Dream Day Wedding: Married in Manhattan Review

by Andrew on 3:56 PM July 26, 2008

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Developer: I-play

The list of things which is necessary for each successful wedding is: a wedding pie, candles, pigeons, napkins and many other things. Without these things wedding will not take place. Or will take place, but it will be not so successfully. In this game developers from I-Play offer to play a role of the wedding planner. We already done similar job in Wedding Dash series, but here process of game looks very ambiguously. Let's understand.

The history begins with the letter from Rachel and Robert. They thank you for excellent wedding which you suited for them couple of years ago. They have move to New York and have opened shop of wedding services, also called as wedding “pro” shop. And they suggest you to try your skills as the wedding planner here, in Manhattan. And as Rachel has written, she already has two clients for you. We shall try?

For the beginning, we shall choose the couple, which we will make happy with our wedding planner skills. After that, it is offered to choose location on which we shall search for the hidden objects. In game it is a lot of locations, but they enough frequently repeat, and always with addition of this or that objects. If you already were on this location, some subjects can remain on the same place; however the majority of them will be already hidden in the other place. Among locations you will be in the Central Park of NYC, confectionery shop, a coffee house, a piece of street, the subway of the Big Apple, flower shop and so on. Locations are drawn very realistic, sometimes with pieces of humor. Photos of happy and smiling couples add one more small plus in a coin box of Dream Day Wedding: Married in Manhattan.

It is necessary to stop separately on game process. It is made very well, it is not too difficult to search for hidden objects, though sometimes, looking round the location in search of the hidden object, not always is possible to distinguish needed object. It sometimes located in the most unexpected places and in the unusual form. Objects can be disguised under various details of an interior, and sometimes the name of an object not necessarily means that you have to find particularly this object, instead of other object carrying out similar function. On each location it is necessary to find all hidden objects from the list for smaller time, but at any moment you can go in the game menu, turn on “Carefree Mode” and forgot about the annoying counter ticking in the top left corner of the screen. In game there is also the system of hints, realized as dark blue birdies, scattered on the location. The more birdies you will find, the more hints you’ll receive at the next location.

Background music also at the high level, though sometimes, music somewhere vanishes and then suddenly appears. In the beginning, game meets you with a solemn march of well-known composer, Felix Mendelssohn. During game music sounds softly and very melodious, on locations when time is running out, music accelerates the rate, reminding you to search faster.

Between locations it is possible to play mini-games among which is different puzzles, in which you’ll need to combine the necessary picture, or arrange cards of quests in the necessary order and so on. Solving puzzles is unessential, in the bottom of the screen there is magical button “Solve”, which will help you to solve your problems with the decision of the puzzle. It will not be reflected on overall scores.

That's all that I want to tell about Dream Day Wedding: Married in Manhattan. Game has left at me dual sensations. On the one hand, Dream Day Wedding: Married in Manhattan is build under all laws of the Hidden Objects genre and has many positive moments: excellent graphics, good soundtracks. On the other hand, very simple game process, without any original innovations which could put forward game from crowd of similar brothers and sisters by the Hidden Objects genre. Dream Day Wedding: Married in Manhattan will good item in your collection of wedding games, from Wedding Dash series and becomes a place where it will be pleasant to spend one or two evenings.

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