Review: Chronicles of Mystery for the iPhone = Hidden Pictures
for Grown-Ups  Chronicles of Mystery  Chronicles of Mystery:
Curse of the Ancient Temple is a hidden-pictures game combined
with a mystery plotline and various mini-games. It was
originally a PC game (previously titled Chronicles of Mystery:
The Scorpio Ritual) but has been re-designed for the iPhone and
Nintendo DS. Sylvie Leroux is an archaeologist whose historian
uncle has gone missing. Your goal is to find items, use them to
solve puzzles, and search for the missing uncle.  I haven’t
played the original, but I was a bit disappointed with
Chronicles of Mystery. I do like playing hidden pictures games
once in a while, but in this case the items aren’t so much
hidden as scattered about the room or scene, and the iPhone
screen is just a little too small to make that a fun game. In
some instances, there’s only one item to pick up to solve a
puzzle, and it’s not even really hidden. For example, in one
scene I needed a ladder to get into a high windo