Strange Cases - The Tarot Card Mystery

Background: Ellery is an FBI agent and is always assigned to strange cases. This time she will need to solve a case by following clues from tarot cards. All by herself, she'll search for the truth regarding the kidnapping of three girls and finding out the mystery behind the incident. This game is another object seeking investigative play for anyone who loves the same kind of games.

Tips/Strategies: The Tarot Card Mystery is a very simple game and hints accumulate fast so you don't have to wait longer to get clues. Try clicking the items that show the two-gear pointer to know what items to seek. Also, the items you already found are clues to your next steps. Like the time when I get a boat key and I was seeking all the time inside the warehouse. It just makes sense that I need to go out and look for a boat where I can use the key.

Review: The game is not timed so there's no pressure or challenge to finish each phase. There are a lot of hints, you just have to wait a little time and you're off to finding the next item without difficulty. However, there's this level where I was given a hint and I didn't really figured it out. Still you have the option to skip certain point of the game. I think this is a great game for those who want some past time and make it an interesting one. And this is one of the games where I like the story graphics especially the outdoor rain effect.

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Passport to Perfume

Background: Sophia's father is a perfumer and they go to different places to discover Marie Antoinette's perfume mixture until her father fall at an excavation area in Brazil. After ten years she decided to open her own perfumery and continue what his father left off. This is basically a time management game where Sophia needs to mix perfumes, add various packaging depending on customer requests and serve the perfumes before the customers reach their boiling points. To be able to add varieties to her perfume, she travels to other places to discover other scents. After her travel, she creates new mixtures of perfumes. She managed also to put up a new store from New York to Paris.

Tips/Strategies: Perfume and bottle stocks are the important thing in your store so you have to at least have 7 each of them on the first stages and add up as you go up the level. After stocking up your store, make sure to use upgrade also. There are upgrades that can help you, such as faster movements and better equipments. Within the game, give the Fine or Rare perfumes to customers who are undecided so you have more time for other customer requests. Mixing the right scents is also important. There are two aspects on this one, the time it takes to mix them and the selling value. The higher the selling value, the longer it takes to mix them. So try to limit your mixture to "Fast" filling time. Choose the scent that adds more selling value to your perfume.

Review: The story is good. Planning for a strategy is also a part of this game such as stocking up your store and mixing your perfumes. For someone who likes some thinking for a simple game, this is a good play. It also gives you an idea on how to manage a perfume store. Innovations and hard work on creating new scents and pleasing your customers are just some of those.

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Youda Farmer

Background: Youda Farmer is a time management game. It's a two part game, first is the farm stage where you have to get all your farm products and the second part is the village stage where you have to deliver the products to resellers or restaurant owners. You'll have a basic farm first and then expand as you move on and get more money from selling your goods. And as you add up more variety to your products, your customers also expand their business plus you get more customers from bakers to butchers to fruit vendors, etc. The main goal here is to earn all the awards from the village people. So you won't stop playing until you get all the awards.

Tips/Strategies: For the farm part, make sure to upgrade to faster delivery truck and upgrade your machineries. Within the game, pack the orders to crates as soon as possible (do not wait for your truck to pick them up to move to the next order) and watch out for products that have less time in the order list. Prioritize the orders that are already in red papers. Keep in mind that the orders will not be timed once you packed them up to crates and will continue only once the truck picked them up. So clicking the ready orders immediately are also important. Now for the village part, this is where you earn money. It's important to click the coins immediately once delivery because it would decrease easily. You can also earn extra credits through helping your customers on cooking or making their products such as pie, cake, etc. Do that by clicking the items you deliver based on the number appearing on each of the product.

Review: I did love the graphics on this game. And you don't stay on one place, the farm is basically a large one plus you get to choose the color of your truck. A challenging game perhaps and adding up new farm expansions like apple orchards, vineyards, tomato farm, etc makes it more interesting as you go up the level. I just hope it's longer and has more stages.

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Mystery Age - The Imperial Staff

Background: A mother and child's adventure to fight off the evil spirits that are lurking on their village and to rescue the father from the source of the chaos. They are actually a family of shaman, looking for all the necessary things they need along the way to get rid of the bad spirits. So this is basically a game of seeking objects or at least looking for pieces of broken objects and using them on the next items to find.

