increasingly losing power, one cannot help but feel concerned for their safety or wonder if their parents might be looking for them. These spaces are pregnant with symbolism but don’t strike the characters as the ideal subject matter for their photos. Though some of the girls are willing to just take some photos there and be done with their project, others are already morphing into young artists, refusing to settle for “underwhelming” compositions.Īs the quartet decide to soldier on past the city limits of Seoul, they pass abandoned subway stations and asphalt roads that start to taper out into dirt roads. But upon arriving at the station they discover, to their annoyance, that the tracks keep going, connecting to depots and even to areas of the city once serviced but now abandoned. The girls quickly figure out the basics of taking photographs and collectively decide to ride Seoul’s subway to its last station in order to take photos of where the rail lines end. Only as school lets out for summer break does Kang decide to actually introduce his students to the concept of taking photos, giving them the assignment to photograph “the end of the world” and handing them disposable cameras that initially baffle those who’ve never used a camera that wasn’t built into a smartphone. Amusingly, one early scene shows the girls lying on the floor out of view during a screening of John Ford’s Stagecoach, the sound off and the film un-subtitled in Korean, the girls’ absence in the frame suggestive of their disinterest in the film. Kang (Kang Suk-won), remarks that all they do is watch movies. In the film, conflict is resolved almost as soon as it emerges-all the better to stress the characters’ capacity for harmony.Īfter class, the girls head to their extracurricular photography club, where the advising teacher, Mr. This casual subverting of our expectation-that it will be focused on Si-Yeon suffering the pangs of adjustment-proves to be Short Vacation’s default mode. In contrast to many films centered around young people adjusting to a new home and school, Si-yeon so easily gets along with a trio of girls, Yeon-woo (Bae Yeon-woo), So-jung (Park So-jung), and Song-hee (Han Song-hee), that you would think that they have been friends for ages. While I don't think that players should expect this to be the Peggle of hidden object games, but it's a solid, entertaining title for those who love finding things amongst other things.Kwon Min-pyo and Seo Hansol’s Short Vacation begins with the arrival of Si-yeon (Seol Si-yeon) at a new middle school at the start of the spring semester. ![]() It's all really silly, as I suppose any hidden object game tends to be. And these vacationers keep playing chess and poker in very weird spots, for reasons unknown. Of course, I'm not quite sure why I'm trying to find owls so often. The artwork is very detailed, with objects very cleverly hidden in spots, though it didn't feel deceptive all that often. The art is relatively clear otherwise, but being able to peck out more details by zooming in is helpful in these types of games. The game is currently iPad-only, though there's no ability to zoom in on the landscape to see things more clearly. It's enough of a taste that players will know if they really want to keep going with it or not by the time they hit the paywall. The timers are set to be long enough that there's really no pressure to solve anything under the deadline, and some hints are given for free. The game is freemium, with the first 3 days, consisting of 9 different landscapes to find items in with three end-of-day puzzles, available for free. Others have multiple objects to find, or objects to tap in sequence to clear them off of the list. Some objects just need to be tapped on to find, with a points bonus for tapping multiple objects in a row. Some people just shouldn't be allowed to go on vacation. Apparently the protagonists of this adventure are the messiest people ever, because they keep leaving the places they visit while on vacation a complete disaster space, and it is the player's job to find the things they keep misplacing. Vacation Quest: The Hawaiian Islands is PopCap's latest game, a new hidden object adventure game taking place in Hawaii. ![]() Price: Free ($4.99 to unlock rest of game)
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