I like it, and I loved having a cat as the enemy, but not so much that I’ll rush out immediately and buy the CE. There are also the usual gallery items and replayable puzzles.
There are 6 chapters, plus the bonus chapter. These are given once for each puzzle completed – so, 25 puzzles. There are pop-up notes (7), and 25 achievements. There are 20 cursed (morphing) objects to collect, plus some things listed simply as ‘items’. The problem was, whenever I used it, it said there were no active etc.’s, so it was of little help. It tells you where there is an active area of interest. There is a directional hint, and (a first from these developers) an interactive jump map (with really cool pop up locations). I found myself relying on hint to get me around. The quests are limited and not always intuitive. Their integration into the gameplay is fairly arbitrary though. These are excellent and inventive puzzles, including wonderful puzzle boards, and even this early in the game, one was too hard for me. Instead we are constantly meeting new puzzles at every turn. This game is another FROG, but the FROG scenes are few and far between. In fact, he’s downright dangerous – and his cousin is even worse! I literally jumped and moved away from the monitor, on reflex. Now, I know we’re all out of cuteness, so let me reassure you, this is NOT a cute companion. Then of course, she is whisked off by a crooked man and his equally crooked cat. There is a old folk legend about this forest, our sister says, about a crooked man and young girls who disappear never to be seen again. Yes, well, that’s definitely confusing at this point. The voiceovers are nicely done, if a bit too high pitched for my liking. It is fairy tale light, with a jaunty air at times and a sombre timber at others, and the ambient sound is good. Well, the music is certainly sensational. So, I think, perhaps there is something more to this game?
A game that relies so heavily on graphical splendour should really do better than this. I was put off immediately by the fact that the game’s visuals were not designed for widescreen/aspect correction.
Well, the game is certainly beautiful, imaginative and colourful, but I felt the graphics were a bit rough around the edges and at times too dark. So, can they pull it off again, with another, somewhat differently designed, fairy tale FROG? Their distinctive series, “Dark Parables”, is just about the epitome of “absolutely beautiful”. The developers of this game made a name for themselves in making FROGs (where we put FRAGMENTED OBJECTS together to make the most gorgeous artifacts you could ever hope to see) based on twisted fairy tales.
Download soundtracks, wallpapers, screensavers, and concept art.Play the bonus game – Humpty Dumpty is cursed!.Save your sister, as well as his other kidnap victims… Defeat the Crooked Man and his servant… Uncover the story behind the Crooked Man’s actions… Reveal the mystery of the cured nursery rhymes, the Cursery… Now he’s kidnapped your very own sister! You’ve got to unravel the riddles in the Cursery and find out who’s the mastermind behind this whole evil plot. Some say they were taken by the Crooked Man, who always travels with a strange little black cat at his side. Cursery: The Crooked Man and the Crooked Catīig Fish as Collector's Edition / Standard Editionįor more than a century, girls of a certain age have been mysteriously vanishing, never to be seen again.