Enchanted Kingdom: Descent of the Elders Collector's Edition > iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac & PC Game

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5 / 5

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Thank you Developers

PostedMarch 12, 2019

jennsmom

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

4 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

I've enjoyed this game more than any of the previous in the serieis - which is one of my favorites. Why? Because of the Match 3 option for almost everything! I am rarely interested in it for HOs, but some of the puzzles in this series, are ones that I hate, and to have a Match 3 option, is great. Also, the "diagnostic" tool is much improved.
I liked the story line for both the main game and the ...Show more

I've enjoyed this game more than any of the previous in the serieis - which is one of my favorites. Why? Because of the Match 3 option for almost everything! I am rarely interested in it for HOs, but some of the puzzles in this series, are ones that I hate, and to have a Match 3 option, is great. Also, the "diagnostic" tool is much improved.
I liked the story line for both the main game and the bonus, which thankfully, is NOT a "prequel." The colors are acceptable, the music is unobtrusive and makes a nice background sound. Puzzles range from easy to medium, and I enjoyed the HOs. I think that Match 3 option for puzzles is terrific. I hope to see it in other games. Show less

I recommend this game!

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Puzzle lovers delight

PostedMarch 14, 2019

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Mystery of the Ancients: No Escape Collector's Edition

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

4 / 5

What a great game. For all who love puzzles and a lot of them it is a must have. At least it was for me.
The storyline is not new, it's good versus evil, but it is well done. The art work is stunning, the colours are vivid and lots to collect along the way.
HOP's and puzzles can be swapped for Match 3 games. Puzzles can be played in hard or easy mode, which is great for beginners.
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What a great game. For all who love puzzles and a lot of them it is a must have. At least it was for me.
The storyline is not new, it's good versus evil, but it is well done. The art work is stunning, the colours are vivid and lots to collect along the way.
HOP's and puzzles can be swapped for Match 3 games. Puzzles can be played in hard or easy mode, which is great for beginners.
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I recommend this game!

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A MAGICAL GAME PROVIDING AN ANTIDOTE FOR THE WINTER DOLDRUMS

PostedMarch 7, 2019

sunnyglow

fromI love this developer’s games! Domini Games always provides more gaming value for the money spent!

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Skill Level:Expert

Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

REVIEW BASED UPON THE ENTIRE GAME
5 Chapters Plus a Bonus Chapter – Strategy Guide: 53 Pages

OVERVIEW: The Tar Empire is once again in peril. After 700 years, the flying elven kingdom has returned, inflicting humans with a deadly plague. As a healer of the Medico Imperium, you must find an antidote to save your kingdom. With an impending battle re-emerging between the elves and humans, you ...Show more

REVIEW BASED UPON THE ENTIRE GAME
5 Chapters Plus a Bonus Chapter – Strategy Guide: 53 Pages

OVERVIEW: The Tar Empire is once again in peril. After 700 years, the flying elven kingdom has returned, inflicting humans with a deadly plague. As a healer of the Medico Imperium, you must find an antidote to save your kingdom. With an impending battle re-emerging between the elves and humans, you must not only find an antidote, but also find the party responsible for the conflict. Confront an evildoer who will stop at nothing to destroy mankind and the elf kingdom to rule the Tar Empire. Can you defeat this evildoer and bring peace between both kingdoms?

OPINION: I LOVE Domini games. I always feel I get more game for the money than from some other developers. Although this is not my favorite series from this developer, this is an outstanding game! The pace is excellent with plenty of activities to keep a player involved in the game. The story is well-written. The graphics are realistic, although I wish Domini would tone down the overuse of purple and neon green in their games. Most of the game centers on diagnosing illnesses and then creating antidotes for those illnesses.

MECHANICS: There are four (4) levels of play including a customized version. There are twenty-one (21) achievements. Collect fifteen (15) cards which deal with illnesses, fifteen (15) morphing elven artifacts, and fifty (50) metal leaves used to purchase items for your laboratory. There is a bar at the side to indicate if there are one or more collectibles within a scene. I found the items easy to locate. As in all their games, Domini provides an option to play the puzzles in either an “easy” or “hard” mode within the menu. There are ten (10) wallpapers along with concept art and music and video sequences.You can replay seventeen (17) HOP scenes and twelve (12) mini-games. In this game you have the option to play a Match-3 game in lieu of not only the HOP scenes, but the mini-games as well. This is a new feature I have not seen before in any other HOP game.

