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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Ice Cream Craze - Tycoon Takeover

This is one game where I realized that having a business is not that easy. Ice Cream Craze is a game with only 2 goals – to build up Level 3 ice cream stands in all the available locations and to earn $5000. At first I think it's very simple, but I found out that there are 9 locations to build the level 3 ice cream stands.

Basically, there are a number of tasks to do to be able to achieve your goal. You will start from day 1 where you need to first gather money by working in your ice cream truck. You will need money to pay the tasks you need to do. Once you succeed on a task, there is a particular reward such as getting a level 1 ice cream stand or gaining items that can help you out on your next tasks. When you get low on cash, there are available locations where you can still sell your ice cream without paying anything. So you just earn the cash. If you don't succeed on a task, you can still do it again provided you get enough cash to pay. So if you want to make sure that you can retry the task right away, you need to collect more money first. So it's some motivation to the players to make it right the first time.

The excitement is finding out the new tasks each day of the game. And the challenge is getting the least amount of days to fulfil your main objective. This game really takes a lot of concentration and focus on colours. Yes, ice cream colour is a little bit tricky sometimes plus you need to put different coloured syrup. Finally I beat the Big Company on Day 175. So it's really takes of hard work to build a successful business and it doesn't happen overnight.

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Shop-n-Spree

A time management game and an object seeking game in one. If you enjoyed those detective games of finding things from a vast number of chaotic rooms and still want something different, Shop n Spree is something you will enjoy. The objective of the game is basically to build a better mall than a newly built store of a competitor.

What's good about the game is that you have a number of departments to play every level. Some new ones open as you progress. I enjoyed playing on new stores because it makes it more challenging where you need to familiarize yourself again to the structure of the shelves and places where the items are, and not to mention new items. Just like other time management games, you also encounter different customers – rich man who would buy all the pens on your shelf, a busy man hurrying up, a lady who don't know exactly what she wants, and some common customers that are willing to wait until you give them what they want. In every store you played, there are some mini games where you could gain hints if you have succeeded.

Overall, I think the game is easy. At first I enjoyed the different department stores of the mall. But as I move up the levels, the game happens in the same stores as the earlier levels so it becomes easier. You could have a day playing the game until it ends though you might not want to dwell on a repetitive game every level. But this game is still worth a try to mini games addict like me.

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Facebook Games Craze

So I have created my blog page because I'm looking for a game that will substitute on the temptation to play Facebook games. And yes, I failed. I failed not because I get tired on my mini games but I failed my promise that I will not get addicted to any of the Facebook games.

Now what's the big deal and why does everybody loves to play games in Facebook? I have only one simple reason - that I got to play and try to beat my friends everyday. I tried to imagine just playing the games with only the computer to beat. It would really be boring and I would just get tired of it. But in Facebook, you have your friends to play with and you have other people out there (who you don't usually know) you can beat with the help of your friends. You could also ask your friends to do something for you and there are a lot of ways to interact with them. It promotes social networking with a lot of fun activities.

Don't worry I'm still on my mini games and looking forward to blog my latest love Big Fish game. And I'm also in Vampire Wars and Pirates: Rule the Caribbean games in Facebook. Enjoy!

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Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate

Madame Fate is just the same as Ravenhearst which is also from the Mystery Case Files games. An investigative and item-seeking game, this is a little more difficult because the items are more small and confusing. I almost finish it with the help of my other siblings because I just need more eye to play this game. Also, we found the puzzles in each of the levels either a lot easy or very difficult to figure out so I usually skip those, which you can easily do so without losing anything.

The background of the game is that a certain Madame Fate, a psychic working in a carnival, tried to hire you to investigate a threat on her life. She predicted that someone's going to kill her at midnight and you need to know who the suspect is before that time lapse. You will need to investigate from the different workers in the carnival, a contortionist, an acrobat, a clown, etc. Madame Fate, in return, promises to give you your own future reading. Though it's not so much to offer but I think the game is worth the experience.

In every level, you need to investigate a certain individual, go around the carnival area to seek for things and sometimes solve puzzles to unlock areas where you need to find items too. Puzzles include crosswords, jumble word games, hangman game, and other word games that you'll find out when you try this MCF game. At the end of the level you will need to solve a more complicated puzzle, it goes more complicated every level though and hard to figure out. Enjoy!

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My August Games Update

I've been having less time for some leisure and/or extra time on PC gaming. I just happen to learn to enjoy reading the Harry Potter books and just can't take my nose out of it. I'm expecting to finish all seven books in a little more than a month. So I'm stuck and can't review much for now.

Though I think I would recommend the games I'm currently playing whenever I get tired of my reading craze. I have one from Pop Cap titled "Big Kahuna Reef" and one from Big Fish which is the "Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate". I'll probably review the latter one once I got the chance to finish the game. It's something to look forward to for me.

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