I was a big fan of the first Chocolatier and Play First, Big Splash Games and Big Fish have outdone themselves. There are two different modes of game play, Story Mode and Free Play. Story Mode starts out 40 years in the future from the first Chocolatier. The granddaughter of Evangeline Baumeister needs your help to turn Baumeister Confections around and get her dad to see the error of his ways. You can now make Sauces, Pralines and Exotics. Also you need to find your way to 4 secret locations - Fiji, the Amazon, the Himalayas & the Sahara. Each secret location has secret ingredients (Saffron, Cloves, Fire Ants and Pumpkin are a few) for you to use in your laboratory, my favorite of the added features. Creating new chocolate recipes is kind of like playing Mastermind, a lot of trial and error is needed. There are 28 total chocolate recipes for you to discover. You have more options when creating your company sign, and as you travel through the ports, more locations within the ports become available for you to visit. Free Play mode starts you with $20,000 and 1 place to manufacture your chocolates. It's just as fun as Story Mode. If you play it after you beat Story Mode, you start with a full recipe book. It took me two days to finish Story Mode, but it has great replay value. Completely worth the buy.
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Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Fairway Solitaire
For my first outing into the world of blogging I decided to review one of the games voted a best new game of 2007 by Big Fish Customers, Fairway Solitaire. I love Golf Solitaire and Big Fish and Grey Alien Games have taken it to the next level. With Courses like Slippery Slope, Joe's Gas 'N Golf and Mystery Madness, the fun never ends. Mystery Madness might just be the hardest level. I had to play it trial and error in order to figure out which cards would allow me to access the others.
Big Fish and Grey Alien Games don't make you go it alone though, they give you some very entertaining upgrades in the Golf Shop. The Mulligan Blouse gives you an extra Mulligan (undo) each hole, the Flip Flop Golf Shoes turn more cards up so you can plan your next move, the Time Control Watch gives you more time to finish the timed courses and the Ring of Plenty gives you more money when you beat each course.
They also give you something to play for. The trophies are sometimes easy to earn (I earned the Speed Champion Trophy, awarded when you finish a timed course in less than 30 seconds, on my first timed hole) and sometimes hard to earn (It actually took me quite a while to get the Duffer Cup, awarded when you get 30 above par on a course). The entire game took me a couple weeks to beat and has tons of replay value. It is totally worth the price.
Big Fish and Grey Alien Games don't make you go it alone though, they give you some very entertaining upgrades in the Golf Shop. The Mulligan Blouse gives you an extra Mulligan (undo) each hole, the Flip Flop Golf Shoes turn more cards up so you can plan your next move, the Time Control Watch gives you more time to finish the timed courses and the Ring of Plenty gives you more money when you beat each course.
They also give you something to play for. The trophies are sometimes easy to earn (I earned the Speed Champion Trophy, awarded when you finish a timed course in less than 30 seconds, on my first timed hole) and sometimes hard to earn (It actually took me quite a while to get the Duffer Cup, awarded when you get 30 above par on a course). The entire game took me a couple weeks to beat and has tons of replay value. It is totally worth the price.
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