Awakening: The Redleaf Forest Collector's Edition

Game displayed in left top corner of screen unplayable on my winows 11

Though I liked the game by itself, the story was wrapped up in a slightly underwhelming, where the plot with the centaurs and the dwarfs was a bit too fast, and was very divorced from the actual plot of getting to Dreadmyre to the point where it was very sudden and awkward to remember that "oh yeah the whole reason why I'm in this mess was just because of this one thing that I wanted from the start". I do appreciate the bonus epilogue, showing off all the characters and items that has appeared in the series over the years, Sophia's companions aged up and seeing a happy ever after.

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Awakening: The Redleaf Forest is the last installment of the Awakening series and it's definitely a nice conclusion to the story. Just as all Awakening games, it's beautiful and fun to play, but it's focused more on point'n'clicking rather than hidden object scenes and puzzles, same as the previous one (The Sunhook Spire). The difficulty is more relaxed compared to the previous games, WITH THE EXCEPTION of the bonus chapter. Seriously, the game designers must have gathered all the puzzles that had been deemed too difficult to use in the whole series and put them into the bonus chapter in this one. I can think of no other explanation, especially since the base game is actually pretty casual :D

The base game is great, a really nice conclusion to Sophia's story. The bonus chapter, though... you have to put up with an incredibly annoying misbehaving child.

The graphics are hideously kitschy, and the story is weak, but apart from those this is actually a decent puzzle game. The bonus chapter is especially nice, and both the gameplay and the minigames are satisfyingly challenging.