Quand le résumé sur la page du magasin du jeu m’est apparue j’ai pris peur et à raison : « Maîtrise la magie pour sauver la maman et arrêter la sorcière ! » en même temps c’est vrai, la trame se limite à cela. Tout est dit...

C’est une aventure tristement courte qui s’appuie uniquement sur son charme et sur la redondance de quelques bonnes idées. Le fait d’obtenir le pouvoir des fées en les délivrant était intéressant. De là à devoir en user encore et encore prouve à quel point le jeu est creux pour tout le reste. De même pour le dragon ou le hibou dans l’aventure bonus.

+ Il s’agirait plus d’une balade enfantine et vraiment limitée dans un conte de fée. La transformation des décors féériques lorsqu’ils sont lavés de toute magie noire ou la délivrance des âmes damnées a quelque chose de magique. Les petites créatures qui nous accompagnent ou que l’on rencontre sont mignonnes mais ça ne va pas plus loin. C’est joli. Point !

--- Les mini jeux et Scènes d’Objets Cachées (SOC) sont affligeants de simplicité.
--- La traduction pique VRAIMENT les yeux et si dans l’aventure principale on peut essayer de passer outre, l’aventure bonus m’a fait pleurer.

Il ne vaut en aucun cas son prix initial !

Je joue sur Linux. Version Linux : excellente.


Le jeu est court, l'histoire est bidon et les décors, s'ils ne sont pas moches, restent un peu brouillons. Pour ce qui est du gameplay, c'est habituel pour le genre, avec une petite nouveauté sur l'utilisation des pouvoirs des fées et de la baguette magique. Ce qui va se résumer la plupart du temps à les utiliser sur n'importe quel objet actif du décor :).

Les mini jeux sont simplistes au possible, les scènes d'objets cachés sont vraiment trop faciles, les objets étant assez mal intégrés dedans. Comme souvent on retrouve des problèmes de traduction sans contexte (tuyau -> pipe, ...) mais aussi des plus surprenants où je n'ai vraiment pas vu le rapport entre la description et l'objet. L'aventure bonus contient quelques textes écrits. Je ne sais pas quel traducteur automatique ils ont utilisé, c'est à peine compréhensible, google translate aurait probablement fait mieux...


Il suffit de terminer le jeu sans jamais utiliser d'indices, et vous aurez tous les achievements, plus un ou deux de rapidité du type trouvez 3 objets en 3 secondes. Aucune difficulté :).


A moins d'avoir épuisé tous les jeux d'objets cachés sur Steam et d'être en manque, passez votre chemin.


Le jeu tourne sans soucis, rien à signaler.

OS: Linux Mint 20.2 x64, MATE edition.
Hardware : 5950x, Nvidia 3080Ti, 64GB ram.
Screens : Dualscreen, 1x 4K & 1x 1920x1200, un seul screen X.

Les graphismes sont assez sympatiques à part la tête du dragon qui m'a perturbée.
La plupart des mini-jeux sont beaucoup trop faciles et le jeu se fini d'autant plus vite comme il n'y a pas assez de lieux et d'histoire.
J'ai cette impression que la traduction a été faite sur une page de traduction sur internet, du coup le sens des dialogues est éronné la plupart du temps, et la traduction de certains mots est assez fausse, exemples :
-"back" traduit par "dos" au lieu d'être traduit par "retour"
-"leaf" traduit par "page" pour une feuille d'arbre (dans certaines scène pour retrouver les objets)

Je m'attendais à vraiment mieux pour ce jeu

De tout les jeux produits par Artifex, celui ci peut avoir la palme du jeu le plus mauvais car Princess Isabella est mal fait sur bien des points.

Commençons par les graphismes, ils sont moches et peu détaillés et c'est un sacré foutoir d'objets et d'éléments hétéroclites qui sent le manque de vision artistique du producteur du jeu. Il en est de même pour les couleurs bien criantes à certains endroits et manquant de variétés dans les teintes à d'autres.

On pourrait se dire bon graphiquement c'est pas cela mais l'histoire... ben non la narration est pauvre et frise le zéro pointé... Il n'y a guère de rebondissement tout est jeté de façon bizarre. Je m'y suis ennuyé comme pas possible...

Le pire du pire, c'est que ce jeu se permet d'avoir des bugs sonore. Vous en avez un sur le livret que vous ouvrez pour voir vos notes et objectifs... lorsque vous appuyez pour tourner la page, le bruitage correspondant se répète à l'infini...
Vous en avez un autre sur les sons d'ambiance des décors qui s'arrêtent comme cela et vous laisse plusieurs secondes avant de reprendre... Merci l'ambiance....

Le jeu en dehors des SOC dont les objets ne correspondent guère à la période censée être, sont en plus hors de taille les uns aux autres, et comme cela ne suffisait pas, la traduction française est vraiment faite à l'arrache (Tuyau pour désigner une Pipe, Flacon pour une gourde, ...). Les puzzles sont si faciles que cela en devient une insulte à notre petite intelligence.

