RenaRF's Profile
Stat Summary
- Average Rating:2.4
- Helpful Votes:367
- Reviews Submitted:21
- First Review:August 10, 2013
- Most Recent Review:June 30, 2025
- Featured reviews0
The Wall: Medieval Heroes
Can you thwart the barbarian siege? Use a variety of defensive units, towers, and traps to save the village from your attackers.
Overall rating
2
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5
11 of 11 found this review helpful
Didn't Buy This One. Here's Why.
PostedMay 23, 2014
RenaRF
fromReston, VA
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Strategy, Time Management, Marble Popper
Fun Factor
2
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
2
/
5
Storyline
2
/
5
So I like the idea of combining a resource management/time management type of game with the thought of a tower defense game, both of which are my favorites in terms of what I play. It's a shame that the game itself didn't live up to the promise in my opinion.
The gameplay is fairly easy to explain. You have two screens that you toggle between, one inside of your wall where you collect resources (gold, food# and upgrade capabilities of the castle and your defenders, and one outside of the wall where you actually have to defend attacks. You have to collect gold and food to be able to buy archers and cavalry and other types of fighters. The clock counts down between attack waves for you to collect accumulated resources and add defenders to your cadre outside the wall.
The good: The graphics are good and the game is fairly easy to understand.
The rest: Very, very repetitive. Collect stuff, buy defenders, defend, wash rinse and repeat. Over and over. There's really no upside to the game itself, and I didn't even finish the demo #I got really bored) before deciding I'd have a better time reading a book!
I don't recommend this game.
DinerMania
In the cutthroat restaurant business, it’s eat or be eaten! Do you have what it takes to be hotter than the competition?
Overall rating
2
/
5
1 of 1 found this review helpful
Pretty Disappointing.
PostedApril 3, 2014
RenaRF
fromReston, VA
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Time Management
Fun Factor
1
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
/
5
Level of Challenge
2
/
5
Storyline
1
/
5
It's the small things that matter in TM games like this.
First gripe: The "hand" cursor is pretty inaccurate and large, and you have to finely click on some small items (comparatively) to complete the orders customers place.
Second gripe: Is it so incredibly difficult to provide a checkmark for queued tasks? It's nearly impossible to tell, if you're queing up actions, to be certain that you have accurately clicked on a particular item. A checkmark would solve that problem.
Third gripe: The high level overview of the diner itself is like watching a movie on a small screen in low definition from across the room. In other words, the lack of detail really causes the game to suffer.
Fourth gripe: The better TM games recognize that when you're on your last customer you don't want to sit there endlessly waiting for them to finish what they're doing, and they speed that last customer process up. This game doesn't do that.
General: It's pretty boring, terribly repetitive, and not very interesting. It's a shame - because in the sea of hidden object games, I wait for the TM games to be released. To have one be so very unsatisfying compounds the disappointment.
I got through 20 minutes of the trial before removing the game from my system.
I don't recommend this game.
Gardens Inc. 2: The Road to Fame
Jill & Mike’s gardening company has taken off in Sunnyvale, and they need your help to make their business soar! Help them win a contest and earn lucrative contracts from all over the world!
Overall rating
2
/
5
31 of 37 found this review helpful
REALLY Disappointing at the Higher Levels
PostedMarch 29, 2014
RenaRF
fromReston, VA
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
2
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
1
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
Seriously. The high rating on this game must be due to the fact that the writers reviewed it prior to levels 30+.
First - the whole "vandals" thing is annoying and pointless. I understand that they are trying to add some variety into the game itself; but when ALL YOU CAN DO is spend time clicking on vandal after vandal over and over again, it's too much. You literally don't get to do anything else for long stretches of time other than click on vandals, and it's annoying.
Second - I have a new PC with a decent amount of memory and RAM that should EASILY be able to run this game. Yet the game - again, in the upper levels and more than halfway through a level itself when there are vandals and TNT and tons of items to pick up - winds up getting sluggish. So much so that it's difficult to even click on ANYTHING, let alone the relentless and pointless stream of vandals. I honeatly just stopped playing.
Don't waste your $$.
I don't recommend this game.
Monument Builders: Great Wall of China
Supervise the construction of the iconic Great Wall of China, and protect your villages against plundering!
Overall rating
3
/
5
6 of 7 found this review helpful
Meh. Not super awesome.
PostedMarch 12, 2014
RenaRF
fromReston, VA
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Time Management
Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
I think the Monument Builders series has been slipping since the first two games were released. They get increasingly cartoonish, and some levels are ridiculously impossible to finish within the three-star time limit. If the game was more fun, going back and trying to get three stars would be fun also, but because it's just kind of boring, I didn't even bother. I finished the game a day after buying it, and I slept and worked in between (i.e., I didn't play continuously).
I don't recommend this game.
Farm to Fork
Help the farmers keep their lands and make the valley prosperous once again!
Overall rating
4
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5
6 of 7 found this review helpful
I like it, but I don't love it.
