Dark Parables: The Little Mermaid and the Purple Tide Collector's Edition

[h1]Short version: 55%[/h1] I can recommend Dark Parables 8 for those who want some balanced fragmented object scenes. If you want anything more though, like a good story or puzzles, then you may have to rethink buying this. [h1]Long version:[/h1] Do you remember the giant lore behind the Dark Parables series? Keep them cherished in your memories because they are gone now. As Eipix took over from Blue Tea, they did their best to mimic some gameplay elements, but they never bothered to keep track of the story. On top of that, the plot feels weak and rushed. There is an undersea kingdom, an antagonist with a little backstory, and some vague catastrophe we must prevent. Still, it lacks something to hold it together. In the end, it is not terrible, but it leaves no lasting impressions. Okay, I will admit it: the fragmented object scenes in The Little Mermaid and the Purple Tide are better than ever. They are easy, but the internal achievement system still makes them interesting. I also liked some of the puzzles, although they repeat too much. However, the adventure gaming parts are terrible. We now have a quick-travel map, but we also have to backtrack way too much.

By the 8th game, a different gaming company joined in to work on the series... You can clearly tell the difference. The game is still beautiful, but the items seem to have lost their charm. The H.O. scenes are much easier now and item combination is slower. There are map teleports and well... The Bonus Game is glitched... However... You can still play it. (Only the two women are glitched out, but thankfully the story continues... Regardless of you being ahead of what needs to be done lol). Now... That doesn't mean all of this makes the game suck. They still kept the traditional darkness going and the Parables and a few other things. I just didn't like this one as much as the others. I was also enraged at the mermaid/merman for what they did to the Secret Visitor that tags along with you. I will also tell you that I started playing the 9th game and the mistakes that seemed to be in this one? Were fixed. So we'll see. Still good, but.. It's slowly becoming more like the modern H.O. games. Not that it's always a bad thing... Thanks you! :> :)

To be honest, I feel disappointed with this game. I like the fantastic art scenes and cutscenes, and I do like the story theme. The weak connection between game maps, stories and gameplay. My gaming experience is tedious, and it grew more and more tedious during the game progresses. The game map is big, but it gives plenty of cross-map item searches and the same puzzle game during the game process. The puzzle game lacks attractive and creative. No need to use the brain; you can still complete the entire game. 老实说这款游戏真的很让我失望。这款游戏的美术场景和过场动画和非常精彩，故事主题也非常吸引人。 但是在游戏的进行过程中我发现这个游戏的地图场景，故事和游戏性之间的联系非常薄弱。 我的游戏体验非常乏味，而且它在游戏进行中变得越来越乏味。游戏地图大，而且需要跨地图寻找物品的机会非常多。你无法在完成一个地图所有的益智游戏和物品寻找之后再去打开另一张地图，每一张地图都稀稀拉拉地遗留了几个无法被完成的部分，我打到了第四章，但是前三章打开的地图却仍然在很多场景里都存在无法被完成的部分。这让我的游戏体验非常没有成就感，我理解这种游戏安排，但是过多的重复安排实在不是很高明。游戏之中不断重复的益智游戏和与游戏主题故事几乎毫无联系的物品寻找毫无新鲜感，让这个游戏玩起来像是在吃一碗用过去几天的剩菜熬成的杂炊粥，吃起来还有点坏了。益智游戏几乎不需要动脑子就可以完成，不过物品寻找挺费脑子的，因为它的前后联系实在太弱了，玩到后面前面可能会出现的场景和场景中可能存在的物品我几乎就会忘记。收集系统也很无趣，因为它与故事主题也是几乎毫无关联，让人毫无寻找的欲望，因为找到了也没什么成就感。玩了100分钟左右，时间不长，但是这个游戏是我游戏库二十多个解谜游戏中玩到现在唯一一个觉得太无聊所以不想再继续进行下去的游戏。 如果你是解谜游戏玩家，不建议购买。

Dark Parables #8. A series of fragmented object games with puzzles and stories that each stand alone, but are also interconnected in the form of recurring characters. But each game tells its own story and they can technically be played in any order. I believe this is the first entry in Dark Parables to offer fast travel. There are also achievements within the game, though they don't show up on Steam. There are collectibles that unlock lore. It also has a bonus adventure. The story for this one is quite weak, but the artwork is parcticularly beautiful to me as it takes place in a sea kingdom. Recurring characters include Pinocchio, plus references to Frog Prince and Red Riding Hood sisters.

My favourite one from the whole series. All dark parables are great, but this one just hits the spot: beautiful artwork, nice music, clever riddles and mermaids! If you want to try out HOPs, then this is the gem that get you hooked up.

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I really, really love this addition to Dark Parables. Finally, the puzzles get some love. I am so happy to find great challenging puzzles in this series. I am a puzzle lover, so this was great for me. Just had a lot of fun with them. But some where a little hair pulling, but that's perfectly fine! Are is gorgeous, the HO scenes are eye candy. Just a really great game that I can't recommend enough!

