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- Average Rating:4.5
- Helpful Votes:1,384
- Reviews Submitted:36
- First Review:November 19, 2011
- Most Recent Review:May 4, 2015
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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
61 of 78 found this review helpful
Another Hit From Playrix!
PostedNovember 22, 2012
purpleporpoise
fromUSA
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Word, Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Match 3, Time Management
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
4
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5
I have Fishdom H2o and love it, so when I saw that Fishdom 3 was released, I had to try it. I wasn't disappointed! Tina the turtle is adorable, as are the other fishies and critters that you can purchase to inhabit your aquariums.
No storyline, just matching to earn coins to stock your aquarium. The Match 3 is pretty standard with chained and frozen tiles to break, bombs to explode and the game progresses quickly. The timer is generous and the pleasant background music with a light Caribbean beat makes for a relaxing and fun game.
I wasn't particularly challenged by the Match 3. I've played some Match 3's that were next to impossible to beat and I'm probably in between a beginning and intermediate player. It was fairly easy for me to level up in this game and earn money to buy fish and accessories for my tank. It says there are 100 levels in this collector's edition, so I'm assuming that it gets harder as it goes along.
The colors are bright and cheery and the graphics are excellent. There was nothing hard on the eyes or ears in this game. There are lots of fish, accessories, backgrounds and upgrades for the aquariums. You even have a little sponge to wipe the glass when it gets dirty! And did I say the fish were adorable?! Sorry, I was having so much fun playing that I didn't notice if there was more than one play mode and my timed trial was over far too soon! Overall, a VERY fun play and a definite buy for me so that I can hurry back and finish my aquarium!
I recommend this game!
Garage Inc.
Angelo Marito has just opened up his very own auto garage and needs your help to succeed in the Roaring 1920s!
Overall rating
3
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5
4 of 4 found this review helpful
I really wanted to like this game because it was about cars!
PostedMay 31, 2012
purpleporpoise
fromUSA
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Family, Word, Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Strategy, Time Management, Mahjong
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
4
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5
When I first saw this game, I thought, wow, a TM game that isn't about dashing around a restaurant serving food or planting and harvesting crops! Instead, this one has you dashing about an auto shop fixing cars! It looked promising and I really wanted to like it, my husband having been a self-employed auto mechanic himself.
It's got a great story line, takes place in the 1920's during the heyday of the Chicago mobsters and speakeasys. It has great voice-overs and jazzy music. The graphics are cartoonish, but appropriate for the time period. However, a few things made it hard for me to play this game.
Maybe it's just my mouse, but I found that when I clicked on an object, I had to center it just right. Even slightly too far to the left or right or a little off-center and I'd have to click my mouse again. I'm not the fastest person on TMs, but that made me even slower. Even so, I did make most of the challenges in the tutorial.
The other thing that frustrated me was that even though I had 2 repair docks and 3 employees, I could only have 1 employee working at a time, I guess, because I wasn't making enough money to pay more than 1 employee at a time. Maybe that changes as you progress through the levels. But it did slow me down more because I couldn't get the cars repaired fast enough and kept losing customers.
POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT:
And this is just my personal opinion, but it bothered me that Angelo has to do tasks for the Mafia guy because his cousin Sal couldn't pay back the loan shark the money he loaned Angelo to open up his shop. Didn't Angelo realize Sal was mixed up with the Mob??
END OF SPOILER
And this is just my personal opinion, but it bothered me that Angelo has to do tasks for the Mafia guy because his cousin Sal couldn't pay back the loan shark the money he loaned Angelo to open up his shop. Didn't Angelo realize Sal was mixed up with the Mob??
END OF SPOILER
It's nice to see a game for the guys, about cars instead of food or farming. It's just not for me. But do give it a try, if only for the hour trial. You just might like it. A nice change from the typical diner-dash type TM and I do hope that developers will continue to design TM games with alternative themes like this.
I recommend this game!
A powerful wizard has been sucked into a portal and is lost! Only you can save him from death in Allora and the Broken Portal!
Overall rating
4
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5
2 of 5 found this review helpful
Beautiful HOG! However, flashing arrows are a deal-breaker for me :o(
PostedMay 27, 2012
purpleporpoise
fromUSA
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Word, Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Strategy, Time Management, Mahjong
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
3
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5
Lovely hidden-object game! The hand-drawn graphics are just beautiful and different, a welcome change from the usual dark HOG subject matter. Hidden objects were challenging, but not so hard as to leave me frustrated and I love the medieval theme. Finding a modern wrench and coffee pot in a medieval fantasy setting, however, struck me as a little strange.
