Just got a hold of some of the games collection from Pop Cap. Its really different from Big Fish games as the games are really simple, their concept might have originated from the earlier computer games. I'll try them out and see if this games would interest me.
I've been playing Pop Cap games before like bejeweled and bookworm. But I would probably look for more of their games and looking forward for the best game they have.
I'm not sure if I can reach really high scores on their games but probably try to know techniques or strategies.
This is another one of the hidden items game from Big Fish. I'm not a fan of Edgar Allan Poe's work but I've read some of his tales and poems. The game is basically based on his stories or somehow with the sense of how he interprets his investigative mind to his narratives. I'm not really sure if the stories in the games are very same as those in his tales so it's up to Edgar's fans to judge.
Though this game is shorter than other hidden item games such as Ravenhearst, there's still some uniqueness in the puzzles. There are jigsaws, strategy puzzle, IQ challenge, etc. And this is easier because you get a lot of help including also that there's no time pressure.
In the course of the game you have the chance to experience collecting information from the people you encounter in the game. They will try to give you relevant details for the case you are investigating. The investigations mostly involve cases that Edgar Allan Poe has written in his tales. But the bottom line is to search for facts regarding Edgar's murder.
Japanese food fans or not, this is a game that'll challenge you in cooking the different kinds of sushi. Plus you got to learn the Japanese names of each of the sushi ingredients.
In Youda Sushi Chef, you got to mix sushi ingredients, accept takeout orders, accept reservations, order more sushi ingredients from your supplier and do tricks when your customers are getting angry waiting for their food. I think the most challenging is memorizing the different mix of sushi recipes especially when you are under pressure. You need to have better focus or at least a chef mind to remember all those stuffs. Though you have full time access to the recipes all throughout your game, make sure you don't take a lot of time peeking on every sushi recipe.
Takeout orders and seat reservations are part of the game and somewhat confusing when they pop out on top. These things might be optional but it helps you get more respect from the customers and that means more money.
Every level you got the chance to name your own restaurant. You also have the option to identify your player as either a male or female.
Rating this game, I'll still favor Cooking Dash in terms of seeing Flo move around the restaurant and in having different restaurant concept for each level. But if you're the kind of person who likes cooking and fond of memorizing things, Youda Sushi Chef gives you those stuffs.
Flo's work doubled in Cooking Dash now that she needs to cook and serve all her customers with a little help from grandma and from her chef friends. The first game, which is Diner Dash, where Flo's work is to get orders, give seats to customers, serve food and clean the tables will have additions in Cooking Dash. So basically, the cooking activities will be added. This is a time management game where you need to earn a certain amount of dollars to reach your goal and go up another level.
For those who have not played Diner Dash before, no worries because I think Cooking Dash is better. In Diner Dash I was thinking it's unreasonable to just have one waiter in a restaurant that has a lot of customers, though sometimes you get to call help. In Cooking Dash it's the same thing but at least you're trying to push Flo's career in this one to get to the top and be the best chef in town.
What I like about this game is that in every level you got to work on a different kind of restaurant. Like for once you have an all breakfast restaurant, another is a fast food and a Japanese restaurant. In this game you need to think fast on a strategy where you need to satisfy all your customers and don't make them wait longer. You don't have any helper here except another chef that does sandwiches or salads, a coffee maker to boost the moods of your angry customers and a radio which you don't want to waste time turning on (really takes a lot of effort and making your other customers wait longer).
One strategy I did is to prepare all the food that doesn't spoil once prepared. These are the ice cream, fruit shakes, sandwiches and salads but make sure that you have a 2 plate table to accommodate the prepared food. Once there are orders getting in you can just grab them and be sure to replace them right after for the next customers that will order the same.
This is really a simple game and if you like challenging time management game, this one's a good play.
And the story traces back the mystery behind Ravenhearst Manor. In the first Ravenhearst, you need to solve the case behind the death of Emma Ravenhearst. Now Emma's soul wants to help Charles' other victims through your effort to investigate the case further.
If you have enjoyed the first instalment of Ravenhearst, you will enjoy this more. Why? First is that the story is more interesting, not like the first one where you don't mind what the story is all about. This time you'll enjoy the special effects because the characters are basically people acting on cam. This might be a little scary especially when you're playing alone at night. J Another good thing about this game is that you have the chance to see the whole place by walking along every parts of Ravenhearst Manor and you can even go back to all the places you have searched before. The puzzles are also more complicated and unique. You got to collect items from each of the places or rooms you have gone to and used those stuffs to help you go further and discover more clues and items.
I think the thing that stopped me a little on my way to finish the game is when I didn't find the item I need in one of the stage in the game. Though the game has a Strategy Guide, I didn't follow it step by step because it would ruin the detective feel of the game. That's why I find it hard to know where to get the item I need. If you encounter these things, you just have to go back to the places you have gone to. You do have to consider all the areas in the Ravenhearst Manor throughout the duration of the game if you need to find more things. Some puzzles or clues in the game are hard so you have to check with the strategy guide if you can't think what the puzzles' goals are. Though somehow the strategy guide would not give you all the answers or explain how they come up with the solution to the puzzle. Anyway, there are some forums where you can ask gamers on the solutions if you really can't figure it out.
Rerturn to Ravenhearst is the best detective game I had played so far. It's a good game that keeps you thinking on the puzzles and its story will keep you going until you solve the case and save Charles' victims from eternal suffering in his hands.
Basically, Be Rich is a game for real estate tycoons wanna-be or for those who just want to play something where they can experience doing big business. This game has simple graphics, a simple community presented with empty lots where you got to build the houses and businesses available to you provided you have enough money.
