Microsoft Pandora's Box

Excellent, entertaining, and quite beautiful

Reviewed by wraithe on February 02, 2008  |  report this review

This game is a feast for the eyes. It's all puzzles (literally--swapping picture pieces to unscramble a picture; rotating and sliding tiles to complete a picture, rebuilding an object by flipping and stacking slices of it, etc.). Very relaxing (some puzzles are timed but only for earning bonuses, so it's not a mandatory thing) with a peaceful score and, as mentioned, really beautiful graphics and visuals. You travel between different major cities, solving puzzles (which are all works of art from those cultures), and finding pieces of Pandora's box so that you can catch the different tricksters (from various ancient cultures/myths) and "save" the world. There are stories about each trickster at the beginning (or maybe it was the end) of each section of the game. This is purely a puzzle game so there aren't really any characters and no interaction with the tricksters. Very entertaining and something that can be played multiple times.