Editor's review
One of the most famous genre of video games since time immemorial has been puzzle games with the main target of solving a puzzle with various difficulty levels. These puzzles involve skills like sequence solving, pattern recognition word completion with the use of logic and strategy by the player. Puzzle games are often short games with low system requirements and are quiet popular amongst users as short time entertainers. Some of the famous games under this genre are bejeweled, minesweeper, diamond twister etc. which have been immensely successful in entertaining large masses of player. One such game with an element of ancient mystery is Mysteries of Persia v.1.0.
Mysteries of Persia from "Ancient Jewel Games" is a freeware game involving mysterious puzzle solving based on an ancient Persian theme. This one is a sequel to the famous Match 3 puzzle game by the same developer. The interface of the game involves a grid containing the jewels with a soothing music playing along with the gameplay and an immersive theme in the background ranging from the woods to the fortresses of old and historical Persian civilization. Due to this theme, the game, apart from being a puzzle game, also involves an element of mysterious adventure in it. The target of the player remains to be of matching and aligning minimum three identically colored jewels in a line in order to make them burst and earn points. Once the player is successful in destroying the stone slabs under these jewels, he progresses to the next level with different background and grid layout.
All in all, Mysteries of Persia v.1.0 is a nice and entertaining game, and is certainly a nice upgrade over the previous match 3 version. Hence, it receives a score of four rating points on the scale of five.
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