Game Vortex writes: "Elementals: The Magic Key is an odd blend of several genres in an attempt to make a fairly unique experience. Unfortunately, it never feels like enough effort went into any of the game's aspects to make any one part of it really compelling."
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Elementals: The Magic Key is a new hidden object game from the game developers at Playrix Entertainment. In it you take the role of a young wizard named Albert. He's a little flaky, a little flighty, and he didn't get the best grades in his spell-casting classes. One day while using his fortune telling table he sees a vision of the Key of Eiron, the artifact protecting their magical land from the forces of evil, being destroyed by the evil wizard Sibelius. When he goes to tell his sister Lily, the protector of the Key, he finds she's been kidnapped!
Gamezebo writes: "QB9's Elementals: The Magic Key is deep, original, and delightfully habit forming-everything one could hope for in a puzzle game. Alas, our copy also suffered from a pretty big glitch.
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
The game begins with a short bit of text telling us that Leonardo Da Vinci's lost Alchemy Treatise has been found by researchers in a lab that belonged to his contemporary, Luca Pacioli. In it are described a variety of Elementals (earth, air, water, and fire apparently aren't alone; there's also lava, lightning, and rain, to name but of a few of the additional Elementals in Da Vinci's writings) and things that can be done with them when they're combined in just the right amounts."