Hello people's. Today I am reviewing another iOS game. Here it goes.
When I was around six I had a Gameboy and a game for it called Fire Emblem: the sacred stones. Fire emblem is a turn based RPG with good units and bad units placed on a grid. You had archers and mages and knights and it was an awesome game. It was probably the first game I had ever successfully completed. A few years later I played Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn for the Wii and I loved it as well. I've looked for Fire Emblem on iOS or games like it but I haven't found one until now.
The game is called Battle for Wesnoth. It's graphics are drawn in the same style as FE: sacred stones and I like how it looks a lot. It's played on a hexagon grid instead of squares like FE. So there are 16 different campaigns, or story lines, that you can play in any order and around 25 scenarios, or levels per storyline. In FE you are given more and more units as the game progresses that are all unique with how they look even if they are the same class and have their own names and role in the story.
In Wesnoth you are given a few characters that are unique and a leader. The leader can stand on a specific hexagon in a fort or castle and it can recruit individual units like horsemen, infantry, ect. These units have different names and different stats, level up separately and rank up classes separately. Otherwise the units look exactly the same. Most of the time you unlock new units to recruit as the campaign progresses and you can also recall units from previous scenarios and that is towards your advantage because they keep all their levels and experience and it costs less gold to recall then it does to recruit.
On the map are houses which are called villages. If any of your units move onto it they often get a defense bonus and heal 8 each turn while they are on it. The village becomes "captured" and gives you more gold each turn to recruit or recall. Your enemies can also capture villages for gold. Most of the time the goal in each scenario is to defeat a boss or capture a hexagon before you run out of turns.
They are also different melee classes and magic classes that have advantages and disadvantages over each other just like fire emblem. Different terrain hexes offer defense bonuses to different units, for instance an elf has better defense in a forest and a robber has a better defense in the mountains. There is also a day and night cycle alternating between day, sunset, night, and sunrise. "Lawful" units have better stats at day and chaotic units have better stats at night. Units like elves are neutral therefore not affected.
Wesnoth also offers multiplayer where you can play with someone else on the same device or a network where you can play with each other on unique maps and scenarios across different maps.
Battle of Wesnoth is a great game especially if you like Fire Emblem. Bye.
-By Ashton
The Grey Jack Frost
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Duet and Out There
Hello peoples. Today I'm writing about 2 iOS games. Here it goes.
The first game is called Duet. Duet is a fast paced puzzle game. You control two orbs, one blue and one red, and they are both at the bottom of the screen on opposite ends of a ring. Tapping one side of the screen moved the circle one way and the other side moves the circle the other way. The ring heads continuously forward up the level with white shapes as obstacles. These shapes can move, spin, and more. Your goal is to spin the ring to prevent the orbs from touching the obstacles if you do hit one with any one orb then you die and restart at the beginning of the level. Duet contains 51 unique levels and an endless mode. Duet is a gray puzzle game, it sucks you into each and every level, and is impossible to give up until you've beaten it. It is one of my all time favorite games for iOS
The second game is called Out There. Out There is a adventure game about space exploration. The games premise is the future where a man is in cryonics (suspended animation) on his way to a colony on Jupiter and wakes up in an alien space station some where out there in space. An alien being he cannot see gives him the technology to jump from planet to planet and the technology to "fold space" letting him transverse quickly from star to star. The alien points out a star far from your current location like he wants you to go there. In your adventures in Out There you have to gather resources to repair your ships hull, refuel, and fuel your oxygen supply. You can also meet and talk to aliens, learn new languages, discover new technologies to upgrade your ship, and even take over and pilot other abandoned ships. Out there is a great game for all sci-fi fans and one of my favorite games as well.
Bye peoples.
