Game Classification

The Wispas were good spirits of the forest, living in peace and harmony with nature. One day, they sense a terrible disturbing force threatening their sacred grounds, littering their once pristine sanctuaries in the woods with all kind of trash and garbage. One of them, a brave young Wispa called Lyia, sets out on a quest to clean the forest and find the source of all evil.

Wispa Forest is a hidden object game with an art style emulating watercolor paintings, and occasional tile-matching puzzles. The main objective is to find all the items drawn on a scroll at the bottom of the screen, on colorful locations filled with scattered paraphernalia cluttering the scenery. Finding several items at once creates a combo chain, with Lyia gathering all the objects in sequence to score bonus mana points.

The accumulated mana points are spent on the hint options, available as three spells drawn on the scroll at the top-left corner. The intuition spell costs 3 mana, circling the general area surrounding one of the required objects; the instinct spell costs 5 mana, showing the exact position of one of the items; the double vision spell costs 8 mana, highlighting the position of two objects at the same time.

The tile-matching battles take place on a separate screen, where the player has to remove groups of tokens from a grid to destroy the opponent. The goal is to switch pairs of adjacent tiles, to create lines or columns of three or more of the same kind and make them disappear. In order to defeat the enemy, the matches have to be performed over grid slots with glowing backgrounds. There are two spells at the bottom-right corner, one destroying individual tiles, the other shuffling the whole board. They cost mana points, and take some time to recharge after use. [source:mobygames]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Macintosh - PC (Windows)

Links

• http://www.mobygames.com/game/wispa-forest/