Recent reviews by strifekun

So first off, the developer has said in the forms that they no longer support this game. So it's straight up abandoned. With that being said, there are two in game achievements that are impossible get. So you'll never be able to complete this game if that's the sort of thing that bothers you.

As for game play - it's fine; there's nothing wrong with it. It's the same as all the other games of it's type. The images aren't as good; they're stock photos and some of them have a weird filter over them. All of that is a non issue compared to the lack of support and uncompletable achievements.

Don't buy, even if on sale.

Easy to play, but challenging to master. Anyone can pick this up and have a good time playing it. Absolutely worth every dollar.

The games plot is rather simple, a magical solitaire deck is stolen from a museum. Somehow one of the magical solitaire cards is blown through your window, starting your career as a solitaire master. You start out with a hidden object game to find a deck to play solitaire with.

There are several different game modes to play; a hidden object, match cards, and the traditional solitaire mode. Unfortunately, there's one major downfall to every game mode; there's no difficulty, no challenge. Where other games may have a ticking clock or a deck limit, there is none to be found here. And because there's no stake to be had, it makes the game boring. Which I find sad because this game could be good . . . if it was a bit more polished.

Unfortunately, with all of this in mind, I have to give this a negative rating. With the lack of difficulty and no challenge, even playing this as a time waster is unsatisfying. Save your money and buy a different solitaire game with actual difficulty.

So I love games like this. As someone with an obsessive compulsive personality, this type of thing tends to hit all my sweet spots. This though. This is just a shameless cash grab clone of Pixel Draw.

Because this is a clone of Pixel Draw, the UI is exactly the same. It's clunky, takes up more of your screen than necessary, and the highlighting function is also broken. The same things I said in my Pixel Draw review (though this actually loads!!), apply here, with the addition of the images being absolute sh!t. They're blurry, pixilated in a bad way, and obviously grabbed from copyrighted images. The images consist of thousands of different colors, which make filling out the image significantly more tedious than it should be.

Don't waste your money on this. If you think you're going to fap to this, just google anime porn.

So since the dev has fixed the executable file, I'm going to re-review this.

Pixel Draw is an okay game. It's not good, but it suffers from various flaws that make it's competitor the much better product. Many of these flaws come from the UI, which in my original review said was clunky and had no reason to be as large as it should be. I stand by that. It's obtrusive and gives you less screen to work with.

The only thing worse than the UI is the lack of tools. There is no erase function, so should you accidentally misclick, you're stuck with that color on the screen. Which leads to another problem - obstruction. Sometimes the misclicked colors can make it hard to identify which block is lit up with the color you've chosen. (Especially when you are zoomed out.)

And that leads to another of this games faults; it lacks any difficulty. Because the color lights the blocks up when it is chosen, you can immediately find and identify the blocks you need to color in with ease. While this might be good for some, it would have been a nice option to be able to turn off, the whole game feels like it's holding my hand with this mechanic. But this only applies to colors that have more than one block. If it's a single block of color, the block may not light up. But then sometimes it does. I want to say it's a bug, but it does the same thing in Hentai - Color By Number, so I think it has to do with whatever the game was made in.

Now for the DLC. I would say that most of the DLC isn't bad, except that they add the same images multiple times in each pack and expect you to pay for it. And in the first DLC pack in particular, images also have text in them which is incredibly tedious to fill in. I preferred to color in the apple, not the word apple. Though they have not done it again, so small mercies.

Overall, the game isn't bad, but it's not as good as Coloring Pixels (which is free!!). Buy on sale if you're interested, otherwise skip it.

Original Review
There is no executable file for the base game. Game does not load. DLC packs seem to load just fine.

Since the base game is unavailable, I've just played the first DLC pack. Numbers are highlighted on the board when you click the corresponding color on the bottom (but not always), giving absolutely no kind of challenge. Game basically does itself for you. No click and drag mechanics, you must click every tile individually. UI is clunky and obtrusive, taking up far too much of the screen than needed.

Don't waste your money. Coloring Pixels is the far superior game.

I spent 45 minutes clicking a jar of mayonnaise in various costumes to get achievements. I felt a compulsion to spend 45 minutes clicking a jar of mayonnaise in various costumes to get achievements.

You win. You deserve my money.

(My only issues are that you can't make the game windowed or turn off the sfx. Other than that, perfectly good game; get it.)

