Noelle wrote:

A Gypsy's Tale: The Tower of Secrets...Loved it.  I really wish they'd come out with a sequel.

This is an oldie, but I remember loving it as well.
 

I haven't posted much in a while (I've been working a bunch extra and my cat is ill), but I did finish a couple of games.
 
Fairy Godmother Tycoon
I ended up really enjoying this tycoon sim game. It was a long game, but I enjoyed it (almost) all of the way through.
 
It's a tycoon game where you buy ingredients and set up your shop to sell potions. You can also purchase different kinds of advertising to try to get people to go to your shop instead of competitors.  Then you let the day start and hope that you make more than you spent on ingredients, ads, research, etc. The goal varies for each town you're in - usually reaching a certain net income or cash on hand or putting a competitor out of business.
 
It was full of the type of silly humor and puns that I don't always find amusing, but a lot of it was actually pretty funny, surprisingly. I don't always like that kind of humor, but it was pretty well written.
 
A minor problem I had with it was that the early rounds ended a little too soon and the last round went on and on and on. For that round you have to put your last competitor out of business, but he just keeps hanging in there even when he has almost no customers. It took forever, long past the point where it was fun or challenging. But the rest of it was fun.

The other game I finished recently was Jewel Quest: The Sapphire Dragon (the 6th one in the series, apparently). This is a Match 3 game that I bought as a DD months back. 
 
It went on for a very long time and, unlike Fairy Godmother Tycoon, I was looking forward to it ending. In the end I did complete all levels on Advanced and won all awards, so I guess there must have been something about it that kept me playing. 
 
In addition to having one M3 board after another, it had a bit of a storyline. But I'm not sure I really see the point to having a story line at all in an M3 game. Maybe I just don't see the point to storylines in most games, but it seemed especially out of place in an M3. Anyway, there are some people and they have to track down one woman's kidnapped brother. That’s about the whole storyline other that a tepid romance. Maybe the storyline would have been more palatable to me if there'd been more of it. As is was, the story line was just really repetitive.
 
As far as the gameplay goes, it was a good game but not a great one. This is the first game from this series that I've played, and I don't feel drawn to try more.
 
Pros: I did like the variety of gameboards and the strategy you needed to use to choose which characters strengths would be best for each board.
 
Cons: I really didn't like that you don't know what score you need to get 4 stars. I didn't learn until later that you can't get the maximum of 5 stars unless you play on Advanced mode. I decided to do that and actually found it much easier on Advanced. You always get 5 stars if you finish on Advanced, whereas I played some boards over and over on normal struggling to get 4 stars. This struck me as both poor instructions and design.
 
Anyway, I ended up spending an awful lot of time on this game that I liked OK, but certainly didn't love and probably wouldn't play again. But I can say that I finished it. I'm going to go look up my stats for August now...

Just wanted to let you guys know that the weekend does still work as of 10 am est. I bought

Nearwood
Fairy Godmother Tycoon

I had a GCC and used that to get two for 99 cents. Figured that was a good deal.

I also had a PCC from last week that I used and got

Nancy Drew: Alibi in Ashes

This was the only Nancy Drew game I was missing. I got bonus punches with each of them which filled another card, so I have a new PCC to sue next Monday.

Cool teeitup46ok. Glad you got some games today. Never heard of the games you got today. You'll have to let us know if htey are any good.