Tales From The Dragon Mountain: The Strix Reviews

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

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

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 your playstyle and patience. I also encountered a bug when trying to click object. Just some small glitches that made is a little cumbersome to click and choose the objects you want to. Fixing this would have given the game just that little extra feel of polish. Not recommended, but close nonetheless. One of the better non-recommended games for my taste.

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

This is the kind of game we used to buy at yard sales or flea markets. Old, dated, and I paid a whole quarter. I'm guessing this is supposed to be the fantasy version of a buddy cop movie? For twenty five cents USD I got to watch two characters who despised each other argue. Though there was a weird break where the buddy cop, er gnome, hit on the main character. OK.... Although it does have its moments, I have to admit, I had to force myself to play to the end. The controls are clunky, and I really wanted a hidden object game, not a point and click adventure. I'm sure this studio tried, but it just falls flat and gets boring in places. And describing the graphics as beautiful is really pushing it. If you can get it for a quarter and love the dated look, knock yourself out. But three bucks seems kind of steep to watch characters argue so much. Sorry, but I can't recommend this one. Maybe this studio should give these older games away to build up some nostalgic goodwill, but the quarter I paid would be about right otherwise.

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.

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.

Mildly recommended. This is a good example of an okay game that does most things right to an acceptable level, but doesn't do anything great. The graphics and presentation are not aging very well, but aren't bad. The story is a bit generic, yet I didn't mind it. The voice acting was passable with a couple interesting characters. I did like the mini-games and puzzles. For how short it is and how just okay it is, I'd get it on a deep discount, but you are not missing out if you skip.

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.

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.