The Christmas Spirit: Trouble in Oz Collector's Edition

The Wizard of Oz is a story that has been told countless times in the past few decades, and its ideas have been borrowed by many other books and movies. Naturally, the video games market did not remain silent on the subject either, so there are plenty of games out there that show you Dorothy’s tale one way or another. As with everything else, the idea can be taken out of context and presented in a different form.

The Christmas Spirit: Trouble in Oz is a hidden object adventure game in which you get to visit the magical land of Oz during Christmas, as well as solve a mystery involving goblins and Santa Claus himself. The way you go about solving these mysteries is the same as in every other HOPA out there, which means that the veterans of the genre should be able to find their way around the puzzles and the interface in no time at all.

The story starts with the main characters preparing for Christmas, and you are invited to join them for a party. Unfortunately, things go wrong when a bunch of goblins decide to steal Santa’s presents and possibly ruin Christmas for everyone in Oz in the process. Thankfully, you have a plan to get everything back to normal and save the pesky goblins a lesson as well.

As you might expect, everything in The Christmas Spirit: Trouble in Oz is Christmas-related, including the puzzles and the level design. Speaking of puzzles, most of them follow the classic formula that sends you on object hunts, followed by a mini-game of some sort at the end. It can get repetitive, but there’s enough variety for that not to happen during a normal session of an hour or so.

The graphics are about as colorful as they get, given the fact that the action takes place in a fantasy world and during Christmas, no less. Every scene is full of color and various Christmas decorations, and the characters are pretty detailed as well. Not the same can be said about the cutscenes, unfortunately, mainly because they come in very low resolutions for some reason.

In the end, The Christmas Spirit: Trouble in Oz can be described as just another hidden object adventure game with Christmas lights, but that’s not a bad thing at all. Hence, if you want something uplifting to get you hyped for the holidays, this might just do the trick.

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