3/14/2013

Magic Time Overview & Download

Repair home, destoyed by the hurricane, using Match 3 gameplay to collect necessary energy in the forest...
Traditionally sorry for not being here for half of an year and let's try new format for this tiny funny  game - Magic Time! I'm calling it micro-review :) 
And as always first we'll see Magic Time gameplay video on YouTube:
 (follow this link if video doesn't work for you)
For now full version isn't published yet, but it cant prevent having fun with Magic Time! 
First of all, Magic Time game combining elements of Hidden Object gameplay, as shown on screen below, where we collecting some rubbish from the yard of our hero
 And classical Match 3 gameplay, to collect energy, needed to repair our home and buy various improvements for it. For successful play you will gain many trophies and achievements.
In your trophy room you can see achievements that you already have and that you can still earn, for example for level finished in less than 20 percent of the time, ten levels completed without leaving the game or 35 chips deleted in one move. Try to collect all achievements of Magic Time and see what happens! Set off the fireworks to show the world how beautiful your house is!
 After completing of each level (no matter Relaxed or Timed mode were selected), you will see statistics and collected bonuses.
 Then you will improve elements of your house in Magic Time game, buying doors, lanterns and windows! Graphics may be better, but anyway game is funny enough.
Hope this short review will show you, that game is definitely worth trying. When final version of Magic Time will be published, download link will be replaced! See you next time!

Magic Time Reviews,
6 out of 10 based on 114 ratings

10/30/2012

Mystery Case Files: Shadow Lake Collector's Edition Overview & Download

Enter the abandoned Shadow Lake prison at Maine and face supernatural forces, lurking in the shadows...
Rating: 10/10.

Haven't been here for eons, but couldn't hesitate the desire to write about the new part of the best Hidden Object series in the world - Mystery Case Files! First of all, let's see what can we see in the gameplay video on YouTube:
Big Fish Games published Collector's Edition of Mystery Case Files: Shadow Lake at November 20, 2012. For now on not only free demo available for download, but also you could download Collector's Edition, using button before previous paragraph. Mac version of the game is also available for download.
Mystery Case Files: Shadow Lake Collector's Edition may be truly named the most expected casual game in the world - game has Facebook Page, YouTube videos, Tweets about it are all around and so on. And I won't stand aside from this Mystery Case Files movement and will say few words about the game based on my opinion after playing demo. So let this review started!
 Actions of the game will be connected with the Shadow Lake Prison, closed and abandoned after incident, that happened there in 1979 and was connected to the escaped prisoner, that have been found magical artifact from the past.
As you may notice from the gameplay video and screens, graphics in Mystery Case Files: Shadow Lake Collector's Edition is absolutely awesome! Big Fish Games used services of the real actors to create in-game videos, Hollywood stars like Lea Thompson and Madelyn Deutch. I have never seen something like that in casual game before!
It's more like you're watching one of the best Hollywood movies, interactive movie where you're playing main role and can control actions of the characters. It is really incredible. Mystery Case Files: Shadow Lake will make all casual games developers change their strategies, after this game it's hard to play something else.
According to the story of Mystery Case Files: Shadow Lake Collector's Edition game medium of Ghost Patrol reality show named Cassandra asked you for help after visiting Shadow Lake prison. And both of you will try to protect humans from the paranormal attacks, aimed from the former prison.
As I said, graphics is absolutely splendid, and gameplay itself isn't boring too. First of all, it's pretty hard, not in a bad sense of "hard" word, but you will be forced to think and then to think even more to solve game tasks.
 For example, let's take first big task for you - entering Cassandra's room in motel. Her room is closed, key is hidden in the safe in the neighboring room of the Ghost Patrol. From the found note you discovering, that safe combination consists of license plate on the Ghost Patrol van, birthday date of the tech-girl and id number.
Number in Mystery Case Files: Shadow Lake Collector's Edition game can be found in the documents elsewhere, to found license plate number you should go to another room where photo-laboratory is placed and process photo of the van from a film camera. But the most complicated part - to find birthday date. It's on the phone, that was lost somewhere in the room.
To find the phone, you must move out the bed to open access to the telephone socket, then found in the garbage parts of the phone, repair it and plug into the socket. Then you should found phone's number and call it (during ringing you can't see the number, so you just have to remember it, just like in the real life). And only then you will found the phone. And of course you must remember final safe code, because during code input you will be unable to see it in journal.
Summing up, Mystery Case Files: Shadow Lake Collector's Edition game is incredibly realistic and exciting. And scary, if I didn't mentioned that. I have never play anything like this game before and I bet you did not too. You can download & try the demo, it's free, and if you like it (and I doubt it's possible not to like it) download or purchase Collector's Edition! You will not regret time spent with Mystery Case Files: Shadow Lake Collector's Edition game!

Mystery Case Files: Shadow Lake Collector's Edition Reviews,
10 out of 10 based on 732 ratings