Dark Parables: Ballad of Rapunzel Collector's Edition

Standard hidden object game. Very easy going and relaxing. This one seems to have more to it than the previous entries though.

This is the most beautiful game A feast for eyes and ears. Beautiful graphics and the best music! Ballad of Rapunzel was created by Blue Tea. The devs created fairy tales with an edge, a nd so the stories are really interesting. I have all Blue Tea games, and love them! Eipix later on bought the company, and the best in the new owners is A little Mermaid and the Purple Tide. These games are FROGS, fragmented objects. You end up creating most beautiful objects or items. If you like Brothers Grimm, you will love these amazing games. I love the original Blue Tea games. I highly recommend them!

Engaging story, beautiful graphics, and relaxing puzzles and FROGs. Good choice for any HOPA fan

I really liked this game and the idea of getting three endings and to collect things to get another ending, BUT its annoying hat you need to play the game three times to get all the endings. It was a bit worth it but annoying. Still a very nice game and absolutley playable. I can highly recommend it as well.

This is [I]Dark Parables[/I] #7. At this point the interconnections of the various fairy tale remixes have gone out of hand. Even though I've been playing these games in sequence, I have no idea what is going on anymore. Why is Snow White's son here? And how does the Wizard of Oz, a modern novel, get mixed up with fairy tales? I can't even. Oh well. The gameplay is consistent with the series (thankfully minus the annoying addition of "hidden" hidden-fragments in [I]Dark Parables[/I] #6). If you've enjoyed the series thus far, you should enjoy this one, too. And if you manage untangle the mess of the story then I will personally bestow you with a special magical achievement. Note that these are hidden-fragment games rather than classic hidden-object games.

Love the artworks in the game and characters are beautiful to look at. Have a lot of fun playing this.

beautiful game, lovely music, enjoyed every bit of it :3

I love how puzzle is very hard. So much fun playing it.

Reasonably well done, as seems to be the case with most of this series. Main reason for reviewing is to state that as of the current version of Proton, this ran flawlessly on Linux for me.

Reports of a strain of toxic pollen in a town at the base of mountains bordering the Czech Republic and Poland have troubled the locals, and whenever the dust is about to strike a strange, hypnotic song can be heard. The area is also close to the ancient Floralia Kingdom, which warranted another investigation of the Fairytale Detective in this seventh title of the Dark Parable series and the last made by Blue Tea Games until another title further down the line. It is a grand story, that brings back elements from the previous games and ties them together focusing on the role of the Guardians of Balance, with references to Briar Rose, Princess Ivy, and, of course, Snow White – and a very different spin on the Rose Red from the original fairy tale of “Snow White and Rose Red”. Even more familiar faces return, Gerda is back and is also the protagonist of the bonus game that takes place after the game concludes and expands on some of the loose ends from the main story. In fact, Ballad of Rapunzel is the first game of the series that offers three different endings, with the best (and considered true ending) archived by collecting twenty flowerstones and exchanging them for an object that is logged into the Fairytale Detective’s Journal. This time they took a step back and didn’t have the hidden object scenes that the player needs to uncover secret locations or remove objects, which is a boon this time around as some of the scenes can get a little too busy and even in the background sometimes the objects can blend in the background and can be hard to telegraph. The puzzles can also lean on the repetitive side sometimes, but nothing too egregious. The bonus content feels as an expansion pack or DLC to the main story, following Gerda in her continuous adventures. It isn’t a prequel or another story adjacent to the main narrative like most of the time, but a direct continuation. While a bit messy at points, Ballad of Rapunzel comes strong in the storytelling department and it can be a fun time for the fans of the series and a “so long until next time” to Blue Tea. While it is clear the first four to five titles are the strongest in the series, to see one of the old fan favorites come back is always a nice treat.