DragonScales 5: The Frozen Tomb
’ve been following the DragonScales saga for a while, and keep getting surprised at how good it gets every single time.
Great to finally be able to buy it at Steam, and now off to lose hours matching scales and discovering how the story goes on.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
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DragonScales 6: Love and Redemption
Overview
The Dark Empress is awaiting Zarya, anxious to destroy her and all the rebels! After taming Ribeus in DragonScales 5, Zarya will release the dragon’s power to confront the Dark Empress, the merciless ruler of the Gravity Kingdom. This time she might even find love… but she’ll have to dissipate the darkness of a lonely heart. Each DragonScales game introduces puzzles and challenges not included in other entries of the series, and DragonScales 6 is no exception. The game comprises totally new challenges: collect keys to unlock doors, switch the board’s gravity to solve puzzles, harness the new power-up system and destroy the Empress' minions! For the first time in DragonScales, Zarya will have to battle against a line-up of multiple enemies. DragonScales 6 concludes Zarya’s story arc! Will Zarya and the rebels succeed in overthrowing the reign of terror of the Dark Empress?
Features
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130 levels.
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Revamped battles.
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Novel DragonScales gameplay modes.
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New power-up system.
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Post-game quests included: The Royal and The Pit.
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Conclusion of Zarya’s story arc.
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16 Steam Achievements.
Closing Remarks
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This game does not include timed levels. You can take all the time you want to complete each level. However, once you complete the game you can try to beat your own times (Royal challenge).
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You don’t have to play previous DragonScales games to understand how to play. Playing DragonScales 4 and 5 obviously helps to understand the whole setting, but the story of DragonScales 6 holds well on its own.
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The first levels of DragonScales 6 are really simple. However, the degree of difficulty rises up as you progress. If a puzzle proves to be too challenging, you can always skip the level. Skipping a level does not affect the course of the story. Besides, the game has a single ending.
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Unlike previous DragonScales games, in DragonScales 6 the power-ups are not entirely optional. For instance, the only way to get the star in Level 3-7 is by using Ribeus power-up.
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Battles in DragonScales 5 are for wizards. In DragonScales 6 the battle system is different and much more relaxed.
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DragonScales 3: Eternal Prophecy of Darkness
The caravan of mages has been slaughtered off by a mysterious spell. Only a wizard managed to survive: you. A DragonScales journey into a world threatened by the worshippers of Specktr’s sinister prophecy, a ritual to invoke absolute darkness and decimate the Gravity Kingdom. Your mental prowess is the ultimate bid for the survival of your race. DragonScales 3 is a casual, tile-matching game in which you combine colored scales on the board to collect special tiles, stars and prizes, defeat skulls and other monsters, solve tricky puzzles, and many more game actions! There are bosses too, showcasing a new approach to DragonScales battles. More than 150 levels await. Put a halt to the deviant aura of the Eternal Prophecy of Darkness!
Special features
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150 levels.
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Multiple challenges: basic scale combinations, scales which fall from their position, chasing scales, solving puzzles, destroying skulls and monsters on the board, and many more actions.
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First DragonScales game with ‘Gravity Mode’.
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5 boss battles with a new play mode.
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First DragonScales game with badges and secret stars.
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New array of magical powers. For instance, you can use ‘Improved Prescience’ to select a tailored set of scales to play, or even change completely the position
of all the scales on the board with the new ‘Confusion’ power!
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New story arc with Specktr’s cultists.
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Welcome To… Chichester OVN 2 : Master Tormentor Grendel Jinx !?
DISCLAIMER: I have not played any of the previous titles, and this game was requested through the Steam Curator Connect.
It’s a free visual novel, which makes it hard to say anything negative, since the only thing you’re putting in requires your own time.
The overall feel of this VN was very similar to the over-the-top reactions and statements provided by a lot of stereotypical anime/JPN VNs with a heavy focus on shenanigans/antics with little to no depth (I was heavily reminded of Danganronpa shiver).
