Happyland Adventures - Xmas Edition

Happyland Adventures – Xmas Edition is an arcade game that enables you to explore the various lands. Santa requested your help to find his scattered helpers and save Christmas.

The story line is simple; you get a call from Santa just before Christmas. You must find his helpers and help him deliver the gifts around the world. The gameplay is typical for a platformer. You control a miniature dog and you must explore levels to find the Happylanders. You must escort them to a safe zone, and after you find all of them, you can move to the next level.

Along the way, you must jump over obstacles, collect items and avoid the various enemies. The snails, monkeys, bugs and lizards are a health hazard and bumping into them will consume energy. However, if you fall on spikes, you lose a life and must start the level from the beginning.

The game provides a tutorial level that enables you to get accustomed to the controls, which are fully customizable. Various features make this game quite fun. Power-ups give you energy, allow you to fly, make you invulnerable or offer extra time and bonus rooms. You have a time limit to complete each level and every 250 items, you get an extra life.

This game is quick to install and can run on modern operating systems. It uses minimal computer resources, and its interface is simple and straightforward. You can play it with a controller since it supports gamepads.

The tile-based graphics are not exceptional. The game is displayed in small resolution and you cannot resize its window. The animations are sketchy and the character is too tiny to be controlled accurately. However, the sounds are great; the background music is appropriate and each time you collect an item or perform an action, a funny jingle will be triggered.

To summarize, Happyland Adventures – Xmas Edition is a fun and exciting game. It offers surprising features that will keep you playing. It lacks in the graphics department, but it offers substance and a good gameplay to make up for it. It is free to play and you can give it a try.