PostedFebruary 24, 2014
RenaRF
fromReston, VA
Favorite Genre(s):Time Management, Marble Popper
Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
This is obviously a pretty obvious knockoff of the Farm Frenzy series. Instead of bears or what have you, this time it's parrots and you sell their feathers. You can upgrade the parrot cage, vehicle, refrigerator (storage), and you have to make different items with stuff you plant and harvest, buying machines and upgrades with stars earned for gold, silver and bronze level finishes. Sound familiar? Yeah. The graphics are beautiful; but it's harder on some levels than I think it needs to be, which takes the fun factor down for me. Overall, it's a pretty good game.
I recommend this game!
Luxor 2 HD
Totally re-imagined with dazzling new HD graphics and spectacular effects, the highly-anticipated sequel is finally here!
Overall rating
5
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5
142 of 157 found this review helpful
If you liked some of the other Luxor games, this one's good also!
PostedFebruary 24, 2014
RenaRF
fromReston, VA
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Time Management, Marble Popper
Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
I like this game. I was a fan of Luxor 5th Passage (though I found the cutscreens that couldn't be skipped highly annoying) for its beautiful graphics and levels, and this game has the same feel only it's been updated.
I recommend this game!
Deco Fever
Go behind the scenes of Deco Fever, a new TV show that provides a glimpse into the world of TV!
Overall rating
1
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5
2 of 7 found this review helpful
Zzzzz... Oh. Sorry. I fell asleep.
PostedDecember 1, 2013
RenaRF
fromReston, VA
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Time Management, Marble Popper, Mahjong
Fun Factor
1
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
1
/
5
Level of Challenge
1
/
5
Storyline
1
/
5
Dreadful, awful game. Graphics are lousy. Sound is lousy. Gameplay is lousy, consisting of clicking on things a lot and then clicking on more things.
In theory, I guess the story line is that you are a contestant on a home decorating show and you have to make decorations (unspecified - just generic decorations in a workshop. So you make these, and occasionally clean up piles of junk to get more materials to improve your generic decoration-making "workshops", and you use decorations to purchase new employees and... Zzzzz. Sorry. Fell asleep again - just *thinking* about this game is boring. At any rate, when you finish with expert time, you get to reveal a new room in some mansion that you're redecorating. The mansion is dreadfully boring, just like the game - so the reward for getting expert on a level truly stinks.
You have to work on specific rooms, I guess. For example, the first room you work on has 7 "episodes" of the decorating competition and you're finishing a wine cellar in those 7 levels. You just trudge through the clicking process, and the last level in the room you're working on has a "super deco", where you're building an item. In the case of the wine cellar, you're making a wine cabinet.
I made it that far and was so bored, I deleted the game with 25 minutes of trial time remaining. Horrible game.
I don't recommend this game.
Chicken Invaders 4: Ultimate Omelette Thanksgiving Edition
The turkeys revolted three years ago. Will mankind ever have Thanksgiving again?
Overall rating
1
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5
13 of 14 found this review helpful
SAME GAME as the other two versions.
PostedNovember 20, 2013
RenaRF
fromReston, VA
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Arcade & Action, Time Management
Fun Factor
1
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
1
/
5
Storyline
1
/
5
You would think that the developers would at least make a modest, tiny attempt to change the levels in this version of Chicken Invaders. They didn't. The levels are *EXACTLY* the same as in the Easter and Christmas versions. EXACTLY. The only thing that is different is that it's turkey and not chickens, and they drop pumpkins (as well as burgers and chicken legs) when you kill them. That's it. It's all just pretty basic Thanksgiving-izing the game without a single, substantive change to the levels or the gameplay. I went through ALL levels in the 60 minute trial period, because it's the SAME GAME I've played before.
Unbelievable. Should be free if it's the same game as the one I've already purchased.
I don't recommend this game.
You're The Boss
Take the reins of a lowly warehouse office and work your way up the corporate ladder to fulfill a mysterious prophecy in You're The Boss.
Overall rating
3
/
5
1 of 1 found this review helpful
Just OK with Pros and Cons
PostedNovember 9, 2013
RenaRF
fromReston, VA
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
2
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
Visually, I really like the game. The objectives are clear, and you have to manage a ton of tasks for however many employees you have on a given a level. Having said that, the pace is incredibly slow, and you just repeat the same tasks over and over to kill time until you can do something else. Overall, I suppose I don't regret purchasing it, but it could have been a much better game had the gameplay been planned for faster than "snail's pace" mode.
I don't recommend this game.
Numba Deluxe
One of the more impressive puzzlers available!
Overall rating
1
/
5
1 of 5 found this review helpful
Wasn't worth the 10 seconds to download and install.
PostedOctober 18, 2013
RenaRF
fromReston, VA
Fun Factor
1
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
1
/
5
Level of Challenge
1
/
5
Storyline
1
/
5
Horrible game. Boring, frustrating, flat and one-dimensional. Really - I want the five minutes I spent getting to this conclusion back!!
I don't recommend this game.