Persian Nights: Sands of Wonders

I know I shouldn't be over-critical of these types of games, as they are designed for a much younger age group, perhaps as a soft introduction to gaming, or a way of training young ones to develop problem solving skills, so I'll try to be fair. Sands of Wonders does pretty well to merge a couple of different gameplay elements into a solid story. While not as many as I would have liked, the game does have a few searching mess scenes, but it does tend to get overshadowed by other elements such as acrobatics, alchemy potion brewing, solving puzzles and creating useful items out of other items through inventory combining. Overall the game is colourful, the plot makes sense, and I'd definitely recommend it to younger kids just starting out. Obviously anyone that's older can play as well, but I played through on Advanced (the middle difficulty), and the game and achievements are all fully completed (including a lengthy spot of afk) in under 5 hours. The idea of having a duo to control m...

Nice music and voice acting. I like it.

This makes me wish so badly that Steam had star ratings or an average option. Because this game isn't technically bad. But I don't recommend it largely because there are simply a LOT better HOPAs out there. This has to be one of the easiest HOPA games I've ever played. Extremely easy puzzles and few HO scenes. The art is pretty basic and not that interesting to look at and the character models are the unholy combo of CGI and 2D animation. It looks God awful There are better games out there. I just felt this was just so basic, bland, and easy. Just not worth the money.

Most of the Artifex Mundi games are stellar and this one was no exception. I hadn't ever played this one before and while the art isn't as crisp as some other games, I did enjoy the aesthetics and storyline of the game.