Resolution: Dream Chronicles review

Resolution's Peter Willington writes: Enter Dream Chronicles, an XBLA port of the 2007 released KatGames developed PC original. When you have a service called Xbox Live Arcade it’s natural for most games on the service to be pretty frenetic, but Dream Chronicles is serene, almost tranquil in its pace. A point and click adventure on its surface – less Monkey Island more Myst-for-beginners – with just the faintest whiff of hidden object game thrown in for the casual audience, the title is presented in quite a linear fashion. Whereas with Cyan’s adventure series, the world around you is free to be explored – albeit within a set number of pre-rendered scenes – Dream Chronicles takes those scenes and divides them into easily digestible chapters of a whimsical, yet dark story revolving around the Village Of Wish, a family of extradited fairies and a sleeping curse.