Happily Ever After Volumes 1 and 2 for Nintendo DS: Two Titles

Happily Ever After Volumes 1 and 2 are two Nintendo DS fairy-tale titles that Wikipedia dates to 11 April 2010 in North America. Volume 1 is an interactive storybook, Volume 2 an activity game, and Storm City Games is named as publisher of both.

Volume 1: the storybook

The best public description comes from the ESRB, which classes Volume 1 as an interactive storybook. The player follows one of two stories, Little Red Riding Hood or Puss in Boots. The rating is E for Everyone, with a single descriptor, Violent References, and the entry lists no interactive elements such as online play.

The rating note explains the descriptor in plain terms. In the Red Riding Hood material a frightened character lies in bed while a wolf threatens to eat her, and a later scene shows a man with an axe after he has rushed in to attack the wolf. Those are references in a traditional tale rather than anything staged for shock, but they are the reason a children’s storybook does not carry a bare, descriptor-free E.

Nintendo World Report’s company listing for Enjoy Gaming Ltd shows DS titles named Tales to Enjoy! Little Red Riding Hood and Tales to Enjoy! Puss In Boots, the same two stories, though that listing carries no dates and does not say how those titles relate to this one.

Volume 2: the activities

The ESRB summary of Volume 2 is short. Players solve puzzles, colour pictures and find the differences between two images, and all of it happens inside a run of fairy-tale storybooks. Some of the tales contain text references to violence, which is the stated reason for the same Violent References descriptor next to the E for Everyone rating.

Sources found for this page do not name the tales in Volume 2, and they give no count of puzzles or pictures, no page count, no narration format and no price. None of those is stated here.

Release and credits

Wikipedia’s list of Nintendo DS games puts both volumes at 11 April 2010 in North America, with Enjoy Gaming as developer and Storm City Games as publisher. The ESRB prints Storm City Entertainment as publisher on both entries. Storm City Games and Storm City Entertainment seem to be two names in use for one company, but each source is reported as it reads.

Reception

No critic review or score for either volume was found in the public sources checked, and the page makes no claim about quality.

Can you still play it?

Yes, as boxed DS cards. Each runs in a DS, DS Lite or DSi, and in DS mode on the Nintendo 3DS family, which Nintendo stopped making on 16 September 2020. Ordinary DS cards are not region-locked, so a North American copy runs on a console from any region. A Wii U or Switch will not read either one.