Le jeu a même essayé de diversifier son gameplay avec un dragon qui intervient au début de l'histoire en soulevant les lourds objets et en crachant du feu lorsque l'on joue de la flûte de Pan, par votre baguette magique qui peut briser certains objets et par la suite avec vos Marraines les Bonnes Fées dont vous pourrez profiter de leurs dons pour faire grandir les plantes, souffler le vents et remonter le temps... Mais même tout cela donne un résultat négatif... c'est embêtant, lassant et mal venu dans ce jeu...

Artifex Mundi a déjà produit des mauvais jeu, mais celui là gagne le ruban spécial car il n'y a rien de bien dans ce hidden.

Princess Isabella: The Rise of an Heir is the last game in the titular series, and probably the weakest game in means of gameplay dynamic, puzzle choices and story elaboration to begin with. It was in the Steam Store for ages alongside other two games before Artifex Mundi got the rights from Gogii Games to remaster. The old original game - a cheesy, yet okay conclusion to otherwise beautiful series - is sadly not acquirable through the Steam Store anymore. This is the remaster arranged by Artifex Mundi, and even though that I'm a fan of the publisher, I'll go out on a limb and declare that they didn't even try to make a decent job here.

Spoiler Alert! Isabella's last battle with the witch didn't end happily. Yes, she managed to rescue Bella with the aid of her companions, yet her momentary distraction costed her everything. The witch turned her into a stone statue, Prince Adam completely lost his mind and the kingdom has fallen under the tyrannical rule of the witch... Yet, in a silent and peaceful corner of the realm, three fairy godmothers and the dragon raised little Bella to be a capable wizardess just like her mother, for her to return and complete the deed that her mother failed to do so. Upon finally discovering Bella's location, the witch sends her hounds after Bella, and her hurry to clean this mess begins... Will there be a happily ever after, after all?

Let's start with the display options. The old original - just like previous games - was weaved out of pastel colors, dusty environments and all pictures carried an elegant shimmer. With new rendering of the images, filter and tone choices for colors got bolder and shinier. As a personal choice, I found that a bit of an unnecessary contrast with the original setting, lessening the atmosphere. Quoting from a friend's comment: "Pictures look like Walt Disney threw up all over the place." Well, that is kinda appropriate of a definition here. I usually adore Artifex Mundi's color choices, yet playing prior games it felt unfitting for Isabella series' elegance and naivety. Resolutions compared to the old game are marvelously better though, I won't lie. Art works and HOG scenes are much clearer, and it got a lot much easier to go through item fetching.

Some great annoyance on my part was that some voice acting got changed - to a lesser quality, surprisingly - and others are completely missing. Some character introduction scenes and other cutscenes are cut out, leaving small holes in the original plotline. The setting was overwhelmed with the concept of catholic evil to begin with - cleansing the evil out of all places that we run through, wickedly laughing villain, Eye of Sauron-ish watching eye of the witch, a curse so sticky that it takes 3 games to clean thoroughly - and not very original about it. Cutting out content leaves it fatally wounded. Sure, we are lucky that this is a collector’s edition which offers some bonus gameplay and references to older games, but I'd appreciate if I'd be able to see mandrake's introduction scene or hear the voice of the whale that resides on the beach.

HOG scenes got a heck lot of easier with lesser items to find on cleaner picture renderings. They are mostly redone with the same items. Puzzles are altered too; some getting ridiculously easier, others unnecessarily complicated. Item interface has also been changed with your wand being in dangerous proximity to hint button; just be warned. I do not recall whether there was a map or not, but I certainly hadn't any need for it. The environment itself is somewhat limited anyhow with a backtracking being mandatory.

Overall, this is most certainly not one of Artifex Mundi's better games, neither the best game in Isabella series anyhow. I could recommend the game only if you've played previous games and curious about what will happen to Isabella in the end. Even then, I recommend finding and playing the original through Big Fish Games.

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While the third Princess Isabella game is still the weakest in the series, at least this Steam re-release finally has the bonus chapter, plus trading cards and achievements.

Artifex Mundi tried to spice up their re-release of Princess Isabella 3: Rise of an Heir with their usual achievements and trading cards, but even these additions cannot hide the original issues of the game, like the bland hidden object scenes, lack of puzzles, or the repetitive item gathering.

New players have the luxury of not knowing how worse the gameplay and the helper system got since the previous games, but they also won’t really know what is going on, since the short plot dump at the start is hardly enough to catch up. (This is why it is baffling why they re-released only the third part of the trilogy.) Returning players may also feel alienated by a new protagonist, the daughter of Isabella, even if her task is to save her mother from the witch’s curse. (20 years after it was cast. She was apparently busy until now.)
This release also includes the previously missing bonus chapter to give a proper ending to the trilogy, but even with it, I can only recommend this game for those who want a full Artifex Mundi collection.

