GeorgeTSLC's Profile
Stat Summary
- Average Rating:2.4
- Helpful Votes:92
- Reviews Submitted:16
- First Review:November 22, 2013
- Most Recent Review:August 23, 2022
- Featured reviews0
Join Helga the Viking on a historical adventure!
Overall rating
2
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5
3 of 7 found this review helpful
Stupid supposed Vikings
PostedAugust 23, 2022
GeorgeTSLC
fromSalt Lake City, UT
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Match 3
Fun Factor
2
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
Storyline
1
/
5
Just plain story start: Unmotivated deadly attack on Helga's people.
And the cherry on top, horned helmets, which would have made no sense in battle, and thus didn't exist, as match-3 tokens.
I don't recommend this game.
Follow two young heroes on their quest to save the legendary paintings of Pictoria while solving challenging logic puzzles with an RPG twist!
Overall rating
1
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5
1 of 3 found this review helpful
Frenetic and Juvenile
PostedSeptember 17, 2021
GeorgeTSLC
fromSalt Lake City, UT
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Brain Teaser, Card & Board, Match 3, Puzzle, Word
Fun Factor
2
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
I play great quantities of nonograms. This one is cute--a negative, for my taste--and annoying. You may well like it, but I can't.
I don't recommend this game.
200 exciting picross levels in a beautifully illustrated fairytale setting!
Overall rating
2
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5
3 of 3 found this review helpful
Faulty Mechanism
PostedJanuary 14, 2021
GeorgeTSLC
fromSalt Lake City, UT
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Brain Teaser, Match 3, Puzzle, Strategy, Word
Fun Factor
2
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
2
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
Believe it or not, I endorse both KatesMom's and pennmom's reviews here, with the possible exception about being unable to solve by logic alone.
But I want to restress one point: That after you've made a choice--box or X--in a square, there is no way to blank it again. And not being preternaturally gifted at never clicking where I shouldn'ta (and may not even have meant to!), I wanted to do that at least once on every blasted level after the first few.
Mostly because of that collision of flaws between me and the game, I'm quitting partway thru the demo.
I don't recommend this game.
Accept an epic quest to track down the Ember Knight and unearth incredible treasures in this captivating solitaire adventure!
Overall rating
5
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5
3 of 4 found this review helpful
Perfectly good as an up-down, aka Golf, solitaire
PostedJanuary 8, 2021
GeorgeTSLC
fromSalt Lake City, UT
Favorite Genre(s):Arcade & Action, Brain Teaser, Card & Board, Match 3, Puzzle, Strategy, Word
Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
And if I didn't already have a dozen just like it, or nearly, I might well buy it. I'm particularly amused that so many of your possible avatars are wearing face masks.
It's extremely nice that the options let you turn Hidden Objects, presumably for mini-games, on or off!
I recommend this game!
A unique slide and drag match 3 game with cute forest friends to unlock!
Overall rating
5
/
5
12 of 12 found this review helpful
If only it wasn't so relentlessly cute!
PostedNovember 28, 2020
GeorgeTSLC
fromSalt Lake City, UT
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Brain Teaser, Card & Board, Match 3, Strategy, Word
Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
Storyline
3
/
5
First, in response to the concern at the end of pennmom36 (Top Reviewer)'s concern about skins: You can play this game for a LONG time before you get thru all the locales.you can play this game for a LONG time before you get thru all the locales. And besides the 1% chance from Stuart the gift tree, you can get additional skins by maxing the happiness of all the animals in a level.
Which is what--I finally figured out!--those "Forest Treats" you're sometimes rewarded with are for. You click on a critter, which gives you a cute description, but also allows you to Feed them and thus increase their happiness. (Which also happens when the award eggs give you the same critter more than once.)
But enough of mechanics.
This is highly enjoyable as you try to engineer each goal set for you, and mostly achieve them by canny play--and occasionally miss despite canny play, which I consider a bonus. A good mix of luck and skill, like card games, vs. the skill-alone heights of chess!
