Release Thursday (issue 6)
The mobile clone of Animal Crossing, the new project Mobilate, casual match-3 from the creator Alan Wake – and not only in our selection of new products on the App Store.
We have already written about the upcoming release of the game this week. Now you can feel it yourself. If you do not appeal to Animal Crossing, then in a nutshell the game can be described as follows: a time manager with an alter ego. That is, in order to fix a fence or grow corn, the player must approach a character to a particular place and carry out the procedure. The main thing that confuses at the moment is not very convenient control of the character to which the camera is attached.
A new game from the studio Mobilate, authors of Parking Mania and Dead Ahead. The novelty is a very successful mix of Hill Climb Racing and Bad Piggies. From the first, the game got “pokatushki”, from the second – the collection of vehicles. The project pleases with very high-quality graphics in the spirit of Rovio (working with color, buttons, fonts, objects themselves – everything is like the Finns). The only complaint is that the UI is not too intuitive at this stage (personally, I did not immediately find the energy indicator, the buttons responsible for improving spare parts, at first you treat as an enlarger of the number of these very parts), however, it does not interfere at all with playing and having fun.
Match-3 butler from chief designer Alan Wake. To be more specific, it is a mix of a cross-mission match-3 “with chains”, tasks and a limited number of moves (a la Jelly Splash) and a fight from collectible butlers with pumping and collecting characters (a la Puzzle & Dragons). In general, not the most usual approach, which in this case captivates with a very high production, focused on a casual audience.
Another “three-in-a-row”, only this time from the publishing division of Halfbrick. But, unlike Best Fiends, it is very, let’s say, bland and boring. There are no delicious chips, the graphics, although cute, but on the smartphone screen, it seems very small. In a way, this is such an optional high-quality casual project “for show”.
Playfirst, now owned by Glu, has launched a completely updated Diner Dash, in fact, the second part, with new graphics, new content, and so on. We can say that the product has been tightened up to the current standards.
A simple, but very pleasant project with an unusual gameplay. The player acts as a racer on car tracks. Driving the car is reduced to pressing the “gas” button on turns in time to enter turns without losing much speed. Actually everything. Monetization in the project is based on energy (you need to pay 33 rubles to replenish the tank) and the opening of new stages in the event that you did not gain enough stars for access in the previous one.