This is a quite short and repetitive game. The story is cringeworthy (but at least they included the eye of Sauron...) and that the names are simply 'owl', 'fairy' and 'dragon' (really their *names* are that) shows the lack of imagination that went into the game. The presentation shows that the video sequences weren't touched at all (if you play a non 4:3 resolution you'll see what I mean) and the voice acting is quite amateurish. Compared to the original (which was only a dollar on Steam) there's trading cards, achievements and a questionable bonus chapter to be had.

The game isn't fun to play to begin with, but the really weak 'update' (most of the puzzles were just dumbed down to a point were you only have to click a few times) makes it hard to recommend at any price. If this is part of a bundle you might want to pick it up, but otherwise I wouldn't recommend to get it.

I'm not going to say that I was kinda excited to see Artifex Mundi pick this one, because this is the worst title in the series of Princess Isabella. Indeed, it was previously on Steam and I've played the "old" version. Be aware that I would have given a neutral rating if I could. If anything, there are better titles in Artifex Mundi's catalogue, so if you can avoid this one if you're a non-English player, do it. I'm still doing a positive review but the line is thin. Also, as I've said, I've played the previous release in English, which is why I was more sure of the positive than the negative than for this release.

Years after Princess Isabella saved her daughter thanks to her fairy friend and the little dragon and became a statue because of the evil witch, the kingdom is waiting for someone to defeat that person. Bella, now in age and learning about her lineage, is ready to deliver her parents from their fate though her godmothers got kidnapped and jailed by the evil witch...

The plot is still the same from the previous games: you have to purge scenes of all evil or to reconstitute portraits to save people in it (here, you have mainly the godmothers). You have also a magic wand to break stuff and also acquiring powers thanks to the fairies once free. You can also use a music instrument to call the dragon to lift heavy items.

The gameplay is very classic though, with hidden objects scenes and puzzles, that are quite easy to play. While I loved the first part of the game, once I've reached the castle, I was kinda bored and once on the beach, it was worse. Everything is kinda easy, but the hidden object scenes tended to have objects partially hidden. What I find interesting was the little mandagore figures to help. It has precious objects and well, they're not too much annoying, because they weren't invading the game.

The graphics are quite good, I loved the little mandragores though I hated the spider, too big for my taste. The voice actings for the dragon, the fairy or the witch are correct but the godmothers... Not only they looked like the same but I can't say I was charmed by their voice. However, I have a little complaint for the graphics: they were kinda looking like grainy. I wonder if it's because Artifex Mundi adapted it for widescreens (as it's a possibility that the previous release was still in 4/3 ratio) or if it's because the new HUD, which was way more colorful, is making this being more highlighted.

I appreciated the soundtrack too.

However, there is a major problem for anyone playing in another language than English: the poor translation. It's unusual from Artifex Mundi to release a game with so many bad translations that it's becoming not understanble or playable (it was horrible in the hidden objects scenes). I think that the people that redid a little the game used Google Translate. Bad idea. Very bad idea. In the end, some parts of the story didn't make sense as the sentences weren't rightly build and I know that pipe can be translated as tuyau in French, but a smoking pipe is also called a pipe in French. Without forgetting that pinecone (pomme de pin in French) got translated in céramique (a vase/pot). It's not worse than in Demon Hunters but at least, there, it was mainly the hidden objects scenes that were affected, not the story.

I've thumbed up the game in English, despite being mixed about it. I've enjoyed some parts and it stayed true with this re-release. I admit that the fact that it's a collector's edition is helping. Next time, Artifex, make sure that you checked the translations. Usually, you're managing well with them. I was hoping to have my mind changed about this game and I'm still at the same point: should I thumb it down because of my own playthrough, knowing that the English is correct, because of my previous experience or should I thumb it up, because, despite this, the game is still enjoyable?

I'm barely putting a thumb up. If you're playing in English, you should be fine. For other languages, I can't say. For French players, I've made a little guide with the right translations. It should be easier for you to play with that.

2nd HOG for Gogii Games (Fairy Tale Mysteries: The Puppet Thief) and World-Loom (Mind Snare Alice). The game isnt long, the story isnt really suprising, its enough. The graphics are like Fairy Tale Mysteries not really good or sharp like Mind Snare Alice or other games. The level design are fine, the puzzles are good for casual games and HOG starters. The sound is sufficient. Since is first the 2nd HDO game for both developer under Artifex publishment. Its not good and not bad.It could have much more Steam Achievements, but i am happy that is has a few. I give for HDO gamers 53. Normal players should watch out. Buy this game with 66-75 % discout, because its only 1-2 euros worth, but i am happy that it exist and that i could play it. Thx 4 reading.