Night_Player_zz's Profile
Stat Summary
- Average Rating:4.4
- Helpful Votes:34
- Reviews Submitted:5
- First Review:September 22, 2012
- Most Recent Review:February 2, 2014
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Night_Player_zz's Review History
Step into the shoes of a benevolent leader! Construct new buildings and defend your kingdom from incoming raiders in Be a King 2!
Overall rating
3
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5
7 of 7 found this review helpful
Not overly challenging - which is fine with me
PostedFebruary 2, 2014
Night_Player_zz
fromThe great state of MerryLand
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Time Management, Large File, Match 3, Puzzle, Mahjong
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
A fun game, but not overly challenging. Several disappointments:
- The fog covers a lot of the area so you have to build in a narrow area and expand outward as the fog dissipates. I'd rather be able to place my farms and mills around the edges instead of what ends up being the center of the town. I like to play with where things go so I do destroy buildings and rebuild. In fact to reach some of the objectives you have to knock down and build something else as you gain more resources.
- The game ends as soon as you reach the goal, which you don't always know you've done even by watching the statistics - for example you have to have a certain gross product value that fluctuates, but once you reach it that board is done. I'd rather be able to continue playing beyond that so I can knock down and build and shuffle things around - but you can't do so.
- A few of the boards are annoying, as you are given nothing to work with and have to wait until you can send your hero in to some environment to earn some resources so you can start doing things. Annoying!
- The fog covers a lot of the area so you have to build in a narrow area and expand outward as the fog dissipates. I'd rather be able to place my farms and mills around the edges instead of what ends up being the center of the town. I like to play with where things go so I do destroy buildings and rebuild. In fact to reach some of the objectives you have to knock down and build something else as you gain more resources.
- The game ends as soon as you reach the goal, which you don't always know you've done even by watching the statistics - for example you have to have a certain gross product value that fluctuates, but once you reach it that board is done. I'd rather be able to continue playing beyond that so I can knock down and build and shuffle things around - but you can't do so.
- A few of the boards are annoying, as you are given nothing to work with and have to wait until you can send your hero in to some environment to earn some resources so you can start doing things. Annoying!
But overall I find it fun, though not challenging.
I recommend this game!
Find Santa's missing reindeer to avoid a Yuletide cancellation!
Overall rating
5
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5
5 of 5 found this review helpful
Fun twist on New Yankee in King Arthur's Court
PostedJanuary 19, 2014
Night_Player_zz
fromThe great state of MerryLand
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Time Management
Fun Factor
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
4
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5
Not really different from New Yankee in King Arthur's Court, but the characters are different. You feed the reindeer and they help protect your workers, the snowmen are destructive...and so forth. Santa and his helper elf are the two main characters of King Arthur's Court dressed appropriately for the season. All in all a fun twist on the game.
Solve unique brain teasers and play through incredible Puzzles as you discover the incredible secrets of Triazzle Island!
Overall rating
4
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5
5 of 5 found this review helpful
Fun with harder challenges later in the game
PostedDecember 19, 2012
Night_Player_zz
fromThe great state of MerryLand
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object
This game requires matching and thought. Having enjoyed triazzle board puzzles, I enjoy this one as well. As you progress you will be given different shapes to fill in (see the video) so not all puzzles are like the board puzzles where you fill in a massive space by starting at the edges and work your way inward. Also completion of each puzzle advances your way 'around an island' and you will be able to choose off-shoots of that path to explore other puzzles - usually a slight variation of the triazzle, called triform. You can continue to progress through the game without completing the off-shoots. I have been unable to complete a couple of them but I also only allocate a certain amount of time per attempt. #I own this game#
I recommend this game!
Take up new tricky tasks and overcome challenges in Roads of Rome 2, a game that combines Strategy and Time Management gameplay!
Overall rating
5
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5
2 of 2 found this review helpful
If you only want to buy one Roads of Rome...
PostedSeptember 22, 2012
Night_Player_zz
fromThe great state of MerryLand
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Arcade & Action, Time Management
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
4
/
5
All three games were a lot of fun. Roads of Rome was really nice and fun, but I felt a bit slow paced. Roads of Rome II was my favorite - more features, a bit faster paced, and if you purchase just one, start with this one, but if you plan to get all three then play them in order. Roads of Rome III - I ended up always using the fast boots capability almost constantly because otherwise the game drug out and was boring. Roads of Rome 1 & 2 you build the city and the roads. Roads of Rome 3 you repair the city and roads once the barbarians have destroyed it. Thus in #3 you're putting out a lot of fires. However, that didn't bother me as some reviewers cautioned, and it can be fun figuring out which fire to put out first. All three games are capable of being conquered, but with #3 I had to replay more levels than in #2 in order to unlock the bonus levels ... #1 doesn't have bonus levels. #1 has a mini-game as the last level in each of the four 'episodes, which I didn't care for. It is a lot of clicking on color groups as they feed from the bottom - and you don't want any column to reach the top. I could have done without that. Also in #1&2 the 'fast feet' appear randomly. In #3 you build a cobbler hut and then they appear on a planned recurring basis. I like that you can go around some obstacles so you can reach other items and don't always need to take things in a specific order as some of the other time management ones require ...think Royal Envoy - you have to stick to the road and take things in the order laid out. And I love that you can chop down any tree that is in the scene. On some of the scenes I just spent time chopping away just to lay down an entire forest ...but you need 'food' in order to chop the trees.... You will recognize scenes across the three games. Sometimes there's significant changes to where the features are laid out on the land and othertimes the developers didn't bother to make many changes. However, it didn't bother me and sometimes it was fun to see what they had done differently.
I recommend this game!
Stop the invading barbarian forces and restore the settlements and broken roads in Roads of Rome 3, a fun Strategy game!
Overall rating
5
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5
15 of 17 found this review helpful
If you only want to buy one...
PostedSeptember 22, 2012
Night_Player_zz
fromThe great state of MerryLand
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Arcade & Action, Time Management
Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
All three games were a lot of fun. Roads of Rome was really nice and fun, but I felt a bit slow paced. Roads of Rome II was my favorite - more features, a bit faster paced, and if you purchase just one, start with this one, but if you plan to get all three then play them in order. Roads of Rome III - I ended up always using the fast boots capability almost constantly because otherwise the game drug out and was boring. Roads of Rome 1 & 2 you build the city and the roads. Roads of Rome 3 you repair the city and roads once the barbarians have destroyed it. Thus in #3 you're putting out a lot of fires. However, that didn't bother me as some reviewers cautioned, and it can be fun figuring out which fire to put out first. All three games are capable of being conquered, but with #3 I had to replay more levels than in #2 in order to unlock the bonus levels ... #1 doesn't have bonus levels. #1 has a mini-game as the last level in each of the four 'episodes, which I didn't care for. It is a lot of clicking on color groups as they feed from the bottom - and you don't want any column to reach the top. I could have done without that. Also in #1&2 the 'fast feet' appear randomly. In #3 you build a cobbler hut and then they appear on a planned recurring basis. I like that you can go around some obstacles so you can reach other items and don't always need to take things in a specific order as some of the other time management ones require #think Royal Envoy - you have to stick to the road and take things in the order laid out#. And I love that you can chop down any tree that is in the scene. On some of the scenes I just spent time chopping away just to lay down an entire forest ...but you need 'food' in order to chop the trees.... You will recognize scenes across the three games. Sometimes there's significant changes to where the features are laid out on the land and othertimes the developers didn't bother to make many changes. However, it didn't bother me and sometimes it was fun to see what they had done differently.
I recommend this game!