Forgotten Tales: Day of the Dead

If you know me at all, you know I LOVE solitaire. I’ve been playing it ever since I was a wee lass, but golf solitaire has recently become my favorite version of the game. Imagine my delight when yet another title released featuring the enjoyable gameplay I’ve come to love. Forgotten Tales: Day of the Dead had SO much promise: beautiful artwork, a fantastic theme, and interesting new power-ups and board goals I hadn’t seen done in other games — and yet against all odds it failed. As a lover of solitaire and supporter of indie game developers everywhere, it pains me greatly to have to write this review, but it is my sworn duty to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me Dios. Let’s start with what this game does well, its presentation. Everything about the way Forgotten Tales looks and sounds is an absolute joy. I love the Day of the Dead theme, especially the story snippets with cultural references that lovingly incorporate the mythology behind this Mexican day of celebration. The artwork is beautiful, colorful and uniquely stylized. And there’s the soundtrack, all royalty-free licensed pieces, but the compositions are wonderful, reminding me of several movie scores I hold dear. I simply cannot express enough how much I enjoyed the look and feel of this game. Then we come to the gameplay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogv6bqeLgg0 Forgotten Tales uses the golf rule set, which involves playing cards in ascending or descending order until all have been removed from the board. There's a bit more to it than that, but it's a very easy version of the game. One might wonder how you can possibly mess that up, and I’ll tell you how; you make the draw pile NOT random. Just let that sink in for a second. A solitaire game that does not have a random draw deck. This one point, this fatal flaw, is what ruined the gameplay for me. Luck of the draw has ALWAYS been a part of solitaire no matter what version you’re playing, and finding ways to overcome it with strategic gameplay and the smart use of power-ups and wild cards is what makes the game so engaging. But when a useable card is drawn at least 75% of the time, it does NOT feel OR play right. Looking at things objectively, I understand why this design choice was made. With the way the game is laid out with each level having 3 rounds (tableaus) to clear on only one deck of cards, too much randomness in the draw would make the later levels practically impossible to complete unless you got super lucky. However, this could have been avoided by splitting the three rounds into their own levels, thus making a random draw deck less punishing. Doing so would even out the value of the bonus cards, which heavily skew towards the “Joker” and “+5 to Draw Pile” cards, and would also add more focus to the unique board goals. Had these issues been addressed, I am confident Forgotten Tales would have been a near perfect iteration of the game I so love. Sadly, it is not to be. So, it is with a heavy heart that I give you this news. I wanted to love Forgotten Tales: Day of the Day with every fiber of my being, but I simply cannot look past its sole flaw, and that is preventing me from recommending it to solitaire fans everywhere. Perhaps with a sufficient discount it may be worth it if only to experience the beautiful art and music. However, if you’re looking for the next great solitaire game along the lines of [url=http://store.steampowered.com/app/38600/]Faerie Solitaire[/url] and [url=http://store.steampowered.com/app/432190/]Chef Solitaire: USA[/url], you’ll want to keep looking. Bottom Line: Not Recommended. [code][h1]Curated by: [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33004802-Chudah%27s-Corner/]Chudah's Corner[/url][/h1][/code]

Fun game - really enjoying it thus far. Smooth bug-free gameplay, vibrant colors and a nice soundtrack. The progression in game complexity is clear and gradual - very relaxing, befitting a casual game such as this. The only adjustment I had to make was with the cursor. The larger default game cursor was a bit floaty for me, so I switched to a regular cursor in the options section. It was all very intuitive and easy to take care of. Another Greenlight success story for these devs - great job and thank you - your efforts show in the final product.

Very fun Solitaire game that reminds me of Faerie Solitaire. Each round you play has a set of challenges that must be met to advance to the next round. Most of these challanges are things like get a 6 card combo without using any Clubs or get a 8 card combo without using face cards. To add to the challange some of the cards will have effects on them that need to be resoulved before you can play them, like find the key to open the locked card or elemanate all the water cards before you can use any of the burning cards. To help you on the way there are a number of tool you will find and be able to buy. Nice casual game to kill some time and easy achievements too.