-Ashton
The first game is called Duet. Duet is a fast paced puzzle game. You control two orbs, one blue and one red, and they are both at the bottom of the screen on opposite ends of a ring. Tapping one side of the screen moved the circle one way and the other side moves the circle the other way. The ring heads continuously forward up the level with white shapes as obstacles. These shapes can move, spin, and more. Your goal is to spin the ring to prevent the orbs from touching the obstacles if you do hit one with any one orb then you die and restart at the beginning of the level. Duet contains 51 unique levels and an endless mode. Duet is a gray puzzle game, it sucks you into each and every level, and is impossible to give up until you've beaten it. It is one of my all time favorite games for iOS
The second game is called Out There. Out There is a adventure game about space exploration. The games premise is the future where a man is in cryonics (suspended animation) on his way to a colony on Jupiter and wakes up in an alien space station some where out there in space. An alien being he cannot see gives him the technology to jump from planet to planet and the technology to "fold space" letting him transverse quickly from star to star. The alien points out a star far from your current location like he wants you to go there. In your adventures in Out There you have to gather resources to repair your ships hull, refuel, and fuel your oxygen supply. You can also meet and talk to aliens, learn new languages, discover new technologies to upgrade your ship, and even take over and pilot other abandoned ships. Out there is a great game for all sci-fi fans and one of my favorite games as well.
Bye peoples.
-Ashton
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Terraria
Hello people's. Today I'm talking about another game. Here it goes!
The game I'm reviewing is called Terraria. Terraria is a sandbox game for PC, Plastation network, Xbox, and mobile devices. I have played it on Playstaion and my iPhone. Currently the version of the game with the most content is for PC and that's the version I recommend. The game is similar to a pixelated 2D version of Minecraft and some people accuse it of stealing from it but it is an amazing game and while it has some aspects of MC it doesn't copy it.
You start the game creating your character with the option to be male or female, hair style, hair color, eye color, skin color, and clothing color. Once a world is started the player spawns in a forest biome with a copper pickaxe, axe, and sword. Your first priority should be to cut down some trees with your axe and clear a small area on the ground to build your house. You can go ahead and make the walls and ceiling with the wood. (A ceiling is important because there are flying enemies at night.) Inside the shelter you should go into your inventory and craft a workbench. Whenever you are near a crafting station like a workbench you can craft a much wider variety of items in your crafting inventory. You should go ahead and craft a door or two for your house allowing for easy access. The space for the door has to be three blocks high, the same height as your character.
One of the most essential things in Terraria is a mine. You can start mining in a cave if there is a sizable one close by, but eventually you're gonna need to start mining straight downwards. Simply use your pickaxe to mine straight down 2 blocks wide. Collect any ore that you see on the screen by tunneling sideways and fully explore any caves that you stumble on to. During this process you can explore the biomes above ground, build houses for the other helpful NPCs, (non playable characters), you find on your travels, crawl through dungeons, and summon and fight other bosses. Continue digging downwards, mining and upgrading your tools and armor with the ores you've collected to get to the lowest underground layer, the underworld. This area is necessary to fight the hardest boss yet and if you beat him you get to move to the second half of the game HARDMODE. DUH DUH DUHHHHH.
HARDMODE is generally just a world filled with a few more, harder, bosses, new ores to mine, and harder enemies. There is also a more disturbing aspect to HARDMODE... If you've thoroughly explored you would've found the corruption biome and you know how nasty it is. If you haven't it's filled with really nasty flying beasties and a sickly purple environment. Well now this biome is going to start taking over and consuming the other biomes. HARDMODE also makes a new biome called the hallow. It's filled with rainbows and Unicorns... Literally but it is still hostile and will also take over other biomes. As far as I know the only way to stop this is to surround the two new biomes with a block that can't be corrupted or hallowed, like wood which is long and time consuming. Hallow can't hallow the corrupt biome and corrupt can't corrupt the hallow biome. If you don't want to work to stop the spread of the biomes then the easier choice is to live in the hallow since it is less dangerous than the corrupt. You can also corrupt the hallow or hallow the corrupt using corrupt or hallowed seeds.
So that's Terraria. It's an amazing game and you should get it for yourself. Bye.
By Ashton
The game I'm reviewing is called Terraria. Terraria is a sandbox game for PC, Plastation network, Xbox, and mobile devices. I have played it on Playstaion and my iPhone. Currently the version of the game with the most content is for PC and that's the version I recommend. The game is similar to a pixelated 2D version of Minecraft and some people accuse it of stealing from it but it is an amazing game and while it has some aspects of MC it doesn't copy it.
