The Magic Storm Reviews

Why was I playing this

This game is a mix of children book and hidden objects. Each scene is a chapter of the story. The graphics are really nice, the story is nice too. However, some items are soooo difficult to find. Their shape mixes completely with the background, some of them are really small and mix with grass. Some scenes effects are really bad for the eyes, such as the thunder, dust cloud, etc. It is a good game, however, a zoom system would be lovely.

This is actually a pretty nifty, cute, well designed game! The game comes in both English and Russian, with very good translations... even the voice person sounds like they are reading a story to us! It's pretty cool. This is a Hidden Object based game, which is self explanatory. You find the items and continue the story line. I like the story line... It is open ended, where you interpret the meaning of it. The game play is for all ages, a little bit for everyone. It actually gets harder and harder, so you need a good attention span. And once you are done... You can try and find all of the objects through the levels again and get those achievements!!! The only thing I want to point out is: if you have motion sickness... There are parts where the sky spins and if you are re-doing the game for achievements, you will get to see it more than you think. I have a pretty bad motion sickness, but those parts only affected me slightly. So if you start feeling the effects, just close your eyes or take a small break. Don't let that part affect your game play any! It is worth it and you feel good after playing it and even after challenging yourself to get those achievements! Thank you / Spasibo Bolshoe for the game! :) :> =)

I've finished the game haven't gotten the achievements yet as there's randomness for that, but I quite like the game. The art is nice, the animations make each image feel a bit more alive as you go through a fairly simple storybook story. It's a bit short, but I don't personally mind that given the price. The only real criticism that I have gameplay wise is that you cannot grab objects that are not on the bottom of the screen yet. Forcing you to remember where it all is as you search for specific items first. I just find that an odd choice. And aside from that the UI is really obnoxiously huge. It distracts away from the really nice artwork. Especially the home button. I assume they're made this way for children, but at least giving an option would be nice. I'd rather a collapsable menu that shows everything to find rather than just 5 at a time. But that's more a personal preference I suppose. Oh, and more of an issue is that some of the icons do not accurately reflect the object within the game itself. There's a bike horn for instance, in the image itself it's elongated and looks like a bike horn. In the circle that requests it, it looks almost identical to a pawn chess piece that the same level can ask you to find, just turned on it's side. There are quite a few instances of clicking on something that doesn't really look like the image that it pairs to. And I don't want to be mean to the narrator actress, but it's a bit rough. The acting itself I wouldn't mind as much if the audio quality itself wasn't terrible. I usually don't even notice these things since I don't even have an audio setup. It's just really poor quality. The game is pretty easy / liberal on hints. There's just a minor cooldown and the hint itself is literally just a reveal of where the object is. That's not really a negative or positive to me, just something of note. In spite of a few minor issues and nit picks, I think it's a neat little hidden object game. And well worth the incredibly low price.