Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride is a high quality adventure/hidden object game with a large variety of puzzles, much moreso than many games in the genre. There are also many hidden collectibles and extra features in the Collector's Edition. The artwork is colorful and interesting. The story is solid as well. It takes about 4-5 hours to beat the game, though you would need to beat it twice to collect all of the achievements.

So far so good.

The cut scenes are animated in much better fashion than most games of this genre. So far the story is not as cloyingly sweet as it could be, and the puzzles have been varied. There are 3 difficulty levels to choose from, so you can make it more challenging if you wish. I'd buy it again.

There's not much I can say that the other reviewers haven't already. I've read through them all and I have to agree. In my opinion, this is an amazing game. Great story, good voice acting, fun puzzles, lots to look for (morphing objects and faerie spirits with very neat leaf wings), the cutest ever cat companion, very nice graphics, better than average music (found myself humming along), and more. One of the testaments of a great game is that you actually look forwards to playing it again to grab the rest of the achievements or try out puzzles you missed the first time around. I just beat the game and, after lunch, I'm starting over on expert and I'm going to enjoy the story all over again. Two thumbs up from me!

This was a wonderful game, I usually do not play the hidden object games a lot but this one had a great story and the puzzles were very challenging. Once I started playing I couldn't stop until I had heard the whole story and completed the game. I also loved the fact that there was bonus content and lots of collectables. If you love a good story and like hidden object games with challenging puzzles than this is a great game for you.

One of the features I truley enjoyed was having the option to either play dominos or do the hidden object part in the game, since i love dominos I used that option more often to solve the puzzles.

I really enjoyed this game, I think its my favourite from Artifex Mundi so far. The game has beautiful graphics and manages to create an interesting fantasy-like atmosphere. The puzzles make you think but aren't truly difficult, which means that you won't really get stuck, especially on the lower difficulty settings. If you don't like hidden object scenes, there is also the option to play a game of dominoes instead. As for the story: if you pay attention you can see some of the plot twists coming, but the tale is interesting enough to keep you hooked. On the whole, I'd definitely recommend this game.

I consider Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride to be the best game developed by Artifex Mundi and I can easily state that it might be one of the top 5 games of this genre ever released. Everything about this game is magic: the story, the setting, the design and the music.

But what I liked the most about this game was the addition of a very cute companion that follows you throughout story. It is something different from the Hint system, its sole purpose being to help you solve some of the puzzles.

Apart from the hidden object scenes (which you can alternate with a game of dominoes) there are a lot of other hidden collectibles that appear in the point-and-click scenes; collecting all these will unlock new surprises in the end.

I highly recommend this wonderful game, not only to all the HoG fans out there, but also to anyone that wants to spend 4-5 hours chilling with a casual point-and-click adventure.

Another good Puzzle Hidden Object game from Artifex Mundi !! If you love Puzzle and Hidden Object games look up all of Artifex Mundi's games they are all good even this one to boot !! Good art and storytelling, good voice acting and good puzzles :) So if Hiddin Object and Puzzles are you kind of games ?? GET THIS GAME NOW and any game by Artifex Mundi !!

Par for the excellent course set by Artifex Mundi's impressive cadre of similar titles. The art is on the high end of the scale, even for AM, the game plays for a fairly long time, and the storyline gets pretty good at the end. The travel between scenes is not too frequent as to be annoying, although the directions and scenes are not terribly distinct, but the overall ability to navigate the environ is fair. The drawbacks are focused primarily on the weak puzzles in the game; not only weak, but frequently exceptionally trivial, arbirtrary, or simplistic. It also kind of ends abruptly, without any satifying closure to the story. There is a bonus content that unlocks at the end of the game, so I presume that contains prologue. Anyhow, I recommend this game without reservation. [ 8 / 10 ]

Best role playing game I EVER played. I'm not really into roel playing games. Where you look for things and read ALLL the time. This game gives you a real good challenge. It gets them wheels rolling in your head.

9.5/10

Great mixture of puzzles, graphics, story, and even a helpful kitty!

All of which make the game well worth your time, and a great way to spend a rainy day :)

Wonderful game and with so much love in details. Beautiful story, awesome scenery and flawless characterizing theres nothing to complain about. *thumbs up*

Very good game. There was different things to do and not just looking for hidden objects. I was surprised that there was a great story and I was really involved in it!

I'm not usually a big fan of seek and find games but I really enjoyed this one. The story line is engaging and the puzzles are just difficult enough to be fun.

An OK hidden-object game.

The story is very, very cliché, so much so that the whole world becomes exceedingly boring. Even the extra-colorful graphics won't save you from a trip down the most boring fairy tale ever.

