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agngoo's Review - September 15, 2008 |
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| Turn the music you love into a wildly exciting game experience! |
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What You Give is What You Get
At first blush, this game is boring, flat, and simplistic. More like a toy than an actual game. And really, taken as such, that's where it's strength lies: it's not a challenging game meant to occupy your mind. It's a relaxing, no-stress toy to play with your music with.
Really, what you give to this game is what you'll get back: if you're the sort of person who plays simple games as something to do while listening to music, like me, then this is right up your alley. However, if music is just background noise while you're playing a game, then this won't be your cup of tea.
The graphics are simplistic, not remarkable but they get the job done in the end. I agree with others that variety in colors and shapes would have increased the replayability a bit, especially if the unique shape sets from the pre-programmed songs were available for songs you upload yourself. Possibly even a feature that lets you choose your shape set with a "random" option to create the effect it has now, so you can select shape sets that are easier or more challenging or just go better with the song in your mind.
The sound is where the give and take definitely shows up: most of the time, the music will be your own, and that's the only sound in the game. One would assume you'd like what you're hearing in that case, but there are some pre-set songs as well, and they are just as fun to play through as your hand-picked tracks, especially the beautiful original composition for the game "Before the Dawn".
The gameplay might take a bit more imagination to get anything from it, as it's pretty straight forward (catch as many shapes as possible, collect yellow shapes for multipliers and avoid red ones that remove multipliers), but you can challenge yourself to avoid all red shapes for an entire album or just your favorite song, or to get a platinum medal on your favorite song.
All in all, it's a very low-stress game, not meant to challenge you, just give you a diversion while you listen... |
This review has an average score of 4.7 - Based on 26 ratings
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agngoo's Review - May 26, 2007 |
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| Make your family proud managing your very own sushi restaurant! |
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It'd be good if it were any good...
This game has a minor variation on the Diner Dash premise: the ingredients for the sushi circle the customers, and you pick out the ones they need and give them to them. It'd be more fun if you made the sushi from there, like in The Apprentice: Los Angeles, but it's okay for what it is.
The problem with this game is that it is very buggy. The mouse pointer disappeared on me five levels in, it wouldn't save my game no matter how many times I selected "save" before quitting, sometimes ingredients are still attached to your cursor even after you've given them to the customer, necessitating throwing them away and losing points, and the sound and music off features only work maybe half of the time.
This game was clearly rushed out into the market, and is very sloppy as a result. The music is very low and maybe the same five seconds on repeat, the sound is pretty much the same sound for everything from clicking to play to handing the customers their ingredients, the story scrolls by far too slow, and the graphics are so-so, trying to emulate the manga style in the cut scenes. My advice: give this one a pass and grab The Apprentice: Los Angeles if you are really jonesing to serve sushi. |
This review has an average score of 4.1 - Based on 12 ratings
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agngoo's Review - October 7, 2009 |
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| Help Jill revitalize her hometown by managing 4 unique shops! |
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The Worthy Installment of Cake Mania
After seeing Cake Mania: Back to the Bakery up on Reflexive recently, I was starting to fear they were going to skip over this much more worthy successor to the franchise, but they didn't disappoint: here it is, in all of its glory. Essentially four time management games in one, you not only return to the bakery, but you also find yourself managing a Burger Island-esque burger restaurant, a flower shop similar in design to the bakery, and a sushi bar like in Youda Sushi Chef.
My only complaint, albeit a minor one, is the difficulty curve: once you hit your stride, the game, no matter which shop you're playing in, becomes ridiculously easy. I got a gold star in all but one level on the first playthrough, and got that last gold star easily enough, but I hardly consider myself a time management game expert. But with a funny, quirky, and self-aware story and new gimmicky customers and levels, easy never means boring.
If you're a fan of the Cake Mania series, or time management games in general, do yourself a favor and pick up this game. You won't be disappointed. |
This review has an average score of 3.5 - Based on 6 ratings
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agngoo's Review - July 17, 2007 |
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Quite possibly the perfect game
This game has a little something for everyone: a sweeping storyline for those of you who crave and epic tale to play through, but many, many different games, some classic and some original, to keep those with short attention spans who are constantly craving something new entertained.
From the various seek-and-find meets practical application/problem solving scenarios to the Towers of Hanoi and Peg Solitaire games, jigsaw puzzles to concentration and memory games, matching to strategizing and everything in between, you'll never be bored for a second with this game (possibly a little frustrated, but never bored). I played through it almost entirely in one sitting, I couldn't break away from it!
The graphics are absolutely lovely, from the Victorian era scenes you have to search to the Eastern inspired gameboards. The sounds and music are crisp and fresh and rarely annoyingly repetitive (mostly if you get stuck on one game for too long), and unlike many games, it has terrific replay value. If you are on the fence about tying or buying this game, don't hesitate to grab it. You won't regret it! |
This review has an average score of 3.2 - Based on 10 ratings
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