Visual Books – Forgotten Books: The Enchanted Crown - A Hidden Object Story Adventure Review

This is a fun, magical, prophetic adventure. In this game, you travel into a storybook to a kingdom at different points of time, which also makes the scenes change completely. There is no going back and forth between the same scenes throughout the game, and I felt a true progression. There are plenty of awesome otherworldly talking creatures who made me feel like I had truly been transported into a fairytale. There is a smooth storyline, and I liked the dialogue. The scenes match closeup actions such as drawers you open and close in the closeup also being open and/or closed in the overall scene. I do not find this in a lot of HOP games, and it felt authentic, like I was really doing things that might affect the story. There is fun music, some challenging puzzles (some easy), a nice replacement game for HOPs if you want to switch, and variety in the HOPs. I also liked that there are many times a tool in inventory that can be reused. This avoids the whole "I could have used that again!" in the next scene after you use a tool. A footsteps button and extra sparkles are not available if you want them, but this is an older game so it is to be expected. Really the only negative I found was there was a pause when opening up a sub-screen in a scene, so I had to click and wait a second to see if anything was there before trying another place. Otherwise it might flash really quickly or I might miss it the first time. Really fun, really captivating, lengthy game that I recommend!
Review by CarpHarp 4Love on Forgotten Books: The Enchanted Crown - A Hidden Object Story Adventure.