Favorite Genre(s):Arcade & Action, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management
Current Favorite:
Wild Tribe
(5)
Fun Factor
4/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
4/ 5
Level of Challenge
4/ 5
Storyline
3/ 5
It combines a desert island type game with villagers, farming time management and cooking! You have to farm ingredients, make and sell lots of delicious dishes as well as keep all your villagers happy. So, it's a basic Sim game too. It's a very linear game and you have to play by their rules. You can't build a hut for instance, or breed, if you want to up your population, like in some other games. You have to wait until you have completed certain tasks, in a certain order and you are very much railroaded. There's very little free will. The food storage was a constant source of frustration, even upgraded to max food storage, you may still find that it gets full very quickly and you have to constantly sell stuff and juggle. The worms that attack your farm are a novelty at first but it soon gets boring and annoying. If there were a variety of different animals or forces of nature to threaten the farm, I think this would have made it more interesting. Everything is very money orientated, so you have to pay for villagers rather than get them when you build huts or have babies and they don't die or get old, or indeed have an age, so in that way it feels quite clinical. It's more geared to good game play than a story where you feel engaged with the villagers and can relate to them. I really did enjoy it though and will definitely check out the sequel.
I recommend this game!
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Escape From Paradise 2: A Kingdom's Quest
Help your hero marry their true love by becoming the chief of the tribe! Collect wood and build shelters as you attempt to survive.
Favorite Genre(s):Arcade & Action, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management
Current Favorite:
Escape From Paradise
(8)
Fun Factor
5/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
4/ 5
Level of Challenge
4/ 5
Storyline
3/ 5
At first, I didn't like the impersonal masks that villagers wore in this sequel to Escape From Paradise, plus they were all male! The masks I could understand after a while, as they had a practical purpose. You gain colourful feathers on the masks that symbolize the three main skills, lumberjack, provider and carpenter, so you can see at a glance what expertise your villager has gained. I didn't complete this. There were a few loose ends to tie up, like the missing jewels for example. I remember old school games could have you banging your head against a brick wall over and over and you'd just go right back and keep doing it and eventually give up. While old school is great at times and wonderfully nostalgic, it can be very frustrating. This is a fairly new game and the only thing that lets it down is that the game play isn't very user friendly. People were tearing their hair out in the forums because they couldn't find the 10 skulls that needed to be found at one stage to progress. Thanks to the wonderful people who make the walkthroughs, some people stopped tearing their hair out! Me included! But what happens with games like this is, you get past a really difficult part only to find another, so all these genuinely well-meaning and fantastic people on the forums will find that they have their work cut out and they're trying to put a plaster on a wound that needs a bandage, a big one, but thanks guys for all your invaluable help!
I recommend this game!
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Escape From Paradise
Play 5 major games, conquer 12 mini games, and lead survivors of a shipwreck in this epic island adventure.
Overall rating
5/ 5
Island Adventure with a great Diner Dash game within.
Favorite Genre(s):Arcade & Action, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management
Current Favorite:
Escape From Paradise 2: A Kingdom's Quest
(5)
Fun Factor
5/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
4/ 5
Level of Challenge
4/ 5
Storyline
3/ 5
Lots of fun if you like island adventures where you build huts, gather resources and solve the mysteries of the island. I did get stuck a couple of times and had to go to the walkthrough but that didn't really hinder the gameplay, as it was only towards the end that I needed help. I thought the gameplay was generally very good. There are lots of mini games, which you can skip. One of the games I really liked was the mini game 'Furious Feast,' which can be played at the Diner on the island. It was like SpongeBob Diner Dash, in style, graphics and gameplay but without SpongeBob! There are twenty levels. I didn't manage to complete the twentieth level but played all the others. Those types of old school diner games are rare these days. I think that was my favourite bit of the game, certainly a major added bonus.
I recommend this game!
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Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek
Find a kidnapped teenage girl and save yourself in Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek, a fun Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game!
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Arcade & Action, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management, Word
Current Favorite:
Sacra Terra: Angelic Night
(62)
Fun Factor
4/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
4/ 5
Level of Challenge
4/ 5
Storyline
4/ 5
Lots of nice hidden object scenes, although relaxing, I found them a bit plain and boring. Good game play and dramatic interesting cut scenes, cinematics and story.
I recommend this game!
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Tales of Lagoona: Orphans of the Ocean
Help Islabelle the Mermaid save an orphanage as you seek and find your way across beautiful underwater locations!
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Arcade & Action, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management, Word
Current Favorite:
Tales of Lagoona 2: Peril at Poseidon Park
(83)
Fun Factor
5/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
4/ 5
Level of Challenge
4/ 5
Storyline
5/ 5
This game has an enormous sense of fun, humour and is so relaxing to play. The quests are hilarious and always make me smile. It's like a soap opera combined with larger than life marine characters with rich back stories and even richer everyday lives. There are back to back hidden object scenes with mini games/puzzles, which can be skipped automatically. I also liked the building/renovation area and collecting gems and trophies.
I recommend this game!
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Tales of Lagoona 2: Peril at Poseidon Park
Return to the undersea world of Lagoona and save Poseidon Park from closing down!
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Arcade & Action, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management, Word
Current Favorite:
Tales of Lagoona: Orphans of the Ocean
(66)
Fun Factor
4/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
4/ 5
Level of Challenge
3/ 5
Storyline
5/ 5
A delightful game with interesting characters, story and humorous script. It's mostly a HOG but there are side quests, which are very entertaining to read. I also enjoyed finding all the food for the sea ponies and feeding them. Although, I did get a bit bored of the sea ponies after a while. It's a really long game and you do get your moneys worth. I would say it was a family game, as I played it with my husband, who was absolutely hooked on it.
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Arcade & Action, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management, Word
Current Favorite:
Voodoo Chronicles: The First Sign
(18)
Fun Factor
3/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
3/ 5
Level of Challenge
4/ 5
Storyline
4/ 5
A old school adventure game, which was quite clunky and I was not able to move people around smoothly or easily. However, despite this, I liked the graphics, the characters, the voice overs, story and script. You have to have a bit of patience figuring things out, you don't have skips or hints. Not ideal gameplay and not overly user friendly but nothing was impossible and it was a enjoyable and entertaining game.
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Arcade & Action, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management
Current Favorite:
The Others
(78)
Fun Factor
3/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
3/ 5
Level of Challenge
4/ 5
Storyline
3/ 5
Nice old school relaxing HOS but a little short and I was never far away from the walkthrough. There is no skip on puzzles, and some of them weren't that easy, so you are flying without a safety net.
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Arcade & Action, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management
Current Favorite:
Dreamland
(58)
Fun Factor
3/ 5
Visual/Sound Quality
3/ 5
Level of Challenge
4/ 5
Storyline
4/ 5
It seemed to be primarily a backgrounds artist that created all the scenes. So while those scenes themselves were good, there weren't really any foreground scenes, even in the HOS, which made them appear flat and two dimensional. This lack of layering, created uninspiring scenes. I found myself having to use the walkthrough a few times. It was easy to get lost and disorientated and pathways to other areas weren't clear. Saying that though, I thought the cut scenes, cinematics and storyline was well executed and a lot of thought was put into it. The puzzles and game play were interesting. The characters and dialogue helped to create some atmosphere.