Dark Parables: The Red Riding Hood Sisters Collector's Edition

If you like point and click adventures and solving puzzles that are fun but not too taxing, I recommend the Dark Parables series. The games have a great storyline that can be played in each game or through the whole series, a dark twist on fairytales (ok the original tales were pretty dark, but this is dark and different than Grimm or Perrault). The hidden object puzzles are fun and involve assembling items you need, not just finding existing objects in a scene. My one criticism is that playing the game on "HARD" often resulted in me clicking through all available areas to find the next HOP/HOS or the item that I missed picking up to further the plot, but there's always the Strategy Guide to fall back on if I got too frustrated. Overall, love the gameplay, love the story, highly recommended.

This is [I]Dark Parables[/I] #4, which is very loosely based on Red Riding Hood with a mix of other fairly tale elements, especially The Boy Who Cried Wolf as a bonus adventure. Though this series had a bad start with [I]Curse of the Briar Rose[/I], it has been solid since [I]Dark Parables 2: The Exiled Prince[/I]. Indeed, it keeps getting better. The drawings are truly excellent and the gameplay, though unremarkable, has hit a stride. If you enjoyed the previous games, you'll enjoy this one. Note that these are hidden-fragment games rather than classic hidden-object games.

Honestly pretty solid. Introduces a lot of building blocks that come back (for better or worse) later in the series. This one really starts to establish a broader lore that isn't as connected to the first few games (at least not on first glance), and I found that to be fairly interesting. Shame they fumbled that concept pretty hard later on, but I won't hold that against this game. This game features some pretty decent voice acting, interesting and visually appealing locations, and decently solid work in guiding you from area to area. Generally speaking, I would consider this game to be the last of the original quality of the series. It's not quite as good as the previous three games, but the difference isn't as noticeable between this game and the previous three as it is between this game and the next few games. Long live the Red Riding Hood Sisters, and I'm so sorry you became an obligatory thing to throw in to a lot of the later games. Still, the point remains. This game is great :)

Гра мого дитинства. Була щасливою придбати на весняних знижках та пережити наново усі ті відчуття. Обожнюю серію цих ігор та компанію. Жаль нема нагород, так було б трохи цікавіше. Раджу всім хто любить ігри з головоломками та пошуками предметів. Сюжет доволі цікавий, приємно читати бонусні історії. Дизайн персонажів нереально класний, обожнюю його! Було б класно знайти десь концепт арти в кращій якості. Особливо захоплена костюмами Червоних шапочок! Не змогла знайти усі мінливі предмети. Багато предметів тяжко знайти в локації, так добре вони зливаються та гармоніюють з фоном...(але це добре) Досі не можу зрозуміти нащо той телескоп перед замком. Я його навіть не використала але спокійно пройшла сюжет.

i love that you get to be a inspector and solve the whole mystery

I have played the games from the series before and now that I got them on steam I'm slowly making my way throughout the series once more. This was one of my favorites, maybe because I'm partial to the story of the Little Red Riding Hood and things like the ranger class in DND. The forth game of the Dark Parable series follow the Fairytale detective once more to investigate the reports from a missing girl rescued from the forest. According to her, wolves covered in mist were being commanded by a mysterious woman with glowing eyes. Set out to meet up with the order of the Red Riding Hood Sisters that protect the region for centuries, the detective is ambushed shortly as she arrived but also rescued by one of the sisters, named Ruth. Together, they set out to investigate the mysterious Wolf Queen and rescue the other sisters, who have been kidnapped. This title expands the lore of the series even further, with ramifications that will be met in future titles and a special surprise from one of the previous games. The story of this game in itself have a few twists and some interesting characters too. While there aren’t any noticeable new mechanics, the pacing is much better than Rise of the Snow Queen with the backtracking being far more logical and better structured, with the story giving better indication on where to go next than before. Graphic-wise they did try some angles for the backgrounds that are unusual for HoD games, with varying results but still welcomed, with most of the locations being pleasing to look at. The Bonus Content takes place 500 before the story and reveals what happened to the Mist Kingdom and why it is the way it is, inspired by The Boy Who Cried Wolf. It has some very beautiful visuals and can be very colorful, contrasting to the somewhat darker tones of the main story that appropriately uses night themes. It is a very good game, a point that the series found a good formula and stuck with it.

Nostalgia and wolves! Feels good to play this again after years. My only suggestion for this is the graphics to be better for bigger screens. The graphics are quite blurry on my end, but still a good gameplay!