Fairy Tale Mysteries 2: The Beanstalk

Fairy tale mysteries 2 focuses on the search for hidden objects with a red thread, a second version of Jack and the magic bean. It is absolutely necessary to find the seeds of the magical bean because by pushing, these could connect the Earth to the world of clouds and allow Giants to descend to sow chaos. Fortunately, we benefit from the help of the guardians and their magic. In the bonus episode, you still have to find beans. Compared to fairy tale mysteries 1, the graphics have been reviewed, although still rudimentary, and it makes the game a little more enjoyable to the eye. But the real change is at the level of the gameplay: we move away from the model of the adventure point & click to concentrate essentially on the search for hidden objects. Thus to the traditional SOC with the list of words designating the objects on which to click or to combine, one must also find fragments of objects scattered in the décor, like giant SOC, on which one can click even if the location is clearly inaccessible to the character. The worst is that not only their dimension is not on the scale of the environment and they are often so badly embedded in the décor that we spot them right away but especially that we can not recover them before we are asked when we have found the place where they would be useful. We manage a double inventory: the usual bag with usable objects and lists of objects to be harvested that are updated with each discovery. We spend time clicking on elements of the environment to see if we can already recover them or if we have to come back later, to find the location that will trigger the search and to collect mysterious objects that are the subject of a list apart (which does not influence the plot and which curiously does not unblock a success). There are no really puzzles or mini-games so all that has to do is clearly stated in detail and can be realized without the need to think, even without recourse to the aid system. As with the 1, nothing justifies a red thumb from the moment we know that it is a game without difficulty that will occupy us in total no more than 3h and that we especially like hidden objects rather than puzzles and puzzles. To reserve therefore to the real fierce in this field, but on sale from 50 or 70%, while others are advised to tackle this genre with more ambitious titles as artifex Mundi knows to propose otherwise.