Dream Day Honeymoon Preview by Meryl

Jenny and Robert of Dream Day Wedding return and invite us (or maybe not and we’re G-rated peeping Toms) on their honeymoon in the second Dream Day hidden object game. Well, maybe they didn’t invite us, but we get to follow them again. Whether you’ve played Dream Day Wedding or not, both stand-alone and aren’t dependent on each other.

Dream Day Honeymoon successfully recaptures the beautiful scenes with hidden items that blend smoothly so the scenes don’t look funky. The hidden items meld with the background so well that when I let Cupid’s arrow help me find the item, I still couldn’t see its shape. The skilled hidden objects game player will appreciate the challenge.

Birds of Paradise also hide in every scene. After finding five of them, you earn a bonus hint. However, you can’t earn more than four. So use the hints rather than save them for the end of the level, which is what I do in hidden objects games. I prefer to use the hints on the few remaining objects that I can’t find.

Each level except for the first has three scenes with an assigned number of souvenirs (objects). The game doesn’t expect you to find every souvenirs, but most of them. For example, one room has 10 souvenirs and room two has 10 souvenirs totaling 20 objects you can find. But you only need to find 18.

Upon finding the required amount of souvenirs, you play Perfect Match. It’s a memory card-like game where you find matching pairs until the tiles are gone. You play Perfect Match nine times, the number of levels it takes you to reach “Cloud Nine” for the Bonus Level.

The game has three honeymoon crises and three Choose A Story scenes. A honeymoon crisis occurs when something goes wrong and you return to a previously visited scene that has changed because of the crises. You also have less time on the clock to find them, unless you play relaxed mode. For Choose A Story, you pick one of three options and the story proceeds based on your choice.

The Dream Day series run shorter than some popular hidden objects games. While that sounds like a drawback, it isn’t. Many fans of casual games don’t necessarily have the luxury of completing a game quickly. Like most hidden objects games, you can stop playing for a while and pick up where you left off. The story in Dream Day Honeymoon is easy to follow, so it shouldn’t be a problem to take a break for a few days or weeks.

Dream Day Honeymoon weaves together a nice theme that flows from start to finish. Hidden object gamers will enjoy this one. It isn’t the biggest or most fancy game out there, but it gratifies.

Wonder what’s next? Dream Day Birth? Dream Day Vacation? Dream Day New Home?

System Requirements: Windows

• Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
• Pentium III or faster
• 128MB RAM
• 65MB available hard drive space

We give Dream Day Honeymoon 4/5 diamonds!