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Dream Chronicles

   Puzzle game. A mix of fantasy and reality, its hypnotic dreamland engages you in a larger-than-life quest, a mystery that needs to be solved one puzzle at a time as the story unfolds around you. Lilith, Fairy Queen of Dreams, has imprisoned the hamlet of Wish under a slumber spell affecting everyone but you, a mortal named Faye. Your task is to locate Fidget, your missing husband, banish the enchantment cast by Lilith and wake your daughter, Lyra, reuniting your family in the process. But, all you have to start with is a diary left by Fidget detailing his secret past and the path to be followed. It is a puzzle game so you must solve puzzles during playing it. Some require you to arrange objects in a specific order or follow a particular sequence, others involve combining items to achieve a goal and many entail using one object "on" another to effect a change of some sort. The game is so exciting and unpredictable that sometimes you don.t know where the dream is.

   Stunning artwork, enveloping mesmerizing music, gorgeous artwork and a gripping storyline. All this is about this game and it is true. Each scene, 32 in all, incorporates one or more puzzles to be solved, with thorough investigation crucial to advancing. Doors, drawers, buttons, switches, wall hangings, toys, books, keys, crystals and other items of various shapes and sizes all come into play. Besides solving each puzzle, you must also gather a collection of special Dream Pieces hidden in each scene. These sparkling gems, totalling 115, are automatically incorporated into Dream Jewels contained in your diary. For every Dream Piece collected, you earn 1,000 points. The graphics are beautifully rendered; an ethereal soundtrack helps bring the world to life. Its engaging narrative draws you into the story and diverse puzzles of varying difficulty keep play interesting and challenging.The only real problem is the fact that we can only save our progress between the scenes. That means we're bound to replay the entire "level" in case we abandon it, out of most diverse reasons, before solving the given puzzle. If you're used to indulge yourselves in day dreaming, I gladly recommend you to glance at Dream Chronicles. It's easy to swallow and digest it, and the result will feel like a good night sleep.

Offline gameplay: 1 player Multiplayer: Yes

Publisher: Playfirst ESRB Ratio: Everyone

Extras and features: Stunning Graphics and Animated Effects 32 Original Levels 18 Unique Environments 8 Dream Jewels to Fill up with Jewels 115 Dream Pieces to find throughout the game Good Variety of Puzzle Types

Drawbacks: Progress can be saved between the scenes only

Requirements: Windows 98/98SE/2000/Me/XP/Vista,Processor: PIII 700 MHz,DirectX 7.0,128 MB RAM,Free hard drive space: 25 MB

Alternative names: Draem Chronicles, Dream Cronicles, Dream Chronilces, Dreem Chronikles.