I usually really love the Dark Parables stories. I own many of them and was looking forward to this one. There are some good parts to this game, of course, but the puzzles are not one of them. These are some of the worst puzzles I've ever had to play in a HOG game. They aren't really hard. They're more annoying and frustrating at times than hard and they're rarely enjoyable. I hated the "change the symbols" puzzles and the ones where they wanted you to move a certain number of spaces around a board to get orbs. I would've been fine, but having to do the same types of puzzles repeatedly in the game made it more tedious and less enjoyable than I would've liked. In other words, there was a lot less variety than you'd usually find in a HOG game. Also, getting an achievement for waiting for 5 minutes without doing anything in a HOG puzzle is absolutely ridiculous. I bring this up mainly because it means you have to artificially inflate the game play time just to do one achievement. It wasn't a bad game, but if it had been my first experience with the Dark Parables line of HOG's, I absolutely wouldn't have continued to play them. It's not the best of the bunch by far. I don't recommend it to anyone who is just looking for a regular HOG style game and who hasn't already played the other DP games. If you've played the others, by all means, play this one to continue with the stories. If you haven't played the other DP games, play some of the others first because this one isn't as good (In my opinion). What a shame.

[h1] Aventura Visual de clic and Point [/h1] [h1] Sinopsis [/h1] Es la 8va entrega de la Saga Parables, sin embargo se siente tan natural e independiente que aunque no he jugado las anteriores entregas, se comprende la historia. El juego se lleva a cabo en una isla en Creta, cuando nosotros encarnados en un detective tiene que ir a investigar la zona ocasionado por una marea purpura que va arrasando todo lo que toca ya sea vida marina o la zona costera cuando somos atacados por una criatura marina que nos noquea y llegamos a la isla. Encontraremos a una sirena que necesita ayuda y nos vamos adentrando más hasta descrubrir que pasa.... [h1]Duración [/h1] Me tarde 6 horas, sin embargo tal vez si usas la guía o las pistas, podrías acabarlo entre 4 a 5 horas supongo. Perfecto para un día que quieras jugarlo completo o si cuentas con poco tiempo. [h1] Calidad de Imágenes [/h1] Siento que algunas escenas de la historia se ven algo borrosas o de nitides baja, pero en otras escenas o secuencias se ven muy detalladas al contar la historia [h1]Dificultad [/h1] No siento que haya una dificultad injusta, difícíl o imposible en el juego, es una forma muy orgánica de avanzar y continuar con la historia [h1] Idioma [/h1] Lamentablemente no esta en español pero la verdad es que a penas y hay diálogos. Esta bien llevada la aventura visual por lo que hay más escenas que explican o cuentan y las descripciones de algunos objetos son sencillas sin requerir traductor al mínimo. A penas y necesitaras un poco de traductor en algunas cosillas, pues la forma en que pide objetos es clara y sabés o puedes hacerte una idea de que itém necesitas para avanzar solo con ver la silueta. [h1] Público [/h1] Apto para todo público. [h1] Mini Guegos/ Mini Puzzles [/h1] La mayoría de los mini juegos los sentí sencillos, aunque no den instrucciones claras, para resolver los puzzles no son necesarias, ya que puedes resolverlos de forma óptimca y en menos de 5 minutos. [h1] Público al que va dirigido[/h1] [h1] Logros [/h1] Sí y No Sí tiene "logros" dentro del mismo juego como encontrar los 3 Fishes, las Tazas de Té, encontrar 100 o 200 objetos, etc, pero esto no funcionan ni implica que estos "logros" sean visibles o sirvan para las estadísticas y logros de Steam, [h1]Recomendación [/h1] Lo recomiendo bastante, la verdad es un buen juego de búsqueda de objetos. Por primera vez veo un juego donde te ponen a buscar objetos (que des clic y se haga un acercamiento en un cofre, baúl, cajón, etc.,) que son útiles y necesarios. Muchas veces he visto que te piden buscar "X" cantidad de objetos innecesarios y de forma random -como una rana, un cepillo, un ratón, de forma que solo alargan el juego o es para que tenga más dificultad el mismo juego- o que no tienen incapie en la historia o progresión de la misma pero aquí toca buscar fragmentos de items que al encontrarlos todos se crean llaves, insignias, orbes, etc que al final sirven para la historia. Por la duración es bastante bueno para acabarlo en un día o dos, para cuando pierdes el tiempo o momemtos libres. Lo recomiendo más si lo compran en oferta. Finalmente la historia, puzzles, progresión de la historia hace que todo sea de forma orgánica y natural, sin alargar o quitar, lo justo y necesario, ni siquiera necesitas que te muestren las pistas u objetivos a realizar no por fácil sino porque esta bien implementado sus mecánicas y objetos.

It's alright....I mean, that is really the best and the worst thing I could say about this. Everything, from the graphics to the writing to the music to the puzzles is............alright. It won't give you or your computer some horrifying wasting disease if you play it, but it's not going to set the world on fire either. Oh, and as an item of note, it is one of the unfathomably few games by Big Fish Games on Steam that actually has some Steam features (in this case, trading cards). So that's something to put in the plus column ;-) Recommended, but I'm not gonna rave about it or something. It's just harmless, solid HOG fun, that doesn't sink to the worst of the genre, but doesn't really rise to the best either.