Azada
4.2
5
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One of my favorites!
Love the Azada games, the puzzles are challenging and there's a lot of variety. Great value, took several hours to beat.
November 18, 2011
Great hidden object/adventure game!
This was a fun game; really nice graphics, fresh puzzles (each Azada game has different puzzles), new things to try or find. Pleasant escape game.
December 17, 2011
Fun Diversion
All of the gameplay is puzzles, and there is no place to navigate although there is a story line. Many of the puzzles are quite challenging, and you are timed also. I found only a couple of the puzzles to be annoying. If you solve enough of the puzzles correctly, you earn credits to skip future puzzles. Many of the puzzles are the same, with different solutions as you go from level to level. The only puzzle I hated was the math one - it was just simple subtraction, so not really a puzzle at all.
March 7, 2012
Not an adventure game
I love adventure games but was disappointed in this one. It's just one puzzle after another, with no exploring or adventuring. Fine if that's what you like -- but it's billed as an adventure game not a puzzle game. Also all the puzzles are timed. Most are annoyingly simple, but part way through book 2 I failed to solve one in time and had to start again at the beginning of the book! I'm going back to Nancy Drew.
December 19, 2011
Good story, lots of puzzles!
I'd played the other two games in this series first but really liked this one. It is timed, and you have to solve a series of puzzles to work your way through the story. The story is interesting - you rescue someone who got caught in a magic book.
The graphics are fairly well done. Each "book" has a mixture of puzzles (connect the pipes, pin ball, simple math problems, etc.) and story problems and is timed. You enter an area and must find all the items and then figure out how to use them to open the box and get the scroll. You get a couple of "free passes" whereby you can skip a puzzle or game. Don't freak out over the Robot puzzle. Just plan ahead (but not to far ahead) and you can do it.
The music is good - not obnoxious and won't distract you from solving the puzzles.
I did think that the information about solving the puzzles was a little scant at times and yet at other times it was right on.
No violence, not particularly dark, and the puzzles were of average difficulty. All in all it is a good game!
August 18, 2012
One of the Most Unique Games
I replay this game occasionally, as it is really unique. It?s a toss-up whether this game or Azada Ancient Magic is better. Both are a refreshing breath of fresh air from other games. Entertaining and well developed storyline. Challenging unique variety of puzzles that make you think. Great graphics and music. Timer can be a stress factor for those chapters having the tougher puzzles because, if you don?t finish in the allotted time, you start the chapter over. [When this happened, I found it helpful to just tackle the difficult puzzle first until I solved it. Then complete the others if there?s time. I was then able to complete all pages the next time.]
You do get orbs which can be used to skip puzzles. But because they are limited (4 to begin and a couple later on), I suggest you save them for when you absolutely are stumped. 5 chapters, each with 8 pages ? so it?s easy to take a break without losing track of where you were. Difficulty increases as the game progresses. Since you can replay completed puzzles, you can practice for the next time you play.
Note: This really a 4.5 star game, but we can't rate by half stars. If I had reviewed this game before Surface was released, I would have rounded up to 5 stars.
July 27, 2012
Great for puzzle-solvers, not so much for HOG fans
To clarify one thing quickly: although it contains some objects that are hidden, this game doesn't really correspond to what I'd call "Hidden Object". It's more of a mix of "adventure" (20%) and general "puzzle-solving" (80%).
Gameplay-wise, the narrative (small chunks of text explaining why you're there) is broken into "chapters". In each chapters, you get a series of "pages", which are in fact puzzles to be solved, in the order of your choice.
Some of those puzzles are what I'd call "adventurettes": a single room you can look at, hunt for "hot spots", and retrieve some specific items that are shown on the side. Those items are then re-used inside the room itself, making the whole thing a mini-adventure-game.
Ultimately, if you know what to expect, what the game does, it does pretty well.
July 17, 2012
A fun way to spend a few hours!
I enjoyed this game, although I did find it a bit repetative and it kept glitching on me.
The puzzles where good but there was no real atmosphere to the game. I was able to completed it fairly quickly within about 5 hours (not all in one hit!) and when playing I didn't go away thinking about the next part or how to solve a puzzle as each part is very self contained.
I wouldn't bother with the next edition unless it had fantastic reviews because this was just OK!
December 27, 2011
Non stop puzzles - NOT an Adventure Game as categorised
If you want to do non-stop puzzles, with great variation in puzzle and of medium difficulty - then this will fulfill your needs.
It is not an adventure game, which is the category it is classified under. So I was a bit disappointed.
The story is weak, and provides a framework for justifying doing a set of puzzles in a chapter. After each chapter you get another page of writing with the 'story line'.
The puzzles themselves: Really very good. Tangrams, Sudoku type, matching pairs of things, matching sequences of things, mini mental arithmetic ones, moving blocks, towers, etc... If the puzzles were in an actual adventure game, I would be very happy.
Puzzle experience:
This was my first non-stop puzzle game experience. I did it on "timed" and quite liked the time pressure. For me, it was not tight on the time allocated at all and I had PLENTY of time to spend on hints for puzzles where I was struggling. I could have done all the puzzles without any skipping, but had to, once. I am not a sudoku fan so skipped it in the last chapter. Based on this experience, it supports another review on this game, that this is for beginner puzzler people (which I guess I am).
Go for it if you want a puzzle-tastic time, but if you want a adventure game where you wander about, following a cool story line and figure stuff out, go elsewhere.
June 16, 2012
ok for some
Pros: nice graphics; some fun games
Cons: timed; Must use Walkthrough for room areas; Same mini-games over and over - some got a little harder, most did not. A lot of repetitious games.
- I will finish the game - almost there - not because I really like it - but just because when I buy a game, I finish it. Will I play again - probably not.
June 16, 2012