![]() I didn't read the description of the game before I started, so I was blindsided. Now that we have the technical stuff out of the way, wow. ![]() These aren't the options I chose, by the way, just the basics when I looked We have FOUR difficulty settings to choose from: Casual Reader, Bookworm, Scholar, and my favorite, Choose Your Own!! Custom settings, my FAVORITE! Rather than type it all out, I'll show you what the custom options are:ĪND even better, the difficulty can be changed at any time during gameplay. Helpful for the newbies to the genre, for certain. Whee~! At the top right of the options menu is a ?, which will give you some useful information at a glance. There are plenty of options to choose from on this one, with separate sliders for Music, Ambient sounds, Effects, and Voice, plus full-screen, aspect correction, and custom cursor. In a year where we have been wowed over and over again with games that capture our imagination and challenge our brain cells, this one is right up there as one of the best of the year. One of them is apparently constructed of hidden chapters. And then, something they call “Sugar Rush Hidden Object Puzzle”. One can only be played once you have collected all the roses. Extras include gallery with music, wallpaper, concept art. In the case I just mentioned, even the otherwise very good SG and the not-as-helpful-as-I’d-like map left me confused. They were all new too, and sometimes it took me a while to catch onto what I should be doing (HINT: Keep the book open when finding fragments of symbols in the general location). The mini-games gave me a bit of a headache. When all pieces are found, you can use the object to interact within the scene for the inventory item. In another HOP, the items on the list, when found, reveal a fragmented object (FROG). In this particular HOP, the scene where you must find things is a stained glass window with many small pieces joining together to make an image. For example, a silhouette of a bird is a ‘bird symbol’, the required item is ANY bird, not a direct replica. ![]() But they are not exactly the item you are looking for. ![]() Just one example, within the second HOP, you must find a number of silhouetted items. Many items in the locations are hiding behind others that you must move, mini-games and puzzles often only give you part of the picture, and each HOP is different. They are original, quirky and sometimes just plain hard. There are 20 HOPs (including CE chapter), and endless puzzles. It is almost completely new, both puzzles and HOPs. The gameplay is the amazing thing about this game. We find a (mechanical) assistant, an interactive jump map (that indicates only what you want it to, it can be adjusted in the options menu), and a locket to get us started, along with our notebook. Nothing much to it really, even when we find a baby on our doorstep.īut the guy in the hat arrives, and things pick up! We’re off to a deserted mansion that may or may not be real, and many adventures ensue. We, the detective or is it defence lawyer?, arrive home after a successful case. The opening was very professionally done, top quality production values all the way, but it is not the overly dramatic. And within minutes I was completely hooked. This game starts out with an unacceptably long load, but everything else is just amazing, and once you’ve loaded it once, the game never takes long thereafter. Who does the baby belong to? Why were you chosen? The answers will surprise you in Nevertales: The Beauty Within, a page-turning Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game!įirst impressions can be just plain wrong. You follow after the stranger, hoping to find some answers but are drawn into a mystery that beckons you into a castle-like mansion. no one except a helpless baby abandoned on your doorstep. Just when you were finally done with work for the day, a stranger comes knocking loudly at your door. Series links: Nevertales 1: The Beauty Within, Nevertales 2: Shattered Image, Nevertales 3: Smoke and Mirrors, Nevertales 4: Legends, Nevertales 5: Hidden Doorway, Nevertales 6: Forgotten Pagesīig Fish as Collector's Edition / Standard Edition
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