Nevertales: Hearthbridge Cabinet Collector's Edition Reviews

has several glitches. Freezes in bonus game

I 'm not in the habit of giving bad reviews or even commenting on games that I have played. However, I would not recommend this game until it gets fixed. In the bonus game, in the wizard's tower, it is impossible to label the bottles and go forward. The bug simply will not let you. I am not the only one who has this problem. Two others have also tried. I would like to know how others got around the bug and played it through to the end. Thanks for any updates.

This game is a bit better than the past few in the series. One thing that bothers me about this game is the effeminate main character. His voice reminds me of the main character from most of the Living Legends and Whispered Secrets games. Definitely a bit delicate, ahem. We finally get to play as a male character and he's only about 1/3 of a man. When the villain reveals that he put our guy's grandma in a coma, he doesn't react at all. I understand his concern with saving Taleworld, but this was a big reveal and the guy didn't even raise his voice at the guy. The motivation for why the villain was doing what he was doing was beyond weak. "He grew up poor and his parents weren't around much...." Yep, that's it. No abuse or molestation. Just poor. The character wasn't developed and his motivation just wasn't enough for the amount of effort he had put into this. We also don't know how he became this awesome magician with the power to almost bring down an entire world. In the bonus chapter, he is chosen by TaleWorld to help them because "he's from the real world." So is the Guardian and her grandson and they are far more trustworthy! The storyline was so underdeveloped and surface level that it felt like it was written by an intern. Poor Creative Dept really dropped the ball here. All that aside, this story was better than others in the series because it wasn't so heavy-handed with all the fantasy stuff. Yes there were amulets and magic, but it didn't fully let go of the "real world" which made it slightly more bearable than the previous few games. The first two Nevertales games were wonderful because they had our heroine visit characters from all different kinds of classic stories. What a great premise that was. The Taleworld alternate reality made sense then. At some point, the developers decided to change the series beyond recognition and make everyone dress and behave like Frodo from Lord of the Rings. Suddenly TuneWorld wasn't just a place created by authors who write stories. Instead, it was a place created by authors who write ONLY fantasy stories. By that point I had foolishly purchased the entire series believing it would be like the first couple games. Nothing worse than developers changing a series midway through. Happens all the time.

I liked the story but I'm a little disappointed regarding the fact we're not following the same family and we don't see old characters appearing anymore. The HOG scenes and puzzles are high quality as usual, one puzzle has been clearly influenced by the "Glass Masquerade" series. All in all, you're enjoy it. Big Fish games are higher quality and more interesting than Artifex Mundi in general, I encourage you to wait for the sales and buy a bundle with all the games of the same series at once to get them at a more affordable price.

Absolutely fantastic game. This game is one of the most beautiful games I have ever played. The story line flows wonderfully. The graphics are fantastic, the voices suit each character perfectly and the music is very soothing. In most games I have played I turn the music off as it gets irritating, but not in this game. I love the minions :-) Thank you to each and every one of your team for making such an absolutely fantastic game. Cred to all the devs. 10/10 for me. Thanx