Curse of Dragon Mountains: The Strix

Tags: Adventure - WC - Hidden Object Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Low quality HOG with a negative rating. Why bother spending time into it.

Механика игры очень кривая.

but short and puzzles but unclear, but okay.

What I can say, you can find Shrek in this game (but kinda deformed tho) and that's all what I will ever remember about Tales From The Dragon Mountain: The Strix. It's very average hidden object game, I doubt many will have good time playing it. There are many better games like that available on Steam.

Comprei esse game da Cateia com um pouco de receio porque os comentários eram negativos, mas joguei e gostei. Na minha opinião os ícones que sinalizam os lugares aonde ir e os objetos são mais discretos que na maioria dos Hidden Objects Games (HOG), mas a história é boa, a trilha sonora também e os gráficos e animações são bons pra um jogo casual. Cabe um alerta. Só compre se você conhece e gosta do estilo.

Very nice game

Part of me says I should give it a thumbs up, it wasn't [i]awful[/i], after all. However, it wasn't exactly [i]great[/i], either. Unlike some, I don't have an issue with the voice acting. In fact, it was enjoyably rubbish which is something I can get behind in these kinds of games. No, my problem largely stems from how difficult it is to see or find things. Some locations you don't even know exist because without the little Exit Marker at the corner of the screen you simply can't tell there's anything there to interact with. Similarly are the items you need to locate on a given screen and some are just [i]so[/i] well blended in they don't even appear to be there. Some good examples are the black wolf statue near the broken carriage, and the charging machine by the fairy Amala. The former I still can't see and had to look up to know it's there, and the latter I was going all over looking for before I tried clicking on the exit reveal. Another was just.. not seeing the candles in the crypt you had to light up. Something else that stuck me as I was pondering why the game has two distinct names, [i]Tales from Dragon Mountain[/i] as it says when I play and [i]Curse of Dragon Mountains[/i] in the Steam library... well, look at those screenshots on the store page. They show Malik on one and a white dragon on another. [i]These don't exist in my game.[/i] In fact, the inventory window doesn't quite match the version in the game, either. It feels like Steam is showing a Collector's Edition or otherwise updated version of the game but the one in my library decidedly [i]isn't[/i] the same one. Perhaps that is why the scene quality is so bad? Don't know. Another issue that I have and I've noticed others mention it in their reviews is that the puzzles just kinda.. suck. A match-3 "battle" is hardly what I'm looking for in a hidden objects game, and there's no actual hidden object scenes, either. It's just those random items strewn about the locations ranging from the most obvious thing ever to "I literally can't see it". Other puzzles include brute forcing an alphabet puzzle you don't know (until way later). slowly clicking objects into place, and brute force a light puzzle with no hints or clues to the solution. Nothing in the game felt meaningful, it often just seemed like I was killing time. The fact there's an achievement for beating the game in under an hour really drives home the padded feeling. I'm curious about the sequel, but also hesitant to even try it.

In realta' l' ho finito tempo fa e non me lo ricordo piu'. A differenza del giudizio negativo che vedo gli e' stato dato direi che se trovato ai saldi puo' essere preso...

Very basic hidden object game. It only took my 1 and a half hours to finish while playing casually. There were no challenging puzzles, with the only real difficulty being a sometimes unclear objective. Graphics were fairly blocky and basic as well. It's alright as a starter game, but you can honestly get much better made games for the same pricepoint.

really gets your brain working.