Mixed-Up Fairy Tales is just that, a small selection of the more popular children’s fairy tales that are mixed up. You play as yourself, having the opportunity to select a male or female character, and enter your name. You then wander around the town and outlying areas, finding fairy tale characters that are in trouble, and doing what you can to help them. Sometimes you need to find an item that is held or hidden by another fairy tale character, or you may need to bring another character to them.
Mixed-Up Fairy Tales is just that, a small selection of the more popular children’s fairy tales that are mixed up. You play as yourself, having the opportunity to select a male or female character, and enter your name. You then wander around the town and outlying areas, finding fairy tale characters that are in trouble, and doing what you can to help them. Sometimes you need to find an item that is held or hidden by another fairy tale character, or you may need to bring another character to them.
The fairy tales that are included in this charming game Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Cinderella, Bremen Town Musicians, and Jack and the Beanstalk. You start in a library in your world, when suddenly
a book falls and Bookwyrm the dragon magically appears and tells you he needs your help. You follow him into the book, and your adventure begins. As you begin your adventure, you meet characters in the fairy tales. By clicking on them, they will tell you their story, and then you must select which fairy tale they belong to. Once you start a story, you can not start another until the one you are helping has been finished. After you have helped all of the fairy tales, you find out a clever little creature called Bookend was trying to mix them up and because he was lonely.
Overall, it is a very fun game, for young and old audiences alike. I enjoyed playing it when it first came out, and still enjoy it to this day. The backgrounds are very well done in VGA colours, and the characters close-up shots are also well done and detailed. The interface is very common to Sierra’s early games, where you point and click with the left mouse button and changes the cursor with the right mouse button. There are only two cursors, an eye and a hand. The hand is used to walk and interact, the eye to look.
Each time you start the game, the order in which you help the characters changes, so there is never ending fun in the gameplay. I highly recommend this game to any parents who have young children that like simple puzzles, and can read; or for those who like to stay in touch with the child inside of them. It can take an hour and a half for someone who can read very fast or has played the game before to several hours for a beginning reader or adventurer. Either way it is loaded with fun.
