Dreamland Solitaire: Dragon's Fury

Pretty nice and relaxing solitaire game. There are 200 levels and after finishing a level you will earn gold to buy/upgrade some perks which will help you to solve the next ones. For me it was quite enjoyable so i recommend it for everyone who likes this type of games. Achievements also worked and are very easy to get just by playing the regular way.

I've seen a lot of worse games than this one, but I still don't feel like recommending it. While it's certainly worth its price in terms of time spent per dollar paid, I feel like most of the effort was put into the graphics and animation effects, rather than making the game enjoyable.

The music, for instance, has vocals but gets boring really quickly and it's one of those rare games where I turned off the music forever after about an hour.
Anyway, gameplay wise, there are some interesting levels, many boring ones, and quite a handful of impossible levels where the only way to win is either sheer luck, or buying lots of jokers. Great. I didn't feel like the programmer bothered to sort levels by difficulty, at all. The animations are slow and can't be skipped (especially annoying on the 3-star pop-up), some card designs are confusing and will make you miss a potential match, etc. I can't really say I enjoyed it.

I saved the best for the end, though.

The story is just ador... sorry, laughable. See, you have to help a fairy redecorate her condo or something. By playing cards to get her some magic. Okay. Whatever. These games have long since stopped caring about card playing make sense within their meta. Then you get called for help by a wizard who's in a hurry to get your help, but not before he gets his tea, that's for sure. So you have to get magic to make him some tea. What a lazy fairy, can't even bother gathering wood and water for her place?
So you have to save a village from destruction by fire (which amounts to using magic to stop a fire, when the village is located next to a lake... No villagers bothering to help? The wizard and the fairy will do it all? Sorry, the wizard is just there to tell you what to do.)

Then you have to go fight the dragon who cause the trouble, but before that you need to find its fair, which you can do by rebuilding a complete mill from scratch or whatever, okay, this game doesn't want to make sense at all, I've understood that, but then why bother give us a story at all? Just give us the cards. So at the end you reach the dragon's lair, and... ultimate twist! The dragon isn't a bad guy, he just wanted to recover what the villagers had stolen! Okay! So now we simply need to help him find the last few possessions he wasn't able to find in the village. Without moving back to the village. That's some fairy.

Said possessions include an elegant table complete with tea set (for his human guests? Really, how nice of him), a carpet (okay, so at this point it's likely the 'artists' are trying to say it's a nice old dragon lady), some chains (who wouldn't want those in their boudoir?), and a painting of... itself, I guess? After you're done, the dragon says thanks, probably offers you some tea offscreen, and then for some reason the wizard breaks the fourth wall to tell us, don't worry, more adventures are awaiting her.

Wait, what? That was an adventure?! I felt like putting my pants on this morning was more of an adventure. Maybe I should make a card game, too. Tight Pants Solitaire, I'll call it.

A nice time-waster. Much easier than the Jewel Match, Solitaire Mystery games. Would suit younger kids.

LOVE THIS GAME. IT IS GREAT. Wow. I remember when Alawar was just beginning to create games. I was playing an early game, and I talked to the designer of the game who helped me out. Those were the good old days. QUESTION: I am @ the point when the dragon has all of his lights..only 1 more needed...and I keep getting sent around the "valley"> I don't know how to get to the next level. Any Suggestions.. HELP