CGRundertow TALES FROM THE DRAGON MOUNTAIN: THE STRIX for iPad Video Game Review

Tales from the Dragon Mountain: The Strix review. Classic Game Room presents a CGRundertow review of Tales from the Dragon Mountain: The Strix from Cateia Games for the iPad. Tales from the Dragon Mountain: The Strix is a point and click adventure game with hidden object gameplay. Mina Lockheart has a dream about her grandmother Kate, so she travels to her family estate to reminisce. This leads to her discovering talking trees, tiny elves and all kind of crazy stuff. She embarks on an adventure filled with lots of pointing and clicking. This Mobile/Tablet video review features video gameplay footage of Tales from the Dragon Mountain: The Strix for the iPad and audio commentary from Classic Game Room's Derek.

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Closed Caption:

So this is one of those hidden-object adventure
game type things that are so prevalent in
the App Store. This one, you know, it’s
one of those games where, you know, you walk
around like an adventure game. You know, point
and click. And then there are scenes where,
oh...now it’s a hidden object game. You
have to find stuff. And then finding stuff
makes other stuff happen. And when that stuff
happens, you learn stuff that helps you achieve
stuff.
Double Stuf Oreos.
This is product placement! I need some royalties,
Nabisco.
Speaking of royalties, this, uh, this chick—this
Mina—she is not royalty. So that is a horrible
segue. But what she is is the granddaughter
of the forest guardian. That lady is now dead.
Mina has a dream, you know? Oh, she has a
dream about her grandma. So she goes to her
grandma’s place. And then, you know, there’s
all this stuff everywhere happening. And there
are forest things, and there are elves. And
you have to touch the screen.
I mean, that’s...honestly, that’s basically
the game in a nutshell.
You know, it’s kind of hard for me to discern
one of these games from another. They all
kind of blend together. And it seems to me
that, you know, when determining quality of
them, what it really comes down to is, like,
how polished are they? How nice of a package
is it? Because really, the gameplay is almost
always the same. You know, you find...you
get to screens where there are objects hidden,
and you touch the screen to find those objects.
So in terms of said polish, this one is pretty
well done. There’s no animated video or
anything, but most of these games don’t
have that. It looks fine. Some of the scenery
is really elaborate and nice. It doesn’t...you
know, it has that...a lot of these games go
for that look of, like, “Oh, this is an
old mysterious place, you know, with dusty
dust in the air that comes through the window,
you know? You can see it in the sunlight.”
It’s kind of like if you would go to a retirement
home, and there’s plastic on the furniture.
That’s what this game looks like, only without
the smell of mothballs. And that’s actually
a compliment. Everything I just said there
was actually...that’s me trying to be positive.
Like I said, some of these puzzles really
are kind of, like...you have be in the know.
You know? Like, you find these marbles and
then it’s like...you know...it’s not like
you can just talk to the trees. I mean, you
can, but they don’t really have a lot of
useful information. So you will just tap the
hint button a lot. And there’s no shame
in that, you know? I mean, this is America.
If I want to tap the hint button just because...oh,
I didn’t know I was supposed to create the
solar system on a lock to open the door to
the magic kingdom. Oh, sorry I didn’t know
that’s the protocol in the magic kingdom.
But hey, will Mina save the forest creatures?
Will she capture the evil spirit that has
imprisoned them in various common household
objects? Why would such a spirit do such a
thing? I don’t know. You’re going to have
to play to find out, and you’re going to
have to take a journey to the Dragon Mountain.