Myth or Reality: Fairy Lands > iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac & PC Game

Overall rating

5 / 5

love fairies

PostedAugust 22, 2022

dippy1961

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Skill Level:Intermediate

Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object

Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

4 / 5

Level of Challenge

4 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

loved this game nice to see fun games and pretty only tock me 6 hours was sad when i finished would love to see more like this please

I recommend this game!

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OH LOOK, A NEW TITLE...WAIT A MINUTE, WHY DOES THIS GAME GIVE ME DEJA VU?

PostedOctober 29, 2021

pennmom36

fromRemembering You Is Easy, I Do It Every Day-Missing You Is A Heartache That Never Goes Away ~ Forever in my heart, Loki ❣

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Skill Level:Expert

Fun Factor

3 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

3 / 5

Storyline

4 / 5

Completed Game approximately 6.0 hours
(including completion of all Mini-games & CE Bonus Chapter)
23 Main Game Scene Locations +12 Bonus Chapter
Difficulty Range: Beginner-Possibly Intermediate

WHO DOESN'T LOVE FAIRIES?
I for one love Fairy-themed fantasy games and I was thrilled to see a new series in this genre. I won't lie, once I realized Domini was the developer, I was "fairy-ly" certain this would be a huge letdown. To my surprise, the graphics were amazing and more surprisingly, the storyline was pretty decent too! Unfortunately, it only took a couple of scenes before I started experiencing Deja Vu. I've played this exact game hundreds of times and if you've played any Domini game lately, you've already played this game too because the gameplay itself never changes!

I was really hoping that Domini had donned a shiny new set of Fairy Wings befitting of this new fantasy HOPA series but it appears someone has clipped this fairy's wings! Sometimes pretty isn't enough, if nothing ever changes from one game to the next, from one series to another, who cares about a new title and pretty graphics?

We only have 2-3 HOPA developers remaining yet the HOPA audience remains massive, so if developers & BF want to survive, it's critical to appease the fans who visit this site daily just to see if there is a new HOPA game offered...think about this statement...and consider my advice, please. Both the developers and Big Fish mistakenly believe that the HOPA-era is dying because they can't bother to ask the right people the right questions! We are still here, we are still diehard fans of the genre, we are still paying customers, we just don't like these newer games that practically play themselves! If they gave us an opportunity to explain, they would discover that the majority of HOPA fans are forced to replay older games developed from 2013 to 2017 because they don't like the drastic change in gameplay the developers have taken.

This says it all folks...we love this genre so much that we replay the older, decent ones, just to get our "HOPA-fixes" Everyone says "I'll go replay an older HOPA and patiently wait for a decent game to come along" and that should be an eye-opening wake-up call! Nowadays, you'll never hear a HOPA fan say "this new HOPA is better than the oldies-but-goodies games from yesteryear, wow, what a keeper!" In case the developers and BF are still wondering what made the old games so good and why the new ones don't thrill anyone past a 3.5 average rating...It's because the dumbed-down, repetitive gameplay NEVER changes in the games from 2018 to the present! I realize you have a hard time believing this, but we are actually intelligent people and we are more than capable of figuring out what to do in a HOPA game (and the whole point of playing them is to sleuth and solve! Did you guys forget what the point of a HOPA game is?)...the bigger question is, "are YOU capable of creating a game with logical tasks"?

COLLECTIBLES & MORPHING OBJECTS (CE Only):
It's hard to enjoy a repetitive Collectible offered game after game and even though this is a brand new series, the collectibles/morphs are exactly the same! Once again, there is a gazillion Missing Notes to discover, 15 Morphing Magic Items, and 15 Fairy Figurines to click on. I say click on versus collect because they are never challenging to find, they just require the player to click on them...clickables, NOT collectibles! Once again, there are 70 Zoom Zone Coin Leaves that are used to purchase 15 decorations for Queen Mab's Hut. The decorations are always spewn about the room with seemingly no rhyme or reason, and they certainly aren't an exciting addition to the game. There is an optional Collection Icon Tab that can be enabled or disabled in the settings menu which lights up when a clickable is available in the scene. You can also choose to show/hide the availability of collectibles on the Map.

HIDDEN OBJECT SCENES:
There are 13 Hidden Object Scenes +5 in the CE Bonus Chapter, the same amount offered in every game because as I said the game mechanics are the same in every game, they only change the graphics & story, everything else is a carbon copy. The Hidden Object Scenes vary with Keywords in Sentence Finds, Silhouetted Shape Finds, Matching Objects, Multiples of the Same Item Finds, Progressive-Interactive Finds, and good Old-fashioned Interactive Listed Item Finds.

MATCH 3 ALTERNATIVE:
There is an alternate Match 3 Game available, which still doesn't allow you to make consecutive matches quickly because you have to wait for all tiles to stop falling before you can make the next match which makes the game super boring. The M3 boards are always square and they never add obstacles or new features to make it progress in difficulty. FYI: one of the achievements requires you to play the alternate Match 3 game in place of the HOS. (just once)

MINI-GAMES-PUZZLES:
There are 16 Mini-Games +9 in the CE Bonus Chapter. You can choose to play them in an Easy or Hard difficulty mode and you can choose which mode to have them start out in the Custom Setting (you can still switch between modes for each individual game)

BONUS CHAPTER: (CE Version Only)
You play as a young Maryam, a character from the main game on a mission to save the fairies from the clutches of evildoers. There are 5 Hidden Object scenes and 9 Mini-games spread out over 12 additional scene locations filled with even more repetitive tasks. You will continue your search for the final 4 Fairy Figurines, 6 Morphing Magic Items, and 12 Zoom Zone Leaf Coins of varying amounts which allows you to purchase the final decorations for Queen Mab's Hut...same collectibles/morphs different names.

COLLECTOR'S EDITION EXTRA'S: (CE version only)
21 Wallpapers (I have to admit that the wallpapers are gorgeous, some of them are without characters slapped all over them!) 21 Concept Art Pictures, 5 Music Soundtracks, 25 Movie Video Cutscenes, 36 Achievements, 18 Replayable Mini-Games, 18 Replayable Hidden Object Scenes, 15 Morphing Magic Items, 15 Fairy Figurine Clickables,70 Zoom-Zone Coin Leaves, 15 Queen Mab's Hut decorations (purchase with leaves) 8 excessively long Main Chapters, +Bonus Chapter, and a Built-In Strategy Guide.

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This must be a Myth

PostedOctober 29, 2021

tesamoine

fromJersey Girl... at home.

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

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Fun Factor

2 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

1 / 5

Storyline

1 / 5

I played this as the CE and no matter which way you slice it, CE or SE, it's just not doing it for me. I thought "Oh wow. A new series. How exciting!" Alas, no. We have the same old same old, just substituting fairies for detectives, for whatever the subject may be. Same ridiculous tasks. Same HOS. Same puzzles. Same move 2 scenes and get rid of all inventory items, so heavens forbid, you don't need to think too much. I have been existing on older games when they used to be challenging and fun. I have purchased older series and replayed older games and I love them. I could rave about them. But what we are getting now is bottom of the barrel elementary games. I do not recommend. Show less

I don't recommend this game.

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