Dream Hills: Captured Magic

Despite some problems, this casual point-and-click adventure is still quite fun.

Its strength is its goofy tone. The story is a silly patchwork of fairy-tale nonsense, which ends up delightful because it doesn't take itself seriously. The characters are funny!

The problems are in gameplay. In the hidden-object scenes, instead of hiding objects in plain sight they are sometimes obscured, fuzzy, behind other objects, or poorly named. They also need pixel-perfect click accuracy. Also, the point-and-click adventuring doesn't always make sense. For example, I was confused as to why I could not add potion ingredients to a cauldron until the hint button told me to add them to recipe scroll instead. Huh?. Luckily, the hint button will usually get you out of trouble.