To be honest, I'm a bit confused as to why this game is rated mostly negative. This is not a bad game. It's actually a pretty good for an indie game. I went into this game expecting absolutely nothing but to waste some time as I watched/listened to some Let's Plays, but instead found myself pleasantly surprised at what I found.

The game play is a clone of Dr. Mario or Puyo Puyo. If you are not a fan of either of those games, you aren't going to like this one - so save your money, close the page and find a different one. No harm done. But if you are a fan of those games, this game goes slightly farther and gives it more than just repetitive game play; you get a small story and extra features to go along with the puzzle game play.

These 'extras' consist of a alchemy system where you collect items in an attempt to create better items, pets, and a small amount of character customization. Nothing revolutionary, but added enough padding to the game to make it enjoyable enough to continuously grab my interest and keep me playing.

The alchemy is simple. Mix two items together. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes you're lucky enough to get recipes through gameplay and you can make those items instead.

The character customization is very simple. You get a small amount of things to customize, but enough that it feels unique. This is an indie game here, of course they aren't going to have Fallout 4 levels of customization, so if you're going in expecting that, expect to be highly disappointed. Of course the graphics aren't the best, but they aren't as bad as many of the negative reviews are making them out to be. I've seen way worst graphics.

Pets. Well, it's cool? I can't say much about the pets because I haven't fully explored that function yet. I know they can pick up items but I haven't been using them much. There are quite a few in the game and several of them are kinda cute. Others of them . . . don't necessarily look as good. But indie developer, so I give some leeway for it.

I won't lie, the achievements are very grindy. Am I going to grind to get the achievements? Heck yeah! Will it get to be repetitive and annoying after a while - I fear it may be so. But that is my burden to bear as a person who likes to 100% things.

Now for a few things I didn't like.

Money. Money is pretty hard to maintain since you need it to pay for using the alchemy pot. So if you're someone like me who refuses to sell anything you pick up in dungeons, then you just get by on the money you find in the said dungeons; which is not a lot. So every time a traveling salesperson comes by, I am unable to buy from him because I do not have enough cash to look at his stock.

Which leads to another issue. Why is there a cash barrier on the traveling salespersons stock? Wouldn't it be better to be able to see the prices to get a general idea of how much you need so you can acquire that amount? This is one of the things about the game that irks me the most.

So, for the TL;DR crowd. This game is not as bad as the steam reviews would have you believe. It has some flaws, but on the overall whole, I found it to be enjoyable and entertaining. If you still feel unsure, get the game in a bundle or on sale.

Got to the boss castle, died of the plauge.

Would play again. In fact, played multiple times.

Tales From the Dragon Mountain 2 starts off with someone writing you a letter saying that your old enemy is returning. You head to his house to find out more. There's no hand holding in this sequel; you either know who everyone is or you don't. I can't decided if this is a pro or a con because on one hand - no long explanations of things I already know, but on the other, it's been a while since I played the last game and could have used the refresher course.

From what I was able to play, it's not bad. The voice acting is shoddy (but most hidden object games are) and the dialogue doesn't really match up, but that's the norm in these types of games. Everything I've played through seems like standard hidden object game material.

Here comes the bad part. When I finally get to the first warp area, things are going smoothly, I'm crusing along and when I go to open the magic garden gate . . . it won't load. In fact, it gives me an error about how it's missing a chunk of data and asks if I want to continue or quit. I continue, but I can't do anything else. So I quit. Then I delete and reinstall. Start a new profile and reach the same area again. Moment of truth. Same thing happens again.

Don't know how wide spread this issue is, but it's something to consider before purchasing.

Link is to a screenshot of the issue.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=492185659

Honestly, this game is not that bad. It's a standard hidden object game and follows the same hidden object game like plot structure. But that's from what I've seen and it's only about half of the game.

The reason I've rated this game as bad is because of the major game breaking bug. Yes. Major game breaking bug. The game will auto-quit on you once you get to a pottery shop in the game. Once you attempt to finish a pottery puzzle, the game will eject you and automatically shut down.

I've attempted to find a fix for the problem. As far as I am aware, there isn't one. I've uninstalled and reinstalled; but nothing seems to fix it. Several other people have seemed to also run into the same problem.

So do yourself a favor and don't buy this game.