SilverBranch's Profile
Stat Summary
- Average Rating:3.5
- Helpful Votes:2,308
- Reviews Submitted:102
- First Review:November 15, 2011
- Most Recent Review:February 22, 2024
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Help your good old friend bring the family garden to bloom again in this brand new hit from Playrix!
Overall rating
5
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5
8 of 9 found this review helpful
What more can you say?
PostedApril 11, 2013
SilverBranch
fromNH
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Word, Time Management, Hidden Object, Strategy
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
5
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5
I'm not really going to write much of a review - it's all been said already. Fact is, I didn't think they could improve upon the other already awesome, relaxing, addictive Gardenscape game and they did. Amazing.
Buying it without a credit.
I recommend this game!
Turn one small clothing store into a runway of fashion. It’s all up to you in this exciting clothing store simulation game!
Overall rating
5
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5
4 of 5 found this review helpful
Another great Boulevard game
PostedFebruary 18, 2013
SilverBranch
fromNH
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Time Management, Hidden Object, Strategy
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Like Bistro Boulevard, this game allows you the freedom to decorate your space as you see fit, train people and instead of unlocking ingredients to make dishes, you're unlocking garments to make outfits. This Boulevard game is a little more hectic in that you manage your staff during the levels (unlike letting the waiters do everything in the bistro version), but it's an okay TM. I really enjoy these games and hope to see another Boulevard style game soon!
I recommend this game!
Turn one diner into a promenade of five-star restaurants! Pick the menu, and decorate your restaurant to impress your customers!
Overall rating
5
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5
1 of 1 found this review helpful
Not challenging, but certainly enjoyably fun
PostedFebruary 18, 2013
SilverBranch
fromNH
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
I loved how you get to arrange, train and decorate the restaurants any way you want. I also like the manner of "discovering" dishes and the logic game element to making your customers happy. The Boulevard games are so unique - I hope they come out with more!
I recommend this game!
Galactic Express
Take command of Galactic Express, the busiest shipping station in the galaxy!
Overall rating
3
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5
10 of 12 found this review helpful
From the exciting world of.... shipping and receiving?
PostedJanuary 29, 2013
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
This is not a bad game, but it's just not my personal cup of tea. Graphics and sound were great. But I found the game play to be monotonous - and I didn't play relaxed mode either. I was hoping it would be something along the lines of Jewel Charm (only more challenging please!), but I was to be disappointed. You get tetris like pieces (packages for shipping) and you must place them into the ships. You have an unending supply of packages so there is no challenge there in using them up before the tray gets full. The only thing to really work toward is filling up a ship and making color bonuses. In later levels, you get special requests for certain packages on your ship - no challenge to them really. And you get to buy power ups of single square packages to fill in gaps. Really I didn't find this challenging or interesting enough to catch my attention for the full hour. I felt like I could be doing something like this with a FedEx truck and actually get paid for it.
Puzzler World returns for 2013 with over 1200 puzzles and bonus games to excite players young and old!
Overall rating
2
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5
31 of 36 found this review helpful
The real puzzle is - how do you play?
PostedJanuary 22, 2013
Fun Factor
1
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
With no instructions and very generic icons during a mini game (a simple cylinder button icon is supposed to say to the play "hey! I'm a hint!") this "game" leaves a lot to the imagination. Seriously - I had to imagine what I was supposed to be doing since I had no instructions. The first puzzle to come up appears to be, after a few minutes of clicking aimlessly, to connect like numbers 1-1-1 and like colors green 1 to green 7, etc. But I really don't know since doing that didn't appear to have much result other than lighting up pieces of the board. The lack of instruction was highly frustrating and there is even a question mark icon (which did nothing when I clicked it).
I don't recommend this game.
Libby and Cole are off on a vacation to France! Once there, Libby’s friend Matthieu offers to teach her how to make French delicacies!
Overall rating
1
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5
3 of 5 found this review helpful
Not playable! Lag central!
PostedJanuary 21, 2013
Visual/Sound Quality
1
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5
The main menu works just fine for me - so did the little cut scene video at the beginning. But wow! Just trying to click on the first little shop to play the game took forever! The mouse was lagging and jumping so bad that it took 3 tries just to click on the building. Then it seemed to do nothing and finally started to pan the screen to the left so slowly that I finally gave up! Impossible!
I don't recommend this game.
Plant and harvest crops, construct buildings to expand your abilities, create recipes, advertise and sell products in the Orchard.
Overall rating
2
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5
13 of 13 found this review helpful
Maybe it was good back in the day...
PostedJanuary 20, 2013
SilverBranch
fromNH
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
2
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
2
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
3
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5
I'm not sure how old this game is, but it seems like the gameplay, graphics and continuous loop of music date it as an older game. After reading the other good review here, I decided to give it a go. It runs so slow that even my character fell asleep (thought bubble of zzzzzz) multiple times as I went through the motions of playing.
I'm not sure if it's my computer, but the play screen was so tiny I had to squint. When it took it off "full screen" it actually got a little bigger in the window - but not much. I might not have minded that if the game was worth playing, but I found it tedious (and I like slow growing games like Plant Tycoon, so that's saying something!)
I don't recommend this game.
The Tribloos are back in a brand new adventure! Join them as they try save their home once more.
Overall rating
4
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5
8 of 8 found this review helpful
Deceptively good game
PostedJanuary 14, 2013
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
4
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5
The screen shots on the preview screen here really hurt this game. I almost didn't download it to try it if not for the other reviews. It's a decent game - highly challenging as you go along. It's a typical "collect resources and build" game, but somehow I found it less tedious than some of the latest games of this genre. The levels toward the end of my hour trial were more brain teasers than beat-the-clock levels and I prefer them that way. I liked it and suggest trying it.
I recommend this game!
Monster Mash
Defend the fairy-tale world of Curly Valley from an invading horde of monsters in this addictive and strategic romp.
Overall rating
1
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5
7 of 12 found this review helpful
Really basic, annoying music and monotonous
PostedJanuary 10, 2013
Fun Factor
2
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
1
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5
Level of Challenge
2
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5
Storyline
2
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5
After playing garden rescue games I've become hooked on tower defense games. Maybe I've been spoiled with my first tower defense games being of the newer, higher standards of graphics variety. I found this game to be rather boring after a bunch of levels and ended up deleting it before my hour trial was up. The monster descriptions are cute, but everything is so small on the screen that you really can't tell one green monster from another as it progresses toward your defenseless village girls. The towers are basic and give you no noticeable perks when you upgrade them - no widening of shooting range, no show of how much the attack power rises if at all).
The music is the most annoying aspect of the game! I just kept picturing Alvin and the Chipmunks doo-doodling in a 30 second loop again and again and again. I don't get all the great hype on this game at all.
I don't recommend this game.
Stop the undead from ruining the holidays with this snowball mash-up of a game!
Overall rating
3
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5
9 of 10 found this review helpful
average arcade shooting/asteroids style game
PostedDecember 24, 2012
SilverBranch
fromNH
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Word, Hidden Object, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
3
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5
This was a mix between asteroids, duck hunt and elf bowling. You gather and roll snowballs and try to hit side-winding targets (elves, deer, etc) as they scroll across the screen and advance forward to try to eat your christmas presents. Object: hit them off the screen before they get your presents. It's a simple game. The game play I found to be smooth but a little unpolished in the graphics.
This is not my sort of game so I really can't say I recommend it or not. I had hoped it was more a bowling game.