Trivia Golf

Posted by | Posted in Casual Games, Logic Puzzles, Puzzle Games, Sports Games, Strategy Games | Posted on May 19, 2012

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Gameplay:★★☆☆☆ 
Graphics:★★☆☆☆ 
Sound:★★★☆☆ 
Value:★★☆☆☆ 
Fun Factor:★☆☆☆☆ 
Overall:★★☆☆☆ 

So take a day on any one of your favourite beach golf courses, and imagine you have to line your shot up, then you have to answer some random trivia question before you can take the shot. Your question’s difficulty is based on how far you want to hit the ball. The closer you get toi the putting green, the more difficult the questions become, and if you’ve grown up with North American culture, many questions won’t make sense to you, since apparently, whomever came up with them is British. Once you do get to the putting green, you have to do some kind of matching quiz to see how many strokes your short game will take.

Whisper of the Heart

Posted by | Posted in Animated, Drama, Family, Romance | Posted on May 18, 2012

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This film is the prequel to the film The Cat Returns. Even though The Cat Returns was a fantasy film and this was more of a drama the two are directly related. The Cat Returns is the screenplay that could have been written from the polished version of the story “Whisper of the Heart” that Shizuku Tsukishima writes in this film. This film is also an adaptation of the manga of the same name in English or in in Japan as Mimi o Sumaseba, “If You Listen Closely”. Any person that has seen either film should see both of them as you can see where the inspiration and the feeling came from.

Fabled Legends: The Dark Piper Collector’s Edition

Posted by | Posted in Adventure Games, Casual Games, Hidden Object Mystery, Logic Puzzles, Software | Posted on May 17, 2012

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Gameplay:★★★★☆ 
Graphics:★★★★☆ 
Sound:★★★★★ 
Value:★★★★★ 
Fun Factor:★★★★★ 
Overall:★★★★½ 

Blue Tea Games has brought us another great game based on a European folk tale we all know so well, but in Fabled Legends: The Dark Piper Collector’s Edition, that Pied Piper is turning things around and all those rats are back, plagued and possessed!

As the 19th century is coming to a close, the town of Hamelin celebrates its claim to fame with a piper festival, but this year things are a bit different. As the townspeople take to the streets to indulge in sweets, Rhine wine, and frivolities, a masked figure with glowing red eyes makes his appearance, plays a magic flute, and hordes of rats with glowing red eyes appear. Remember when the mayor wouldn’t pay up, and the piper took all the kids away for vengeance? This time he’s back, hundreds of years later, and bringing to Hamelin the one thing they thought they would never have to deal with again. We are playing this hidden object mystery game as a detective, and we are here to investigate this paranormal legend come to life… in reverse!

Captain America: The First Avenger

Posted by | Posted in Action, Adventure, DVD, Videos & Movies, Sci-Fi, War | Posted on May 16, 2012

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This was the last movie in a chain of prequels leading up to this summer season’s first blockbuster, The Avengers. It seems appropriate that The First Avenger would be the last to be brought into play. What is really amazing about this particular Marvel film is that critics just never seemed to get enough of it, and after watching it a few times now, I can completely agree with them.

It seems we can’t go a few months these days without seeing a trailer for some comic book-based movie. From the standards of Marvel or DC, to lesser known houses, like Dark Horse, or various manga outlets, like Shojo or Tokyopop, we are constantly seeing our heroes come to life in live or computer-animated action. Some people might even be lucky enough to see these 2D stories in vivid real 3D, not only in movies, but in video games as well. So, we go from there, 2012 back to there, where it all started, in New York, 1942, and learn about the story of a small man with big dreams that made them come true with some good faith, brave deeds, and lots of secret government funding.

Fairway ™ Collector’s Edition

Posted by | Posted in Card Games, Casual Games, Software | Posted on May 15, 2012

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Gameplay:★★★★★ 
Graphics:★★★★☆ 
Sound:★★★★★ 
Value:★★★★★ 
Fun Factor:★★★★★ 
Overall:★★★★¾ 

Sometimes, you just have to take a break from all those hidden object mysteries and match 3 adventures for something simple and purely fun! This simple solitaire game takes us onto the fairway of many golf courses, and the game can’t get any better! We even have sports announcers covering our moves, and their commentary about the courses is pretty funny. I loved the line about the Modest Municipal course being in worse shape than Jack Black.

This is pretty much a tri-peaks solitaire style game, but the golf game atmosphere makes it worth the time you put into it. From the wise-cracking golf announcers to the mischievous gopher with a bad attitude, it seems like I was playing solitaire while watching CaddyShack or Happy Gilmore. Golf couldn’t be any more fun than an evening down at Pirate’s Cove Mini Golf, and you don’t have to go out for margaritas afterwards. If you love solitaire games, then you should not pass up Fairway ™ Collector’s Edition. Casual card games don’t get any better than this!