Hello peoples. Today I'm blogging about a game I have. Here it goes.
The game is a card game called Munchkin. Munchkin is a funny medieval card game that has since grown in expansions to eclipse many different genres. The main idea is to make your character stronger with loot from fighting monsters and leveling up and if you reach level 10 you win. A while ago we bought the deluxe version of Munchkin. The only real difference is that it comes with a board to conveniently place the two different card types and each spot 1-10 keeps track of the players levels with their character pieces. Each player starts with one card that has a picture of a male or female munchkin, depending on what sex you are. This matters because some of the cards say (only usable by men) or (only usable by women) and sometimes you can be quite comically changed into the opposite sex by a curse. Next everyone gets 4 treasure cards, which are normally equipment like weapons or armor, and 4 door cards which have various effects. The first things you want to do is look through your door cards and see if you have any class or race cards. Class cards are like jobs such as wizard, knight, thief, etc. Races are like Hafling, Dwarf, Elf, etc. if you don't have a race card your human. You can immediately lay down these cards and they give you certain advantages and sometimes disadvantages. You can only have 1 race and 1 class unless a card says otherwise. Then you want to lay down any equipment. You can either have 2 items that say one handed or one item that says two handed unless a card says otherwise. You also cannot have 2 big items even if their both one handed. You cannot have more than 5 cards in your hand but you can take any extra cards and carry them by turning them sideways on the table. Now that everyone has the cards they want equipped equipped the youngest player goes first and then to the left. First thing they can do is play cards, switch items from carried to in play, trade, and sell items. You need to have 1000 coins or more worth of cards to sell. Every 1000 gets you one more level. Next you kick open the door. Flip over one door card and it acts it's effect. If it's a curse you are cursed with it, if it's a monster you have to fight it, otherwise the card is yours. All the bonuses of your equipment plus your level have to go over the monsters bonus to beat it. If it doesn't you can ask somebody else to fight it with you, play other cards that help, or try to run away. If you didn't draw a monster, next you can look for trouble by fighting a monster in your hand. Then if you still haven't fought a monster you can take a door card into your hand. Considering all of the bribery, backstabbing, alliances and trade in this game, there is much much fun to be had. I would definitely consider buying Munchkin. Bye.
- By Ashton
The Grey Jack Frost
Monday, July 28, 2014
Sunday, July 20, 2014
Epoch 2
Hello peoples. Today I'm reviewing another iOS game. Here it goes.
The game is called Epoch 2. I've previously reviewed the first game Epoch. I was browsing the App Store looking at the weekly featured games and was lucky enough to catch this sequel I knew nothing about. I play epoch 2 on my iPhone. Epoch is post apocalyptic warfare between robots. Supposedly the world ended because it's present day but there's lots of robots for bodyguards and even butlers. So suddenly the 2 biggest robot makers, Omega Tronics and Guardian started wearing on each other with the robots all over the planet and shooting down humans in the crossfire without caring. So you are a unique robot who reboots but you don't know how long you've been out. All you're memory files are there except one. You're mission is to find Princess Amelia. I'm guessing she is a princess somewhere in europe but it doesn't tell you. You are probably the only robot that still serves it's original purpose which apparently is to protect the princess.
So in Epoch you make your way across the city to the cryo tower which supposedly has the princess. In the end you find her in a cryo tube and she is able to communicate with you through a holograph machine linked to her mind. In Epoch 2 she orders you to explore the world around you trying to find out if their are any last traces of humans. One of the improvements Epoch 2 makes over it's predecessor is the abundance of different bosses to fight. In the first game there was only one boss at the need whereas this has a new one every couple levels. It also has the original enemies but also has new ones too. You can buy different guns like an machine gun, a laser gun, a grenade launcher, an acid gun, etc just like the first game but in my opinion the store is laid out much better, is more balanced and it also includes weapon types that are completely new. You can also buy many more grenades, missiles, and special powers compared to the first game.
So I hope you buy. It it's fast paced, you can doge behind barriers and target enemies. Bye!
- By Ashton
The game is called Epoch 2. I've previously reviewed the first game Epoch. I was browsing the App Store looking at the weekly featured games and was lucky enough to catch this sequel I knew nothing about. I play epoch 2 on my iPhone. Epoch is post apocalyptic warfare between robots. Supposedly the world ended because it's present day but there's lots of robots for bodyguards and even butlers. So suddenly the 2 biggest robot makers, Omega Tronics and Guardian started wearing on each other with the robots all over the planet and shooting down humans in the crossfire without caring. So you are a unique robot who reboots but you don't know how long you've been out. All you're memory files are there except one. You're mission is to find Princess Amelia. I'm guessing she is a princess somewhere in europe but it doesn't tell you. You are probably the only robot that still serves it's original purpose which apparently is to protect the princess.
