Reviews for: My Tribe

Twink's Review - November 27, 2008 - View all my reviews (13)

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I've Found The Fountain Of Youth

Okay ... not really, but it's what we all wish for, eh? Actually this game does have a fountain of youth and SO much more. If you are a fan of the Virtual Villagers trilogy, then you'll have no problems falling in love with this game.
This game is really beautiful. There are literally Billions of islands to choose from making the replay value a wonderful addition. I'm currently on the first island, so I'm not sure what happens after I've solved the puzzles. I eagerly await finding out.
There are so many awesome features in this game. Once you've discovered the fountain of youth, you can use the correct potion to rapidly decrease the age of an elder. I really enjoy this feature because you need never die after investing so much into one character.
There are many puzzles to be solved. This game introduces Moondust and Stardust that fall from the sky and can be collected for various purposes. Finding out what they do is a fun challenge in itself. You will find yourself mixing potions that do wonderful things. I believe there are over 40 potions to work with. I keep a little notebook by me as I play as to keep track of potions and what they do. You will often see barrels and crates wash ashore. They can have nice or nasty surprises inside. Sometimes you will learn how to mix a certain potion. Sometimes the person you drop on it will increase in a certain skill. At times you will get a nasty little surprise and you'll wish that you hadn't opened the crate lol.
Once you learn how to use your items wisely, you'll find your characters ranking up in no time. The possibilities are endless.
You will earn trophies. You will have children (the right potion allows for twins!) I find the graphics to be better than Virtual Villagers. The gameplay in itself never gets old. I'm constantly checking the map screen for any surprises that may have fallen from the sky. From mushrooms to bird doo, little things are there for collecting. Five stardusts for this game! (-:

This review has an average score of 4.3 - Based on 42 ratings
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Nuvaradeth's Review - December 3, 2008 - View all my reviews (3)

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Quite a great change of pace.

Yes, it's obvious, it's like Virtual Villagers, let's just step away from that, shall we?

The most important aspect of this game to me is, that it offers something extraordinary... rewards for playing it. Yes, some other games (*cough*) allowed you to collect things for science when playing.... but this one allows you to collect potion parts, as well as special items that allow you to speed up building production, increase supplies, change the look of your tribe, and many more things. They also happen quite often, and when playing on certain islands, you can unlock the ability for them to show up, even more so.

Second thing I love about this game is the ability to move on and start over, with slight benefits. You don't get to keep everything you've worked for, such as resources, but you still get to keep other things. You can also search for islands that suit your needs.... with their "mysteries", as well as have the chance to solve 8 different puzzles in total.

Villagers can also live quite a long time, and if your island has the fountain of youth, as others have noted, you can help your gray haired villagers live even that much longer.

One of the last things I'd like to note about MyTribe, is something that is VERY important for me.... and that is the ease of controlling what your villagers do. Even as a baby, you can assign what your villager will do (such as collecting wood) and something amazing happens once they reach a certain age..... they actually harvest wood. There is no having to drag your person 20 times to something for them to be able to do it. Once you make sure you have enough villagers on every task, it's quite easy for the game to be self sufficient. Villagers can even do a number of tasks, so if you have one villager working on an art project (yes, I'm going to spoil it... making clothes for your villagers) then when he's finished, he'll also work towards another task he has been assigned (such as the wood gathering).

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This review has an average score of 4.3 - Based on 18 ratings
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TashiieBaby's Review - December 2, 2008 - View all my reviews (3)

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Mind-numbing!

I expect alot of people to think this as of a knockoff Virtual Villagers. Actually, this game has alot of potential, so much in fact that I think it distances itself from Virtual Villagers quite well. The replay is good, as there are about billions of new islands to inhabitat. All Sims and Virtual Villagers lovers will just love MyTribe.

This review has an average score of 4.1 - Based on 24 ratings
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kelinrose's Review - November 27, 2008

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AMAZING GAME!!

WOW, this game is really much better than Virtual Villager, as you have billions of different islands to chose from, each one with it's own challenges.

If you want to have a fisherman/woman, you don't have to force them over and over again to do so. Just click detail, check the box that you want them to do, and they set to work. There is harvesting type work, (Rocks, and Wood) you can select certain trees, rocks to harvest.

You build a science center, and then have someone become a scientist, with the technology points you can buy things.

Want to improve agriculture without having the farm, build flowers, it will raise it up while you raise the technology to build a farm, which you can plant more than one.

Also, you can build storage, so what you start off with in building materials and food, you can grow and build more and more buildings.

My suggestion if you do anything, set one person to fishing, one to wood harvesting, one to rock harvesting and one to construction. they automatically start to work, on what you want them to do, without having to force them to do it.

This review has an average score of 4 - Based on 16 ratings
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KikiMinx's Review - December 8, 2008 - View all my reviews (24)

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Curbing the Enuthusiasm

Clearly this game has been a BIG hit! I'm swayed but not quite so easily convinced.

This is a version on Virtual Villagers and DOES have a whole lot that the actual VV series doesn't.
The main plus points are the many different islands, games, and unending potentiality. It really does feel more expansive and have more freedom.

BUT I found this one quite annoying and haven't bought the full version for several reasons...

I seem to be the only one that doesn't like graphics so we'll skip over that, it reminds me of Ladybird books! lol

Main bugbear, why is there no zoom??? This is infuriating. The same with side scroll. If there's a sequel this should be the first thing added.

Slow. Slow. Slow. No speed up fuction. If you're waiting for science points, you'll have grey hair before you're halfway there.

I guess in conclusion, it just doesn't have the quality of Virtual Villagers for me and i'd rather wait for the next one of those than buy this. That said, I do think this is a much more extensive game and certainly worth a try out.

This review has an average score of 4 - Based on 1 ratings
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