Archive for the 'Puzzle' Category

Review: Azada Ancient Magic


h1 Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Azada 2, called “Azada: Ancient Magic” is without doubt one of the best games of 2008. It received several awards, and has a really innovative mix between puzzle game and adventure game. The game is divided into “book”. Each book tells a story, some are very classical ones like Dracula, Robinson Crusoe, and more. Inside the book there are several pages, and each page has an enigma, or items to pick up and put in the inventory.

You can then reuse those objects to solve quests and puzzles in other pages, until you find a card that will let you close the book and mark it as solved! This innovative gameplay is really brilliant because takes away the tedious walking from one location to the other (typical of many adventures) and keeps the interest alive with literally thousands of different puzzles to solve, from logic to skill ones.

I warmly recommend anyone to try the game at least once, even if you aren’t a fan of those kind of games: you could fall in love with it!


Rating: ★★★★★

Review: Dangerous High School Girls In Trouble


h1 Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

This game is really weird. Weird an original. Together with Heileen, one of the most original games I’ve been playing recently. And it’s about “girl-power” too!

Your goal in the game is to find out what’s happening in your school (there have been some strange events recently) and to do this you play in a sort of turn-based game, very similar to a board game with a big scrollable map.

You’ll play with a gang of girls, each one with different skills/abilities, and an advancement system typical of RPGs games. You’ll be also able to recruit new members to your town.

Everytime you met an opponent “gang” of girls, you can challenge them in one of various puzzle/skill games, which require different skill, so is important to choose your team member with the highest required skill.

In definitive, a very original game that I recommend anyone trying, you could be surprised even if the theme doesn’t seem particularly attractive to you.

Rating: ★★★★☆