The games being offered on this site anymore are so bad that Big Fish should be embarrassed! This game was so boring! A five year old could play this. If this is the quality of the games from now on, I'm leaving this site. I've been a loyal customer of this site, but the games lately have been laughable!
I was excited when I first started this game because for once the storyline wasn't dark. No ghosts or dark spirits just a mayor who dislikes Christmas. The graphics were beautiful as well, but the gameplay is awful. The minigames are so easy that I laughed and reread the directions because I thought they couldn't be so basic. And the use of collected items was weird as another reviewer stated. Only played for about five or ten minutes and knew it was a pass for me.
I was also excited to see this game because I love time management games and I loved Roads of Rome. This is more like Viking Heroes with the voices that are driving everyone crazy. I found that I got used to the voices and tuned them out. However, I got sick of the bubbles that randomly go across the screen every level from the funny looking animal that looks like a pink elephant. It added nothing to the game and just annoyed me. I also felt that the game got repetitive with nothing new added as you went. I guess I'm the only one who didn't love it. I wanted to though.
I would have given a higher score for this game if the HOP items weren't so tiny! I got frustrated and quit. It's a shame though because some of the mini-games were very different, but I couldn't get past the small items. I don't enjoy having to use the magnifying glass. It's a pass from me!
I have always hated find the difference puzzles and that is all that this game is made of so I only played for five minutes. Horrible concept and a waste of time unless you love find the difference.
I only played one scene because the quality of this game was so bad. The scene was blurry with the usual small items. Also the controls worked very slowly! Developers need to quit rushing the products and make sure they work properly!
I was pleasantly surprised by this game. I thought it was way better than the recent Christmas Wonderland game that was just the same as all the others in the series. This game had interactive scenes and the minigames were different and fun. I thoroughly enjoyed it and it put me in the Christmas spirit.
I was excited to see this game because I have always enjoyed this series, but I wish I would have tried the preview instead of just buying it. The scenes were way too busy as others have said plus I spent so much time looking for that darn snowman and gold angels that I got aggravated. After all these years you would think they could come up with some more interesting puzzles between scenes. Just Bleh!