The Mystery of the Dragon Prince

The Mystery of the Dragon Prince is a nice gift from NevoSoft to a player-in-the-street, but true hidden object fans will be disappointed. It is one of those cases when we are prepossessed with successfully done screenshots and masterfully written game description. They promise us ‘exciting adventures’ and ‘plenty of complicated puzzles and unexpected decisions’ but in fact this title is just another ordinary hidden object game.

The story sounds decent, but experienced player will note its pastness. The plot is really trite that is 100 years old. Still, the developers really tried to roll their game product in good graphics. However, we cannot call this artwork perfect as there are plenty of dark and blurry scenes which evoke no pleasant feelings. Nevertheless, this fact does not make hidden object scenes hard to explore at all. On th contrary, most of the scenes are fairly easy and some items are carefully disguised. Sometimes you really need a hint but as usually it recharges too long which is very frustrated. There is no click penalty, which is a luck because some items too cleverly hidden.   

Mini-games are not bad but haven’t the skip option so you have no opportunity to skip some annoying tasks. Though The Mystery of the Dragon Prince is overloaded with dialogues, from time to time you have no idea what to do or where to go. There is no instructions, so get ready to visit and revisit some locations in vain before you know the thing or two. The music background is far from being a musical masterpiece but pretty tolerable. Anyway, we have already got accustomed to deal with so-so games. So we can play The Mystery of the Dragon Prince without any feeling of disgust.

1, December 2010