BONUS CHAPTER: It is a different story. Surprisingly, I like this story better than the one from the main game. Play Jarolia, another healer within the realm. You are off to save the Elven people from an evil elf healer, Il Lydia. She is out for revenge, turning all the elves into nocturnal creatures, night elves, making them her servants. I feel this chapter is worth the extra money for the collector’s edition. You continue to collect all the collectibles within this chapter. There are nine (9) mini-games and five (5) HOP scenes.

HOP SCENES: There are nineteen (19) of some of the most creative HOP scenes I have played in some time. They are very interactive and vary in design. They include scenes with only morphing objects. There is one with sliders in which you must align two silhouettes to remove an object. There are rebus clues, storybook scenes with items which must located and then returned to their proper location. There are very few straight lists of items. However, even within the lists of items, there are creative touches within the scenes. Some of the scenes have puzzles within them.

MINI-GAMES: There are thirty-three (33) mini-games within this game. This includes seven (7) Rube Goldberg mini-games which contain three (3) puzzles each. You will play a Rube-Goldberg puzzle with each diagnosis you make. In lieu of the puzzles you can play a Match-3 game instead. Most of the puzzles have the choice to be played in either a “hard” or “easy” mode. You can change this designation while playing the game even if you have opted for one or the other within the menu.

SPOILERS: THESE ARE SOME OF THE MINI-GAMES AFTER THE DEMO:

A. Diagnostic mini-game: (1) Switch puzzle. On a grid, switch tokens so they are placed in the same row as a matching one at the side the grid. (2) Assembly puzzle. Move four hands attached to a skeleton so that each hand is placed squarely on an imprint of a hand at the sides. The hands are jointed. (3) Variation of the bar removal puzzle. Move green gems within a grid to create a path so that a red gem can move from the left to the right side of the grid.
B. Itsy Bitsy Spider. Sequence puzzle. On a grid move colored spiders up-and-down until they are situated in a row with a matching colored gem. Moving one spider affects the others.
C. Maze puzzle. Lead a griffin through a maze to the elven castle using the wind power of tornadoes to guide it through the paths. Avoid falling rocks as you cross.
D. Beat the computer. Move your tokens so you end up with more tokens than the evildoer. Jumping over them or abutting them changes them to your color and vice versa.
BONUS CHAPTER
E. Connection puzzle. Connect stars with lines so that the number of each star matches the lines emanating from it.
F. Sequence puzzle. Put out 4 fires using buckets of water. All flames must be extinguished at the same time
G. Mathematical puzzle Move a horse to the middle of a grid by pressing numbered buttons indicating the direction and number of steps you can proceed. You must not land on obstacles in your path.
H. Logic puzzle. Place flower seeds in a row so that there are at least three of the same type of flower in each row and column. Show less

I recommend this game!

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Could not stop playing!

PostedMarch 16, 2019

ender07

fromLondon, Ontario, Canada

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

4 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

WOW! This game is a real treat after playing several darkly themed games in a row. It is packed with a variety of HOGs, objects to find including elven artifacts (morphs), a large number of puzzles, small to larger more complicated ones AND folks, you can play a match 3 instead of the HOG or a puzzle. I love this as I'm not good at every kind of puzzle. This is the best game IMHO all winter. ...Show more

WOW! This game is a real treat after playing several darkly themed games in a row. It is packed with a variety of HOGs, objects to find including elven artifacts (morphs), a large number of puzzles, small to larger more complicated ones AND folks, you can play a match 3 instead of the HOG or a puzzle. I love this as I'm not good at every kind of puzzle. This is the best game IMHO all winter. Thanks BF and Domini! Show less

I recommend this game!

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DOMINI’S ENCHANTED KINGDOM DESCENT OF THE ELDERS IS WONDERFUL

PostedMarch 7, 2019

biscuitsmama

fromDomini continues to raise the bar with Descent of the Elders

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Skill Level:Expert

Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

WOW, Domini has hit a home run with this game! This is for me the best game in the series and Domini got it right with Descent of the Elders, the fifth game in the Enchanted Kingdom series. The previous game received a 1-star review from me while Descent of the Elders is, IMHO, a solid 5-star game.

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WOW, Domini has hit a home run with this game! This is for me the best game in the series and Domini got it right with Descent of the Elders, the fifth game in the Enchanted Kingdom series. The previous game received a 1-star review from me while Descent of the Elders is, IMHO, a solid 5-star game.

