cg47's Profile
Stat Summary
- Average Rating:3
- Helpful Votes:1,222
- Reviews Submitted:164
- First Review:December 17, 2018
- Most Recent Review:January 5, 2025
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Travel across a wintery wonderland for over 200 levels of holiday Match-3 fun!
Overall rating
5
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5
77 of 84 found this review helpful
YEA!! A NEW GAME FROM MY FAVORITE DEVELOPER!
PostedDecember 30, 2022
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
CUTE CHRISTMASY, HIGH DEF TILES, and ALWAYS FUN, CHALLENGING PLAY. Suricate is the ONLY Game developer I instantly buy their new games.
BUT, I CONTINUALLY HAVE PROBLEMS trying to buy Big Fish Games. Their Game Manager will NOT work, and now BF is trying to charge full non-member price even though I am currently a paid, active member, clearly shown. At some point, I'll just give up
Join a young wizard for his first year at the academy!
Overall rating
2
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5
6 of 10 found this review helpful
Same Old, Same Old board types as every other of their games
PostedDecember 29, 2022
Fun Factor
2
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
2
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5
with med-low resolution tiles that have the same game play as all their other games. No powerups for larger matches. Nothing new or creative here.
I don't recommend this game.
Jump into the fun with dozens of ultra-realistic jigsaw puzzles!
Overall rating
3
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5
8 of 14 found this review helpful
Liked several of the pictures... but also negatives
PostedDecember 28, 2022
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
My "choose options" screen so light that my choices clicked on did not look any different than the others (though they DID end up being correct when I did the puzzle.
I could not find any "Select BORDER ONLY" options to start out with, which I like and most have.
I checked the categories and only found 1/3 of so that were to MY taste. But other reviewers seem to love most.
I wish this had option to make MY PERSONAL photos downloadable to create my personalized puzzle, but they don't advertise that so can't expect it.
Save the beautiful birds of an island rainforest in this tropical puzzler!
Overall rating
4
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5
15 of 16 found this review helpful
Beautiful, but too many slow text stories and marble games
PostedDecember 24, 2022
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
A 10 for the Lovely boards and colors. But I also got annoyed at having to skip the NUMEROUS, VERY SLOW appearing text/story lines that I had to repeatedly skip. It really needs to move the text to just a couple of screens with more text, or let us have the option to "skip" the story text.
That, plus the marble games parts were too numerous and repetitive for me. Got really old fast doing the exact same matching as the marbles moved around.
I recommend this game!
Overall rating
4
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5
12 of 12 found this review helpful
Enjoyed.. even with a couple 'glitches'
PostedDecember 13, 2022
cg47
fromOrange County, CA
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Match 3
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
If you're played any of their "Runes" games, then you are familiar with the general game play. This has nice Christmasy tiles and decorating the tree and gift table is kinda cute, so I am enjoying this.
But I did find a few glitches - or maybe I'm missing something. Several of my MANUAL 3+ tile matches did NOT clear those. I know the "AUTOMATIC" matches don't clear the tiles, but these were manual.
Again, Activating my purchase was a real pain with BF GM, having to "activate" several times before it "took". So annoying.
I recommend this game!
An epic race to save a small mining town and restore glory to Camelot!
Overall rating
3
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5
28 of 32 found this review helpful
Very Nice Graphics but Some Problems
PostedDecember 11, 2022
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
This continues to have great potential to be wonderful series. But, for those of us who don't care for the stories and just like the gameplay, there are too many text popups you have to skip - and I really dislike the constant "Wow's" so I had to almost turn off all sound. This is the first in this series that I had to reset because I did not have any remaining options to get the last requirements. When I checked the 'Strategy Guide' it was so busy and really helps only if you follow all the steps from the beginning. It did not help me find the missing item requirements. It could have just been a bad day for me.
But I completely agree with the reviewers who complain about all the hassles in just trying to buy a game from BF. I have problems every single time getting the Game Manager to work at all, even with the go-arounds I've found that sometimes work and sometimes not. Either way, it takes a minimum of 15 minutes just to buy a game. And this has been going on for almost a year now, so I now just skip some games that are borderline 'buys' because it's just too much trouble.
I recommend this game!
Join Jake Everest for a match-3 adventure of discovery and intrigue!
Overall rating
1
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5
22 of 27 found this review helpful
Not only the Problems PennMom says, but ALSO
PostedDecember 8, 2022
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
1
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5
1) EVEN BIG MATCHES do NOT give you an extra powerup AND 2) the HAMMER HIT LOCATION is WAY OFF, so even after trying to hit ONE TILE TWICE, it hit different adjacent ones only.
This developer JUST GIVES THE SAME GAME OVER AND OVER AND OVER and CALLS IT "NEW" because they change the story and landscape upgrade. So if you have played ANY ONE OF THEIR DOZENS of GAMES, you might as well have played them all. SHAME ON THEM!
I don't recommend this game.
Dispel the ominous presence of the Spooky Dwellers!
Overall rating
5
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5
7 of 7 found this review helpful
MY TOP FAVORITE HALLOWEEN M3 GAME!
PostedDecember 5, 2022
cg47
fromOrange County, CA
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Match 3
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
I purchased the CE version of this game - and consider the extra price well worth it! There are so few new M3 games that are any different from all the others, that finding this gem was a real Halloween Treat for me.
I look forward to playing several levels each day of this game. It is so nice to have developers create DIFFERENT M3 games that are challenging, creative, cute and fun, all at the same time.
Even though I had to skip a couple of levels so far that I just couldn't get right, it is great to be able to just SKIP them and still continue playing the rest of the levels.
I really hope the Developer will create more games of this type.
I recommend this game!
Overall rating
4
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5
15 of 15 found this review helpful
Nice tiles, cleaner than usual, usually creative programming
PostedDecember 1, 2022
cg47
fromOrange County, CA
Skill Level:Intermediate
Favorite Genre(s):Match 3
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
I'm just through a few levels, but it's so nice to have nice clean tiles and boards vs. some of their others that were way too busy, unattractive - and, especially some of those that needed too many repetitive type moves to accomplish some tasks. I, personally, also hated the ones with black buffers that took lots of moves to get past.
Still, I smile at several of their creative solving methods, and even like their cute animation/building scenes (though would be nice to skip if desired).
My favorite Halloween type Match 3 is still Spooky Dwellers by far, but these Laruaville series still much more enjoyable than the majority of the really poor games Big Fish has been adding daily.
I recommend this game!
Help friendly ghosts celebrate Christmas! They don't know how to do it and have less than a month to get prepared!
Overall rating
5
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5
VERY CUTE! CUTE SCENE UPGRADES and TILES
PostedNovember 26, 2022
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
5
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5
I like this one a lot better than many of the other Laruaville and similar ones... mainly because the others, though creative, have too busy, unattractive tiles.
This one, however, gives me a nice smile through the Christmas season, and I am especially enjoying their periodic scene upgrades.
I recommend this game!