Snowfoxx's Profile
Stat Summary
- Average Rating:3.7
- Helpful Votes:992
- Reviews Submitted:85
- First Review:March 2, 2012
- Most Recent Review:August 11, 2015
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Start your own business developing astonishing eco-friendly campsites, uncover a hidden artifact, and become the Campground Developer of the Year!
Overall rating
4
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5
1 of 2 found this review helpful
Going green
PostedJuly 4, 2012
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
5
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5
While this cute building game might not bedazzling in graphics or blow you away with its sound, it is fun and addictive, and you want to keep playing as you help Addie take on The Man in building eco-friendly camping areas for tourists. We start with tent towns, then work our way up to pop-up campers and RVS and cabins. We keep our campsites green by letting the local wildlife keep their homes while making our own plots more green by adding gardens and safe fire-pits.
Addie knows that campers come to such places to be one with nature, and if they want something more upscale, then they should have booked a resort on a beach somewhere. Not that we won't have our own little lake beaches to camp on. We build plots, upgrade them, and keep guest happy by giving them a clean place to stay that is nice to see, and we keep all our big old oak trees, along with any other green boosters that should be kept, since most trees are older than any of us. So be wise, like the owls that live in those big trees, and go green by never leaving your desk in Campgrounds.
I recommend this game!
Fiona Finch and the Finest Flowers
Fiona Finch is out to win the Finest Flowers competition! Help her grow fantastic flora and walk away with the prize!
Overall rating
3
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5
17 of 20 found this review helpful
Yawn... gardening sim
PostedJuly 1, 2012
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
3
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5
Though this game is very colourful and and somewhat interesting in some aspects, it seems I was stuck forever on a level before going to the next one, even after surpassing the meager expectations of the goals of that level. Fiona Finch and the Finest Flowers is a time management gardening game, and many players of dash or farming sim style games might find this to be entertaining. I found the waiting for Fiona's phone to ring and get silly orders for maybe two or three certain kind of flowers to be irritating. On the upside, while we were waiting for those orders we built our inventory and did some plant hybrid breeding. This was my favourite aspect of them game, in seeing what kind of flowers we would get when we would mix two strains together. Sadly, we could only mix one kind of pollen into a pistil. No monster Frankenflowers in Fiona Finch's garden. Maybe if this was an option, the game would have been more exciting. If you like gardening sims, you might want to take Fiona for a whirl, but I found this game to be rather mediocre. A little more experimentation might be in order in Fiona's greenhouse for me to take this game on again.
I don't recommend this game.
Get ready to shine as a true jewelry designer and serve your customers quickly to turn your shop into a glittering success!
Overall rating
2
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5
5 of 10 found this review helpful
Not a gem, not at all
PostedJune 28, 2012
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
2
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5
Storyline
2
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5
I've not played many of the Youda games, and if this plain, stale bit of gaming is an indication of what I can expect from the Youda series, I now know why I haven't. Youda Jewel Shop is supposedly a fast pace time management game in which we create customised ugly jewelry for high demand customers using high-tech means. We make earrings, bracelets, shimmery knicknacks and gems on red velvet pillows, and so forth. sometimes we get a special "mission" to help out a customer in some exotic location, but we are still seeing the same people we always see in our every day work.
The jewelry parts run down a belt, but at least it does not move, unlike that crazy conveyor belt in the candy factory on that classic episode of "I Love Lucy". I think I would have enjoyed just watching that old rerun again instead of playing this game. This game was so plain, it was like having a tofu burger with a side of garbanzo beans for lunch, no spices, no condiments. There are other fashion games out there, and jewelry builders, but going so automated to build all this ugly stuff was not worth the time, and is really not worth the money if you were unfortunate enough to want to play this game past the trial time. Sorry, but Youda Jewel Shop is definitely no gem!
I don't recommend this game.
From Japan to Barcelona, racks of vibrant clothes and lifelike male and female models await in Jojo's Fashion Show: World Tour!
Overall rating
2
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5
7 of 11 found this review helpful
A Fashion Don't
PostedJune 25, 2012
Snowfoxx
fromChipley, FL
Favorite Genre(s):Large File
Fun Factor
2
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
3
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5
I was rather disappointed with Jojo's Fashion Show: World Tour. The game started out pretty fun, doing a show in Tokyo. It takes over from the first game a few years later and Jojo's daughter is now running her own fashion line out of Rio. So we start off doing pop fashions in Japan, the Goth Loli, Loli, Tokyo Street, and Kimono Crazy looks, which are really fun, but once we got out of Tokyo, things started to slide a bit. The things we were given to work with to help Jojo make new looks were recycled from previous levels, and often did not even match what we were supposed to put together.
Creating outfits for the ladies was much easier than for the guys, and once we got the models in the dressing rooms, we had to be speedy to the "model chain" and "Style chain" bonuses. The bigger the bonus and higher the score for matching what was popular in whichever city we were in, the more powerups and stars we get. Getting a 5-star show is not really all that had, but getting the looks together in such a limited amount of time is frustrating, let alone having to hunt down the proper shoes to match an outfit, and let's not even go there with accessories. They give a nice boost to the score, but put the wrong thing with the wrong outfit, and watch that score go so low.
