In the midst of a battle for the Academy of Alchemy, a young promising student, Eliana, is sent on a dangerous mission of retrieving three powerful artifacts, the Dragon Crystals.
I usually don't write reviews but I only logged in to say that this game is a 10 stars for me. Exactly what I'm expecting from a game, and so much more. The graphics are wonderful, the surroundings dream-like, artistic, and well crafted. It's a high level of artistic imagination. The music is calm, pleasant and merely accompanying you while you play, not an entity in itself, not distracting like in other games. The whole game is very, very pleasant and I can't wait to drink in the next scene, and the next. Thank you, developers.
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
4/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
3/ 5
Level of Challenge
4/ 5
Storyline
5/ 5
Pros:
- The game is certainly old-school, but this is precisely why I liked it. There are no gimmicks at all, at all, and I loved it. I realized that I'm tired of the many gimmicks lately. The story line is simple but clear, there are no side jobs to accomplish.
- The Indian setting and Indian deities were very interesting to me, because that's an enormously vast unchartered area that for some reason I hadn't seen in any Bfg games until now, if I remember correctly. It was a fresh idea, to me at least. I'm tired of monsters and beasts and ghosts and vampires and ghouls and goblins. Indian deities is a good idea and at least we're learning some real deity name in the process, I hope.
Cons:
- The voice-over of the female character was horrible. I only could listen to her first phrase starting with that shrill "I am" in the first scene. She spoke so very loud and weird, like there is some child, non-English speaking and underdeveloped person who is additionally deaf, in front of her. I'm not sure if her speech evolved later, as I muted the whole game then. She was a truly poor VO, sorry, and very irritating.
- I wish I wouldn't have to drag and drop objects from inventory to be able to use them, but that's a small thing.
Conclusion: I liked the game and thought it was good, I wasn't expecting to have such a little gem. When I came here though, I was surprised that the verdict of the pond was 1 star only. No, to me it's around 3-4 stars. I truly liked it much more than the undistinguishable series of games that we have here, since months back-to-back.