Really well made solitaire game that has a unique theme. The presentation is soild, but the Día de Muertos theme is really interesting and well done. Although the music is interesting it gets very repetitive after a while. The gameplay is standard solitaire with quite a few specials on the 'board' and at your own disposal. This makes the game more interesting even if the last 10 of 100 levels overdo it and the number of specials that you have to overcome and use gets slightly annoying. Overall the game is really well balanced though. There are some minor technical problems (sound effects are disabled if you restart the level after making a mistake) and I've encountered twice bugs so that I had to restart the level I was in. If you like solitaire games this one is a clear recommendation and even if you aren't too keen on these kind of games the unique theme plus the few story elements that are thrown in might just be enough to make you play the game until the end. I had a fun time playing the game :)

Extremely disappointed with this one. Among many many wrong things with this particular title, there's one unforgivable mistake: there's a pattern in the cards dealt. Yeah; no random factor. If the card you need does not come in your current play, it will, WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY, in the next one. That's it! Forgotten Tales: Day of the Dead is a card game where difficulty is almost non-existent, and even like this, it becomes annoying.

그냥 저냥 무난했던 솔리테어 100개 스테이지 멕시코 기념일인 망자의날 배경으로 빼앗긴 신부를 되찾으러가는 남편의 스토리 스테이지 진행시 무덤이 세워지는데 이 얼마 안되는 시간이 지루함 셔플템 쓸 때 팅긴다는데 난 다른템을 썼는데도 게임이 팅김 즉, 게임이 불안정하다는 뜻 후반 갈수록 클리어조건이 괴랄해져서 아이템 도배로 깨는 경우가 많아짐 도전과제는 스토리 진행하면 깨지고 모든 스테이지 3별로 클리어하는게 있음 It was just plain solitaire 100 stages The story of a husband who goes to retrieve his stolen bride against the backdrop of the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead. As the stage progresses, a tomb is built, but this short period of time is boring. They say the game stutters when using shuffle items, but even though I used a different item, the game stutters, which means the game is unstable. As the latter part of the game progresses, the clearing conditions become more difficult, and more and more cases are broken by being overloaded with items. Most of the achievements are unlocked as the story progresses, and some require clearing all 3 stages.

Forgotten Tales: Day of the Dead is a fun, relaxing solitaire game. There are power-ups, 100 levels and 100% achievements is easliy obtainable. If you enjoy solitaire games, I highly recommend this title.

Huh. My review of this game appears to have disappeared. So I am leaving a new one. Yes, I recommend this game. If you enjoy solitaire card games, this one has a rather unique theme and story. Día de los Muertos, or Day Of The Dead- a day where ancestors and those who have passed on are remembered and celebrated. The story and tasks you must complete are different than in most other solitare games. Graphics are cute, and clean- colorful and funny. Not many settings to adjust, but you can turn the music down or off if it isn't to your liking. Typical of many solitaire games, there will be grind and many replays of hands to get all achievements and a perfect game. The game did have some bugs with audio back when I played it (quite some time ago). I do not know if all bugs were fixed since then, but none of them affected my gameplay- they just affected some of the game's ambiance. My playtime shows how long it took me to achieve a perfect game and unlock all achievements. (Yes... grind is a thing here.) Full price- your $/hour ratio is good, but at the current Summer Sale price it's a steal.

Enjoyable Fairway Solitaire clone. Close in spirit to Zombie Solitaire (humour, design...), but lacking badly in execution at times-- tutorial is missing stuff like how to calculate points and skulls, translation is pretty bad at points, the Day of the Dead theme is borderline racist (which is odd coming from a game credited to Spanish-speaking people..?!), there are many small bugs here and there (including a reproduceable one where you don't get any sound effects when you fail a stage and have to restart it), an incoherent difficulty curve (seriously without getting tons of money you won't make it through the game), overall it's pretty amateurish. Yet it's fun to play. Plus I cheated money so that I wouldn't have to grind the game for countless hours. Helps a lot making it actually fair. I got to choose my challenge level in a way. So it's getting a Recommendation from me. But I probably won't play it again.

At the end they lived happily ever after!!!