Common sense says just restart it and try again, unfortunately for 90% of the puzzles this is not an option, your only solution to this is undo all the mistakes and manually reset the puzzle, or skip it all together. The final point regarding no puzzle reset goes a little like this, you stumble across a puzzle, you jump right into solving it & realise you’ve made an error. This would then force you back to my first point of just randomly moving the cursor and jabbing the A button. The controller function was infuriating, you could line the cursor over an item & select it, but for some unknown reason it would not select the item. During most of the hidden object scenes the items you were searching for & the image background colour choices were so similar that the objects were unidentifiable, your only solution to finding them was to move the cursor around the screen, press the A button & hope, this wasn’t the case for all of the puzzles but enough to make the issue memorable. Let me spend a moment expanding on this for you. The games difficulties were compounded with further frustrations due to 3 main issues graphics, controller function, and inability to reset puzzles. A repeat of the same task filled me with no sense of achievement, more a fear that I’d have to spend 10 minutes of my life hoping to complete the objective. This sense of joy & anticipation was soon eradicated as the puzzles began getting steadily more difficult & mundane. I admit that after some time working through the puzzles I was genuinely happy with being able to solve the challenges, on completion I looked forward to the next task. The opening few levels you encounter are a delight of both challenging puzzles & intricate mini games. Artifex Mundi do use a tried and tested method for their puzzles, a mix of mini games & hidden object scenes. It made it feel bitty and random, this for me did not follow the influences of a Brothers Grimm tale. This style of play meant you were traversing different areas of the map constantly, a shortcut to the map to select areas cut down movement time, but the fluency of the story was really broken up. The gameplay for Grim Legends 2 is broken down into lots of mini puzzles, when you solve them they will reward you with an item or a clue, these in turn can be used in the world to open up further puzzles. Solve the puzzles & unravel the secrets of the Queens past, can you right the wrongs? Can you prove the Queens innocence whilst in the ever present shadow of the green fog? The King refuses to believe his Queen would be involved in the dark arts, he instructs you to help solve the mystery, much to the dismay of his mother.
GRIM LEGENDS 2 SONG OF THE DARK SWAN STRATEGY GUIDE TRIAL
The queen is accused & without a trial she is sentenced to death the only suitable outcome for her heinous crime. Black magic is the only viable reason for this crime. As the opening scenes unfold, the royal couple’s only child is taken by a stranger enveloped in an odd green mist. The Queen is mute and has mysteriously fallen ill. You play the part of a female protagonist, a world famous healer who has been called upon to save the Queen of the Eagle Kingdom. The game tells the story of 2 Kingdoms, the Eagle & Swan. As the story unfolds obvious references to the tale are seen, the artistic approach is a definitive homage to fairy tales & folklore. The six swans Brothers Grimm fairy tale has taken many adaptations over the years & Grim Legends 2 is no exception to this trend. A hidden item quest puzzle game that bucks the trend of fantasy setting Artifex Mundi have utilised fairy tales, & more specifically Brothers Grimm to influence their storyline and artistic approach. Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan, developed by Artifex Mundi, is the second instalment of the trilogy.