Dream Hills: Captured Magic
Many years ago, Dream Hills was a merry, bustling kingdom.
Its residents led a fairy tale life, good always triumphed over evil, and everyone was happy – until, on the day of the festival of Great Balance, the evil witch poisoned the Fairy Godmother who had been watching over the kingdom and keeping it from evil. Everything changed then. Dream Hills was cast into darkness, and countless troubles began to assault its residents.
Many years later, the Fairy Godmother finally woke up, free from the spell. She now must restore the fairy tale kingdom the witch has destroyed.
Help the Fairy Godmother find her magic wand, get rid of the evil witch, and break the curse.
Solve puzzles, help your favorite fairy tale characters, and collect magical artifacts.
Give this story a happy ending!
Features:
- Visit 35 locations
- Explore 21 hidden object scenes
- Solve 32 exciting puzzles
- Meet characters you have known and loved since childhood
- Enjoy picturesque fairy tale landscapes
Game Discussion
Steam User 1
A decent enough point-and-click HOG, although not without its issues.
As for the art, it's generally nice, except that HOG scenes are generally very dark and frustrating. There's also some pixel-hunting.
As for the minigames, there's a good variety and they can be challenging.
As for the point-and-click puzzles, well, the solutions aren't always obvious, but the hints in the protagonist's dialogue and the tasklist certainly are. That was fine for me because I was playing in a different language for practice, but if that's not the case for you, then it effectively erases all challenge from the game.
As for the story... well, the idea is interesting, but the developers certainly took some liberties with the what they call "characters you have known and loved since childhood." In particular, Snow White now seems to be a black BDSM dominatrix, which I do not remember from my childhood. Also, the text in the opening cutscene was completely corrupted (at least in the Czech version), so I just missed the entire first part of the story.
Also, this game sort of crashed every time I exited it, and I had to alt+ctrl+del to actually close it and restore the ability to operate my computer.
But, well, if you don't mind all these things, then the game is pretty decent.