Christmas Stories: A Little Prince Collector's Edition

Whenever Christmas rolls around, video game developers everywhere start to integrate the holiday spirit into their creations. In the casual world of video games, this is not only done through red hats or some snow, but entire new titles are produced, featuring winter-specific stories and environments. Thus, there are all sorts of adventure and puzzle games released once December kicks off.

Christmas Stories: A Little Prince is a hidden object adventure game in which you get to toy around with magic, fun puzzles and a couple of interesting characters. As the name implies, the action takes place around Christmas, so expect snow, colorful lights and all that comes along with the season. However, nothing is different in the gameplay department, because the mechanics are very much the ones you should be used to by now.

As such, the adventure starts when the main character is invited to a wedding in some kind of castle, but things go pretty wrong once you get there. Hence, an evil sorceress puts a curse on the newlyweds, and it’s your job to find a way to reverse this curse and stop the sorceress from doing more harm. A few friendly creatures come to your aid along the way, so you are not alone in this journey.

The gameplay recipe is as old as the genre itself, which means that you have to examine every scene for useful objects, store them in your inventory, and then put them to good use once the situation requires it. Even the simplest items can be used in creative ways, such as coins that unscrew bolts, or lighters that melt away the ice trapping another useful object.

Magic plays a pretty major role throughout the tale as well, so you are often confronted with situations that require some kind of ritual or magic item. This is translated into visual terms with the aid of colorful graphics and detail-rich environments, so you truly feel like you are part of a different world for a few hours. The same can be said about the sound effects and the music, because they play their parts really well.

Although there’s nothing new to talk about when it comes to Christmas Stories: A Little Prince and its gameplay, the atmosphere as a whole is definitely enjoyable. Hence, you can’t go wrong with it if you want a Christmas-specific adventure game. NOTE: This is a downloader for the game. Once run, the application will automatically download and install the game on your computer.

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