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Find the missing woman lost in a mysterious Carnival of Horrors. Investigate two worlds: that you know and an alternate plane existing behind the Hall of Mirrors. Discover the secrets of an ancient creature known as evil.
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Genre : Adventure, Puzzle, Hidden Object | |
| Developer : Artifex Mundi | ||
| Publisher : Artifex Mundi | ||
| Players : No Online Multiplayer | ||
| ESRB Rating : T | ||
| Release Date : Jun 27, 2017 | ||
Game REVIEW |
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Find the missing woman lost in a mysterious Carnival of Horrors. Investigate two worlds: that you know and an alternate plane existing behind the Hall of Mirrors. Discover the secrets of an ancient creature known as evil. Star-crossed lovers story reveal and stop the Evil from breaking the magical chain and attacking our world.
This time of the month for the new hidden object game that will be released by Artifex Mundi. As with all the rest of their output Dark Arcana: The Carnival is a story driven puzzle game light, this time the story is that a woman is missing, carnival scary and mysterious parallel dimension.
For those who are new to this genre you control a large circular cursor and use it to interact with objects on the screen. The game plays out as a series of 2D screens each representing a new location in the Carnival of the title. Scattered across the screen are various points of interest that will generally cause a new puzzle game to let the story progress.
Puzzles in Dark Arcana: The Carnival comes in a variety of styles of hidden object through pattern matching or restyle item. Puzzle rotating concentric circles to create an image or connecting wires to complete the circuit. While all the puzzles are relatively simple, and a bit samey in the implementation, the background doing a pretty good job of putting them in a different location to add variety. Selection of the puzzle here is not the best for a game Artifex Mundi, which I felt was a key weakness here.
Having played a fair few games of this style I have now come to appreciate the hidden object scenes and how this varies between games. Dark Arcana: The Carnival seems to be one of the older games with Artifex Mundi because there is less variation in the hidden object scenes, I choose words from the list here than say, also identified silhouette. It's just a small thing, but it does not reduce the range of activities offered.
As with other games Dark Arcana also has a generous hint system, effectively allowing you to skip any puzzles throughout the game, and the puzzle selection alternatives if you do not want to find the hidden objects. The following is an alternative puzzle card matching game that proved to be fun to play. There is no evidence of wall here, a feature that I love about the series enigmatic, but you get the monkey helpers who can be called to reach items could not be accessed. This is a nice feature, and I love my monkey, but it does feel a bit excessive.
Basic gameplay never varies too much between this kind of game and this is something that you will either appreciate or not. For me this is a game to relax with because they do not have a failed state and I was under no time constraints or pressure at all when playing them. I switched to this for their story and Dark Arcana: The Carnival is not good, I am quite interested to see where it would even have the original feel intimidating for it.
Again the presentation a bit ropey when it comes to animated cutscenes, with everything that looks a little low res and low-fi, although this possibility is limited machine. I found the graphics to see somehow simpler than newer games and obviously this is the beginning of Artifex Mundi release.
So overall Dark Arcana: Carnival is another hidden object game is solid. There is a shortage of the puzzles here, which may mark this as the previous release of Artifex Mundi, but the story is interesting and keeps me engaged throughout. I do not think this will do anything to attract new players, but if you're a fan then you will probably enjoy this.
PROS
+ Decent story with great horror theme
+ Helper monkey!
+ Hidden object game another solid
CONS
- The lack of variety in the hidden object game
- Simple cutscenes and voice acting
- Lack of variety in puzzles wider
THE VERDICT |
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Dark Arcana: Carnival is another hidden object game is solid. While there is no shortage of variety of puzzles here the story interesting and kept me engaged throughout. I do not think this will do anything to attract new players, but if you're a fan then you will probably enjoy this. You may have noticed that we've been saying "as the title of Artifex Mundi else" or something similar throughout this review for Dark Arcana: The Carnival, and that's because if you have played even one, you will probably find a lot of similarities offered here with the only really change in a setting that sets it apart. But if you do things well, why change it right? Although there is a problem with character models and voice acting, story short pleasant and nice visual style and an easy finish means that most will enjoy their brief time with the game. Those who have played the previous title of Artifex Mundi will know if they want it or not depends on their feeling with the previous title, and for those who have not we recommend choosing this one, especially if or when it goes on sale.
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