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Dark Parables: Ballad of Rapunzel HD – A Hidden Object Fairy Tale Adventure – Adventure Game Review
Dark Parables: Ballad of Rapunzel HD – A Hidden Object Fairy Tale Adventure is a Adventure/Puzzle/Entertainment game from Big Fish Games, Inc, first launched in 16th September 2015.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 596+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Dark Parables: Ballad of Rapunzel HD – A Hidden Object Fairy Tale Adventure Stand Out
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Strange and deadly pollen is spreading around the world, and you’ve been hired to track down its source. But the secrets you discover in the fabled kingdom of Floralia are much darker than you imagined…
• IS RAPUNZEL REALLY A KILLER?
Rumor has it that Princess Rapunzel is somehow involved – the haunting melody she sings appears to summon the pollen…
• AN EXCITING TWIST ON A CLASSIC FAIRY TALE!
But how did the once-loved princess come to control such a deadly force? And who is the mysterious, shadowy figure always by her side?
• EXPOSE THE DARK FORCES BEHIND AN EVIL PLAN
Travel through lush visuals and search for objects that open doors to new areas and initiate one of the many challenging puzzles to solve. The secrets you uncover may be darker than you imagined!
• REUNITE WITH FAMILIAR FACES IN THE BONUS CHAPTER
Choose wisely, there are three different possible endings to your adventure! Plus, enjoy bonus features such as stunning wallpapers and concept art and more!
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This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Dark Parables: Ballad of Rapunzel HD – A Hidden Object Fairy Tale Adventure is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 6th November 2015
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
In this update:
• Using iOS 9? Now you can play in German, French, Japanese, Russian!
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Download & Availability
Dark Parables: Ballad of Rapunzel HD – A Hidden Object Fairy Tale Adventure is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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Requirements: Requires iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 / iPad Mini 3 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 4 / iPad Mini 4 (Cellular) or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Best Princess game please keep it please and Thankyou.
We love it thank you vot hte fun times Mwa xoxo.
We really like the background music, etc. Beautiful graphics too. So much to see and do but we had to button a lot as no good map.
This is a challenging game, especially the HO, but unlike other posters, we think they are beautiful. The entire game transports the viewer to exotic places.
Beautiful graphics, sound, love this game.
Ive played this game several times an each time we enjoy as much as the first time. We love the storyline. We the drawings are stunning. We have recommended this game to several friends. We only wish the would update their other games.
This is a charming game which will draw you into a fairytale world gone wrong! The graphics are gorgeous, the music relaxing and equally beautiful. The puzzles are challenging, engaging and a great mental exercise! Once again, Big Fish does not disappoint! And for BIG FISH – Please make more of your PC Hidden Object games playable on iPad! We have been a Big Fish fan and customer for years and own a great many Big Fish pc games. Since we got our iPad we find ourselves spending more time using it instead of our PC. We love the Mystery Case Files but only a few are available for iPad. Please, please onvert more PC games to iPad format!!! Thank you.
This game has, by far, the most beautiful graphics of any game we've ever played. Every scene has 30+ gorgeous pieces of jewelry like you've never seen before. We've played a few games recently but most of our gameplay took place five or six years ago; the game it's self is fine and as we remember it being. You have to tap somewhere and just figure things out as you go along. There are no limits on hints, as far as that is we've seen. We like this because we can make it as easy or hard as we want. Honestly, the scenery in this game is stunning. We love it.
It was hard to put this down, we also found this by accident and we really really enjoy it. Its seem to consume us a little bit too. Nice graphics, a little hard on the head not jacks and a lot of twists and turns. Looking forward to other dark parables.
We have several of this series, we love it.
We actually got this by accident and we're glad we did! We thought it was a match three with a twist, but it was a Hidden Object instead. Our 6 year old niece and we really enjoyed doing this together. She has gone home now and we can't stop! We've finished and am on the extras, which is the same.
The colors and graphics are very nicely done! Just downloaded it and cant put it down.
Please dont change the format of your games. We love the vibrant colorful HOS. Some of big fish games are so dark and somber. This one was wonderful.
Pretty please update your games for ios 11, Big Fish.
Beautiful game. Great storyline, great hops, and puzzles. Smooth game play. No glitches. Perfect.
Really a beautiful nice game. Enjoyed the story line. Challenging yet not to the point of dread. The first time we down loaded it, a year ago, it had a few bugs. This time it worked great. So we guess the developer fixed the issues. Very nice game. We're glad we took the time to try it again. Be sure to play the bonus.
Love the Dark Parables series! Blue Tea did an awesome job again. Beautiful graphics, interesting twist on a well-known fairy tale, & good mini-games. Love the fragment HOS. Relaxing music, not grating like some games. Also enjoy having collectibles.
We love this developers games. Love the HOS's and all the beautiful graphics. Now we have to download others from them.
