Yuletide Legends: Frozen Hearts

Santa always appears to be in trouble around Christmas, if one is to believe all the movies and video games that come out when the winter holidays arrive. Whether his elves are not able to produce toys or something happens to his magical sleigh, Santa seems to be needing a lot of help from regular folk in order to do his job, and this year is no different either.

Yuletide Legends: Frozen Hearts is a hidden object adventure game in which you play the role of a demigod able to wield the power of fire magic. The game features all the regular elements of the genre, so if you have dealt with HOPAs before, you should be able to get right down to business. In short, you solve puzzles, find useful items and keep the story moving by jumping from one scene to the other.

The story begins with Santa trying to reach a mysterious island to deliver his presents, but a storm knocks his sleigh out of the sky and he becomes trapped on the island. As it happens, Christmas is forbidden here, and there are all sorts of nasty creatures trying to hurt Santa. Your goal is to help him get away by using your fire magic, although brute force is not always the answer.

As mentioned before, the mechanics are nothing out of the ordinary, so the gameplay formula revolves around solving puzzles by finding the missing objects and placing them in the right spot. Granted, that’s not all there is, because you also have to engage in various mini-games in order to solve some of the puzzles, some of which can be quite tricky and demanding.

It depends on the difficulty level you choose, on the other hand, because you can always take advantage of the hint system to work around a particularly nasty puzzle. The graphics are in tune with the atmosphere and the environments, which means that the screen is often cluttered with colorful lights and various other Christmas-related things. The music is pretty jolly as well, although it gets more serious when the action intensifies.

Although it doesn’t try very hard to innovate in terms of gameplay or the story, Yuletide Legends: Frozen Hearts is still a pretty fun game, at least if you are a HOPA fan. Hence, there are enough enjoyable puzzles in there to keep you engaged from start to finish.

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