# Forgotten Fairy Tales: Spectra — user reviews > 60 indexed App Store user reviews of Forgotten Fairy Tales by Big Fish Premium, LLC, rated 4.60/5 from 1,917 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/forgotten-fairy-tales-spectra/id1318815235/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/forgotten-fairy-tales-spectra/id1318815235.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,383 · 4★ 389 · 3★ 100 · 2★ 25 · 1★ 20 ## What do users think of Forgotten Fairy Tales? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Lovely game with nice logical order - 👍 Interesting and enjoyable mini-games - 👍 Fantastic graphics and fairy tale atmosphere - 👍 Engaging and imaginative story - 👍 Good variety of puzzles and hidden object scenes - 👍 Helpful map and collectibles tracking **Cons** - 🐛 Purchase issues with failed transactions - 🐛 Sensitivity and responsiveness issues in puzzles and mini-games - 🐛 Slow loading times between scenes - 🐛 Small text and UI elements on mobile devices - 🐛 Occasional glitches and freezing **Commonly reported bugs** - Purchase failures - Unresponsive controls in puzzles - Compatibility issues on newer devices **Most requested features** - Allow choosing gender of the protagonist - Improve customization options - Optimize performance and loading times ## Newest reviews (14 of 60) ### 4/5 — Überraschend schauen, ob vergessene Objekte noch gesucht werden. *2021-06-06, version 1.0.0* Eilccnt ### 4/5 — Fairy Tales *2021-05-30, version 1.0.0* Enjoying myself. I like this game. Interesting story, no glitches so far and good graphics. What more can you ask for? ### 3/5 — Slow *2020-09-28, version 1.0.0* I really liked the game and graphics but the scenes took 10 to 20 seconds to load it was very annoying. I spent about as much time waiting for new scenes to load as actually playing, and I got a new generation iPad ### 3/5 — Ungeeignet für Smartphone *2020-08-12, version 1.0.0* Frage an BF: Warum wird eine Smartphone-Version angeboten wenn diese sich absolut nicht dafür eignet? Hier hat mal wieder die Geldgeilheit über die Kundenfreundlichkeit gesiegt, aber so kennen wir BF!!!! Viel zu kleine Darstellung, deswegen nur 3 Punkte obwohl Spiel fantasievoll war. Lustlos auf dem Smartphone durchgespielt weil so viele Objekte zu klein waren. Musste viel zu oft Tipfunktion nutzen deswegen. Anleitung zu Minispielen miniklein und auch noch in Schreibschrift, also fast unlesbar. Schade für die Entwickler, das Spiel an sich hätte mehr verdient, obwohl bei Steuerung und Logik noch Luft nach oben ist. Inventarliste zu kurz - ständiges hin und hergefahre war nervig, genauso wie ständiges „weiter“ drücken weil Spiel ständig fast beendet war wenn man mal auf randnahe Stellen kam. ### 4/5 — A good long game *2019-10-05, version 1.0.0* I was annoyed because I had to pay again for this game because it was on an old iPad and I couldn’t remember the password after quite a long time. I thought the puzzles were good and the hos, the map was very helpful as well, the reason I have deducted one star is because you are unable to go back and collect items that have been missed. ### 3/5 — Need a magnifying glass! *2019-09-21, version 1.0.0* It’s a great game. The puzzles are difficult without being impossible. I’m on a iPhone plus and I have 20/20 vision and I still can’t read anything because I the writing is so small. I can’t decide if I want to purchase it ### 4/5 — Spectra *2019-09-16, version 1.0.0* Die Story gefällt mir gut. Leider sind die ständigen Ladezeiten viel zu lang. Das nimmt einem den Spaß am Spiel. Schade ### 5/5 — Nice and long *2019-09-02, version 1.0.0* Lately so many games have been a disappointment because they were so short. Except for some confusing HOs this was very enjoyable. ### 4/5 — Why is it not full screen in iPhone XR? *2019-09-01, version 1.0.0* I'm really disappointed!! I have the XR, and you clearly show full screen capability in the app description, but when I'm downloading this is just like I'm playing a five year old game?! This game looks awesome but I don't want to buy it if I can't get the full screen capabilities... Please someone reach out to me and fix this. ### 4/5 — Ein Stern Abzug *2019-08-29, version 1.0.0* Ein fantastisches Spiel, aber teilweise sind die Objekte kaum zu erkennen. Karte für den schnellen Schauplatzwechsel ist vorhanden. Bei den Aufgaben kann man zwischen leicht und schwer wählen, bei den WBS kann man sich für ein anderes Spiel entscheiden. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ### 4/5 — Really good game *2019-08-13, version 1.0.0* Bonus was excellent as well. 4.5 stars for this one as graphics are superb. ### 5/5 — Great Game *2019-05-25, version 1.0.0* A Great Game I Really Love It. ### 5/5 — Making me crack up! *2018-06-11, version 1.0.0* This is good fun for the whole family. A tableau of fairy tales with monsters, dragons, Good, and Evil: Save a magic world and earth as well; or your daughter and husband will turn to stone! The graphics are great; storyline simple but not insipid; I think the best is the voices! The games are fun as well. Very creative and entertaining. A little glitchy; don’t do on too little sleep or in a lousy mood or you may toss your iPad out the window. No complaints other than that! ### 4/5 — ボリュームはそこそこ。 *2018-06-09, version 1.0.0* でも内容が単純というか…。 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Can’t purchase *2022-10-30, version 1.0.0* I would probably give it 5 stars but I can’t purchase it. Always says purchase failed try again. Please fix this issue. ### 1/5 — not actually new and not optimized for iPad *2020-09-08, version 1.0.0* Edit: Now that I’m most of the way through I’m dropping to 1 star. This might be the worst Big Fish game I’ve played. In addition to the terrible graphics, the gameplay is boring, nonsensical, and irritating. Required objects are hidden behind overly large icons, pixel hunting is common to get the “right spot”. There is a story but at this point I don’t really care about the characters. Voice acting is so obnoxiously bad that I had to turn it off. I cannot believe this is rated so high. I feel like I’ve been had and really regret paying for this amateur junk. I’m really disappointed at the graphics. I keep thinking I downloaded the wrong version but apparently there isn’t an “HD” version. But this iPhone version is priced as one of the HD games. It looks really blurry and hard to look at on an iPad. ### 1/5 — How hard is it to make an HOG? *2018-09-15, version 1.0.0* You make it logical, so normal people know what to do. Or let the hint charge way faster. More beautiful graphics would be nice too. Terrible, boring, frustrating game. If you just want to relax, skip this. ### 1/5 — New? Are you kidding? *2018-04-21, version 1.0.0* This seems like an old game being recycled. And I won’t be buying. The "custom" settings aren't very good, nor is the game. It’s confusing. The games and puzzles are VERY confusing or boring, nothing in between. Not worth the price. I wouldn’t waste the space on my iPad for it ### 1/5 — No Customized Settings *2018-04-19, version 1.0.0* I played for only about 5 minutes at most. The Hint button is excruciatingly slow! Not customized - only fast, etc. I am not buying this game! ### 2/5 — Mechanics issues. *2021-02-13, version 1.0.0* Mostly inside the puzzles and hidden object game sections there’re a ton of mechanics issues. If you press directly on what you’re trying to press on, it doesn’t work. You have to figure out how the grid is off and adjust for it. It kind of makes the game unenjoyable. I nearly had to skip some of the puzzles, which I normally try not to do, and did have to use hints. It makes me mad. I’d be pressing on the correct items thinking I was wrong, use a hint, see that I was right, then have to figure out where to press the screen to make it work. The games are pointless if you just use hints and have to skip all the time. It seems like a lot of the new games are made either too quickly or lazily and, considering they’re more expensive now, that’s really disappointing. I had another game recently from big fish that wouldn’t play any of the cut scenes at all between levels. I have a brand new iPad. It’s not an age issue. Maybe that’s the problem? They haven’t caught up with the most recent iOS? All that said, I don’t usually leave bad reviews. I understand that making games isn’t that easy. There’s a lot that goes into it. If you’re going to charge $6 for a game like this, it needs to function properly. Otherwise, charge less for it. Don’t get me wrong, I do like this game. Some of the puzzles are really interesting (while a lot are also much easier than usual) and the hidden object games are more detailed and involved than usual. I just wish they functioned properly. It might work perfectly on your device...I don’t know. Seems like some people had no trouble at all. If you have a brand new apple device, you might want to wait a while to get this. While you technically can play the game, it will work (when you eventually figure out that you need to press 4 inches away from the object you’re trying to press), it will also will make you want to throw your iPad out the window. ### 2/5 — It’s ok but... *2019-07-07, version 1.0.0* A number of people have noted this is a very long game. Yes it is but there’s a simple reason for that and it’s because the time it takes to move from scene to scene is ludicrous. I gave up several times because waiting for a minimum of 6 seconds every time (yes, I’m sad enough to have timed it) is soul destroying and I lost the will to live, forgot the plot and just went and did something else. The puzzles are very simple and nothing special. In all, disappointing ### 2/5 — Meh *2019-01-20, version 1.0.0* I don’t need to play a middle aged woman, I’m already one. Couldn’t you make her a bit more attractive and younger? I deleted it right away. ### 2/5 — 😒 *2018-05-13, version 1.0.0* Did not like this game. The loading scenes really put you off the game and the whole story just didn’t gel for me . Stopped playing it. ### 2/5 — Too sensitive, slow *2018-04-22, version 1.0.0* I normally don’t write these even though I play almost all the new Big Fish games like these. I have to give feedback for this one because while the story is interesting and I like the world, it takes more time to load each level/scene than it did to play. I finished the game but not without frustrations... 