So in Epoch you make your way across the city to the cryo tower which supposedly has the princess. In the end you find her in a cryo tube and she is able to communicate with you through a holograph machine linked to her mind. In Epoch 2 she orders you to explore the world around you trying to find out if their are any last traces of humans. One of the improvements Epoch 2 makes over it's predecessor is the abundance of different bosses to fight. In the first game there was only one boss at the need whereas this has a new one every couple levels. It also has the original enemies but also has new ones too. You can buy different guns like an machine gun, a laser gun, a grenade launcher, an acid gun, etc just like the first game but in my opinion the store is laid out much better, is more balanced and it also includes weapon types that are completely new. You can also buy many more grenades, missiles, and special powers compared to the first game.
So I hope you buy. It it's fast paced, you can doge behind barriers and target enemies. Bye!
- By Ashton
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Dragon
Hello peoples. Today I'm writing about a movie. Here it goes.
The movie is Dragon. Dragon is a movie about Bruce Lee's life. It starts out with his father having a dream about Bruce walking somewhere in China as a kid at night and he starts walking past several stone statues and he gets increasingly scared of them. Eventually he gets to a huge stone samurai and screams and runs away when it comes to life. The stone warrior had just caught up to Bruce when hid dad woke up and visited Bruce to make sure he was ok. Eventually Bruce grows up and after he starts a fight with relatives of some important people in Hong Kong his father warns him of a demon that killed Bruce's older brother in child birth and how he had named him Bruce to trick the demon and taught him Kung Fu to protect him but now to protect him again Bruce must be sent to America where he was born.
Bruce starts off as a typical teenager, an irresponsible money waster and he gets in trouble at his dish washing job for hitting on a girl there that the head chef likes. This leads to a really cool fight scene with Bruce against roughly five guys all with cleavers. After this his boss gives him some money and warns him not to waste it. Bruce starts taking psychology classes in college and a jerk guy at the gym started a fight with him. The fight leads to several people asking Bruce if they can learn Kung Fu. He starts teaching and through this he meets Linda.
Linda and he date as he teaches Kung Fu and eventually they get married. After Bruce's teacher really kicks off he gets a message saying that he can't teach people that aren't Chinese so he has to defeat a man in combat in order to earn that right. Bruce manages to beat the man and he gave up but when Bruce's back was turned he got up a kicked him in the back, breaking it.
Bruce works hard to get back on his feet and eventually he's alright and has a son, Brandon. He goes to a tournament to advertise his own style of Kung Fu but the crowd boos him and ask him to prove its worth. In order to do so he says he'll beat any man in 60 seconds and the guy who broke his back comes up. Bruce barely beats him in 60 seconds. After this he gets some fame but repeatedly gets failure in Hollywood in America. After learning of his fathers death Bruce travels back to China and there gets contacted by movie directors and fires off several hit movies. During this he has troubles with his wife and family and on the set of Enter the Dragon he finally kills his demons borrowing strength in order to kill the demon before it could hurt his children.
Dragon is a great movie. Bye.
- By Ashton
The movie is Dragon. Dragon is a movie about Bruce Lee's life. It starts out with his father having a dream about Bruce walking somewhere in China as a kid at night and he starts walking past several stone statues and he gets increasingly scared of them. Eventually he gets to a huge stone samurai and screams and runs away when it comes to life. The stone warrior had just caught up to Bruce when hid dad woke up and visited Bruce to make sure he was ok. Eventually Bruce grows up and after he starts a fight with relatives of some important people in Hong Kong his father warns him of a demon that killed Bruce's older brother in child birth and how he had named him Bruce to trick the demon and taught him Kung Fu to protect him but now to protect him again Bruce must be sent to America where he was born.
Bruce starts off as a typical teenager, an irresponsible money waster and he gets in trouble at his dish washing job for hitting on a girl there that the head chef likes. This leads to a really cool fight scene with Bruce against roughly five guys all with cleavers. After this his boss gives him some money and warns him not to waste it. Bruce starts taking psychology classes in college and a jerk guy at the gym started a fight with him. The fight leads to several people asking Bruce if they can learn Kung Fu. He starts teaching and through this he meets Linda.