And as another reviewer has stated, the directional arrows, which tend to flash at odd times, are distracting and irritating. That, unfortunately, is a deal-breaker for me. Other than those two things (the only flaws I noted in my trial play), it's a great little HOG and I would still recommend it to anyone to at least try the game and see if you like it.
I recommend this game!
A little bird wants to join his better half but the cruel world won't let him. Collect as many stars as you can while jumping between wires and avoiding pitfalls.
Overall rating
4
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5
10 of 10 found this review helpful
Cute platform jumping game! Very challenging! Great for kids!
PostedMay 26, 2012
purpleporpoise
fromUSA
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Family, Word, Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Strategy, Time Management, Mahjong
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
This is a cute little platform jumping game for kids or big kids at heart, just not for me. Birdy and his girlfriend want to be together. Are you UP to getting Birdy UP? The birds are adorable! It was fun playing, but a little frustrating getting the hang of jumping. I'm NOT good at these types of games. Definitely challenging and it got harder as it went along, as the platforms were in increasingly awkward positions to jump to. This would be a great app for a tablet or iPhone too!
I recommend this game!
Cookie Domination
When new cookie clubs begin selling their sweets, the only way to stop them is by taking back the territories they've captured!
Overall rating
3
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5
11 of 14 found this review helpful
Not sure I like to see little girls fighting over cookies
PostedMay 26, 2012
purpleporpoise
fromUSA
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Word, Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Strategy, Time Management, Mahjong
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
2
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5
I'm not sure I can give a fair review of this game because I didn't play the whole trial. And that was mainly because I was a little disturbed by the little girls swinging pens and kicking at each other over cookie-selling territory.
The game reminds me of a Girl Scout version of Risk. Teams of girls compete with each other over neighborhoods in which to sell their cookies. There's a map with territories, you pick your team and where to go on the map. With each new neighborhood gained, you try to expand into other teams neighborhoods by sparring or fighting on the playground, playing field or park. Sometimes your team wins and sometimes it loses.
There is strategy involved, as in all RTS games and the level of challenge seems very good. The graphics are okay. The little girls have kind of an anime look.
I know it's just a computer game and that there are much worse fighting games out there with blood and gore and all that. This had none of that and I guess some players could see the little girls whacking at each other and kicking as "cute." But with all the bullying that goes on in real life, I guess I'm just kind of disturbed to see little girls fighting, even in a computer game. So, not a buy for me.
Perhaps I should have played through the trial and given it a chance so I could comment on the game play itself, but I was just too put off by the theme. In all fairness, I would still recommend the game, if only to get a little different review on it. I think the game could have been more fun if the strategy to win territories would have been something other than fighting. I wish I could give it a better rating. Hopefully, another "fishy" will come along and give another review.
I recommend this game!
Help Turtix gather pieces of a shattered amulet and save baby turtles! Don't let this charming adventure pass you by!
Overall rating
5
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5
10 of 16 found this review helpful
Cute platform game! Help Turtix free his friends!
PostedMay 26, 2012
purpleporpoise
fromUSA
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Word, Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Strategy, Time Management, Mahjong
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
4
/
5
Very, very cute game and storyline! Turtix is adorable! The graphics are pleasing, sharp and bright. Very cheery game. Alas, try as I might, I'm just not into platform games. But this one was fun to play and I'm a little better at them now than when I tried playing Super Mario with my daughter decades ago. Frankly, I stank and kinda still do, especially using a keyboard instead of a game controller!
This would be a good family game for adults as well as children. A nice diversion from the dark HOG games.
I recommend this game!
A gruesome gang in search of brains comes from the depths of the graveyard! Bowl away the invading zombies and send them packing.
Overall rating
5
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5
46 of 54 found this review helpful
Loved it! Great graphics and sound!
PostedMay 26, 2012
purpleporpoise
fromUSA
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Word, Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Strategy, Time Management, Mahjong
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Very cute game with great graphics and sound. VERY challenging for me. I'm not a bowler and I just can't control that ball very well and can't quite figure out how to use the power-ups and the tricks. I suppose I would get better if I kept playing. A buy for me maybe later, but not now. I'd better stick with the HOGs and word games for now. I do LOVE the zombies, though! The developers were very creative with this one. One of the better zombie games I've played. Right up there with Plants vs. Zombies. I'm just not up to that level of challenge right now. But I'LL BE BACK!!
I recommend this game!