For the Career Mode, the challenge of the game is to be able to finish your objectives in the specified days allotted to you. However there is no penalty and you don't lose if you won't get to reach the deadline of the projects on time. But if you want to get the awards and be tag as an expert, you need to meet the deadlines. You also have an option to continue playing once you completed your goals.
For the Sandbox Mode, you get to play only one game at a time. Once you finished a game for a specific place or town, you will be able to unlock other places.
Be Rich game is not that much interesting but when you get to play and get familiar with the goals of the game, you might got caught up with it. I think the challenge I have is not having knowledge on how the other accessories in the game works. The decorations that add value to your properties is something you should take into consideration. Another challenge I found is how you should arrange the buildings and decorations within the community to be able to get the most population, most daily income and most appearance score. Therefore, it's a good strategy game in its latter levels.
In my quest for a game that would probably substitute the temptation to start playing addictive games from Facebook, specifically Farmville and Barn Buddy, I found this game Farm Craft. Yes, this has garden plots, cows, chickens, sheeps, honey bees, flower gardens plus you got to earn money from all your hard work. The difference I think it has from Facebook games is that you play on your own here, not like Farm Buddy where you get to play with your friends. Another thing is that this is fast paced unlike the Farmville where you can harvest your plants after 4 hours to a number of days. The avatar doesn’t change in Farm Craft but it’s fine since you don’t need an identity to play this game.
One good thing about this game is there is a story behind why you need to develop and improve the lands provided to you. For instance, there is this company that’s making the lives of the farmers hard by selling substitute products to the market. So you need to prove to the people that farm products are still the best they can have. Another challenge that you’ll have here is the Farm Fair where you need to win the grand prize.
Winning in this game is easy though. I actually didn’t experience losing one of the games. I was thinking there’s no time limit. Nevertheless, in the later levels there’s a lot of objectives you need to accomplish and they will post another set of objectives while you’re not finished with the earlier ones. So that makes it a little challenging to work harder in the game. One thing that I learned is that you should attain first what the first objectives say and then the next one even though all the materials are already available for you to use. Also it’s more logical to do the first things first so as to not make the structure of your farm chaotic.
I may say this is addictive because I’m fascinated with the story and I’m still playing the game over again. The one thing I didn’t want with the story is when the girl tried to improve the farm of an old man just to learn her own identity. That’s a little not fair for the girl, isn’t it? Well anyway maybe I was just caught up with the story.
Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst is a detective game where you need to find specific items from different rooms. There are puzzle games that you need to solve to be able to pass through certain doors.
The game has time limits so you need to find the items fast to be able to get through the final puzzle. After you complete the pieces of the puzzle, you will figure out the next pages of the diary. This is what you need to complete to know the truth behind the crime that happened in the house. The story of the game is basically something you would not take into consideration once you are caught up with the searching stuff. And the diary write ups are somewhat long to read, you wouldn't waste your time reading. It's actually not a big deal in the games anyway.
I have played this game for about ten times. The thing is that the objects being searched for specific room changes every play so it’s still difficult and challenging. Every time you play it, the struggle is to lessen your time for the whole course of the game until you solve the case. I think the secret is not to force yourself to find the items but to just take it easy.
Tumblebugs is basically like Zuma where you should shoot matching colors of a chain of round stuff. For Tumblebugs, you’re gonna shoot captured bugs and make sure that they don’t reach the hole where they will be prisoned forever by the black bugs.
I have played the Tumblebugs 1 before but didn’t have it in my current laptop so I have Tumblebugs 2 to review. Anyway, Tumblebugs 2 is the upgraded version of 1 and this has more levels, i.e. 12 levels with 6 mazes each, and two difficulty selections. Though this has more levels, there are repetitions on the mazes and the differences are just the speed of the bugs moving towards the hole.
Compared to Zuma, Tumblebugs’ interface is a lot better. The animation is great for a game with a simple objective. There is also an option for color blind people so that it’ll be easy for them to identify the color differences of the bugs.
You have 3 lives to use and can achieve more if you’ll be able to collect letters. Plus you can have different power bugs to help you like the bugs that you can shoot on any color or the ones that can stop the flow of the bugs for a little while. One thing they didn’t adopt from the first version of the game is the option to save the game when you have a lot of lives and retrieve it when your lives are getting fewer. In Tumblebugs 2 you can only save the game when you exit your ongoing game. But it just makes it more difficult and challenging for the gamers.
Overall, this game is addictive. Though I have not yet finished the last part for the Expert level, this just makes it more challenging for all those who like to play this type of game. Good animations, more levels which means longer time for playing, and they have a lot of funny quotes in between mazes.
I'm starting my blog today dedicated to provide opinions and/or criticisms on the different PC games. I don't really play a lot of different games available but since the craze of Facebook and its addictive games, I'm doing a lot of research on addictive games that I can play. Though I should say I'm not yet into Facebook games, just heard the thing from my officemates that they are really addictive. And so I started to search for different addictive games that do not require getting online.
So I played Starcraft and Red Alert before for the really complicated games on my list. That doesn't count as very complicated or very addictive games for those who have played dota or counterstrike I think. Well anyway, I would probably focus on the little games like what Big Fish or Pop Cap games offer.
I have been addicted to Chuzzle, Text Twist, Hangaroo, Mystery Case Files: Ravenheast, and Tumblebugs to name a few. So I'll be blogging them for the next days or so. Hope that the readers will find this a good source of information in looking for good games.
