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Dreamscapes: The Sandman:

In Brief:
Dreamscapes: The Sandman was originally given away via Playrix Games (as the collector's Edition) on September 14, 2014, where it received a positive 79% from 513 votes with 91 comments which you can see HERE.

Introduction:
Young Laura was well protected from nightmares once her father gave her the Dreamcatcher. But after his sudden death the Dreamcatcher disappeared and Laura slipped into an endless nightmare. No one could wake her up. But you can try to save Laura! With the help of Professor Sanders and his machine take a dangerous journey to Laura’s ghastly dreams, dispel her awes, fight her fears, solve numerous riddles of Laura’s subconscious and find clues to her redemption. Collect all the pieces of the lost Dreamcatcher and help the girl return to the real world with this breath-taking point-and-click adventure game!


* 50 various locations to wander around
* Incredible dream worlds to visit
* 2 game modes to enjoy
* Dozens of achievements to get
* Astonishing cutscenes in 3D

The Game:
Laura Young has been plagued by hideous nightmares of The Sandman ever since she was a child. A magic dreamcatcher has managed to keep The Sandman at bay for all these years, but when Laura is reunited with the monster at her big violin recital, she realizes too late that her defences are futile. With her protective dreamcatcher shattered, Laura slips into an unexplainable coma. And that’s where you come in. You play as a silent volunteer, who has agreed to help a genius scientist enter Laura’s mind and rid it from these nightmares, in the hopes she’ll wake up.

The gripping story of Dreamscapes: The Sandman is introduced through bold, beautiful graphics and breath-taking imagery, like Laura collapsed on the stage, violin in her lifeless hand, and surrounded by roses. The character models are rendered in impeccable 3D, and The Sandman is particularly chilling in his voice and design. I can see why Laura is so afraid of this guy! I’ll admit the dialogue can be a little cheesy sometimes, but that’s a very small complaint compared to how the story stays with you, and refuses to ever leave. You find out more about Laura’s past and her relationship with her father through wonderful flashback cut scenes, and nothing about the game’s presentation ever feels rushed or gives the impression that the developers took the lazy way out.

When Laura’s dreamcatcher was broken, the pieces were scattered across a number of diverse and alarming nightmare locations, which are all interconnected and accessed through a centralized hub area in Laura’s mind. In each different nightmare scenario, you’ll have to rescue a dream version of Laura from a frightening brush with death, like being buried alive beneath a heavy tombstone or falling through the ice in a frozen lake. This forms the basis for some horrifyingly delightful areas, from a cold and empty winter wonderland, to an abandoned amusement park, and even Laura’s flooded childhood home.

The game has no qualms about littering the scenery with demonic clown heads and shadowy bodies hung from bare winter branches (also, this game wins the award for the creepiest, hollow-eyed paper dolls I’ve ever seen). There are some seriously dark and startling ideas in here. But the cool thing is after you’ve dispelled an area from Laura’s nightmare, it changes in appearance from a nightmare to a dream. For instance, after I completed the dilapidated church level near the beginning of the game, I watched as lush green grass and blooming roses grew around the structure, and butterflies began to hover through the air. And you can even pan the camera left and right in a few select screens, to get a wider panorama of your current surroundings.


Reference accessed http://links.giveawayoftheday.com/gamezebo.com/2013%2F02%2F05%2Fdreamscapes-sandman-review%2F 14th Sept 2014 and reposted 30th November 2021

Conclusion:
Dreamscapes: The Sandman plays like a hidden object adventure game, but without the actual HOG segments to slow you down. Because of this, I managed to breeze through the entire game in only 3 hours or so, which usually isn’t the best kind of length for a game of this nature. However, the game offers a few other tasks to get your money’s worth, like finding all 109 neutralizing beholders (creepy one-eyed centipede creatures) throughout the nightmare environments; earning several achievements and assembling their icons in a neat menu screen; and playing through an additional bonus chapter for those who picked up the Premium Edition.

But I think the biggest qualm that people are going to have with Dreamscapes: The Sandman is that the game’s puzzles are a bit too easy, and the mostly segmented nightmare areas leave very little to overlook as far as the exploration goes. Most of the puzzles in the beginning of the game have to do with turning discs of some sort to form a picture or line up a circuit, and these can get a little repetitive and obvious before long, but you’ll encounter some much more interesting ones the further you progress: including using a cipher to crack a puzzling number code, and even completing an old retro arcade mini-game that pays homage to Super Mario Bros.

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