Tips/Strategies: There are hints along the way. You just have to keep your "eye" open to earn hints easily. Though they are limited, it's still on your ability to find things in less time possible. Check out the comments on things that are missing on place so you have ideas on what to use from your inventory of found items.

Review: This is a little different from the object seeking game I played because you seek items that you would eventually use on the next items to find. But I should say this is a lot easier. Just something you could play when you want to have a different game flow.

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Cooking Dash - DinerTown Studios

Background: Another adventure of Flo from being a waitress in Diner Dash to becoming a cook. Cooking Dash had been a more challenging game and because of that Flo's story continues in DinerTown Studios. Though the game's concept is the same as the basic Cooking Dash, this gives a different story plus there are a number of new customers to handle. DinerTown Studios' story started when Flo and Grandma went to their friend Gilda's set for a new show. Eventually, the main star of the show wants to quit because the food they are serving for the show is terrible. So that makes Flo to the rescue. The game consists of five (5) stages and ten (10) levels each.

Tips/Strategies: The technique is to prepare food immediately that does not spoil like ice cream, juices and grandma's stuff if you already have a two-top table. Give priority to customers that easily get angry and position them based on colours and don't give them a chair next to a very noisy person. Help will come also but be sure to click the button on the right time, that is, when there are a lot of customers giving out their orders. Cookie, your helper, would come and prepare the food for you. Just don't forget to serve them immediately.

Review: If you have played and enjoyed the first Cooking Dash as well as Diner Dash, you will enjoy this one also. It's like repeating Cooking Dash with a very fresh story and concepts. DinerTown Studios is longer than the original one and has extra tasks in preparing food so that makes it more challenging. Probably a must play for mini games addicts.

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Wonderburg

Background: A witch and her friend dwarf are bound to solve a problem regarding the devastation of houses in their town and in neighbouring towns. They go from one place to another to help the town folks rebuild their houses and also build special buildings that will help in the improvement of the town such as warehouse, school, and lighthouse. Their task also includes fighting off creatures that worsens the situation of the town. There are ghost pirates, giants and dragons that they need to eliminate using magic.

Tips/Strategies: One should concentrate on the goals in each of the game since there are time limits. Some levels don't need enough money to finish the level. Usual goals would be to achieve a certain amount of rent, build special buildings and eliminate negative forces. To be able to reach the highest rent, upgrade option can be used. Each of the houses is capable of upgrading until three stars. But there is also a special building which is Architecture that will give permit to upgrade to a fourth star. As part also of cost savings you can strengthen your house so that you wouldn't need to repair it every time and you can also charm the house so that hunting forces such as ghosts or giants would go away. There are also spells available when you build a school. Those can help you out to earn more money or make your dwarves work faster. Certain buildings also make the cost of dwarves and woods cheaper so better have the buildings built at the start of the game.

Review: I think this is a good game. The thing is after completing all the levels I still replay some of the games where I didn't achieve gold medal. Gold medal is achieved at a certain time limit and the importance of getting the gold is because you can unlock extra games for a certain group of levels. So its a game you could redo and be better the next time around.

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Play Miracles

Background: There's a complicated story beyond this game. A girl, outcast by the magic world because of her parents, tried to prove herself that she's also a good sorcerer of her time. So the game basically is easy. You need to go from places to places where the people need help in terms of money, love, fortune, knowledge and other things they want. You just have to throw the things they want and collect happiness from them. As for the complicated story, there's just a complicated guy and a complicated evil girl who made things worse for the magic world. So you need to do some complicated jobs.

Tips/Strategies: Make sure to buy some gems that will improve your magic. Some gems will help you generate your magic faster or some would strengthen your money or love or fortune magic powers. Also, you have two life lines available that you can use and there are choices. That's why better pick up the 2 that you think will be very helpful. Sample life line is making the people confuse about their wish, one is making the time stop, and other magic related help.

Review: It's a little addictive for somebody who likes to play simple games. You just need to shoot the people with your magic and "voila!" the people are happy and you got your goal. It gets faster like any other games so it's not that boring though.

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