Annoying that it keeps asking for a review every other scene.
Love this played it a couple of times.
The game is amazing and we love it.
It's a great game. Can't wait for more to come.
Lush graphics make the HOs more challenging. Story line is good and the play is long. Great game.
We love this game. It is one of our favorite of the series.
Yes, a teleporting map would be nice but who cares? What a stunning world the authors of this game have created!!! We love it.
Nice to not have a horror game. Beautiful graphics. Like the long playing time. Great bonus feature. Great games and HOs.
We seldom write reviews. But we had to with this game. It is absolutely gorgeous, fun, challenging and generously long. We love Blue Tea games. They are our favorite. Please keep offering games like these. They are our all-time favorites.
The game is beautifully done! The colors are rich and the action sequences are done well. The voices are a little off kilter, but the puzzles are challenging but not ridiculous! Love it.
Very enjoyable, couldn't put it down.. Can't wait for the next one.
This is an unbelievably beautiful game – a bit confusing at times, but well worth the purchase. True eye candy.
Like always you guys outdo yourselves!!! We love all your games.
Great game, hogs are different. Nice change of pace. One of the best ones.
A really enjoyable game…good graphics but more important clever games and HOPs. Beautiful flow, no glitches which is huge right now. One of the best in a long time.
The only problem with a game that had amazing art work and an unusual storyline was no logic and you could get carpel tunnel tapping for things especially in the best hogs ever,.
Beautiful graphics, a little confusing, but still very enjoyable.
Amazing and thrilling. Adds an amazing twist to a classic story.
Game was fun to play. Beautiful graphics but we do have a couple of not so fun comments. Map was confusing to use. Didnt automatically take you to a specific chamber which would have helped. Try to go right in the map and you went down. Directions were screwy. Also some of the puzzles had match the objects to the backgrounds. Very confusing to read the backgrounds to see and understand the pattern. Two puzzles were that way. Not good. Story was good and graphics were great. Could be better.
We would have given this game 5 stars, but this game doesnt allow the person playing it to transport from one place to another using the map. If you need to get to a place far away that in which you can do something, you have to figure out how to get there. Other than that, it is a very fun game to play.
We love love the graphics but we have a small problem with the sound. It starts out fine and then it just stops. We love the voices and they just stop we find if we shut off our iPad it comes on again. Thank you for all of your help.
We FULLY agree with @nickname1105 false promises . We too bought hundreds of dollars of these games that we havent had opportunity to play yet due to many issues. When we finally got to play…we were devastated to see that more that half our games we cannot playits supposed to be our game forever!! Thats what we were told! Now we have all these games we PAID for and CANNOT play!! Its truly unfair. Weve spent a lot of money. Pls advise as to what you can do about this issue. Thank you & have a great day! PS…The games you can play have amazing graphics and stories. Very entertaining to play.
The four-star is for this particular game. Beautiful graphics, challenging puzzles, all the things we love. But here is where false advertising comes in. Over the last few years, we have spent hundreds of dollars on games that are specifically promoted as "pay once and play forever." But about 3/4 of those games are no longer available and have simply disappeared from the Big Fish site with no explanation nor offer of refund or even concern. In the first few years, we paid full price. In the last few years we have learned not to waste our money and get only those on sale. FOR ONCE, PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS REVIEW FOR ALL OF YOUR CUSTOMERS WHO HAVE HAD THE SAME EXPERIENCE….WITH SOMETHING OTHER THAN AN EXCUSE.
Great game but we don't write reviews. The reason we are writing this is because after we paid for the game every time we solved a HOP we received a (begging we felt) request to write one.
We LOVE THIS GAME BUT SOME OF THE ROOMS ARE SO CREEPY.
This game has some excellent qualities. Very grateful that it is not another dark(literally)story. Proof that you can do good HOS without not being able to see ANYTHING at all. Our only problem is that they are all the same exact type of HOS. Also wish there were more puzzles. The art is beautiful.
We love the dark parable games. Have them all. The only issue we have is that it freezes in the middle of the mini games. We deleted and reloaded but to no avail. Please fix the bugs and we'll give you five stars.
Although an older game, it was great when we first played. But it seems to not do as well on the current iOS.
Beautiful graphics but it does have a couple of glitches.
The map is not the best for it sometimes sends you in the wrong direction and it is not a teleporting map. It can be confusing. It would be a better game if it were fixed and upgraded. We would have rated five stars if not for this clitch.
We bough the full version a while back and when we when to play it today it said there was no record of the purchase can you fix this we spent the seven dollars a while ago and we want it back we love this game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.2
- Size: 938.67 MB
- iOS: 7.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: Big Fish Games, Inc
Last updated: 6th November 2015 | Genre: Adventure, Puzzle | Developer: Big Fish Games, Inc