Review
This review applies to version 2.7
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“Holly a Christmas Tale” has as the protagonist to Holly, a young lady who is working at a toy store in Christmas Eve. She’s hoping to finish the shift so she can go back home with her family but always seems to be something else to do. Now, you have to help her finishing her assignments in order to be able to go home.
Beyond the story, the game is a game which could be categorized into the “seek & find” category. The story gives a frame for the game to develop, that’s all. Once you are playing the game what you have to do is to find certain items in different messy scenes. The game will provide a list and some hints in case you get stuck. What makes this game a bit different from others of the kind is that not always provides a list of specific items to do, but sometimes give you a criterion that objects have to meet to be electable. For instance, the first level begins asking Holly to find all items that are not toys in a messy shelf at the toy store.
If at some time you get stuck and can’t find any more items in the scene, you can ask for help. You have a limited amount of hints available per scene, but in case you run out of them you can play an extra minimage to get a couple of extra hints for the scene. In this extra game you are provided of a board of Christmas style objects among which are mixed up some golden corn cobs (one per column to be precise). The goal is to make all corn cobs fall down until the bottom of the board by clearing the objects below them. To clear the objects below them you have to indicate matches of objects of the same kind that are located adjacent. When you click on the match, those objects disappear and the objects above them fall down.
When you first enter the game, you’ll get to the main menu with the following options on it:
- Change Player: the first time there’s no existing player. After you create one or more, they’ll be saved. When you enter into this submenu, you’ll be asked for a name as a new player. It’s possible to have a list of different profiles and record their performance. This way, you can play home tournaments with family and friends.
- Play: to start playing the game, after viewing a brief game introduction.
- Options: this is the menu from which you can set some game options like sound volume, music volume, and full/windowed screen.
- Exit: no further explanation required.
You can try this game for 60 minutes before you buy the licensed version. If you like it, you can buy this game for only 19.95 dollars, right from the Oberon Media Game Center, on the Web.
About the system requirements, is not that big computer that you need in order to run this game. Take a look to the list:
• Windows XP/Vista
• CPU: 800 MHz
• RAM: 256 MB
• Hard drive space: 144 MB
• DirectX 9.0 |