You start the game creating your character with the option to be male or female, hair style, hair color, eye color, skin color, and clothing color. Once a world is started the player spawns in a forest biome with a copper pickaxe, axe, and sword. Your first priority should be to cut down some trees with your axe and clear a small area on the ground to build your house. You can go ahead and make the walls and ceiling with the wood. (A ceiling is important because there are flying enemies at night.) Inside the shelter you should go into your inventory and craft a workbench. Whenever you are near a crafting station like a workbench you can craft a much wider variety of items in your crafting inventory. You should go ahead and craft a door or two for your house allowing for easy access. The space for the door has to be three blocks high, the same height as your character.
One of the most essential things in Terraria is a mine. You can start mining in a cave if there is a sizable one close by, but eventually you're gonna need to start mining straight downwards. Simply use your pickaxe to mine straight down 2 blocks wide. Collect any ore that you see on the screen by tunneling sideways and fully explore any caves that you stumble on to. During this process you can explore the biomes above ground, build houses for the other helpful NPCs, (non playable characters), you find on your travels, crawl through dungeons, and summon and fight other bosses. Continue digging downwards, mining and upgrading your tools and armor with the ores you've collected to get to the lowest underground layer, the underworld. This area is necessary to fight the hardest boss yet and if you beat him you get to move to the second half of the game HARDMODE. DUH DUH DUHHHHH.
HARDMODE is generally just a world filled with a few more, harder, bosses, new ores to mine, and harder enemies. There is also a more disturbing aspect to HARDMODE... If you've thoroughly explored you would've found the corruption biome and you know how nasty it is. If you haven't it's filled with really nasty flying beasties and a sickly purple environment. Well now this biome is going to start taking over and consuming the other biomes. HARDMODE also makes a new biome called the hallow. It's filled with rainbows and Unicorns... Literally but it is still hostile and will also take over other biomes. As far as I know the only way to stop this is to surround the two new biomes with a block that can't be corrupted or hallowed, like wood which is long and time consuming. Hallow can't hallow the corrupt biome and corrupt can't corrupt the hallow biome. If you don't want to work to stop the spread of the biomes then the easier choice is to live in the hallow since it is less dangerous than the corrupt. You can also corrupt the hallow or hallow the corrupt using corrupt or hallowed seeds.
So that's Terraria. It's an amazing game and you should get it for yourself. Bye.
By Ashton
Sunday, February 23, 2014
The 13th Warrior
Hello people's. Today I'm writing about a movie I watched recently. Here it goes.
The movie is called The 13th Warrior. This movie takes place in Medieval times and it starts off near Bagdad. A man was banished from his home to be an ambassador in a northern kingdom. While going north they have to run from Tartars which would kill them if they got to them. The Tartars see a Viking ship and turn back.
However, the ambassador decides to talk to them and they become guests in the Viking camp. During their stay a messenger comes telling the king of the Vikings that a kingdom back home is being invaded by supernatural forces. The witch in the Viking camp tells them that thirteen warriors must go to help the village. Twelve men step up to the challenge but then the witch says that the thirteenth warrior must not be a northman. So naturally they look towards the ambassador and as the thirteenth warrior he must venture into the north with his companions and defeat the supernatural threat.
The 13th warrior is a very good movie. It is a very manly tale of Vikings and monsters and at no point is it boring. It has some gory horror elements to it as well that brings it all together. The enemy they face is also very scary because of their power and they overwhelm them completely. This movie is based off the book "Eaters of Death."
Bye.
By Ashton
The movie is called The 13th Warrior. This movie takes place in Medieval times and it starts off near Bagdad. A man was banished from his home to be an ambassador in a northern kingdom. While going north they have to run from Tartars which would kill them if they got to them. The Tartars see a Viking ship and turn back.
However, the ambassador decides to talk to them and they become guests in the Viking camp. During their stay a messenger comes telling the king of the Vikings that a kingdom back home is being invaded by supernatural forces. The witch in the Viking camp tells them that thirteen warriors must go to help the village. Twelve men step up to the challenge but then the witch says that the thirteenth warrior must not be a northman. So naturally they look towards the ambassador and as the thirteenth warrior he must venture into the north with his companions and defeat the supernatural threat.
