Penguins' Journey - PC Game - Reflexive Arcade

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EPGAH's Review - March 12, 2008 - View all my reviews (22)

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Charm Tale+Lemmings by way of Madagascar's Penguins

With so many penguins showing up in recent movies, it was INEVITABLE they'd show up in a game!
This is a good hexagonal tangram puzzle, like 7 Lands or Charm Tale (the first one), and it continues Mumbo Jumbo's tradition of borrowing character designs from movies (Such as Zoombook's characters looking like Disney's Atlantis movie)
That said, the penguins mindlessly swarm straight ahead, and you have to build solid land for them to walk across, which STRONGLY evokes happy memories from the old game Lemmings. Sometimes, evil frogs will attack, and you have to click on them to blow them away, or your penguins will fall through a gap in the ground, and you have to throw the poor flailing bird a life-preserver, or you have to hurry and build EXTRA to grab messages in bottles, which give you extra powerups or life-preservers!
The CGI-cartoon feel is kept up throughout the game, including the aforementioned tossing life-preservers to the penguins who fall through the cracks. Every 5 Levels, you get a bonus game, which is an entirely separate genre, including the tried-and-true match-3s, and a penguin-themed version of the light-switch puzzle!
The powerups are also suitably cartoonish, a fan blowing the penguins back, a trowel filling in holes, an overgrown cartoon hammer pounding away pieces you placed by mistake (Or in haste to collect a powerup-bottle) the music is happy, and I especially love the sounds when one of your pieces has a pile of fish for the penguins to polish off!
It's absolutely HILARIOUS blowing away the "evil" frogs with an airhorn! That deserves special mention! The frog freaks out, jumping into the water, and pulling its lily-pad after it!
I only found one problem with the game: Holding down space makes EVERYTHING except you faster. There is no way to scroll the viewpoint window without the penguins advancing far enough to become a problem.
GREAT game, especially if you enjoy tangram-type games, or just loved the penguins of recent movies!

This review has an average score of 3 - Based on 6 ratings
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Clever's Review - March 26, 2008 - View all my reviews (124)

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Well

Good game, the same principle as Hexalot. But IMHO Hexalot, in its simplicity is better.

Try Hexalot first.

Great music and graphics...

This review has an average score of 3 - Based on 2 ratings
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Jerryfish's Review - March 12, 2008 - View all my reviews (44)

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Not very impressive

A new type of puzzle, well actually not new, but rare. Something like the Tetris, using differently shaped blocks to form a path for penguins to walk on.

The good points, firstly, the graphics and sounds are considerable, not too bad. Secondly, if you have read my reviews before, you know I like UPGRADES! It is not usual for a puzzle game to have upgradables. In this game you can upgrade your bonuses and the trash bin.

However, even with the upgrades and some additional features, such as the frog, after around 15 levels you will feel bored. Afterall, you are doing the same thing at anytime on any levels.

Another thing is that in the first 10 levels, the pace is so slow that you will hold down the fast forward button. This, however will make the frog approaches at lightning speed and push your penguins into water. I have so far only lose 2 penguins in 15 levels, both are killed by "Fast Frogs"...

A fast-paced balanced action puzzle, recommended for any player, especially puzzle gamers, of course.

This review has an average score of 2.3 - Based on 7 ratings
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