But I really could do w/o the Peanut Gallery chorusing "Yay!!" every single time I earn an award ticket. At least I can turn off the bouncy music, tho I'd really prefer just to turn it way, way down, as I do for my other games whenever possible.
I recommend this game!
Take on a new kind of challenge and uncover stunning images by manipulating a colorful 3D dot cloud.
Overall rating
1
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5
1 of 1 found this review helpful
This is an entertainment, not--for me--a game ...
PostedNovember 25, 2020
GeorgeTSLC
fromSalt Lake City, UT
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Brain Teaser, Card & Board, Match 3, Puzzle, Word
Fun Factor
1
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
1
/
5
... tho apparently others have skills I don't, and this in fact constitutes a puzzle for them.
I'm old enough to remember doing something similar with TV controls, including "rabbit ears" antennas, in the days of analog transmission. You could tell you were getting closer to seeing the picture==which I can't with this game!--and the payoff of the picture coming clear was more satisfying. Here, each instance after the first couple I had to use the hint button in order to get close enough that a little fiddling with the controls made the picture clear, and I could never say I was exercising any skill.
This is an outstanding instance of Big Fish's wisdom in giving you a trial before you buy. Given the number of glowing reviews here, this was obviously not a waste of developer effort. If the video demo interests you at all, I highly recommend you try it and see what you think. But the bottom line for me is ...
I don't recommend this game.
Enjoy this original story-driven solitaire adventure and face a cruel witch bend on destroying the kingdom!
Overall rating
5
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5
5 of 5 found this review helpful
If only I didn't have a dozen Golf-type solitaires already ...
PostedNovember 15, 2020
GeorgeTSLC
fromSalt Lake City, UT
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Brain Teaser, Card & Board, Match 3, Puzzle, Word
Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
... I'd buy this one. Or if I loved the goofy-looking fairy just a bit more ...
Highly recommended for a tryout, at least.
I recommend this game!
Play fun Match 3 levels and solve incredible puzzles to uncover the culprit behind a deadly threat!
Overall rating
1
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5
5 of 9 found this review helpful
Me, too
PostedNovember 12, 2020
GeorgeTSLC
fromSalt Lake City, UT
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Brain Teaser, Card & Board, Match 3, Puzzle, Word
Fun Factor
1
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
1
/
5
Storyline
2
/
5
I, like a previous reviewer, was unable to retrieve the trumpet at the end of the first Hidden Object sub-game. (Mine as at the upper left, not right. And clicking Ctrl-Enter to put the game into a windows instead of full screen failed to make the item visible.)
There was nothing special about the few match-3 games I played before then.
Before that, of the test questions, I failed on a few observations (cousin to HOGs), though I succeeded on the absurdly easy "How many sides on a hexagon?"! I say absurdly, because even if I hadn't known the answer a Net search would have told me.
This is not basically Match-3 as advertised.
I don't recommend this game.
Townsmen: A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis!
Overall rating
1
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5
7 of 10 found this review helpful
No instructions, no game.
PostedOctober 23, 2019
GeorgeTSLC
fromSalt Lake City, UT
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
1
/
5
The so-called tutorial taught nothing.
I don't recommend this game.
Travel around the world and solve beautiful mosaic puzzles across 8 countries!
Overall rating
1
/
5
12 of 17 found this review helpful
Should steal functionality from the competition
PostedAugust 14, 2019
GeorgeTSLC
fromSalt Lake City, UT
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Brain Teaser, Card & Board, Match 3, Puzzle, Word
Fun Factor
1
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
3
/
5
This is a multicolor nonogram. I like that genre. But not this example.
When you finish a line or column, it doesn't fill in the remaining nulls for you. Much worse, the nulls aren't already filled in for the sections that don't apply to the current color.
And to top it off, you can't always pull the cursor to fill in a stretch of nulls the way you can a stretch of colors, so doing it bit by bit is both tedious and annoying--the more so the bigger the layout.
I surprised myself and quit in the middle of a puzzle.
I don't recommend this game.