Dark Parables: The Little Mermaid and the Purple Tide Collector's Edition HD

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Dark Parables: The Little Mermaid and the Purple Tide Collector's Edition HD – Adventure Game Review

Dark Parables: The Little Mermaid and the Purple Tide Collector's Edition HD is a Adventure/Entertainment/Puzzle game from Big Fish Games, Inc, first launched in 12th August 2015.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 469+ ratings on the App Store.

What Makes Dark Parables: The Little Mermaid and the Purple Tide Collector's Edition HD Stand Out

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You’ve been called to investigate a strange purple tide that has rolled upon the shores of Crete. Things take a strange turn when a mermaid appears before your eyes!

• BEWARE THE PURPLE TIDE!
Travel to the island of Crete to investigate the appearance of a mysterious purple tide and a legendary city that's been revealed after a catastrophic tsunami strikes.

• YOU’RE THE MASTER DETECTIVE ON THE CASE
Travel to Greece to attempt to find the source of and stop a strange phenomenon that’s flooding villages and killing off all the sea life. Journey through stunning locations, do battle with a giant eel, and solve perplexing puzzles and hidden object scenes!

• DISCOVER A LEGENDARY CITY
Could all of these events be tied to the mysterious temple that has risen out of the sea, and a war fought long ago between two kingdoms?

• UNLOCK THE SECRETS OF A MAD KING IN THE BONUS GAME
Find all the hidden collectibles and earn achievements throughout the game! Then enjoy a souvenir chest, beautiful wallpapers and concept art, and replayable puzzles and mini-games!

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This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.

Player Feedback

As a newer release, Dark Parables: The Little Mermaid and the Purple Tide Collector's Edition HD is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .

Recent Updates & Development

Latest Update: 4th September 2015

Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

In this update:

• Optimizations to help prevent crashes

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Download & Availability

Dark Parables: The Little Mermaid and the Purple Tide Collector's Edition HD 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:

We loved it. Its nice and easy but also has some parts that make you think. We're really looking forward to the next one especially if its anything like this one. Thanks again.

We love it we are watching you all of you.

We absolutely love the Dark Parables series. The graphics are amazing, none better. We wish Blue Tea games were still available in the U.S., and the Dark Parables series continued. We miss them.

Great game. Challenging & much longer than some others Ive played.

Omg we love this game shortest demo in the history of demos but OMG we love love love it great graphics seems like a cool story line not too hard but not so simple we loose interest!! Seems like a great mixture of mini games . We can't wait to download the full game!! We'd have given it 10 stars but 5 was the most this review offers.

After we completed the game and went into the bonus content there were many hidden collectables that we missed evidently. Are there morphing objects in every scene or not? We know about the Moon in each setting but we have found some morphing objects in some as well. However we look and look and look at the beginning of a new scene to see if we can see morphing objects and sometimes we do and sometimes we dont. We have noticed that things show up out of the blue sometimes. Keeps you on your toes. Please answer our question. It is driving us so crazy.

This game is awesome and we love it.

Love the graphics, so far it has run smoothly and is fun to play.

Enjoyed every minute. Been playing Big Fish games for 7 years now and never saw another one with more compelling artwork. Puzzles were great, all 5 star altogether.

We have had this game, and many more! We have never had any problems. Ive played it endlessly and still enjoy it.

We got kicked out at the very beginning but we kept at it and got in some other way (dont ask how, we are no expert!) These Dark Parable Games are so beautiful and we think this is one of the best of the lot! We dont have a lot of patience for some of the puzzles but that is a personal choice. The beauty of the HOs makes up for that for us. This one flowed very well and we did enjoy it very much.

The graffics are really great,keep it up.

No crashes or glitches. Enjoyed it.

This game so amazing,we like it.

And it's very addicting and exciting.

Im enjoying playing this game. We enjoy these type of games very much. It did crash near the beginning but we did an uninstall and reinstall and downloaded it again from our purchase history and was able to get it working again and played the game to the finish with no other issues. We love doing the puzzles and we never skip we just keep at it and eventually our brain figures it out lol we do love these games we hope they keep offering more at the $2.99 price for Collectors Editions.

We enjoyed this game a lot! We did have a few places that were not intuitive (the puppet puzzle at the beginning being one – interact with the puzzle is insufficient direction) but overall found it easy to navigate and understand. The visuals were lovely, movement well-done, and some good tie-ins to other Dark Parables games.

This series is always a little weird and we would be screwed if there was no map, but we enjoyed this one way more than others from the same series.

Mermaid and the purple tide is good, but we have tried it 8 times and we can only get just into chapter 4 and it kicks us out every time. So we are not pleased with it'.

All was well til we got to the Throne Room then the game crashes each time. Please fix! LATER-we uninstalled, got past the Throne Room and now we get thrown out of the Greenhouse. Grrrr.

We were having problems with the game crashing, after we deleted it and reinstalled it worked great and we were able to finish the game.

The game crashed soon after we started but we deleted and reinstalled and it worked fine after that. Some good puzzles. Lots to do. Good graphics. Story line did not make sense so that's why we gave it a 4 instead of 5. We liked the game anyway.