1. Whoever did the hidden objects scenes didn’t think about the game tools when creating them. There were several instances where objects were behind status circles or practically off the screen. 2. The cut scenes, pop ups within scenes or whatever you call them, would close with only the slightest pressure at the edge, making it incredibly frustrating to fulfill those puzzles with items from the toolbar. If you have to be so careful you can’t do the tasks, it gets really annoying. 3. There is no customization for difficulty. I play these just for fun so I could care less about hints and skips. If I’m frustrated, I use them. Fortunately, this game was fairly easy aside from the constant waiting and reopening frames so I didn’t have to use them often. A couple of the puzzles were so clunky and inconsistent that I gave up out of frustration that they wouldn’t respond in a intuitive way, not because I couldn’t solve them. 4. I like to see how many of the game scene objects (the bestiary and crystals hidden in each scene) I can find so it’s pretty frustrating to find them but not be able to see where they are in the scenes that gave me trouble. Don’t put them in if you aren’t going to give us results please. 5. Again, I played to the end because I like the story and some of the adventure was fun. It’s a good storyline and scenes, the functionality needs a lot of work though. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Lovely game *2023-04-04, version 1.0.0* Nice logical order to the game. Old story line. I enjoyed it. ### 5/5 — Richtig gut! *2022-06-10, version 1.0.0* Phantasievolles Spiel, das man durch den sehr schnellen Tipp flott durchspielen konnte. Such- und Chamäleon-Objekte mussten gefunden werden. Die WBS waren vielseitig und die Minigames z. T. recht anspruchsvoll. Aber zu lösen. Insgesamt ein interessantes Spiel. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2021-09-30, version 1.0.0* This game is by far better than the rest. It’s not boring or the same game as everyone out there. Awesome game is all I have to say. I wouldn’t change a thing. Bravo! ### 5/5 — Gender issue *2021-09-28, version 1.0.0* This is a very nice game. Really enjoy the challenges. The graphic are good. But again, it would be nice if one could choose the gender of the hero rather than being forced to play as female. ### 5/5 — 4.5 star game *2021-06-17, version 1.0.0* The game is pretty long, which I like. There are lots of mini games, which range in difficulty. The “boss” fights are more arcade style, just to give a heads up. I had the game freeze during a hop, but when I re-opened the game, the hop was fine. Lots of nice touches, such as bats flapping their wings when you touch them. Graphics are good. The story is the same old stop the villain who wants to take over the world, but it’s well done in this game. Real rating of 4.5 bumped to 5 for the extra touches. ### 5/5 — Maybe 4.5 *2021-05-31, version 1.0.0* I loved the voices and the many different HOs, puzzles, and mini games. This is a wonderful, colorful and imaginative game and I recommend it. (I am a spoiled old lady and my .5 deficit is the lack of the aforementioned HOs, puzzles, etc. in the extra content.) Thank you for the adventure. Warm regards, OSfL ### 5/5 — Love it. *2021-01-06, version 1.0.0* Excellent game and great graphics and great fun. Thank you to the Maker’s. I’m looking forward to the next adventure with this family. Liz ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2020-08-31, version 1.0.0* I have to say this has to be one of my all time favorite games I have played yet. I normally dread the bonus games as they are a bit boring but this one was just as great as the main game. Beautiful graphics and great story. ### 5/5 — Most entertaining game in ages! *2020-08-21, version 1.0.0* I never write reviews for these games even if I like them..but this one is really well done and is extremely entertaining. The graphics are great, the HOP's are very unique and the artwork fantastic. I had trouble with one of the puzzles I’m embarrassed to say but because there were so many beautifully detailed items I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to pick! The voiceovers are really worth mentioning for the characters..such fun! While it is typical of the genre in many ways it has reenergized it for me who had left for live action group puzzle gaming. I would love to see more of these and will seek out games by the same developers/creators. Excellent work! Thanks for reeling me back in to this type of game but now many of the others I have enjoyed now seem quite pedestrian. ### 5/5 — GOOD GAME *2020-06-04, version 1.0.0* 91/10 because a 3rd into this game it is a little repetitive which was a shame as I quite enjoyed the game, but it does picks up enough to enjoy up until the end. I really enjoyed the Bonus game. Interesting & enjoyable mini games. Lovely graphics and fairy characters. Over all - one of the better story lines. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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