No weird items to place. The relaxing smooth gameplay has me Loving this game. Enjoyed collecting the 13 morphing hats and puzzle pieces. The Expedition Room will take you to a collectible that you missed. Love finding all 68 morphs in the Secret Room.
Love the floral themed achievements room and I got all of them. Loved all the hops and mini-games. My favorite mini-game was placing the tubes so the right color fell into the bottom. Love that the guide has much improved items like the matching pairs in the hop and you can access the guide without playing.
Replay 14 hops, 13 mini-games and 4 music. Has 4 Chapters + bonus, Achievements, Secret Room, Expedition Room, Hat collection, Picture Pieces (my screensavers didn't work) and 5 wallpaper that I won't use. I rather scenes without characters.
This came out in 2013 with the newer one's have much improvement. This one doesn't have Mega hints or closing collectible letting you know you found all in the scene. You can't see the lost and found items. I still like it and wish they would redo it with improvements. You can't buy anything either and I wish I could.
What I liked about it are the places and scenes. This one has some places from around the world. It has 30 hop scenes. I enjoyed the US map mini-game. I couldn't find all 9 nativity items in the last scene. The cat is invisible in the last scene too.
I was thinking when I seen the Icicle Ballerinas dance under a Christmas tree, this would make a nice screensaver and I was delighted when it was offered.
I got a big kick out of the mouse who loves treats. Some places are interactive to the touch so click around a bit if that's your thing.
It has 6 Chapters + Bonus. Collect 54 glass balls and 54 morphs. The key helped me see the long waiting morphs. Some hops are used more than once. I loved all of the hops and most of the puzzles.
Replay on 25 hops, 14 mini-games, 25 movies and 6 music. Has 5 screensavers, 7 wallpapers and 17 concept art. If you scroll over the concept art it will give you the before and after. Achievements.
For some reason I didn't get the Royal Witness achievement which is-see the Mouse King for the first time which is part of the story.
When I finished the collectibles and press the number it gave me a mouse running puzzle. For no reason I was missing a morph and I know I got it. I pressed the number and it took me to a scene to find the morph then I press the number and it took me to the same mouse running puzzle.
This game is more relaxed so it was my favorite out the the three Christmas HopA games this year.
There are two different Meanwhile in Springfield and Meanwhile at the North Pole in the CE edition. The CE has six additional scenes in the North Pole and two in Springfield.
It has 18 wallpapers, 20 music and 48 puzzles not played in this game. I found this out when playing the word searches. The three word searches I played weren't the one's gathered at the end of the game. The puzzles are 8 word searches, 4 spot the difference, 4 concentration, 8 rotate, 8 flipsaw, 8 jigsaw, paint by number, holiday cake, workshop tools and bank machine. I think these puzzles were from past games and I remember a few of them.
For some reason we have robins and bats in this game. I liked playing the US map game but Michigan wasn't complete and Wisconsin had Michigan's property. I can't understand this as Texas has four pieces in their state. A few others state had more than one piece.
I loved everything except the jigsaw which is a thing I normally love but the pieces where too small and no picture to help guide you so that took away from my enjoyment. I skipped them after the first one. I would have liked larger puzzle pieces if there is no picture. I don't like all the pieces gathered and piled on the placing board.
Love the game. The bonus things to find has such nice detail and Love the info about Christmas treats from around the world and the nice presents. The coins to upgrade the town model are very nice and I started out by purchasing the Ferris wheel and Carousel.
Bitey is so cute. I did notice the cutscenes or replay video has decreased. I really like the replay videos. I couldn't tell who I was playing as in the bonus chapter. I thought Bitey or Bellflower. The video I watch gave me a clue with a picture of my hand on the crate hiding. In the past games the replay videos were 27, 36, 30 and this game 24.
My favorite hops was the popup book in the bonus chapter. I liked most of the puzzles and all of the hops.
Replay 24 cutscenes, 18 hops, 18 mini-games and 5 music. Has 4 Chapters + Bonus. Has 10 wallpapers, 10 concept art. Find 15 Christmas treats, 15 presents and 70 coins. Town Model and Achievements.
I liked everything except a few gripes. The secret room has 61 morphs. Some are so transparent that I couldn't see them even after using the hint and waited and watched at the location that was shown. This really hurt my enjoyment of the secret room. Especially at the fireplace.
The magic garden and the court yard would make great wallpapers.
I like the graphics and the story. I didn't like most puzzles or the hops. The clothes hop and Gaspard Astronomer was not liked by me. I would use the right thing on the tool bar but had to place it just so or it wouldn't work. Had to place over and over.
I did like the recap, mystery and how much the cat loved Agatha.
Some hops are used more than once. Replay 38 movies, 18 hops, 13 mini-games and 8 music. Find 28 morphs and cards. Very good indicator. 4 chapters + bonus. Has 9 wallpapers, 12 concept art and 8 screensavers. Has card game- first to gain 21 points by high card.
I liked that I could choose to do only hops, mixed or just puzzles but you can't change it once it's set. Even with the hops setting only I did the treasure box puzzle and others.
I liked the morphing hops but found the flipbook hops very frustrating. It should have been in the guide. I wasn't crazy about the second collector. It was too guy like. Placement had to be so precise playing the game.
I only liked the matching and toy grabber mini-games as far as replays go. I found 48 collectibles, part of them morphed. I also found 20 jigsaw pieces and at the end of the game I put the jigsaw together and I can do it again if I want to. I liked the hidden chapter which is a hops and I can replay that also
Very nice achievements. 3 chapters + bonus + hidden chapter. Replay 27 movies, 13 hops, 8 music and 11 mini-games. 10 wallpapers and 10 concept art.
I played this twice and I was frustrated the first time. I wanted to see where the Pixie goes MIA and I enjoyed the second time playing this game. I enjoyed the Pixie in the beta more.
I started to see it's a long game and I was going nowhere fast. The game is a bit trickier. I didn't see the small cracks where they hid things or the boards I need to break into. A few places they switched things up and where I wanted to put a cork on a drawer they had other plans.
The game was fun the first time until chapter 4 I was bored and frustrated. I really like Nyorda and hope to see her in some newer games. The second time I took my time and slowed myself down and had a good time.
I did see some things they need to fix like a few achievement came at the wrong time and had the wrong picture. Namely bringing momma bird, the guards and need a ride. It works out. Also I had to click multiple times to pick up some shells.
Some scenes are so beautiful like the Imperial Gardens, Road to the Lighthouse, the coast and Nyoda's temple.
I liked the target mini-game. The hops are pretty. They should have put the interactive hop in the guide.
Replay 21 videos, 18 hops, 18 mini-games, 5 music. Ten Wallpapers and ten concept art. They should have wallpapers with the pretty places instead of characters. The concept art has the nice places but aren't polished up. Who are they pleasing? Themselves? 6 chapters + Bonus. There are only 34 locations to pick up 70 shells. Buy things for your Chest. Find 15 morphing enchanted items. The morphing part is the only enchantment. Find 15 potion vials with info.