Linda and he date as he teaches Kung Fu and eventually they get married. After Bruce's teacher really kicks off he gets a message saying that he can't teach people that aren't Chinese so he has to defeat a man in combat in order to earn that right. Bruce manages to beat the man and he gave up but when Bruce's back was turned he got up a kicked him in the back, breaking it.
Bruce works hard to get back on his feet and eventually he's alright and has a son, Brandon. He goes to a tournament to advertise his own style of Kung Fu but the crowd boos him and ask him to prove its worth. In order to do so he says he'll beat any man in 60 seconds and the guy who broke his back comes up. Bruce barely beats him in 60 seconds. After this he gets some fame but repeatedly gets failure in Hollywood in America. After learning of his fathers death Bruce travels back to China and there gets contacted by movie directors and fires off several hit movies. During this he has troubles with his wife and family and on the set of Enter the Dragon he finally kills his demons borrowing strength in order to kill the demon before it could hurt his children.
Dragon is a great movie. Bye.
- By Ashton
Sunday, July 6, 2014
Hello peoples. Today I'm writing about another iOS game. Here it goes.
The game is called Rival Knights. Rival Knights is a jousting game made by Gameloft. You are a peasant in a village who has to become the greatest knight in the land to avoid having your village and your lands bought by the notorious Lord Cunnings. The jousting itself is simple but intuitive and fun. First off it counts down to zero and if you tap the screen right on time with it then you get "Perfect Start" icon which raises the speed of your horse. Tapping to early or to late will do nothing. After that you get a curved bar with an arrow running along it. If you tap the screen when the arrow is in the green area then your horse speeds up perfectly, stop it in the yellow your horse speeds up a little, stop in the white and nothing happens. If you get it perfect for 6 or 7 times then you get the high speed icon. After 7 of these speed rises you move on to the next part of the joust. Now you are close enough to aim your lance. The game provides a target somewhere on the other knights body, the target gets smaller and more precise as you get closer. If your lance is almost exactly on target the target will be yellow, if it's on a greenish, blue then your are perfect on it so keep your lance steady. If you hit the knight when the target is green them you get the "Perfect Hit" icon. Getting Perfect start, High speed, and Perfect hit will result in a critical hit that raises all your stats. Their are 3 stats that determine the winner. Before the joust begins it shows yours and your opponents. The three stats are defense, speed, and attack. If the icon showing the stat is red then your opponent has better equipment than you, if it's green you have better equipment than them, white is a tie. If you do better in 2 or more stats at the end of the joust you win, otherwise you lose, or if all stats are white or one green, one red and one white then it's a tie. Speeding up your horse during the joust will raise your speed stats and being closer to the target raises your attack stat. This makes it possible to beat an opponent even if all his stats are better than yours before the match begins. Defense is the only stat you cannot change during the match unless you get a critical hit which raises them all.
There are five different things you can buy in Rival Knights to help you. You can buy better helms and armor to improve your defense. Buying a better horse will increase your speed stat. Buying a better lance with improve your attack stat. Some lances are harder to aim then others and also some horses are harder to speed up then others. There is also a weight factor in Rival Knights if your Helm, Armor, and lance weigh to much for your horse you can't joust and have to either get a horse that can carry it or change your equipment. You can also buy things to change your emblem with which is the flag or banners that represent your knight. You can also buy things that go on your emblem that discount equipment but these cost diamonds which are harder to get then gold.
There are a few different level types. The first is a simple encounter where you joust 1-3 people with each person costing one of your 6 maximum royal seals. There's also king of the hill where you have to start over at the first person if your beat at the second or third, challenges, where you have to beat your opponent and also get perfect start, high speed, or perfect hit, an arena type where you gamble the money you get beating the first person and keep on jousting harder opponents, if you lose then you lose all the money you would have received. Lastly there's sponsored matches where you joust with equipment that's not yours with your reward being to unlock one of those equipment, and the boss matches where you have to get best 2 out of 3 against a boss. After progressing after an entire League of which there are 5 you get access to another round of equipment so that league 1's equipment is pretty standard leather items where as league 5's has expensive steel items. There is also multiplayer where you fight others and if you are a certain ranking after a tournament is done you get rewards. Jousting in these matches requires multiplayer seals.
Rival Knights is a great, simple and addictive game. It's free on the App Store and although it's does have the secondary currency of diamonds that you can buy with real money, it's still very easy to acquire them with multiplayer or beating bosses which is the first time I've seen a secondary currency balanced that well. In most games where you have to wait a specific time before you can play it again it becomes very frustrating but in this your seals full up rather quickly and is perfect for on the go play.
