Get ready for a beautifully dark mystery Hurry! A scared little girl needs your help!
Some key points that this game offers:
- Beautifully enchanting story line.
- Many challenging puzzles.
- lots of mysteries to solve in order to solve the main mystery and in so doing free some innocent souls.
- Easy to work with user interface.
- Three Game Modes.
Collector’s Edition extra Content:
- 10 additional levels.
- 5 additional mini-games.
- 5 additional Hidden Object scenes.
- Exclusive materials such as wallpapers, screensavers, and original soundtrack.
Gameplay & Controls:
Here we use the mouse exclusively as this is essentially a point and click or drag and click type game, dragging needed items to complete actions in order to solve little mysteries along the way. I find it very user friendly and pretty straightforward to play. The different areas open as you progress and find clues leading you deeper into the mansion, making it more complicated and giving you more and more to remember.
Luckily you have been given a hint button in the form of a swan as well as a diary as you go along which I found to be essential in solving this particular mystery. Don’t give up if something doesn’t work the way it should. Sometimes the objects need to be moved or placed in a very specific way to work properly.
You play as well known medium and spiritualist Victoria Bon Partie who is handed a note during a performance of Swan Lake, she has a dark vision and is compelled to investigate. As you explore this once magnificent but now haunted old ballet school you discover a dark secret involving innocent children and evil entities. Using your wits, you navigate through each nook and cranny of this beautiful mansion discovering the various pieces of this enticing puzzle and ultimately solving the mystery and saving some souls in the process.
There are a few known bugs in the game but the biggest issue is the game-breaking bug.
Graphics:
The graphics are absolutely beautiful making you feel like you are in a storybook. It’s a pleasure to be in this fantasy world full of beautiful and antique trinkets associated with this once enchanting, but now cursed ballet school.
Under the settings panel, you can choose to run the game has options to enable Full Screen Mode and Wide Screen Mode.
Sounds:
The background music for this game has been thoroughly researched as there are pieces of music straight out of the original swan lake ballet adding a beautiful ambience. The sounds are all appropriate and beautifully done.
Under the settings panel, you can customize the volume for the game’s sound and music.
Replayability:
As far as Replayability one could replay this game redoing the various puzzles and having immense fun doing so, but the game-breaking bug that could occur at any time during the game makes one not inclined to want to replay this game.
MGR Gaming’s Conclusions:
Spoilers Ahead:
I personally enjoyed this game all the way through including the well thought out story line, the clever and challenging puzzles, and beautiful atmosphere that these developers have created.
The additional game modes are always a welcome feature; allowing you to play the game utterly at your own pace and leisure. I thoroughly enjoyed every second until that pesky game-breaking bug took effect at the end stopping me from finishing this amazing game.
Additional Info:
Platforms: PC
Genre: Hidden Object: Point & Click: Adventure
Censor Rating: n/a
Age Rating: All
Developer: Space Monkey International
Publisher: Shaman Games Studio
Release Date: 30 January 2017
MGR Gaming Steam Curator:
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32364038/