I got thru Tokyo, Amsterdam, London, Djarkarta, and all the way to the Rio show when I realised this game just can't be played by the rules because the devs were cutting costs by not giving us what we needed to play. Rio want's animal prints, and there are none to be found on any of the patterns they give us for Rio, and so on. This game needs an update, and the devs should trying reading their Vogue magazines again before their redesign. Maybe then this game might be worth another look.
I don't recommend this game.
Help Sam rescue his love Anna in Brink of Consciousness: Dorian Gray Syndrome, an incredible Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game!
Overall rating
4
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5
So creepy!
PostedJune 20, 2012
Snowfoxx
fromChipley, FL
Favorite Genre(s):Large File
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
5
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5
It seems that hidden object mystery games just get creepier and creepier, and Brink of Consciousness: Dorian Gray Syndrome Collector's Edition is one of the creepiest by far. While there is no blood, there is one psychotic "artist" that is our antogonist, and is he ever deranged. We play through the POV of Sam Wilde, an investigative reporter, and even though the place names sound very English, the background looks to be in Central Europe. Well, Sam is getting a little to close to the truth, and even in 1950, the time when this is all taking place, some low tech can be used in finding what has been missing and saving more lives, including the one dearest to Sam, his girlfriend, Anna.
"Oscar" has kidnapped Anna, and has brought Sam to his "gallery", where he has created life-sized works of art from the perfectly preserved bodies of his young and beautiful victims, dressed to reflect the image he wants them to portray, Icarus on the ceiling, his mechanic always in the garage, The Vitruvian Man, a flower girl in the indoor garden. So "Oscar" is a man of resources, but his insanity had lead him to using them for all the wrong reasons, and I was a little disappointed that in this very creepy mystery that there were not man HO puzzles to go through. Many logic puzzles, and lots of running back and forth to take one item to make another thing work, and so on, which is pretty common with these kinds of games. Had this been a horror film, I would have been riveted to find out more about Oscar. Perhaps the writers of this game might want to consider taking this script to an independent studio, because it would make one amazing scary movie. I've played my share of creepy games, and was glad not have run into swarming spiders in this one. You might even consider reading Oscar Wilde's works or at least watch LXG after playing this to learn more about Dorian Gray, but I was glad for the reprieve when I chose the more upbeat "Legally Blonde" to view after playing this game.
I recommend this game!
Dive to the bottom of the sea, collect hidden items to earn cash and create your very own dream aquarium! Get hooked!
Overall rating
3
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5
8 of 11 found this review helpful
Cute but needed something more
PostedJune 17, 2012
Snowfoxx
fromChipley, FL
Favorite Genre(s):Large File
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
5
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5
Fishdom H2O: Hidden Odyssey is the latest in the Fishdom series of games put out by Playrix. While this company makes some really cute and fun games, this one seemed to get repetitive after awhile. I was seeing the same puzzles, but looking for different items. The idea of a marine biology student having to build themed aquariums to get a job with some haughty aqua institute was kind of out there.
Since there are many games in the series, I might not be giving the devs proper crdits, and maybe I should check out their backlog of other games. While this was a pure hidden object game, it was no mystery, which was refreshing. No swarming spiders or undead things to creep you out. Searching for treasures to sell from sunken ships, and other classic buildings was pretty fun, and our protagonist even has help from her oceanograher grandfather to keep her spirits up.
The game is really colourful, and has some upbeat calypso music in the background that never gets too loud, so it is easy to focus on the puzzles. The little seahorses we capture to give us hints if we need them are really cute, but after doing some of the same pictures over again a few times, it was easy to find the little guys. Needed more of a challenge there, but I did play in casual mode, since it was simply a test. I guess its time to check out some other Fishdom games to see where this all started.
I don't recommend this game.
Hostile Makeover
Solve a fashion murder mystery! Help smart and sassy Lacey Smithsonian investigate nine quirky suspects to find the killer!
Overall rating
4
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5
9 of 12 found this review helpful
Great Capitol Mystery
PostedJune 9, 2012
Snowfoxx
fromChipley, FL
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Large File
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
5
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5
I was in for surprise when I learned that Hostile Makeover was a hidden object mystery created by Lifetime. Yes, it is a very girlie game, but it is still one great murder mystery. Set in Washington, D.C., it takes to many of the places in the Capitol that we might recognise from movies, and some we might not know, like night time hotspots or high fashion boutiques.
We are playing under the guise of fashion reporter Lacey, whom is covering a story about a photo shoot for a model that broke into the spotlight after winning on a reality TV makeover show. Amanda Manville is gunned down in a drive-by shooting in broad daylight, and now Lacey becomes detective in investigating the murder. There are many people that might have ad a motive, and many different ways some of Amanda's friends and employees might have set the shooting up, or have been accomplices.