Screenshots showing how your equipment gets better and more complex as the leagues go on.
My emblem
The single player campaign with a boss of league 4 at the top.
The multiplayer tournament screen.
A cool animation at the start of the joust.
Before the joust begins, showing your stats as well as power ups you can use.
Getting a perfect start.
Getting a perfect speed rise, perfect hit happened to fast to screenshot the moment of impact.
Getting a critical hit.
Bye.
- By Ashton
The game is called Rival Knights. Rival Knights is a jousting game made by Gameloft. You are a peasant in a village who has to become the greatest knight in the land to avoid having your village and your lands bought by the notorious Lord Cunnings. The jousting itself is simple but intuitive and fun. First off it counts down to zero and if you tap the screen right on time with it then you get "Perfect Start" icon which raises the speed of your horse. Tapping to early or to late will do nothing. After that you get a curved bar with an arrow running along it. If you tap the screen when the arrow is in the green area then your horse speeds up perfectly, stop it in the yellow your horse speeds up a little, stop in the white and nothing happens. If you get it perfect for 6 or 7 times then you get the high speed icon. After 7 of these speed rises you move on to the next part of the joust. Now you are close enough to aim your lance. The game provides a target somewhere on the other knights body, the target gets smaller and more precise as you get closer. If your lance is almost exactly on target the target will be yellow, if it's on a greenish, blue then your are perfect on it so keep your lance steady. If you hit the knight when the target is green them you get the "Perfect Hit" icon. Getting Perfect start, High speed, and Perfect hit will result in a critical hit that raises all your stats. Their are 3 stats that determine the winner. Before the joust begins it shows yours and your opponents. The three stats are defense, speed, and attack. If the icon showing the stat is red then your opponent has better equipment than you, if it's green you have better equipment than them, white is a tie. If you do better in 2 or more stats at the end of the joust you win, otherwise you lose, or if all stats are white or one green, one red and one white then it's a tie. Speeding up your horse during the joust will raise your speed stats and being closer to the target raises your attack stat. This makes it possible to beat an opponent even if all his stats are better than yours before the match begins. Defense is the only stat you cannot change during the match unless you get a critical hit which raises them all.
There are five different things you can buy in Rival Knights to help you. You can buy better helms and armor to improve your defense. Buying a better horse will increase your speed stat. Buying a better lance with improve your attack stat. Some lances are harder to aim then others and also some horses are harder to speed up then others. There is also a weight factor in Rival Knights if your Helm, Armor, and lance weigh to much for your horse you can't joust and have to either get a horse that can carry it or change your equipment. You can also buy things to change your emblem with which is the flag or banners that represent your knight. You can also buy things that go on your emblem that discount equipment but these cost diamonds which are harder to get then gold.
There are a few different level types. The first is a simple encounter where you joust 1-3 people with each person costing one of your 6 maximum royal seals. There's also king of the hill where you have to start over at the first person if your beat at the second or third, challenges, where you have to beat your opponent and also get perfect start, high speed, or perfect hit, an arena type where you gamble the money you get beating the first person and keep on jousting harder opponents, if you lose then you lose all the money you would have received. Lastly there's sponsored matches where you joust with equipment that's not yours with your reward being to unlock one of those equipment, and the boss matches where you have to get best 2 out of 3 against a boss. After progressing after an entire League of which there are 5 you get access to another round of equipment so that league 1's equipment is pretty standard leather items where as league 5's has expensive steel items. There is also multiplayer where you fight others and if you are a certain ranking after a tournament is done you get rewards. Jousting in these matches requires multiplayer seals.
Rival Knights is a great, simple and addictive game. It's free on the App Store and although it's does have the secondary currency of diamonds that you can buy with real money, it's still very easy to acquire them with multiplayer or beating bosses which is the first time I've seen a secondary currency balanced that well. In most games where you have to wait a specific time before you can play it again it becomes very frustrating but in this your seals full up rather quickly and is perfect for on the go play.
Screenshots showing how your equipment gets better and more complex as the leagues go on.
My emblem
The single player campaign with a boss of league 4 at the top.
The multiplayer tournament screen.
A cool animation at the start of the joust.
Before the joust begins, showing your stats as well as power ups you can use.
Getting a perfect start.
Getting a perfect speed rise, perfect hit happened to fast to screenshot the moment of impact.
Getting a critical hit.
Bye.
- By Ashton
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