The Tales of Bearsworth Manor
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The Tales of Bearsworth Manor, or Kumanage in Japanese, is a video game developed and published by Square Enix
and released for the Nintendo Wii's WiiWare
service. The game was released in two parts; Tales of Bearsworth Manor: Puzzling Pages, and Tales of Bearsworth Manor: Chaotic Conflicts. Both games have the player use the Wiimote controller to toss paper bears onto a board, with Chaotic Conflicts focusing on a tower defense
gameplay and Puzzling Pages using puzzle elements.
, a young girl named Pina's picture book
comes to life. In Chaotic Conflicts, players defend the blue gems from Kina, a boy who lives in the mansion.
reviewed both games and gave them a 5.5, or "Mediocre", calling the graphical style "sensational", but panning both games imprecise controls, short game play time, and excessive price for the games and their downloadable content. Nintendo Life was complimentary of Puzzling Pages, calling it a "creative storybook adventure" wrapped around a simple game and awarding it 8 of 10, while Edge magazine gave it a 4, saying that "its concept feels almost thrown together". Nintendo Life also gave Chaotic Chronicles an 8 of 10, praising the "silly theme and intense gameplay mechanics", but Edge gave it a 3, claiming that the poor controls left the game almost unplayable.
Square Enix
is a Japanese video game and publishing company best known for its console role-playing game franchises, which include the Final Fantasy series, the Dragon Quest series, and the action-RPG Kingdom Hearts series...
and released for the Nintendo Wii's WiiWare
WiiWare
WiiWare is a service that allows Wii users to download games and applications specifically designed and developed for the Wii video game console made by Nintendo. These games and applications can only be purchased and downloaded from the Wii Shop Channel under the WiiWare section...
service. The game was released in two parts; Tales of Bearsworth Manor: Puzzling Pages, and Tales of Bearsworth Manor: Chaotic Conflicts. Both games have the player use the Wiimote controller to toss paper bears onto a board, with Chaotic Conflicts focusing on a tower defense
Tower defense
Tower defense is a subgenre of real-time strategy computer games.The goal of tower defense games is to try to stop enemies from crossing a map by building towers which shoot at them as they pass. Enemies and towers usually have varied abilities, costs, and ability costs...
gameplay and Puzzling Pages using puzzle elements.
Gameplay
In Puzzling Pages, players use the Wiimote to throw paper bears into the picture book on the screen to manipulate the on screen environment and combat enemies in order to gather all the red candies. In Chaotic Conflicts, players use the Wiimote to throw paper bears and protect your blue gem in a tower defense-style game. In Puzzling Pages, the player uses similar mechanics, but with a more puzzle-oriented approach. Players must blow up boxes with bombs, land their bears on see-saws, and activate switches in order to collect the red candies. "Puzzling Pages" features 30 levels.Plot
In a crumbling mansionMansion
A mansion is a very large dwelling house. U.S. real estate brokers define a mansion as a dwelling of over . A traditional European mansion was defined as a house which contained a ballroom and tens of bedrooms...
, a young girl named Pina's picture book
Picture book
A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. The images in picture books use a range of media such as oil paints, acrylics, watercolor and pencil.Two of the earliest books with something like the format picture books still retain now...
comes to life. In Chaotic Conflicts, players defend the blue gems from Kina, a boy who lives in the mansion.
Reception
IGNIGN
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reviewed both games and gave them a 5.5, or "Mediocre", calling the graphical style "sensational", but panning both games imprecise controls, short game play time, and excessive price for the games and their downloadable content. Nintendo Life was complimentary of Puzzling Pages, calling it a "creative storybook adventure" wrapped around a simple game and awarding it 8 of 10, while Edge magazine gave it a 4, saying that "its concept feels almost thrown together". Nintendo Life also gave Chaotic Chronicles an 8 of 10, praising the "silly theme and intense gameplay mechanics", but Edge gave it a 3, claiming that the poor controls left the game almost unplayable.