Adventure in Wonderland

I own all of Syntaxity’s Games & I can tell just 5 minutes in this is not of the original quality. I stopped as the requirement to hit Continue over & over started to get on my nerves & I was already disappointed in the graphics. Maybe I can turn that Continue feature off - I don’t know. People forget that the first games, which had the best graphics of all these type games ever, were created by a different, small developer, I think Lone Wolf? After the purchase by or merge into Syntaxity the only completely original game has been Bigfoot - not as good. Since then they’ve really just expanded on the complex worlds already created. Will come back after I bother to finish this one with final review. Not sorry I bought it as the original games are still a joy to revisit. Had higher hopes though. Wish the original creators of the games were still making them. As an FYI, I own Fire Maple & other developer games. The early games, now under Syntaxity, are hands down the best. If you don’t own them, you should.

First of all, I love that it’s Alice in Wonderland themed. I loved the Disney animated version when I was a girl. This is mainly exploring with some puzzles thrown in. The puzzles are quite easy, which I like. I play some “adventure escape” type games, also, and sometimes the puzzles are quite hard in those, and I don’t like that. At my age (over 50), I don’t have time or patience to deal with that. But the thing I love most about this game? Everything makes sense! You need to pry something? You’ll find a crowbar. But the items will be somewhere normal, not like the crowbar will be up in a tree or something. In some other games, you’ll need to collect, say, 6 tiles for a game. One will be behind a pillow on the couch, one will be in a cupboard in the kitchen (why?), and one will be in a locked drawer that you have to find the key for first. Who locks up a random game tile? This game is great. You just roam around interacting and eventually you’ll figure it out. Hint: keep going back to places you were previously, b/c new stuff shows up that you might need. I’m definitely going to check out this game company and see what else they have. And if they don’t have anything else, I hope they develop more games like this. Oh, and the scenery and graphics are so beautiful.

I love the artwork and storytelling in this game. It is very immersive, and the little world you enter is fun. But it is a little world. As a puzzle game, this one feels shorter and simpler than other Syntaxity games. The problem when a company makes fantastic 5-star games is that the bar is set high for anything else they release. As a huge fan of both Syntaxity and Wonderland, I really wanted this to be a 5-star game. It was fun to play, but just didn’t quite make the mark.