Showing posts with label gaming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gaming. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Tiny Farm


A couple of days ago I downloaded Tiny Farm for iPhone and
I started my game today - it's surprisingly addicting!
(I'm user seaprinprin by the way!)

 I've never actually played Farmville on Facebook, but some people have said
that Tiny Farm's a bit like it.
(Though Tiny Farm is REALLY cute - think Harvest Moon-style animals and buildings.)



So basically you start out with a few animals (first you have sheep, but you can
get chickens, pigs, and more, especially if you have a Ranger cabin to catch
rare animals for you).

You have to feed and give animals love (with love points) and eventually if you have 
two of the same kind of animal with full love points, you can have them breed and a baby
animal will be born!

Also when you complete a collection of a particular kind of animal, you get 
a special surprise reward.

You can get money in-game by having crops - this makes a TON of money relatively 
quickly.  Bells are a little harder to get, you can earn them in-game through friends and doing quests etc.
There's also ways to get free bells by signing up for apps/services/etc.  
Finally, you earn love points over time; whenever you level up you increase the 
total love points you can have AND you get a free refill.  
You can also get money, love points, and bells by buying them with actual money (it's pretty
pricey though so I really don't recommend it).

It gets a bit impatient waiting to refresh love points/for crops or animals to grow, but 
you can just click away and do something else, then come back
once everything's full up again.  

I would recommend trying it if you like Harvest Moon or farming/animal
raising type games (like Tamagotchi etc).  The best thing is it's a FREE app!  
(I'm not sure if it's available for computer/online/other phones besides iPhones.)
It's available for iPhone, iTouch, and Android as far as I've found out.
The game made my 4s heat up a little bit, fyi - just close it and remove it from
the background-running programs list for a while if that happens. c:

My farm - the black sheep & bighorn sheep are my favoritesss. c:

I'm seaprinprin on there so add me as a friend and I'll help you out with love points!

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Game review: Bayonetta εїз



This is a little bit of a throwback post, since Bayonetta's actually 
not a new game - it came out back in 2010 (way before I had a PS3).
I picked up a used copy for PS3 about the week before finals - I'd seen gifs and
fanart etc. all over Tumblr before & looked it up on wiki because it looked pretty interesting.
The game's actually really quirky and silly, it's just a trick how serious it looks.  Bayonetta's
extremely sassy and camp, & her entire design is so detailed.   At the same time
she's a very strong character even from the start, despite her amnesia.  
Austin watched me playing for a bit and commented that it seems like my kind of game, 
and it is!  A beautiful & confident lady, tons of humor and a bit of weird, the music's 
super dance-able, and the central theme is witches+supernatural beings+Dante's Inferno.  
(The power ups are lollipops, how great is that.)  It's perfect imo.  
Gameplay wise: so far I think the best thing about the game is the Very Easy mode 
(which A gave me crap for, boo).  No I'm kidding - that's probably just because I'm hurrying 
to finish the game and see the whole story...I only have 2 more days before school on Monday! :c
But really I love the designs of all the attacks and the guns & weapons (I skimmed along the wiki, 
since all of this is old news I figured it wasn't cheating).  
And "Very Easy" is exactly what it says - auto combos, all you have to do is randomly
button-push and you perform the most powerful attacks.  (I tried not to button-smash though - 
the loading screen practice field is very helpful for that!)
I do agree with the reviews I've read - I feel like it's extremely underrated.
(Hopefully the upcoming sequel will get more visibility?)  
I've played for a total of about 7 hours & I already got extremely addicted, 
it's just a very fun game that makes fun of itself!
Anyway I would really recommend this to anyone who likes a relatively straightforward
hack and slash, with a few puzzles, plus a well written plot and colorful characters.  
The Easy/Very Easy modes make it fun for people used to games where you just hit
X to punch like me and my Kingdom Hearts history.   
I think it'd probably appeal to fans of Lollipop Chainsaw (which I also heard
a lot of good things about - I'll probably try to play that next over summer).
PS.  Bayonetta 2's going on the Wii U, which is weird considering the first game was Xbox360 and PS3.  I'm a bit sad because I won't be getting to play it after I finish Bayonetta, but definitely if you have a 
Wii U I'd recommend checking the 2nd game out, just based on the first game.)

PPS.  At the end of the game you get a fancy dance sequence as the credits!
I haven't played to the end but I had to see it c: 
you can watch it here