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chuckroI had played a bundle of Mumbo-Jumbo games before, and I thought it worthwhile enough to pay a couple of bucks for a selection of their games that weren’t in it. I was right.
7 Wonders II - A relatively mindless match-3 game; nothing special, but exactly what I was looking for in that instance. An excuse to play a lot of Bejeweled without a lot of quirks you need to think about.
Gardens Inc. – From Rakes to Riches - A casual/puzzle game in the same vein as Legends of Atlantis: Exodus or Prehistoric Tales, in which you need to gather resources and plant/rebuild gardens to earn money and advance the plot. (As I think I noted before, it's like the resource-management part of an RTS game without the combat.) It's cute, if a little repetitive. The plot has a distinctly “Rodgers and Hammerstein musical” vibe to it, playing very fast-and-loose with legalities as the mustache-twirling villain attempts to steal our heroine's family home.
Gardens Inc. 2: The Road to Fame - A sequel that adds a few twists (“coin frenzy” levels and a couple of new obstacles to clear) but is mostly just more of the same. If you like the gameplay of the first, you'll like it here too. The story follows the events of the first game, as Jill tries to win a nationwide gardening competition while also trying to solve the mystery of the Rose Thief's crimes.
Glowfish - I'd call this an “action/puzzle” game; you play as a little glowing fish who sets out to save his captured friends, and in each level you need to collect them and then either spin them to defeat foes or deposit them to open doors (or both). You can move in any direction and the danger level isn't terribly high; much of the game is finding the secret areas to get 4 stars in each level. It didn't grab me as much as the other games.
Luxor 3 - As noted when I reviewed Luxor 2 HD, this is a cross between Centipede and a Snood-style match-3 game. This improves on the previous game, adding puzzle and survival levels and a power-up/upgrade store; but still has the problem of running out of level designs early and then getting very repetitive. Fun for a while, but not worth grinding the entirety of.
Overall: While I'm not sure if anything here is a particularly amazing game, they're eminently playable casual games and there's no question I got my money's worth.
7 Wonders II - A relatively mindless match-3 game; nothing special, but exactly what I was looking for in that instance. An excuse to play a lot of Bejeweled without a lot of quirks you need to think about.
Gardens Inc. – From Rakes to Riches - A casual/puzzle game in the same vein as Legends of Atlantis: Exodus or Prehistoric Tales, in which you need to gather resources and plant/rebuild gardens to earn money and advance the plot. (As I think I noted before, it's like the resource-management part of an RTS game without the combat.) It's cute, if a little repetitive. The plot has a distinctly “Rodgers and Hammerstein musical” vibe to it, playing very fast-and-loose with legalities as the mustache-twirling villain attempts to steal our heroine's family home.
Gardens Inc. 2: The Road to Fame - A sequel that adds a few twists (“coin frenzy” levels and a couple of new obstacles to clear) but is mostly just more of the same. If you like the gameplay of the first, you'll like it here too. The story follows the events of the first game, as Jill tries to win a nationwide gardening competition while also trying to solve the mystery of the Rose Thief's crimes.
Glowfish - I'd call this an “action/puzzle” game; you play as a little glowing fish who sets out to save his captured friends, and in each level you need to collect them and then either spin them to defeat foes or deposit them to open doors (or both). You can move in any direction and the danger level isn't terribly high; much of the game is finding the secret areas to get 4 stars in each level. It didn't grab me as much as the other games.
Luxor 3 - As noted when I reviewed Luxor 2 HD, this is a cross between Centipede and a Snood-style match-3 game. This improves on the previous game, adding puzzle and survival levels and a power-up/upgrade store; but still has the problem of running out of level designs early and then getting very repetitive. Fun for a while, but not worth grinding the entirety of.
Overall: While I'm not sure if anything here is a particularly amazing game, they're eminently playable casual games and there's no question I got my money's worth.