– Real player with 10.0 hrs in game
This OVN is a brief side-story to an ongoing series where character relationships, story development & direction have been created which can make the whole experience like walking into a movie/series halfway through so I’d recommend WTC 1 and, as this OVN fits between WTC 2 parts 1 & 2, playing those first prior to this OVN otherwise the epilogue will reveal spoilers
This free to play second OVN continues the madcap Austin Powers style humour of the Welcome to Chichester series with its sexual innuendo jokes revolved around the rivalry of the Protagonist (You) and Grendel Jinx. In this scenario, the Protagonist has prepared against Grendel’s daily torments to ensure their own plan can be carried out as part of an unexpected surprise retaliation for Grendel. For the Protagonist there is also the dilemma of whether to take a blue pill (as advised in a pre-recording) but the consequences can be more worrying than the comedown!
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
Broken Sword 4 - the Angel of Death
When I saw that this game received mixed reviews, I still kept my hopes high. After all, Broken Sword 3 got mixed reviews, and I enjoyed it, despite being trampled by boxes ;). Then I played it. I will say this: I’m glad I played it. I’m a Broken Sword fan; therefore, I must play the whole series. If you are a Broken Sword fan, you probably should play it. It doesn’t get everything wrong, it just doesn’t get enough right. I feel that Broken Sword 3 was much stronger in terms of story and graphics. Anyhow, lets get to the positives of this game before I load you with the negatives.
– Real player with 30.7 hrs in game
Broken Sword 4
Sadly this really is one just for fans of the series… and even then this game will test a lot of them too.
I’ve played a lot of this game due to PC issues… mostly being that I like to reinstall my O.S. every few months to keep my PC clean and fast as possible. Sadly this means that I’ve had to restart games that don’t have cloud save features (This and Assassins Creed 4 Black Flag being two off the top of my head.) Simply put I’ve seen enough of this game up to the Turkish palace bit to last me a lifetime. Anyway that might explain why I logged up so many hours on this game.
– Real player with 24.9 hrs in game
The Battles of Spwak 3
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– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
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– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Tricky Fox
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– Real player with 52.1 hrs in game
Honestly a great puzzler. Seems that the level design likes to punish “going with the flow” blindly, so you need to always stay on your toes. Seems difficult enough that it’s actually not suitable for small children.
The biggest detriment and unfortunately the biggest component of its difficulty is the “floaty” physics: the character’s acceleration from pressing arrow keys is linear; there’s no initial rapid acceleration from stand-still that almost all good games have.
★★★★★★★☆☆☆
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
Cyborg Arena 2
FPS with a 2000’s era vibe
Quite funny to play with hard rock ambient music and big guns!
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Large desert map
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Big minigun
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Cyborgs
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Camps to destroy
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Turrets
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
Simple shooter to pass the time
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
InfiniPicross 2.0
I love the 2.0 version of this game. The newly introduced zooming and panning makes this a lot more usable and user friendly than in the first version. I even got the 100x100 achievement which sadly was kinda impossible in the first game due to its smallness. I also really like the non-randomness of the picture puzzles (some may call this the classic picross). It’s very rewarding once solved, as well as the puzzle selection screen when you see all solved and unsolved puzzles.
Very solid and polished picross puzzler, well worth the money.
– Real player with 46.9 hrs in game
infinipicross 2.0 is one of the best nonograms on the market. to be fair, there’s not much competition on steam, as most games in the genre lack all sorts of necessary features, and while this isn’t perfect either, at least the developers know what makes nonograms fun to solve.
– Real player with 28.7 hrs in game
Ninja Stealth 3
Gameplay-
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Nothing special
☐ Okay
☐ Bad
Graphics-
☑ Masterpiece
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Will do
☐ Bad
☐ Awful
Audio
☑ Amazing
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
Audience
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Everyone
Difficult-
☑ Just press a bunch of buttons
☑ Easy
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Not so easy
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
Game Time-
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ Depends on you
☐ Endless
Price
☑ Just buy it
☐ Worth the price
☐ Wait for sale
– Real player with 1470.1 hrs in game
This is kind of sad, it’s in the style of the first Ninja Stealth, so it is better than Ninja Stealth 2, but it’s a downgrade from 1 in several ways.
The first one had an interesting interconnected maze between the puzzles that created a larger atmosphere and the music kept the pace of the game flowing naturally. Two went off and became a weird RPG-ish mimic that wasn’t as good as the original.
Three is back to the style of one with the puzzles, but it lacks the interconnecting maze; each puzzle is a stand alone small room so there’s no larger sense of exploration anymore. And it completely lacks music during the puzzles, it’s only on the menu. One of the best parts of the previous games was the music and it’s missing.
– Real player with 9.3 hrs in game