User Reviews: Dark Parables

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  • Awful

    From the start it's obvious the character animation of from Japan. Pinkachu characters, no customization for level of difficulty, no way to adjust settings to shorten the Hint time and no way to figure out what to do next. I'm not going to wander around without an available hint. Even on easy, hints are 60 seconds. It would take hours to get thru this.
  • Beautiful game!

    This is a gorgeous and wonderfully done game. Absolutely loved it!
  • Blue Tea Yea!

    This is more like the series I've always enjoyed. Yes, some of the puzzles are repetitive and skip worthy, but the HOS are lovely and the storyline makes sense so it wasn't difficult to figure what to do next. The map does not teleport, but you rarely have to go more than one room away. I especially like how it all loops back to the beginning, so if you missed a morphing item, you get another chance to find it. I've played it more than once and enjoyed it each time.
  • Way too much dialog!

    I live the Dark Parables games and this is just as good, but there is WAY too much dialog. I grew impatient waiting to move onto the next step. And careful! If you tap a character with dialog, you can’t skip through it until it’s loaded up all the way.
  • Ornate and immersive

    I thorough enjoyed every aspect of this game! This is back to Blue Tea as the lead developer, and it shows. Beautiful graphics, enchanting and enthralling story. I didn’t want it to end! It’s true that you cannot customize settings, and the map doesn’t teleport (hint button does), but what you get positive way outweighs these minor inconveniences. True fairytale scenery, it just really makes you feel immersed in the story. And the gameplay is so different from the cookie cutter games of so many other developers. It’s hard to describe. While there are amulets involved, there is none of that “find amulet-insert amulet-get another amulet-REPEAT” so prevalent in other games. You find useful items more often instead. Gameplay doesn’t center around 2-3 scenes at a time, then you’re done. You revisit scenes, but not in a run back and forth kind of way, it’s all story driven. For example, you have tasks to complete in the beginning, but then are captured and have to work your way back to those scenes much later in the story. Which, to me, made the story and gameplay authentic. I did have to skip one puzzle, because it wouldn’t accept the solution, but that was the only problem I had, and it honestly didn’t detract from my enjoyment at all. I originally passed on this game, because of all the negative reviews about the game being so outdated. Then during the last $2.99 sale, after reading more recent positive reviews, I thought I’d give it a try and I’m so glad I did. I don’t remember when I’ve enjoyed a game so much!!
  • Loved this game!!!!

    Ok I was really skeptical about this game when I downloaded it. Thinking it was probably just another being a detective and finding this and that with a pretty typical story but I was very wrong. Ok it’s partly that BUT the story is what really got me! It was beautiful and sad and scary and bittersweet all the way to the end of the bonus chapter. The ONLY thing I didn’t really fancy was the puzzles. The rest of the game was bomb. The map is huge and just when you think that’s all that’s left you’re led into more areas of interest. The game itself is pretty long compared to other big fish games I’ve played. I got this game on sale but would have gladly paid full price. It was that good. I don’t know how old this game is but developers please keep making games like this the story was incredible. 👍
  • Beautifully illustrated

    So much beautiful artwork in this game. Lovely! Otherwise ‘standard fare’, but still fun. The bonus game has a few ‘typos’ - truck instead of trunk (of a tree), sorcerous instead of Sorcerer’s.
  • What happened to the Exile of the frog Prince?

    Why did they take it off and the Cinderella last Cinderella no longer available

    Did you delete it?
  • Crashes

    Crashes just as it starts to open. Can’t get passed the Blue Tea logo. Frustrating when you use satellite download allowance for a game that does not work. Can’t buy it if it doesn’t work! Too bad, always liked Dark Parables.
  • Annoying

    The map didn’t work, the puzzles were impossible, the story so convoluted I couldn’t follow it.

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