Eventide 3

Overall, I very much enjoyed playing all three installments of this game. The puzzles were fairly straightforward but engaging, the visuals were good, and the storyline was interesting. Each chapter of the Eventide series was a little shorter than I would prefer, but otherwise, I felt that they were worth the cost. However ***SPOILERS AHEAD****...... The ending of this game nearly ruined the whole thing for me. All of the Eventide games are played with a female protagonist, and both Eventide 1 and 2 contain strong female characters. In this chapter, you again play as Mary, an intelligent, graduate-educated botanist who visits her brother to plant a threatened magical plant species. Of note, Mary spent Eventide 1 and 2 learning about, protecting and embracing her magical heritage. In Eventide 3, Mary’s brother, John, is introduced and spends the first 90% of the game denying the existence of magic and relying on Mary to save him from the magical villain. Mary’s character rescues her brother, finds magical artifacts, cooperates with magical beings, saves John’s life and then defends him against the villain with a magical scepter. At the very last moment, John accepts that magic exists and then seemingly just “knows” how to use his powers, which he does to strike the final killing blow to the villain. This is where things went wrong for me. The native magical beings declare that whoever kills the ruler becomes king i.e. John. The player is then directed to give the magical scepter (which you tracked down, liberated and fought with) to John (who you just saved and who denied the existence of magic until 5 seconds ago) so that he can become king. SERIOUSLY?? The game ends with you returning to Earth and your new-magical-convert brother flying over a rainbow on a creature (whom you also rescued) to Happily Ever After. Talk about an anti-feminist, colonial fairytale. Suggested edits: Why can’t Mary be queen? Even better, maybe the Clouders can rule themselves.

There should have been a bonus round to show them hitting challenges going back home.

This is my favorite Eventide game ... even though John (the brother) got irritating a few times. The only thing wrong was that it doesn’t have a bonus game...and I wasn’t ready to stop playing! 😁

Game was fun. Just like every other game like this. Hops were okay. For $699 just not enough and no bonus game. I love Artifex Mundi but they are getting more expensive and shorter each new game.

Good story, interesting characters. Puzzles are fairly easy. Hos are varied, with mainly list type and some FROGs. Medium length, no bonus adventure. Love the Slavic lore!

Loved this game! Finished the first two games in this series. Would love to see more sequels of this series. No time penalties on HOS. Can skip mini-games without a penalty. Beautiful graphics. Awesome storyline.

Great game

Love this game great graphics, awesome story line, plenty to do. My only complaint is artifex mundi takes so long to release these new great games on iPad I’m hooked on their games but have bought an played everyone that has been available on my iPad :( I check the App Store everyday hoping for something new released an never anything for long periods PLZ PLZ ARTIFEX MUNDI START RELEASING YOUR AMAZING GAMES FOR iPAD (iOS) ALOT SOONER AN MORE FREQUENTLY PLZ FOR ALL US iPAD users Thank u

Enjoyed this latest installment in the series, however I have enjoyed some of the previous ones better. Graphics were gorgeous, hidden object scenes were fun & interactive. Character voice overs, teleporting map with collectibles. For me, I had a hard time getting excited and into the storyline. Still this game is worth playing - just not the wow factor from the previous games. I also felt that the game went by rather quickly. No doubt about it this developer has a lot of creativity & puts a lot of detail and time into making their games. Very imaginative! Pick it up on sale & enjoy! P.S. I do hope that this developer will release games more frequently and not make us wait so long for ipad. KdBoots

Not a particularly long or special game. No issues either though, and I did like the minigames.