DrDavid's Profile
Stat Summary
- Average Rating:3.3
- Helpful Votes:2,837
- Reviews Submitted:246
- First Review:November 24, 2011
- Most Recent Review:July 12, 2022
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A narrative strategy and RPG game with a unique mixture of adventure, action and investigation with original medieval music.
Overall rating
1
/
5
11 of 17 found this review helpful
A very strange game
PostedJanuary 4, 2013
DrDavid
fromRaleigh, NC
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management
Fun Factor
1
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
1
/
5
Level of Challenge
1
/
5
Storyline
2
/
5
I found this game too strange to continue. After 10 minutes all of my heroes were dead (all one?). The instructions, poor as they are, are written in a just barely legible font which, when combined with the fractured English, make them inscrutable. The player is left to blunder about and try to figure the game out for himself. Not worth the effort. The graphics are cartoonish and the figures move like chess pieces, from here to there, or not, according to some hidden agenda. Often they will not move at all. So the graphics are a negative, the movement also, and the instructions are a huge negative. On the positive side; well I didn’t really get anything positive out of this game. The game was a rather large waste of my time. I’ll lump this game with tower games as things to avoid. I really didn’t ‘get’ it.
I don't recommend this game.
A classic Christmas tale tail, with a whole new twist! Help the Nutcracker rescue the princess from the evil Rat King!
Overall rating
4
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5
Season appropriate HOG
PostedDecember 24, 2012
DrDavid
fromRaleigh, NC
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management
Fun Factor
4
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
This is a pretty good game with a Seasonal hook. The story is quite contrived but the game play is mainly pretty good. Still there are some dark and tiny HOS and still in places the game just stops and makes you look at the guide or rely heavily on hints. This makes the game good but not great. The bonus chapter was so broken up that nothing followed or flowed from scene to scene and I finally gave up on it. The mini-puzzles were probably a 2 overall, which is better than most HOGs. Some min-puzzles would not play.
I recommend this game!
Islanders are here again! Become part of a new adventure and help the shaman get his true appearance back! Follow them in a fascinating journey through time and make new friends!
Overall rating
5
/
5
2 of 2 found this review helpful
Can the sequel be equal to the original?
PostedDecember 24, 2012
DrDavid
fromRaleigh, NC
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management
Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
As the fourth installment of Island Tribe can the quality remain or is it doomed to become one sequel too many? It succeeds in being just a continuation of the Island Tribe 3 with a different back story. There are minor differences, but the game has the feel of just a continuation of the previous installment. That is good news. Everything you liked about Island Tribe is here, virtually unchanged, and if you had quibbles about anything before, that is probably unchanged too. I loved it and I recommend it to anyone who has previously liked Island Tribe.
I recommend this game!
Times of great peril give rise to even greater heroes - or so the story goes in Dragon Crossroads, a time management game with a fantasy twist!
Overall rating
4
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5
7 of 7 found this review helpful
Frantic clicking required
PostedDecember 24, 2012
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
This was a very ‘busy’ game where you were rewarded for clicking rapidly all over the board and keeping the supply pipeline full. Some of the initial levels were hard enough that even with three or four replays I could not get gold, but after the mid-point everything was pretty easy. Graphics were pretty good, but errors in the play happened too often. At one point when you talk to a villain and then click away, another dialog bubble appears in Russian. Periodically when you pick up a resource and carry it off, it still shows up there almost until your player gets back to the tent. These are minor annoyances, but they indicate a lack of quality control in production. They game was fun to play and I recommend it.
I recommend this game!
Embark on an epic journey across the Chinese Empire and build the greatest structure known to mankind - The Great Wall of China - in this exciting time management game.
Overall rating
4
/
5
1 of 1 found this review helpful
Fun but impossible to get gold
PostedDecember 24, 2012
DrDavid
fromRaleigh, NC
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management
Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
This was a fun game that I have played now three times, and still I have no gold levels beyond the first mini-puzzle. I couldn’t beat it and I finally quit trying. The timer still runs in relaxed mode but if time runs out you may still continue without winning any trophies. So be it. It was still fun when I gave up trying to even care what the time was. I blame my little men for being too slow. Good graphics. Good fun.
I recommend this game!
