Description of Magic Encyclopedia

Magic Encyclopedia: First Story takes you on a journey of magic and wonder as you guide a young lady on a quest to find her brother and stop the manifestation of a terrible evil. As you search beautiful hand-painted scenes for hidden objects, solve cunning puzzles and enjoy delightful mini-games, you'll move ever closer to the startling discovery at the end of the journey! Hours of relaxing gameplay that will stimulate your mind and enchant your spirit lie ahead so don't delay!

Features

• Hundreds Of Hidden Objects To Find And Use!
• More Than 25 Mind-Bending Levels To Solve!
• Lots Of Mini-Games!
• Clever Storyline!
• Embark On A Magical Journey!
• Unlimited Play

System Requirements:

• OS: Windows 98 Windows 2000 Windows XP
• Windows Me Windows Vista
• Memory: 256 MB
• DirectX: 9.0 or later
• CPU: P800

Reviews

• "Magic Encyclopedia, or to use the full game title, Magic Encyclopedia First Story is a fascinating hidden object game. Magic Encyclopedia takes you on a magic and mind bending adventure as you help young Catherine from the Academy of Magic on her quest to find her brother. Magic Encyclopedia begins with a very well done animated introduction that sets the scene for the rest of this well produced game. Magic Encyclopedia First Story has hundreds of hidden objects to find and use, lots of mini-games, beautiful graphics, great music and a clever storyline. Embark on a wonderous and magical journey with Magic Encyclopedia First Story today!! " - Zoo
• "Magic Encyclopedia is a very enjoyable game to play with a good mix of hidden objects to find and puzzles to solve. Very good game!" - Mary L
• "Magic Encyclopedia is one of the best hidden object games to come along for a while and ranks up there with the best of them. Superb game!" - ShannaDe

Tips

Check out our strategy guide for Magic Encyclopedia: First Story.

GENERAL INFO

• Using your cursor correctly can be very important since the tip of the cursor has to land on the object you're clicking. The item will illuminate when the cursor is in the right place.
• There's no time limit in the game, except when you do special puzzles, like constellations, puzzles, mini games etc.
• It is best to find all the pieces first before you begin placing things. It will cut down on confusion.
• If you see gears appear over an item it means there's a puzzle or mini game that you need to solve. It can also mean that you can click on that item to expose a missing piece.
• When you see the words:"You've found all the items, think about how to use them" it means that there are no more fragmented pieces to be found in a scene. You must then proceed to either use an inventory item or move on to a different location.
• There's a progress bar that lets you know how far you are from completing that chapter. That bar is located on the top right side of the scene, underneath the gold coins. The fuller (bluer) the bar is, the closer you are to completing that chapter.
• There's also another progress bar on the map page but that one lets you know how far you are from completing the game.

  HINTS

• The game has unlimited hints and there are 2 ways to obtain them.
• You can find question marks that are in each scene, for each 3 question marks that you find, you will earn a hint.
• You can tell how many question marks you found by looking on the lower right side. As you find each "?", one of three spots will be filled. The third "?" will automatically make the counter go up by one.
• The second way to get a "?" is by clicking on the question mark that has a "+" sign in it. It is located on the bottom right side of the page. When you click on it, you will be taken to a different scene. When you're in those scenes, all you have to do is find 10 hidden "?" around the scene. Some are easy to find while others are harder. In order to get the hint you must find all 10 "?"
• Each time you find all 10 "?"s you will earn 2 additional hints to use in the game. If you do not find all 10, you will not earn any hints. The great thing about this is that I tried to see how many hints I could earn and at one time, I got all the way up to 26 of them.
• The only thing about the hints is that they only help you find fragmented pieces. They do not tell you where certain items go.

  AMULETS

• In each scene there are a certain amount of amulets that you must find. You can tell how many amulets need to be found in a couple of different ways.
• When you're on the main map, you can click on a location and it will tell you how many amulets you need to find in the blue box below.
• If you're in a particular scene, you can click on the box of amulets that's on the bottom right side and it will tell you on top how many amulets are left to find in a scene. The number of amulets will show up on top of the page.
• You will need to find all the amulets at the scene so you can use them at the end of the game.
• When you see a red flag over the map area it means that you found all the gems in that section.

  MAP SCREEN

• From the map screen you can see the name of the locations you are visiting, the amount of crystals needed to be found and how many search items are needed.
• When you're on the map, wherever you see the little plane flying that is where your destination will be if you click on "play". You can also see the name of your location by clicking on one of the coins. The name of the location will appear at the bottom of the page.
• If on the map you see that a location says that you have 10 items to find, then it means that there is a hidden or extra location within that scene.
• There's a progress bar on the map that lets you know ow much further you have to go in the game.

  WALKTHROUGH

• The following section contains step by step instructions on how to solve all the puzzles in the game.
• In order to make the walkthrough easier to follow, I decided to highlight certain sections in the guide so that key words stand out above the rest.
• RED-When you see an item that is highlighted in red, it means that that item was a piece that was taken from your inventory.
• BLUE-Any item that is highlighted in blue is an item that belongs in a hotspot somewhere in the scene. Sometimes I use the exact same name as it appears on the game or I choose a name that is shorter.
• BOLD-The words that are in bold refer to an item that appears after other actions have been performed. It usually refers the last piece of a certain item.