This is great. A mix between cooking academy and a restaurant time management game. So there's a bit of real time cooking and delagation of duties to other cooks. The beauty of it is, you can decide whether you want to cook more or delegate more. I discovered the hard way that delegation was most definately the key. It has a very fine balance between the two though. None of the other cooks do the baking, processing or mixing, so I found it best to concentrate on those, especially in the later levels. I did get stuck sometimes and had to play some of the later levels again a few times. I found the Italian restaurant the hardest towards the end of it, but I think that was just when my learning curve was coming in. It is absolutely doable though, a good challenge at times and very addictive. Very.
The objects in this game are difficult to find and with only three hints per chapter and timed, it really does pose a challenge. I had to resart each chapter many times. There is a chance to gain an extra hint if you find a few yellowish birds in each scene. There are no environ sounds in this straight forward HOG but there is some nice relaxing honeymoonish type music. The objects are blended in very well and some of them are just not fair. The old school games were like that though, they make you work for it.
This game is quite addictive, with nice graphics and good funny characters. I like the blend of Match 3 and time management restaurant game BUT and this is a big but, no matter how good you are at Match 3, if you have the strategy wrong, i.e you buy the wrong upgrades, in the wrong order, you will never progress and have to start again. There is no way of knowing what upgrades to buy at what stage and you never get enough tokens to buy the high end recipes.This results in many people having to start the game again, from scratch, many times and trying another strategy. Game skill means very little later in the game. I wasn't very good at strategy or game play but I've got really good players to play my game and even though they do miles better than me, they still can't progress. Burger Rush is better.
I'm not usually keen on Match 3 games but this is an exception. Unlike other Match 3's, it has an ending. Sometimes the levels go on forever in these things. It's sort of a mixture between a time management and a Match 3 and it really works. It's not complicated, the customers are interesting characters and it's so much fun.
I was looking for another time management game like Spooky Mall and found it, except this one is without the ghosts and ghoulies. You won't find any meat in Amy's Greenmart, unless it's in the form of the beefy Security Guard in her stores. (Amy's romantic interest). This is highly addictive and I played it in normal mode, for the challenge, but it can be played in relaxed mode. There are 15 levels/days in each chapter. There are around six chapters, so quite a long game. Great game play and the upgrades will keep you coming back for more.
This game has a great true story running through it about a couple married for seventy years. A surprise anniversay party is planned for them. Although I love the story and it made me cry a little bit at the end, I wasn't that keen on the game play. It was mostly mini games throughout, with only a handful of hidden object scenes. Although, it has skips for the mini games, it doesn't have hints for the puzzley game play. While I wouldn't have bought it if I'd had known about all the mini games and lack of HOS, I still enjoyed it. There is some degree of replayability too. If you play the game again on a hard level, you get an extra bonus scene!
I played Tasty Blue, which I thought was a better game overall and I didn't get motion sickness with it, well not that much, but I was so sick with this one! I got through it by playing just a level or two a day, so it took me a couple of months to finish. Just talking about it makes my stomach lurch! I think Tasty Blue was more of a side on view but this is played from a birds eye view and so messes with the eye to brain to inner ear co-ordination a bit more.
Good environmental sound effects and much clearer graphics than the first couple of Dream Day's in the series. The scenes are lovely and objects are easier to find for the most part..I love the little bluebirds you can find in the scenes that go towards gaining more hints. It's timed but still remains quite a relaxing game. I had to play some levels twice or more. A challenging HOG with immediate skips on puzzles. There's a mulitple choice storyline but the endings are the same. I'll be playing it again to find out what happens when you make other choices in the stories.
This is an old game with back to back hidden object scenes. It's quite challenging as it's timed with limited hints. I like the creepy atmosphere and sound effects. I'm not overly keen on the hidden object dectector that you use when you need a hint. It's quite clunky and not that easy to find the hidden objects..I didn't like the dark rooms at the end but it did get a bit more exciting at that point.
If you like classical paintings, as well as back to back relaxing HOS, then you will likely love this game. It is good value for money also, with 40 different scenes to enjoy.