Build a settlement, restore the Rune Stones and save the Dwarven Kingdom in this pleasant Match 3 game
Overall rating
3
/
5
M3 with a story line
PostedDecember 24, 2012
DrDavid
fromRaleigh, NC
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management
Fun Factor
3
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
2
/
5
There is a back story that each game board is a task which you must accomplish to help restore the runes. You may be gathering stones and logs or cleaning snags from the waterway or collecting gems, gold, and silver meaning that the game boards have different icons to look at and match. Initially I was put off by the stones and logs because they were difficult for me to look at. It did get better. There are minor disasters in the boards which limit play and few bombs or power ups. I rarely played more than 3 levels before exiting but each time I returned. In several of the boards there are hidden things to find, meaning that matches have to be made over the grey boxes or that all boxes begin grey and matches clear the grey and the board is over when all of the hidden items, not necessarily all of the grey boxes, are found. That was different and I liked it except in the library when the icons are books which cover nearly all of the background; it is hard to tell which boxes are grey. Not a great game but a good solid one. Call it a 3.5.
I recommend this game!
Look after and feed fun 3D fish and watch them play and interact with each other as you complete exciting match-3 levels to earn money for decorating your aquarium!
Overall rating
5
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5
9 of 10 found this review helpful
Can a sequel be equal to the original?
PostedDecember 24, 2012
DrDavid
fromRaleigh, NC
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management
Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
I have played Fishdom and Fishdom Seasons and Fishdom 2. I liked them all, but Fishdom 2 improved a bit on the original. I beta tested Fishdom 3 and was very pleased and now I have played the full game. I have three level 3 tanks on my desktop with 12 fish each and level 33. On my laptop I also have three level 3 tanks but without any fish in any and only level 26 if I recall. The graphics are slightly better in Fishdom 3 than in any previous iteration and everything just looks better. The play is still the same with bombs of various sizes that shake the screen and have sound effects. Love it! As much as I loved Jewel Match 3 I have to wonder whether it is Fishdom 3 that is the epitome of M3 games. The biggest changes in Fishdom 3 are that many levels have little tricks which will clear much of the screen with a single correct initial move and lead to a quick ending much like using certain gambits in chess. The second major difference is that the fish now are interactive and have personalities; hence the reason I have not allowed fish in my laptop version. I think the verdict is out on whether the interactive fish are a positive or negative addition; I can do with or without them. So the sequel is more than equal.
I recommend this game!
Build a wonderful beach resort in 1920, and develop the same city through multiple decades in Build it! Miami Beach Resort!
Overall rating
1
/
5
16 of 20 found this review helpful
Wasted time
PostedDecember 24, 2012
DrDavid
fromRaleigh, NC
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management
Fun Factor
1
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
2
/
5
Level of Challenge
1
/
5
I played three levels (years) with two being full tutorial and the third ending with no result. The first two levels ended and I had no idea what I had done right or wrong and the third level told me to build recreation but all were greyed out. I also built a hotel with no building permit. How? I don’t understand. This was too stupid to continue. I exited the game and deleted it after half an hour. Don’t waste your time trying to figure out this inscrutable mess.
I don't recommend this game.
Clear a board of colored runes by creating matches of three or more stones. As you progress, the obstacles become more cunning!
Overall rating
1
/
5
2 of 8 found this review helpful
Just dumb
PostedNovember 10, 2012
DrDavid
fromRaleigh, NC
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Match 3
Fun Factor
1
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
/
5
Level of Challenge
1
/
5
Storyline
1
/
5
This is the dumbest M3 game I have ever tried to play. No strategy seems to be in order and from my first 7 minutes I would guess that many levels could take days to finish. This is just too dumb to buy.
I don't recommend this game.
Travel across beautiful forests filled with mythical creatures! Find Ragnar's daughters and defeat the evil witch and her cruel servants!
Overall rating
5
/
5
4 of 5 found this review helpful
Excellent fun
PostedOctober 20, 2012
DrDavid
fromRaleigh, NC
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Match 3
Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
This game is like others of its ilk and that is not a bad thing. The graphics are very good and the animation very good as well. Loading each scene takes a bit of time, but once loaded the game engine rarely hesitates. The play is fun with three levels, casual which I love, regular and multiclick which I did not try. The worst thing about this game was when I ran out of levels and was done. So I played it again, all the way from the start. There are a few scenes with disasters, but they do not negatively affect the fun of play. It was great escapism for those who desire that. Now excuse me while I replay it yet again.
I recommend this game!