Tales From The Dragon Mountain: The Strix

Not a traditional Hidden Object Game, as the objects that are hidden are in the frames/scenes themselves, so you only need to find one or two at a time which you aquire as items (rather than a zoom-in where you find a list of things before gaining an item). The cut scenes are pretty fuzzy and the voice acting is bad to the point of cringe-worthy distraction. On the plus side, there are many options to make the user interface easy to work with at the expense of making the puzzles a bit easier. Overall , its hard to recommend this to casual players because there are better examples of the genre worth looking into and experienced adventure gamers will find the story and puzzles obtuse and difficult to care about.

First of all, this game is very short and the puzzles very easy. Finished it in two hours without problems. Click a bit around, find all items in the scene, try to combine items or use them. Next puzzle. Secondly and more important: The story is very poor, the dialogs are cheesy and the ending not satisfying. There is no mystery to solve, no story to uncover. Games like this need a story that drags you in. I wandered through the game and always wondered, why I am doing this or that. Without a good story it is just a series of short, not very interesing puzzles. There are better implementations of this kind of games out there, played one just last week. An undead pirate had captured my daughter and I had to free her. The hunt for the daughter was the driving force and motivation, the history of the pirate a mystery to uncover.

Short and the narrating was really bad.

This game almost got a recommendation from me, however it falls short due to two important things. The first is the story. It kind of works, but it is too simple and short to give the player any value other than to just force feed us the next puzzle or area. The other big shortcomming is the voice acting, and this problem really ehances the weakness that the story is to the game. Having few voice actors in a game is not necessarily something to make a big fuzz about in a budget title, but this game would have gained more from only written dialoge rather than the addition of these voice actors. It might be that the game is targeting children and that a child of about 10-12 would enjoy this more, but for me it was simply so detrimental that it just dragged the experience enough down to miss the recommendation. The puzzles are somewhat enjoyable and the grapichs and aestethics are serviceable. The mechanic I enjoyed the most was the ability to tweak the difficulty in the options to fit ...

Short. Bad narration. Not a true hidden object game. Frustrating to have to keep moving between areas. Puzzles not interesting.

Game would be OK, despite length (very short) and annoying interface design and painfully lame match-3 minigame if it wasn't for the utterly execrable voice acting.

Super short, super easy with iffy graphics, dialogue and story...

Quick and easy game. Kinda liked killing time with this one. Relaxing - very. Played it within 15 minutes the second time ... nice for kiddies!

A short and typical point and click adventure. I finished it in a couple hours. People less used to this style of game may take longer. Worked with the stylus on the Windows Surface Pro 3. :D (other point and click games failed this category) Voice acting is amusing too. Lots of good options in the menu like turning the music, voice and sound effects down seperately. Also several settings to make it trickier, like removing the custom cursor and sparklels. In the end it was a good sale buy for me.

a really short but enjoyable HOG that is worth trying. pros. funny voice acting.. sometimes it is even cringy. but well at least they did better job than some expensive HOGs i have played :/ i like the idea of every area is a HO scene cons. very short. less than 1 hour 30 no bonus story the graphics are not bad per say but just too simple.... like someone just learned how to design (they look like graphics from the 90s) the items are not blended well in the scenes they are too shiny kinda too easy i barely recommend this game. only get it if you are a collector of HOGs like my self or from a bundle 5/10