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Product Description:
Fairies takes you to a world where legends are true and magic is real. As the most powerful wizard ever known, you are the only hope for a once peaceful land where fairies have been captured by an unknown evil. Complete 100 mesmerizing levels, break the magical spell that traps the fairies inside pictures, and restore justice to this world in need. You will be a hero, and be granted the ultimate power. Use it wisely!
Immerse yourself for hours as you travel across five increasingly challenging landscapes. Match fairies to free them and win over the forces of evil that try to lock you down.
Stop and restart playing or try any of the four game modes at will. Fairies features personalized player profiles and automatic game saving. Clear a level over a quick break or dive in for hours of fun!
What's new in this version:
Includes various fixes including a critical fix for Mac OS X 10.3.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
- Mac OS X 10.1
Additional Requirements:
- MacOSX 10.1 or later
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| Overall Rating: |   (1.3) |
Features: | (2.3) |
Support: | (2.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (3.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (2.0) |
Price: | (1.3) |
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Avoid these guys - Version: 1.0, 2/2/2007 10:46AM PST
illegal.alias
The game itself is enjoyable for some people. I bought it for a friend and she enjoyed it, except that it constantly freezes. The real problem is with the fact that this company has a serious bug in the original version that they charge to fix. If the new version is fixed. I have no intention of paying them more to find out. Their website gives the illusion that you will have some sort of customer service available to you if you buy. You will not! They never respond. This borders on fraud, in my opinion, because a reasonable person would feel they are misrepresenting their services. Perhaps some State's Attorneys General might want to check that out.
Pretty lame - Version: 1.4b, 1/29/2007 01:37AM PST
rhesuspieces00
If you liked Bejeweled 2, then you might like this game. If you didn't like Bejeweled, you will hate this game.
Personally, I think its really boring. Its very similar in style to Bejeweled (you might even say a rip-off of Bejeweled), but with the flaws magnified. Specifically, that once you get past the fifteenth level or so, luck plays a much bigger role than skill in advancing. If you happen to make a few moves that produce huge combos (as in more than ten successive reactions, which you can't possibly predict since most of the pieces will come from off screen), then you beat the level. So generally you do the same level over and over again until you happen to get good combos.
I didn't play earlier versions, which were supposedly terribly buggy. This version never crashed on me, but does have bugs (e.g. the "mystery" bonus often doesn't work if you win it during the middle of a combo, which is more often than not). The only thing the game has going for it is the eye-candy. The graphics look good for a game that doesn't require much in the way of system resources, but that unfortunately doesn't make up for poor gameplay.
Also, the music gets really annoying fast, as does the breathy pseudo-british voice-over.
And finally, at $5 the game would be somewhat disappointing. Expecting $20 for this game is absurd.
Personally, I think its really boring. Its very similar in style to Bejeweled (you might even say a rip-off of Bejeweled), but with the flaws magnified. Specifically, that once you get past the fifteenth level or so, luck plays a much bigger role than skill in advancing. If you happen to make a few moves that produce huge combos (as in more than ten successive reactions, which you can't possibly predict since most of the pieces will come from off screen), then you beat the level. So generally you do the same level over and over again until you happen to get good combos.
I didn't play earlier versions, which were supposedly terribly buggy. This version never crashed on me, but does have bugs (e.g. the "mystery" bonus often doesn't work if you win it during the middle of a combo, which is more often than not). The only thing the game has going for it is the eye-candy. The graphics look good for a game that doesn't require much in the way of system resources, but that unfortunately doesn't make up for poor gameplay.
Also, the music gets really annoying fast, as does the breathy pseudo-british voice-over.
And finally, at $5 the game would be somewhat disappointing. Expecting $20 for this game is absurd.
The reason I haven't played the game much, and have finally deleted it from my machine, is the existence of several issues that made the game less than fun. At first there was a problem with the MGS version that caused the game to lose its registration codes every couple weeks (they were probably being deleted by periodic maintenance routines). It took half a year and several emails to get a new version of the game in which this problem had been fixed. (MacGameStore initially responded promptly with promises that the new version would be ready in a couple days, but those promises fell through and eventually they started ignoring my emails.)
The new version did not lose the serial numbers, but suffered from sporadic crashes. (Like another reviewer who had problems with the game, I am also running it on Mac OS X 10.4, which may have something to do with the problem.) I found it was rare to get through a game session of any length, so the game was basically unplayable. After my experiences trying to get the serial number bug fixed, I decided I didn't want the headache of trying to get any more support from MacGameStore and simply deleted the game.
If you're looking for a light, relaxing puzzle game then you may want to try this one, but I'd suggest that you test it extensively before purchasing. If you can play it for a couple hours without a crash, then it's probably safe to buy. You also might want to avoid the MacGameStore version.
My recommendation, though, would be to check out Bejeweled 2. It's a superior game for more or less the same price, very polished, and rock-solid. And there's a universal binary available!