Something that has impressed me with Domini Games is that they always are striving to improve their games by listening to what we want. Since the beta for Descent of the Elders was released some significant changes were made to the game. Gone is the side pop-out bar that I found very distracting, and the collectibles are now indicated on the upper right side of the inventory panel. With the Custom Mode of gameplay we can now select our preferred Hint and Skip times within a range of 0 to 90 seconds. Thank you Domini for making those changes to the game!

The HOPS are so creative and well-designed in Descent of the Elders. There is variation in the types of scenes and a couple of my favorite style HOPS have returned. I really enjoyed two HOPS in particular the first one is where we find items by changing the colored lenses on a magnifying glass. My other favorite is the one where we locate items by sliding an overlay to find the matching items in various scenes. Both of those HOPS are wonderful but so are many of the others.

By now some of you know that I dislike having too many PUZZLES in games. However, most of the puzzles in Descent of the Elders are great fun and since they do not seem to be thrown in as game extenders, it does make sense to have them where they are placed in the gameplay. Since the game’s hero is the “Honored Healer” from the Medico Imperium we will be diagnosing illnesses and creating remedies. Each time we diagnose a patient we will need to solve several mini-games during the process and even though some of them are a bit challenging they are not classified as Rube-Goldberg puzzles. Overall the puzzles in the game are excellent with some being very easy and others really difficult. I Domini’s games have terrific puzzles so I always choose the easy setting when I set up my Custom Mode of gameplay but even then, some of the puzzles are difficult and I need to skip them or cheat by looking in the Strategy Guide.

In the end, I think Domini has “pulled out all the stops” to make Enchanted Kingdom Descent of the Elders an awesome game and one that I highly recommend. For lovers of fantasy type games it is definitely a must have. I purchased immediately after trying the demo and lost a lot of sleep last night because I couldn’t stop playing. Even though I love this game, please try the demo to see if it is one you will enjoy. Happy gaming! Show less

I recommend this game!

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5 / 5

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Enchanted Kingdom: Descent of the Elders C.E.

PostedMarch 18, 2019

pepper2021

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Skill Level:Intermediate

Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object

I have not played this game but will. Why my Review? Well, I hate puzzles! I skip most of them. I am glad that this game and developer have given us the choice of Match 3 instead of the puzzles. I enjoy a good Match 3. I play HO games because I like to hunt for the items. I have been a Big Fish Games player for many, many years. I always check to see how many Hidden Object scenes there are in a ...Show more

I have not played this game but will. Why my Review? Well, I hate puzzles! I skip most of them. I am glad that this game and developer have given us the choice of Match 3 instead of the puzzles. I enjoy a good Match 3. I play HO games because I like to hunt for the items. I have been a Big Fish Games player for many, many years. I always check to see how many Hidden Object scenes there are in a game compared to puzzles before playing/buying any game. This new option will probably open new games for me.
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I recommend this game!

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Loved It

PostedMarch 8, 2019

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

Well, I'm a puzzle lover, so this is a game for me. There are a lot of new puzzles too, that I find a lot of fun.

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loved the game

PostedMarch 12, 2019

shahynaz

Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

i always enjoy enchanted kingdom series and i enjoyed this one as well thank you so much!!

I recommend this game!

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Beautiful and fun game

PostedAugust 17, 2020

JenayP

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

I liked this game. It was very colorful and the music was lovely. The gameplay was nice, lots of puzzles and different kinds of HOS that were fun and different. The game lasted long enough, as did the bonus game. Only thing is I didn't know what was going on when I first began the game, like there was no story so I am guessing you need to play the previous games. I did get what was going on within ...Show more

I liked this game. It was very colorful and the music was lovely. The gameplay was nice, lots of puzzles and different kinds of HOS that were fun and different. The game lasted long enough, as did the bonus game. Only thing is I didn't know what was going on when I first began the game, like there was no story so I am guessing you need to play the previous games. I did get what was going on within 10 minutes or so. I liked it I hope you do too! CE is worth getting btw as the bonus game lasted 30+ minutes and lots of HO to find. Show less

I recommend this game!

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Best Enchanted Kingdom ever!

PostedApril 5, 2019

Stamo

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Skill Level:Expert

Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Puzzle, Time Management

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Enchanted Kingdom: Descent of the Elders Collector's Edition

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

What's not to like about this game? Excellent colour palette, nice graphics, interesting storyline, no technical problems at all. Thank you Domini for this very long, most enjoyable Enchanted Kingdom I have ever played!

I recommend this game!

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