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Visiting Mistyvale

Have you thought of visiting Shadowbrooks on Halloween?

Lazy Turtle Games would like to invite you to visit Shadowbrooks.  This enchanted town is the central location on which Lazy Turtle Games offering of Mistyvale is based.  This game requires you to visit various scenes from this mythical environment while searching for Hidden Object items and testing your puzzle solving skills to solve a variety of issues arising from Halloween.

Following the usual housekeeping tasks as you adjust volume levels, selecting your chosen screen size and cursor type, the game's difficulty can be either set with no time limit or using a ten or three minute restriction to complete certain searches.  The game's content is spread over five pages of action.  Each page will consist of three Hidden Object scenes and one mini game puzzle.  While this content can be tackled in any order that pleases you, you will not be allowed to progress to the next page until you have achieved certain conditions involving collecting Sweets. 

Rather than re-inventing the wheel by producing a brand new game play layout, the game of Mistyvale makes use of a format used in other Lazy Turtle Game titles.  This format requires you to build up specific rewards as you progress through a series of scenes that need to be followed in order.  These rewards consist of Sweets given for the completion of each scene.  You will need to earn seven Sweets in order to progress to the next page where you will be faced by a further three Hidden Object scenes and a mini game puzzle.

When faced by a Hidden Object scene you be given the choice of format used to display the required items.  By default this option will be set at a list of individual words.  However you do have the option to switch to a choice of silhouettes, jumbled words or a mirror puzzle.  As a Hidden Object scene will have a supply of three Sweets at its disposal, return visits to a scene will be necessary if you are intending to build up your stocks of Sweets in order to reach the number of Sweets required to progress to subsequent scenes.

Completing each page will be the fourth scene which features a mini game puzzle.  In fact the puzzle always remains the same type.  You will be required to complete a Jigsaw which can be tackled in 4:3, 5:4 or 6:5 size with or without an option for pieces to have a rotation feature.  As with the Hidden Object scenes, playing the Jigsaw three times, using different settings, will bring a reward of three Sweets.

Generally this game proves to be rather disappointing.  The Hidden Object game play was reasonable but the Jigsaw element was far too easy for even the younger members of the family.  You can download Mistyvale from Gamehouse.com where it is priced at $9.99 or from Big Fish Games where it is priced at £7.59.  The game requires a 1.0 GHz processor with 512MB of RAM and 231MB of hard disk space running Windows 7 and later.

https://www.bigfishgames.com/us/en/games/17422/mistyvale/?pc&lang=en

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