But, I'm in love with the cat. It's a cute mechanic that's done with so much charm that it makes up for the humdrum of the rest.

Otherwise, the hidden-object scenes are quite solid and the puzzles offer casual fun.

I would also like to thank the developer for supporting Linux.

This is a respectable HOG/adventure hybrid game that will give you several hours of casual fun. Compared to other Artifex Mundi titles, I would rate it on par with "Nightmares of the Deep: The Cursed Heart."

The artwork for both the backgrounds and the puzzles is beautiful, as is expected for an AM game, but some of the character designs and cutscenes were a bit of a letdown. ("I'm going to go change into my wedding dress, that looks just like my normal dress, that looks exactly the same as a third dress hanging in my room...")

The gameplay combines several types of puzzles including:
1. Traditional hidden object screens (clearly denoted by shiny sparkles in casual mode).
2. "I Spy"-style fairy finding. These special sprites appear on almost every close-up location detail screen.
3. Elusive disappearing-reappearing images. These objects blend into the larger location backgrounds and slowly fade in and out of view. Collecting them gives you additional plot background, but they can be tricksome to locate.
4. Classic adventure gaming puzzles. (i.e. Find objects, use/combine with other objects, backtrack everywhere)
5. Recipes. AM loves their crafting worktables.
6. Mini-games. Incredibly easy time-wasters and brainteasers such as interlocking puzzles, tile-swapping, rotating pieces, matching symbols, and general pattern recognition.

They also threw in a cat companion who counts as a special use item, which I found to be a fun little gimmick.

I started on Expert mode, and only got stuck twice (figuring out what to do with the ladder, and figuring out how to light the torch.) Everything else was pretty straightforward. If you are a veteran of the genre, you will most likely be playing on auto-pilot.

My biggest complaint was actually the pacing. They tried to build in a learning curve for new players, but it just makes the start of the game feel very slow and tedious, and the end of the game feel like a flash-round, mini-game gauntlet. This becomes an added issue when some of the achievements are not only time-challenges (like 1-minute dominoes), but can only be earned in story mode. If you miss those achievements on the first playthrough, have fun slogging through tutorial mode all over again, or replaying the bonus level ad nauseum, just to get to an applicable puzzle. (It doesn't help that you are already required to fully play through the game twice over if you want to earn all of the achievements.)

I will say that for once with an AM game, I found the bonus level gameplay more enjoyable than the main story. It's no wonder they directly reused some of the level's puzzle content for "Cursed Heart."

Overall, I would give this game a 7/10.

Good point and click hidden object. Slightly cheesy though. Get it cheep.

Very addictive game. The Forsaken Bride uses a gripping story combined with compelling adventure game play and interesting puzzle mini-games to keep you in your seat from start to finish.

The story of The Forsaken Bride has a bit of a fairy tale feel to it, which was actually quite enjoyable, and features well-done animated cut scenes whenever you advance the story.

This game features witchcraft, potion making, and more. But the best part, for me, had to be the kitten you get early in the game. You can actually tell the kitten to go fetch certain things that you cannot reach yourself. Quite handy and he's oh so cute!

Puzzles vary in difficulty and some can be quite tricky. Beside Hidden Object games there's also "construct a useful item" which is a nice variation of he standard HO games. There are also hidden fairies to find and "elusive objects" which fade in and out somewhere on the screen for about 5 seconds.

One of the best Hidden Object games I've played thus far.

Encountered no bugs or broken achievements.
A second run-through is required to get 100%.
One of which needs to be in expert mode.

9/10

Colorful and fun, with a good story by the standards of the genre. Jump map, little backtracking, adjustable difficulty. On casual difficulty, hints recharge very quickly.

Hidden object scenes are very seldom straightforward. Usually there's a fun twist or two to them, but if you find them tiresome or frustrating, you can choose to play dominos instead.

Puzzles are varied and as far as I can remember never repeated. (If any WERE repeated, this was so inoffensive that it didn't stick in my memory.)

Art, cut scenes and animations are of high quality for this genre and release year. Voice acting is appropriate and never sounds amateurish (a common pitfall in these games). Cute animal companion is present and accounted for (a kitten), but thankfully not over-used.

Extras include soundtrack (that you can save to your Documents folder with a click), wallpapers, replayable hidden object scenes and the traditional extra chapter. During the main game, there are 30 colllectable fairies ('spirits') and 28 morphing objects to find as optional objectives.

Easily worth full price ($7.99 CDN at time of writing). A quality evening's entertainment.

Its like 9 Clues The secret of Serpent Creek
but please make guides... i see 0 guides... i need the guide how to find elusive objects and spirits