The game features colorful graphics and smooth animations, creating an enjoyable visual experience.
It offers multiple difficulty modes, including a relaxed mode without a timer, making it accessible for casual players and beginners.
The gameplay is engaging with a variety of levels and challenges, providing a sense of accomplishment through achievements and resource management.
Achievements can be buggy and require excessive grinding, leading to frustration for players seeking completion.
The game suffers from poor localization, with many instances of bad grammar and awkward dialogue that detract from the overall experience.
Disruptive cut scenes and unclear UI elements, such as timer bars and button placements, can hinder gameplay and make navigation cumbersome.
story
18 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
22%
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The game's story is described as a classic fairy tale featuring a princess and an evil queen, but it suffers from poor writing and cheesy voice acting, leading to a disjointed narrative. Despite its flaws, players find the charming art style enjoyable and note that the story's shortcomings do not significantly detract from the overall gaming experience. The underlying moral emphasizes resilience and the unpredictability of life.
“Moral of the story: you never know what life has in store for you, and if I had given up when all odds were against me, I wouldn't be where I am today.”
“Enjoyable cute art and story like a fairy tale.”
“Classic princess/evil queen story.”
“The voice acting is cheesy and the story is, well, not good.”
“The text/story is really terrible with very very bad English.”
“The story doesn't hold together, and at each stage it feels as if someone was working really hard to get to all 40 levels.”
graphics
16 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
19%
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The game's graphics are generally praised for being colorful and well-executed, with options for customization available in the settings. However, some players express disappointment over the quality of cut scenes, which feature large, blurry visuals that detract from the overall experience, and feel that the graphics represent a downgrade from the previous installment.
“I want to mention that the visuals in the game are well done.”
“The visuals can be adjusted in the game's option menu.”
“+ colorful, colorful graphics”
“It wouldn't have been bad if the scene just shifted to the area in question, but the cut scenes zoomed in on the area with really large blurry graphics and then went back to the standard graphics when done.”
“Why did you change from the cute graphics of the first game?”
“The graphics in this game are a step backwards, in my opinion.”
gameplay
16 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
19%
62%
19%
The gameplay of "Elven Legend 2: The Bewitched Tree" is praised for its good level design and addictive nature, offering three difficulty modes, including a relaxing option without a timer. However, some players find the overall gameplay too easy and the music unengaging, leading to a lack of excitement.
“Elven Legend 2: The Bewitched Tree can convince above all by the good level design and the addictive gameplay.”
“Three difficult modes including no timer for those just looking for a bit of relaxing gameplay.”
“Elven Legend 2: The Bewitched Tree can convince above all by the good level design and the addictive gameplay.”
“The gameplay is way too easy!”
“The music is sleep inducing and as boring as the gameplay is; I found myself dozing off several times.”
“Elven Legend 2: The Bewitched Tree can primarily impress with its good level design, but the gameplay is lacking.”
music
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50%
17%
33%
The music in the game is described as relaxing and mood-enhancing, with some users finding it sleep-inducing and monotonous, leading to moments of drowsiness during gameplay. Overall, it creates a calming atmosphere, though it may not engage all players.
“I relaxed for 5 minutes listening to this music, long enough to realize that I would be okay.”
“Good mood music.”
“I relaxed for 5 minutes listening to this music, long enough to realize that I would be okay.”
“The music is sleep inducing and as boring as the gameplay is; I found myself dozing off several times.”
stability
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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50%
The game exhibits some stability issues, particularly with buggy achievements that require repeated level attempts to unlock. However, it runs smoothly on Linux, and many users find the overall performance satisfactory, especially considering its price.
“Runs great on Linux and it's hard to beat the price.”
“Partly buggy achievements that can only be unlocked by repeatedly playing the individual levels, at least for me.”
“Partly buggy achievements that can only be unlocked by repeatedly playing the individual levels, at least for me.”
grinding
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Players find that both Elven Legend and its sequel require significant grinding to achieve completion, with the latter exacerbating the issue and introducing poor design changes. Additionally, there is a lack of clarity regarding progress towards achievements, which adds to the frustration.
“Elven Legend was a decent game, although achievements require a lot of grinding with no indication of how close you are to finishing.”
“Elven Legend 2 carries the grinding even further, and the design changes from the first game are terrible.”
replayability
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50%
50%
Overall, users express a consensus that the game lacks significant replayability, suggesting that once completed, there is little incentive to revisit it.
“Final thoughts: I do not think that this game has much of a replay value to it.”