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Azada: Ancient Magic [Download]

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I like Azada a lot but Azada: Ancient Magic is even better. There are no chinese checkers or Hanoi towers mini-games with this one. The stories are much better and it's a visually beautiful game, even the music is good. You get to help out Hansel and Gretel, the Invisible Man, and Johnathan Harker among many others in 21 different stories.

I had trouble figuring out a some of the mini-games, you still get a few orbs in order to by-pass some of them. You get about two hints per story--I did have to resort to a walk-through for some of the scenes. There is a timed or relaxed mode. I chose the latter. If you get stuck in one story you can go to another which is nice. The only problem I've had with the game is it takes at least 5 minutes to load on my pc. I don't think it's a common problem though.

I really don't think anyone would regret getting this game.

This game is alot of fun and not too complicated to play. The graphics are nice and the puzzles are challageing. It downloads with no problems and takes up very little memory. If you are used to games with outstanding grapics like "DREAM CHRONICLES", "RETURN TO RAVENHERST", BEYOND THE SPIRITS EYE", "EVERLIGHT" and such, this one might seem somewhat dull. But the graphics are still good and it is a great way to pass an afternoon if you enjoy a point and click game that is more than just finding different objects in multiple settings. I'd say give it a try. You will probablly enjoy it.

This second Azada was great. I liked the first one, but the second one was even better. I love when the sequel is just as good or better than the original one. Can't wait until the third one comes out.

This is a great puzzle game! It's full of little brain teasers that can be rather tricky at times. I like that it's not too easy like Murder, She Wrote was. This is not a hidden object game, either. You have to pick up objects and use them to complete a task. It's not too hard to figure out what the task is because the object or task is highlighted when you put the cursor on it. I'd say it took me a total of about 4 hours to finish. It is reminiscent of the Mortimer Beckett games.

Although I enjoyed the game there was one puzzle I could not get past - tracing Henry Jekyll's signature. It would have been nice if I could have skipped this puzzle and completed the game.

This game is a delicious sequel to the first Azada. The story line is intriging and mysterious with more challenging mini puzzles to solve, adding to the fun of the game. I particularly liked the sleuthing aspect in discovering suspects of the crime. It was my first time to experience the back-n-forth movement but that's part of sleuthing. Overall, a game well worth the value.

At first I wasn't sure if I liked the game because it was different from others I played. But I got hooked quickly. It's relatively easy but has you thinking on some puzzles. The graphics are great and the game is broken up into Chapters or Books so you can stop and start whenever you wish. The value was excellent for the price.

But, if you get stuck it offers 2 hints per episode. Hard core gamers may not find this appealing, but it is helpful to us casual, recrational players. Good graphics, intriguing puzzles, and reasonably long (about 18-20 episodes). This is not a "find the hidden objects" type of game, and you can save your progress. Good value for the money.

I thought this was a very good game, very exciting and interesting. I just wish it was a little bit longer or had some other added features after you finish the main game.

I play a lot of adventure games and puzzle games, with a few hidden object games thrown in. I give Azada Ancient Magic five stars for fun and four stars overall. The point off is because the game is mid-level difficulty (versus harder puzzles/gaming, which I like), and it's just a little short. Not obnoxiously short, but a bit short. As I write this review, amazon has it for sale at less than $5 (plus shipping), so Azada Ancient Magic is a top value for your dollar.

The storyline is fun. You enter famous books and interact with their characters, such as Sherlock Holmes and Baron Von Munchausen. I think the scenes are delightfully drawn. There isn't a lot of moving/video action, but that doesn't bother me - not every game needs to be a sim.

The game is a great mixture of puzzle gaming and adventure gaming.
Puzzles: The puzzles are all different and creative. Some are quite simple, such as matching rock samples. Some take a while to figure out the best approach, such as the drop puzzle, where you have to create wood blocks, stacking them in such a way that colored liquid drops unite to form a large drop (rather than seeping out the box). [Hard to explain, guess you need to try it to understand!] Some are common types, but take patience to figure out - and you can run out of time! An example of this is a pipe puzzle, where you have to turn pieces of pipe so that everything is connected.

Overall, I found the puzzles a lot of fun and some are wonderfully unusual (creating moons). I would rate them medium difficulty. A nice challenge for a 10-12 year old, and fun but not super demanding for an adult.

The other part of Azada Ancient Magic is adventure point and click/inventory/combination, etc. Example: You need a crow feather so you have to attract a crow to a bird feeder. In one room, you find a crust of bread and a meat grinder. You combine these two inventory items to get bread crumbs which you take to the bird feeder. In addition, before you can take the bread and meat grinder, you have to figure out a way to get the restaurant owner out of the dining room so you can "borrow" them.

Some of the adventure moves are very creative. I don't want to give it away but I'll say that I loved the Jekyll & Hyde set up! I would say that the adventure part of Azada Ancient Magic is also medium difficulty. I did get stuck a couple times, which is aggravating at the time, but also makes the game good!

I have no idea why this game is going so cheap because I really had a good time playing it. It's put out by Big Fish games and Activision. I do tend to like anything with the Big Fish label, though I think most of its games are more pure puzzle, such match three.