The 13th warrior is a very good movie. It is a very manly tale of Vikings and monsters and at no point is it boring. It has some gory horror elements to it as well that brings it all together. The enemy they face is also very scary because of their power and they overwhelm them completely. This movie is based off the book "Eaters of Death."
Bye.
By Ashton
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Valentines Day
February 14. It was the first valentines day I had ever had with a girlfriend. About a week before I started thinking of what to do. As I said I didn't have much of an idea of what I should do because it was my first valentines day being in a relationship. It took me a while to come up with something (plus a few helpful suggestions from dad) but I finally had something planned a few days before.
At around 4-4:45 I started setting everything up before I picked her up at 5:20. We would've had school but there was a ton of snow. I wore Jeans, a dress shirt and I managed to find a suitable tie with the cuffs unbuttoned, sleeves rolled up and not tucked in, (to my fathers somewhat discontent.) ;) I set up a table and two chairs in the sunroom and hid the card and chocolates in places to be revealed to her after dinner. Afterwards, my mom and I picked her up (as usual she looking great and me looking less than great.) She gave me a valentines day cookie and we endured the awkward, still having to be driven around my your mom, car trip and hung out at my house till Mom came back with the Chinese food.
We talked and ate there while the sun set beside us through the windows until it was time for the movie. (And yes, less than sneaky photos were taken by mom.) We were dropped off at Berkley Plaza and I bought the tickets for Winter's Tale. It was a romance/drama movie with angels and demons and all that and it was pretty good but that's a different blog. At around 9:30 we went back to my house for her things and said goodbye at her house. At home I took our movie tickets and put them inside a letter she had once given me, still smiling like a fool, and went to bed. The next day at breakfast I had a very, very good cookie.
I hope you had a good time Molly, I did. Bye.
By Ashton
At around 4-4:45 I started setting everything up before I picked her up at 5:20. We would've had school but there was a ton of snow. I wore Jeans, a dress shirt and I managed to find a suitable tie with the cuffs unbuttoned, sleeves rolled up and not tucked in, (to my fathers somewhat discontent.) ;) I set up a table and two chairs in the sunroom and hid the card and chocolates in places to be revealed to her after dinner. Afterwards, my mom and I picked her up (as usual she looking great and me looking less than great.) She gave me a valentines day cookie and we endured the awkward, still having to be driven around my your mom, car trip and hung out at my house till Mom came back with the Chinese food.
We talked and ate there while the sun set beside us through the windows until it was time for the movie. (And yes, less than sneaky photos were taken by mom.) We were dropped off at Berkley Plaza and I bought the tickets for Winter's Tale. It was a romance/drama movie with angels and demons and all that and it was pretty good but that's a different blog. At around 9:30 we went back to my house for her things and said goodbye at her house. At home I took our movie tickets and put them inside a letter she had once given me, still smiling like a fool, and went to bed. The next day at breakfast I had a very, very good cookie.
I hope you had a good time Molly, I did. Bye.
By Ashton
Sunday, February 9, 2014
The Graveyard Book
Hello peoples. Today I'm talking about one of my favorite books. Here it goes.
So quite a while ago I got a book called The Graveyard book by Neil Gaiman. I read it for the second time recently and it is a very good book for all ages. There are some books that can be very good but seem tiring to read but this book pulls you into a strange and very big world that you never get tired of. So the story starts with a man named...
Jack. For reasons not yet to be revealed this man has killed a baby boy's parents and sibling. However, this is not quite a normal boy and with the door still left open by the murderer the boy manages to toddle out into the night and slip through the tall gates of a graveyard. The man named Jack comes into the graveyard looking for him but one of the graveyard's supernatural residents slips the man named Jack's mind and Jack becomes convinced that the baby did not in fact, go into the graveyard but toddled down the opposite way and it must have been a fox he had seen. The little boy is taken up by the ghosts Mr. and Ms. Owens and gets the name Nobody, Bod for short, and earns the "freedom of the graveyard", the power lets people's eyes slip off him as if he was a ghost and he can go into graves, slides through mausoleum walls and talks to his only friends, the residents of the graveyard. This book is about the adventures in the graveyard of Nobody Owens.