Dive into a fun Puzzle game in Trinklit Supreme! Deceptively simple, but challenging to master, Trinklit Supreme is an exciting adventure!
Overall rating
5
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5
41 of 46 found this review helpful
Fun and Challenging! Think it's Easy? Think Again!
PostedMay 26, 2012
purpleporpoise
fromUSA
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Word, Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Strategy, Time Management, Mahjong
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Nice game and different. This is a kind of combination puzzle, matching and strategy game. You have a board with blocks of interlocking pieces that you have to match to form squares. Sounds easy enough? Think again!
It kind of reminds me a little of the old Tetris game, except that you cannot rotate the pieces. Match blocks of the same color 3 times in a row and get extra points. Or match interlocking blocks of different colors and earn points for speed. Earn power-ups and unlock additional levels. In addition, you also unlock special symbols that you can match to earn extra points. Your goal is to clear the board and uncover all the hidden rings.
I love puzzles and these kinds of games are great for improving my memory and powers of observation. There is strategy involved in matching the pieces so as to clear the board, which I still have not done. However, I have gained speed, as I keep playing. There is one part in the tutorial where they left out a word, but I knew what they mean and I can overlook that, given that the game is so fun for me.
The music is great, kind of an ambient synthesizer-type melody, very relaxing. The graphics are clear and colorful. Definitely the type of game you could play while listening to television or a radio program and it is challenging enough for me that I'm sure I'll get hours of entertainment out of it.
I recommend this game!
The evil witch is back and she turned the Prince into a goldfish!
Overall rating
4
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5
1 of 1 found this review helpful
Cute Dragons, But Way Too Much Clicking for Me
PostedMay 24, 2012
purpleporpoise
fromUSA
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Family, Word, Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Strategy, Time Management, Mahjong
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
3
/
5
This is such a cute TM game! The dragons are adorable! I love dragons and I love making jewelry in real life, so I thought I would like this game. This is the sequel to Dragon Keeper and in this one, you play the Princess. Your goal is to find the Prince who has been turned into a fish by the Evil Witch. You enlist the help of Mama Dragon, but before she'll help you, you have to help her feed and raise her babies and earn coins by making and selling jewelry from the gems the babies leave behind. Don't let the baby dragons get too hungry or they will starve!
You also have to defend treasure chests where the gems are hidden from robbers, which are as cute as the baby dragons. As you complete advancing levels, Mama Dragon gives you new challenges and adds new dragon eggs, helpers and materials to the list of items you can buy for the cave with the coins you earn.
All in all, I thought it was an adorable game! My only complaint is the same as a few of the other reviewers - There is SO much clicking - much more so than other TMs I've played - that my hand ended up hurting! 'Course I'm a middle-aged lady and out-of-shape - LOL! However, I would still recommend the game because of the cute factor and I think it's a great family game. It's fun and not everyone is bothered by so much clicking, especially kids. Also, if you spend your coins wisely on helpers, you might not have to do as much clicking as I did, because your helpers will do some of the work for you.
I recommend this game!
Link letters to create words and fill in ancient haikus in this fun and relaxing word game.
Overall rating
5
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5
42 of 44 found this review helpful
Another Great Word Game! And You'll Learn About Haiku!
PostedMay 22, 2012
purpleporpoise
fromUSA
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Family, Word, Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Strategy, Time Management, Mahjong
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
My hour trial play went by before I knew it! Oh, no, and I was just about to guess my second haiku, too! Definite buy for me, so I can finish my game! Worth it at either game club price or with a game credit. I really enjoyed this fun letter matching game where you form words and then solve a haiku.
There are two modes, easy and challenge. I was playing in easy mode. Another reviewer here says expert mode is very challenging, so I see good replay value. It's basically you matching letters either in a straight line, diagonally or any combination thereof to make words. You earn bonus points for finding bonus words and also symbols that you can use as any letter within a word. As you match words, letters begin to fill in the blank spaces in the haiku on the left-hand side of the playing area (think word-fill). If you think you can guess the haiku before all the letters are filled in, you get more bonus points.
You can play timed or per try. I played the timed mode, but I found the timer generous and not stressful. The music is pleasant and has an Oriental flavor. The dictionary seems substantial. I used a few words not commonly used and it accepted them, unlike some other word games I've played with dictionaries that are not quite as complete. The graphics are nice and the game runs smoothly on my 64-bit Windows Vista desktop with 19-inch flatscreen. Definitely a game you could play while listening to a radio program or watching television. If you love word games, like I do, I think you'll like this one. Plus, you'll learn what a haiku is!
I recommend this game!