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WendyDarling wrote:

I have to use credits there in the next couple days, I'll probably get M3s, two new ones just came out there that look alright, I'll have to quick demo them.

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Wendy, I'm playing both those M3s atm. 



I've finished Imperial Island 3 - Expansion and am now replaying some easier levels where I got 3 stars to get enough gold to replay the levels where I didn't get 3 stars - because I'll need a lot of powerups, like bombs! 

I loved it and will be getting it with a PCC when BFG gets it as I have the others from there and I like to keep game series together from the one gaming site.



I've been playing Magic Haven all afternoon, after having to drag myself away from it last night to go to bed.  I LOVE it!  It's definitely DIFFERENT with different things you have to do.  I love the graphics but the boards end up very big with tiny little squares and icons.  They may start with just a few squares but, as you open the locks, they blow out into large boards.  And sometimes the boards are filled with bright candy pink and reds and you need your sunglasses so that you can see the boards!

Some levels are quite easy and only take maybe 5 mins to complete.  Others have so many things you have to do - like open locks, match feathers within 2 squares of the cloud-covered squares that have lightening to clear the storms, match keys to get rid of the monsters (2 different types so far), matching buckets of water so that their water falls down and puts out one fire each in the column below (my fav levels as it takes forever to get the buckets where you want them to put the fires out), etc. etc. etc. - that they take forever! 

I'm playing timed, although there's also an untimed mode, and sometimes I run out of time before completing all the goals, whereas other times I have heaps of time left.  Each level is totally different and and all the levels start with a different time.  One level started with 20 mins!  That one was big and hard.  Sometimes I'd be concentrating so hard on completing one goal that I totally forgot about another and ended up out of time and then, when I replayed it and made sure I didn't forget the goal I'd initially forgotten, I managed to complete them in time. 

Twice so far I had no idea how on earth I could actually complete the level as there just didn't seem to be any way to clear some of the blockages.  Then, at some point, it all became clear when I'd completed one goal, and so had to replay them when I ran out of time, making sure I completed that goal first so I could finish the level. 

The last level I just played - Level 50 - just didn't make sense as every time I cleared a frozen tile, which was most of the board, one of the gargoyles threw what looked like a snowball at it and it froze again.  Somehow I had cleared all the coloured tiles bar one, but had no idea whatsoever where that tile was, as it was underneath a frozen tile and you can't see them when they're frozen.  So, while I abused the stupid developers for hiding the tiles you were supposed to be clearing, I just kept playing and eventually cleared a frozen tile that was blue underneath!  Yippee!  And I even managed to finish the level with seconds to spare! 

There are apparently over 100 levels so this is one long M3 as some levels may take, like I said, up to 20 mins, and then you have to replay some.

There's also a story and you get a bit of the story before each level.  You may have to find part of a key to free someone/something.  Or you may have to find gold to build a bridge so a goblin (?) can follow you.  Or you may have to build houses for "people" you save, or buildings for the archers to practice in, etc. etc. etc.  The graphics are HD and really beautiful.  And I love the little town you build.  Really cute and very colourful.  Even though I'm playing with my FunPass, I'll definitely be getting this game with one of my credits as I love it and will definitely play it again!



I definitely recommend both games if you love M3s, especially Magic Haven as it's so different.  But you have to have good eyesight and the patience to play some very long levels to play that one.




ETA 1:   The level I just played started with 25 mins on the clock! and I finished with 7 mins to spare.

ETA 2:   I also forgot to add that you're not given many instructions about how to play the game.  You're told what powerups do, but not how they work or what you have to do to use them or what happens when you do use them.  It was a case of trial and error until I worked out what was what.  I'm still not sure about one powerup!  Some of the levels also took a bit of experimenting to work out.  So, if you love puzzles and working things out you should have a ball playing this one!



 

Last edited by stusue (February 13, 2016 1:59 pm)

I really think I am cured, TiramaSue!

I downloaded Magic Haven but it doesn't seem to work on my machine. I'm a Mac person and use Virtual Windows for PC games. The odd game now and then won't work on Virtual Windows. Thankfully 99% do.

Took a break from Sherlock Holmes to play Rite of Passage: Hide and Seek.  Was a pretty good game...I like Mad Head. 

Took advantage of the sale on Monday.  Used GEORGE to get 2 SE games.

Rite of Passage: Heart of the Storm
Haunted Legends:  The Secret of Life

Wanted the new Puppetshow, but still a CE. 

Finally, a bonus punch day.  I used 3 pcc's and got:

Fantasy Mosaics 13: Unexpected Visitor
Nonograms: Wolf's Stories
Rainbow Mosaics: Christmas Lights

That filled my punch card.  I still have 2 more pcc's that need to be used this month and no idea where's I'd get the other 4 punches from to finish the card off.

I've mostly been playing ART, but did manage to find time to play the first 3 (of 10) chapters of Sable Maze: Forbidden Garden Collector's Edition.
 

I'll have to move that up my list Fudge.  I am currently on the bonus in Order of the Light The Deadly Artisan.  I really enjoyed this game.  There are a lot of HO scenes (it's a little bit older) and they are fairly straight forward.  Lots of little puzzles, nothing too difficult.  Good map once you get used to it and a decent story.  Ghosts to catch, achievements to make and quite a few sets of collectables.  You never really know what you are looking for.

I had started MCF Ravenhearst Unlocked and then realized the other one was first. waa waa,  So I'll have to delete the profile and start Key tomorrow. I'm also on the last couple of puzzles in Gizmo Christmas, then it will be on to the Wolf Nonogram.  Or has anyone played the Valentine one?  Is it difficult or just the usual 8thFloor?  Don't get me wrong I like them but if it is the norm I'll just get it on the IPad.  I'm doing the Thanksgiving one now.