With many beauty spots and simple gameplay, Anacapri can make either a good Adventure game or a pleasant tour.
The story opens with one of two people: Nico - a famous inspector with thorough knowledge of ancient civilizations or Doctor Fredi - a researcher of the relationship between man's dreams and state of mind. You will spend most of your time on many small paths in the island to discovery the mystery of the game. Its whole beauty can not be seen right at the beginning. Different from A Quiet Weekend, you don't travel on foot but by bus with a small ticket price, or telpher. After visiting a place, you can return there using your map. Besides, it is fun to meet and talk to other characters in the game, many of whom are imaginary or only exists in legend. Hence, deciding who can be trusted is sometimes difficult. Another content that is developed in the story is finding Opxidian in oysters' shell, which can grand power to whoever possesses it, but also brings about other misfortune.
Puzzles are various and original. One of them requires you to run around to fix the bus ticket selling machine. Before it's done, you can't use the bus so the area you can cover is very restricted. Many others require speed and accuracy. Items will not appear or become usable until you talk to the right person or enter a specific zone. But once the appear, they will be highlighted since it's difficult to find them in such an immense environment otherwise. To figure out where to go and how to use items is challenging. The difficulty of puzzles is even raised when the game proceeds. To solve them, you normally need some knowledge of arts and a good memory. For example, you are to win Scopa card game, assemble a torn-apart picture... Every detail of the quest should be considered. To make up Limoncello, you must remember the location where you found its recipe, the ingredient, and find out how to make it. Fortunately there is no time limit at all, so you do not have to be hasty.
Game play of Anacapri: The Dream has been modified to use only several simple control operation like pointing and clicking with mouse. It only takes a small amount of time to get used to this, which is one of the reason why the game looks more like a tour. Like A Quiet Weekend, this version offers Exploration Mode for those who want to have a look around before the adventure or do not really want to play but only go sightseeing. In this journey, you will contemplate the whole island with a woman voice introducing the spot in front of you. Music will start at important location of the game: Red Beard's Castle, Palazza a Mare, Walkway of the Forts, Villa San Michele, Marian Piccola and Grotto of Ferns (Grotta delle Felci). The most special and romantic scene belongs to Walkway of the Forts with the only path stretching through the flowery garden, very typical of Carpi. However, there are some places you can see in this mode but only while playing the game like the lower part of the fort which is surrounded with walls. In fact, you can not travel to these places by bus or telpher.
Anacapri: The Dream uses many photographs to convey the beautiful scenes in the island. There are 3 options for resolution: 1024x768, 1280x800 and 1440x900, in which large photos of a whole areas is displayed on your screen. Sometimes it's necessary to move left or right to observe everything or double click your mouse to adjust scrolling speed to a desirable one so that you do not miss anything.
Commonly speaking, this is a non-violent game that suits people who like to have relaxed, pleasant feeling of tourism. If you have already been fed up with fighting action, why not giving it a try.