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| genre= Adventure, puzzle | modes= Single player | platforms= Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, iOS }} ''Dream Chronicles: The Chosen Child'', often shortened to ''Dream Chronicles 3'' or ''The Chosen Child'', is a 2009 adventure and puzzle casual game developed by KatGames and originally published by PlayFirst. It is the third installment in the ''Dream Chronicles'' series, the second sequel to 2007's award-winning game ''Dream Chronicles'', also the last part of the first trilogy called ''Faye's Journey''. The game is set in a mystical world of realistic fantasy where mortal and fairy realms collide, and continues the plot from where ''Dream Chronicles 2: The Eternal Maze'' ended. ''The Chosen Child'' tells the story of a mortal woman named Faye waking up from a powerful fairy's dream spell with no recollection of her past or who she really is, except that she keeps having dreams that she has a husband and a daughter who has been taken by the Fairy Queen of Dreams. Guided by the fairy husband who communicates with her through a crystal ball, Faye sets out to save her child once more.〔 ''The Chosen Child'' was first presented limitedly as a beta version on February 5, 2009. It was officially released worldwide as a digital download on April 16, 2009. Similar to its predecessors, ''The Chosen Child'' immediately became another ''Dream Chronicles'' hit, reaching number-one of eleven casual game charts and peaking inside top ten on many other charts.〔 The game was critically well received by casual game critics, describing it as "another visually stunning ''Myst''-like adventure that transports players into a fantasy world of fairies." In June 2010, it was announced that ''The Chosen Child'' was nominated for two awards, "Top Hidden Object Game" and "Best Story", in the second annual GameHouse Great Game Awards. ''The Chosen Child'' was preceded by ''Dream Chronicles 2: The Eternal Maze'' (2008) and followed by ''Dream Chronicles: The Book of Air'' (2010). On August 28, 2012, a high-definition version of this game was available via App Store for iPad device.〔 == Gameplay == ''Dream Chronicles: The Chosen Child'' is an adventure-like hidden object game with numerous puzzles and challenging tasks. Its gameplay is structured much like that in ''Dream Chronicles 2: The Eternal Maze'', and goes deeper than the prequels. Each area, which consists of half a dozen or more unique locations, has a set of puzzles to solve using items players find strewn about the landscape. Players as Faye has to travel back and forth to find what they are looking for. Carrying items between scenes is an important part of solving the intricate puzzles. There are many puzzle types in game: word unscrambling, potion mixing, looking for constellations with the help of telescope, piecing together a sewing machine, playing Simon and sliding games, locating items in the right place and other logic-type games.〔 The objects that players find may be used in a scene other than the one they found it in. Objects will stay in inventory until players need to use them. All objects that players are able to pick up will serve a purpose, whether they are used in that scene or not. A lot of times in this game the pieces players pick up may only be used as they get to the next scene.〔 Some items may not become visible in a scene right away, players must perform other tasks first before they become visible. Players can freely move back and forth between the locations exploring places, solving puzzles, completing tasks and getting clues as to what they should do.〔 In addition to give players time to really explore every aspect of the scenes, KatGames add a device called the Nexus gateway (a series of gateways that allow you to travel to different interconnected locations after you figure out how to unlock them) with hoping to make the game non-linear which allows players to move freely throughout the game world. Instead of being confined to a linear path, ''The Chosen Child'' opens the door for wider exploration, creating the epic feel the series needed to move to the next level. As a result, now players can travel back and forth all the scenes by pulling levers to rotate a massive set of gears and portals in the Nexus gateway, yet this unique feature only appeared in ''The Chosen Child''.〔 For the second time in the ''Dream Chronicles'' series, players can enjoy the experiences of solving maze puzzles. ''The Chosen Child'' contains two underwater labyrinths, one in the 19th scene and the other one in the 23rd scene. However, they are criticized for their highly difficult level preventing some players from completing the whole game.〔 The game has only one weak spot: hint system. The crystal ball is of little help. It rarely tells the exact solution, but instead gives players slight hints. Like in the two previous games of the series, the screen sparkles at times hinting the place where players are to pick up or apply something, but that rarely happens. If players get stuck, they have to keep looking until finding the right item.〔 Like two previous games of the series, ''Dream Chronicles''’ featured factor Dream Jewels (and the new one: gold nuggets) come with unique usages, as they are required to open new Nexus gateways, and for the first time Dream Jewels can be forged by the players themselves.〔 There are ten gold nuggets and 30 Dream Pieces molding ten Dream Jewels to complete; other 58 gold nuggets and 60 Dream Pieces work as bonus scores, which are all scattered throughout the game. Like ''Dream Chronicles 2'', players need to replay the game several times to be able to find all of 16 Dream Jewels. At the end of the game, players earn a high score. The faster how players can complete the game, the more Dream Pieces and gold nuggets they can find, the more Dream Jewels they can forge, the better score they will earn. When players play again under the same name, they will have new Dream Jewel molds to forge, and some of the key items themselves will be in different places the second times around.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dream Chronicles: The Chosen Child」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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