We thought the story line was fun as we were playing this our three year old granddaughter was watching The Little Mermaid. We had a few areas that were touchy, we would go to hit something and it would pull us back from that area and into another like you wanted to go back when all we wanted to do was touch something in the HOP games.

We're having the same problem as Silver star-burst. We have an iPad Air. The OS is up to date.

We played up to putting coral on the gate/door in the throne room and then it crashes and kicks us out! We were really enjoying this game and really wanted to finish it! Please, HELP! We're using an iPad 3rd gen, with 100% battery juice and no other applications open in the background. Our iOS is fully upgraded. Please, fix this game so that we can play to the end. This is an interesting game, though we haven't played a lot of these games and not in order so we're a little lost on the continuous storyline. These games are a lot of fun, with really interesting plot lines, and we hope you'll update it to work all the way through. Thanks! :).

This game is super fun to play and unique compared to many of the others that we have played. We love how the clues areSpread so far apart between the worlds that makes it more challenging. But we got to a point in the game where we cannot go any farther due to a glitch. Every time we go into a room the game shuts down. That is so unfortunate. Ive tried everything and cannot move forward. We would love a refund until this glitch gets fixed. Thank you for making something so amazing and Id love to try again once it works.

Just bought the game really getting into it and crashes disappears. Please fix we were really enjoying the game right now we give it a three. This is the first game we have played to where we are in more than one room or area help. We did not download this game on our phone just on our iPad and when will we know if its fixed.

We love these type games but this one was so monotonous. Same mini games over and over, biggest challenge was remembering where the different rooms are.

Please fix. Game crashes about half way thru. We just paid for this game and havent been able to complete. If it isnt fixed can we get our money back.

Im with Silverstar. Got to inserting the ice piece on the machine and the game kicks us out. What????!!!! This stinks! Please fix so we can finish the game. So disappointed and frustrated.

Great game until it crashed please fix this glitch in the game.

Ive been deleting and redownloading over and over please fix itI want to finish the game.

We finished to end the annoyance.

We were really enjoying this game, but 1/2 way through chapter five it crashed. Ive tried all the tricks and no matter what after we load the game and click play it crashes. We wish we could get our money back or that they would fix it.

Game keeps crashing when we go back to the ritual room. Along with several Dark Parables games that are not available with our 7th Generation IPad.. PLEASE FIX.

We finally started getting somewhere. We place an item from our inventory in its place on the screen and the whole thing shuts down. Ive already paid for this. We cant find where to trash it and reinstall according to your help page. Ive downloaded several of these types of games. Hope Im not going to continue having this problem.

First, we had to turn the music off as it did not flow from one room/screen to the next. Second…. The game became less intuitive as we progressed through the story – eventually, we wound having to use the map more as we were picking up items that were for 5 to 7 screens back. Just when we thought we were finished with a room, Id find an item 30+ mins later and have to go back. Lastly, the story made no sense to us. Sometimes fantasy writers go so off base, the plot makes no sense and we get bored. We didnt have the crashing problems others had. When we start using hints and the map more than our own deduction and comprehension, we know we are done with the game. Yawn.

Enjoyable a while, then crashes. Unable to play. Deleted. Glad it was a sale. Shame! Pushing sale years after bug reports. Fix this game for 5 star.

The game keeps crashing while our character is outside of the palace. No other apps are open and our iPad is up to date. We would like our money back or a fix.

As soon as we paid it crashed, very bad.

Keeps crashing. Removed app. Restarted started and re downloaded. What a let down.

Crashed halfway though and could not be fixed or recovered.

We purchased the game on our iPad using ver 15 and it constantly crashes. We reloaded but had to start from the beginning. We got a bit farther and it crashed again. Im going to try and get our money back. Big Fish should be ashamed to offer such slop.

We will give you better review if you fix it. We came back to game hoping it was fix . Guess not :(.

We purchased this game to play with our daughter, but only got to chapter 4. Now the game crashes completely every time we try to enter a room. Very disappointing. We are on an iPad Air 2 version 14.4.2.

We have played many of these types of big fish games. This one is not well thought on finding the clues. We really regret buying this.

We have enjoyed playing all the games in this series, but this one keeps crashing when we try to change from one screen to another. We have reloaded twice and get a little further each time. We dont mind paying for the games as long as work. They help to pass the time with everything going on. Wasted money on this one.

Got a little way through the game and it crashed every time we opened it. Another game for the trash.

We paid for this then we crashed after a few minutes. Fix it or refund money.

Have played Big Fish games for years. This is the first one that crashed over and over, even after updating software and restarting. Disappointed.
User feedback from Apple App Store

App Details

Version: 1.0.2
Size: 1,100.64 MB
iOS: 6.0 or later
Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, RU
Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
Developer: Big Fish Games, Inc

Last updated: 4th September 2015 | Genre: Adventure, Entertainment | Developer: Big Fish Games, Inc

Dark Parables: The Little Mermaid and the Purple Tide Collector’s Edition HD – Big Fish Games, Inc