Interestingly, we get power-ups for Lacey by doing "retail therapy". Yes we go shopping, and these outfits are not cheap, but we earn cash by hunting for clues and objects and each fully-decked outfit gives us new tools to use in the investigation. We question people that Amanda worked with, family members, and others she surrounded herself with that have skeletons in their own closets to deal with. If this had been a movie, I would really have liked to see it. If you like a really good mystery, but don't want to be creeped or grossed out, then give Hostile Makeover a try. The puzzles might be a little difficult, so if you need glasses when working on the computer, remember to wear them.
I recommend this game!
Potion Bar
Sell a Potion - Save the World! Learn how to make Rainbow Spray, Vampire Fangs Potions, and many more in Potion Bar!
Overall rating
4
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5
8 of 8 found this review helpful
I'll drink to that!
PostedJune 5, 2012
Snowfoxx
fromChipley, FL
Favorite Genre(s):Large File
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
5
/
5
This supernatural time management game was really different, and somewhat magickal. A newspaper columnist gets an invitation to go to a shady club downtown, and next thing she knows, she is under a spell to run a Potion Bar! There is a former proprietor we only know as Jack, and a talking black and white tabby cat that helps us run the place. We serve up potions to unusual patrons, like Rastafarians, flower children, adventurers, witches, fortune tellers and so on...
Our work takes us to magickal ports of call via teleportation, from San Fransisco to Istanbul, to London and more as we work the bar we are bound to, and hunt for the mysterious Jack. Our drinks are not the usual mixes like Rum & Coke. They feature herbs like clover, saffron, spotted mushrooms, and even phoenix feathers. Once a week we brew up new potions for the bar in a hidden object game using weird ingredients, and some looking like a Cosmic Climax from Jungle Jims in Lake Buena Vista.
The storyline is a very curious one, and you will want to continue playing past the trial to learn more about Jack, your furry supervisor, and the other characters that become part of not-so-routine daily routine. If you are wanting a more mystical kind of dash game, then step into the Potion Bar.
I recommend this game!
Burger Bustle: Ellie's Organics
Help Ellie get ahead in the restaurant business as you prepare delicious food, keep customers happy, and open a chain of organic burger restaurants all over the world!
Overall rating
5
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5
10 of 14 found this review helpful
Where is the real-life Ellie?
PostedMay 30, 2012
Snowfoxx
fromChipley, FL
Favorite Genre(s):Large File
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
5
/
5
There are all kinds of fun time management restaurant games out there, but I think it was the curiosity factor that kept me going with Burger Bustle: Ellie's Organics. There is a little back story that leads into the reason why Ellie wants to take on the fast food world with wholesome ingredients, and has had it with cutting corners for the sake of the bottom line. This is her time to "stick it to The Man", and she starts off doing so in New York, New York. As The Chairman of the Board said "If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere..."
The gameplay is pretty standard fast food restaurant... deal with orders, add new equipment, hire new people, give more choices, starting from burgers, chicken, or fish sandwiches, add condiments, organic treats and sodas, good home-style cookin', and eventually, Ellie gets to go global, with outlets in ten nations, from The Big Apple to Down Under. The voices of some of your customers seem like they can get a little irritating sometimes, but they match well with the personalities. Would that someone outside of a video game try to take on an endeavor like this, we might just see a slimming down across the world, since there would no longer be HFCS or dextrose added in anything. So, if you dream of taking on Big Agri, but are merely a simple gamer with lots of good ideas, this might be a game worth looking into.
I recommend this game!
Manage a sweet, stylish American eatery with Match 3 and Time Management elements in this delectable dessert game.
Overall rating
2
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5
20 of 21 found this review helpful
Bland Apple Pie
PostedMay 28, 2012
Snowfoxx
fromChipley, FL
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Large File
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
3
/
5
There are many match 3 games out with restaurant themes, and this one is pretty much one of the more boring of the bunch. The graphics were a bit stretched at first, but it seems that this game was meant to be played in Windowed mode, because once I switched it out from full screen, it worked much faster and looked much better.
Apple Pie is not a cooking sim, but a match 3 restaurant management game in which you play a post-grad woman that gets a job from your rich crazy cat lady aunt who decides that you must run her new restaurant since the management staff there does not get along with her cat (eh?). So, apparently, the arrogant little furball needs to de-stress, and Auntie is going to take him on a European vacation. IN the time they are away, you have to run the business and redecorate the place with upgrades and furnish your chefs with new recipes.
While the gameplay is simple straightforward match 3, and you do get tools to help you along, they are slow in coming. The cashflow is pretty quick, and it is easy to get your upgrades, but the constant interruption of your game with the awarding of insignificant trophies is irritating, and distracting from your gameplay. There are all sorts of restaurant style games out there, with many themes, but Apple Pie is about as blah and mediocre as it gets. Look around at many a casual game site, and I'm sure you will find something far more exciting and tastier than Apple Pie.
I don't recommend this game.