I love the creepy supernatural things in this book and afterwards I read the graphic novel of Coraline, also by Neil Gaiman, and loved that as well. I highly encourage you to pick up The Graveyard Book.
By Ashton
So quite a while ago I got a book called The Graveyard book by Neil Gaiman. I read it for the second time recently and it is a very good book for all ages. There are some books that can be very good but seem tiring to read but this book pulls you into a strange and very big world that you never get tired of. So the story starts with a man named...
Jack. For reasons not yet to be revealed this man has killed a baby boy's parents and sibling. However, this is not quite a normal boy and with the door still left open by the murderer the boy manages to toddle out into the night and slip through the tall gates of a graveyard. The man named Jack comes into the graveyard looking for him but one of the graveyard's supernatural residents slips the man named Jack's mind and Jack becomes convinced that the baby did not in fact, go into the graveyard but toddled down the opposite way and it must have been a fox he had seen. The little boy is taken up by the ghosts Mr. and Ms. Owens and gets the name Nobody, Bod for short, and earns the "freedom of the graveyard", the power lets people's eyes slip off him as if he was a ghost and he can go into graves, slides through mausoleum walls and talks to his only friends, the residents of the graveyard. This book is about the adventures in the graveyard of Nobody Owens.
I love the creepy supernatural things in this book and afterwards I read the graphic novel of Coraline, also by Neil Gaiman, and loved that as well. I highly encourage you to pick up The Graveyard Book.
By Ashton
Sunday, February 2, 2014
hello peoples! Today I'm continuing my rant on shining-esque things with Doctor Sleep! Here it goes!
So one of the first (quite depressing) points in Doctor Sleep is that Danny is... a drunk. After all the horrible things brought to his family by his father's own drunkenness Danny's Shining was to great a curse and to little a blessing for him to resist the bottle. Being severely drunk is the only thing Danny has found that calms down the Shining.
Specifically the book starts at what you would call the "Bottom", the worst thing an alcoholic had ever done is called their bottom. I'm not gonna go into detail about that because it is a pretty big plot point in the book (and because its rather explicit.) Anyway some good things happen to Danny for a change and he ends up being sober for quite a long time and ends up with a job at the local hospice.
He works theree for a while with a grey cat that always visits a patient the night they are going to die but he's a nice cat. Danny helps people pass on with the shining, such as looking at their good memories to comfort them and if they can't talk or are comatose he can hear them in his mind so him and Azriel the cat work together and life is good until they came...
I'm not gonna say anymore about the book but there is one major thing I'm gonna give you a small hint on... The Torrance family has some more family ties. That's it! That's it! I've said to much already. bye peoples and pleeaase pick up DOCTOR SLEEEEP.
So one of the first (quite depressing) points in Doctor Sleep is that Danny is... a drunk. After all the horrible things brought to his family by his father's own drunkenness Danny's Shining was to great a curse and to little a blessing for him to resist the bottle. Being severely drunk is the only thing Danny has found that calms down the Shining.
Specifically the book starts at what you would call the "Bottom", the worst thing an alcoholic had ever done is called their bottom. I'm not gonna go into detail about that because it is a pretty big plot point in the book (and because its rather explicit.) Anyway some good things happen to Danny for a change and he ends up being sober for quite a long time and ends up with a job at the local hospice.
He works theree for a while with a grey cat that always visits a patient the night they are going to die but he's a nice cat. Danny helps people pass on with the shining, such as looking at their good memories to comfort them and if they can't talk or are comatose he can hear them in his mind so him and Azriel the cat work together and life is good until they came...
I'm not gonna say anymore about the book but there is one major thing I'm gonna give you a small hint on... The Torrance family has some more family ties. That's it! That's it! I've said to much already. bye peoples and pleeaase pick up DOCTOR SLEEEEP.
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