Kuma Sushi Bar

 

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Time to take a ride on the Sushi boat: Kuma Sushi Bar

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Today I bring you a very anime inspired game called Kuma Sushi Bar. Kuma literally means bear in Japanese. As thus, you are a bear that makes sushi. You inherited this bar and it's your job to fix the mess. There are only 2 currencies in this game to deal with, the gold coins and dollars. You pull in customers by clicking on the flier button which brings only 1 customer, or click on the tv and watch an ad to bring in a full room of customers. Note: This game can only be played in landscape mode.

As you level up the bar on the top by collecting star, you can unlock rarer customers that will leave you larger tips. I think the customers under BAD are ones that will make a mess of the place after they are done and you have to click on their mess to clean up.

As you progress, you unlock new employees that help you make food when you have to rest. Each one has unique skills that can be utilized even when you rest.

When you click on the hammer, you get all the spots you can fix and it takes dollars to do so. Once you clear a spot, you can then buy a furniture item to decorate with. Each item give you stars that level up your resturant.

Here are some of the items you can unlock. As you progress in the game you can do things to unlock more options. Generally you have to be able to watch an AD to unlock these things from a random event.

As you progress, you can but a staff room that allows your employees rest in between customer rushes and you can talk to them here and learn tips to help you prepare more items. To get here click on the Right arrow.

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The left Arrow brings you to another part of the restaurant. I have not made it this far yet so this will be a surprise for you to find out.

You can click on the present to bring up this screen. This is the shop screen, but it also houses a daily reward. You can also get here by clicking on the scroll on the main screen.

When you get a lot of customers in you can click on the image of a knife that shows up at the bottom of the screen. You now are faced with the prep table. You click on ingredients that you must put in the right order to make food. It is pretty easy to figure out what to do. Once all the ingredients are assembled you click on it to prep the food. Then you click on the matching callout to have your cat employee give it to the customers. Sometimes you run out of food and have to wait for it to restock.

You can upgrade your ingredients and recipes as well. You can access these via the scroll on the main screen. Each upgrade gives you more star progress and reduces the time it takes to prep the food or even increase the amount of pay you get. These can be upgrade further after you level up the restaurant. 

Just the quick shot of the option screen. Nothing exciting here.

You can progress through tasks each day to unlock more designs that you can buy. These do not require you to watch any ads to unlock.

Overall:

 

5 of 5 cogs.

Overall this game is pleasing and relaxing game. This game is a nice change of pace compared to al to of games I have reviewed.

Story:

 3 of 5 cogs.

Story isn't really that apparent in this game. You have to make a lot of inferences and some times you get snippets when you talk to the employees in the break room. 

Amount of ads:

 

 Optional Only.

There are no pop-up ads to worry about. All the ads are optional and you do not need to watch any of them.

Accurate Advertising?:

💯%

I do not recall viewing any ads for this game. I only found it on the play store. The screenshots featured in the store is what drew me in to this game and I plan to play through until I upgrade the shop fully.

Graphics:

 5 of 5 cogs.

The graphics are soft pastel colors and very pleasing to look at. The graphics make it a fun and relaxing game that doesn't take much energy to want to play.

Gameplay:

 5 of 5 cogs.

The gameplay is simple and all point-and-click. The recipes are easy to figure out and the game is fast moving until you run out of fliers and have to wait for them to refil.

Free play:

💯%

This game is easy to play without paying anything into it. The game is very generous with the dollars you earn so you can nearly play as much as you want without worry.

Fun factor:

🍣 Sushi.

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Forest Island

 

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Take a relaxing cruise on the steamboats to: Forest Island

Today I bring to you a simple game full of animals. You start with a tiny island and you grow it by collecting light and hearts. As you expand the island you unlock more animals the rate of collection increases. There are many different objectives that pop up that give you bonuses but some of these require you to watch Ads to collect.

There is a daily log in full of bonuses. The tickets give you a time skip to gain a time skip for collecting light or hearts. The chests are the main way you get more cards of the animals you already have or have a chance to get special alternate colored animals that give you massive boost to light or heart production.

This is the main island you start off with. As far as I can tell this island is a set design and there is no randomness to its design There are several things going on here and I will break down what I can on this screen. At the top, you see several currencies. The first number with the paw is the total number of animals you have. The second is the hearts given by clicking on animals. Hearts are used to upgrade the level of your animals to make them collect more light. The box in the middle is the light you collected and this is what you use to upgrade the island. The hexagonal button on the bottom of the screen you can quickly upgrade by clicking on the red button or you can click the double up arrow to upgrade any part you want if you have enough light. Next are these green egg-like objects is used to upgrade special upgrades that I will cover later in this blog, which you can get these from the quest button under the trophy. The Trophy is a list of achievements. The last two buttons are the shop icon and a mail system which will sometimes send you updates about the game. Lastly is a rainbow gem that is used to buy extra chests from the shop menu. This is a premium currency that has very limited uses.

These tasks are the main way you gain rainbow gems for free. This game is very generous in earning premium currency.

Lastly, quests are ever-green and are the main way you collect the green eggs. These quests you can only have one at a time but this is the only way you can get these eggs.

The shop has many different things you can purchase or you can gain free chests as well here once a day. You can also buy gems as well under the next tab. 

There is an egg that shows up. Once a day you can hatch the egg for a chance to unlock a special bird that gives you very big boosts for every bird you own.

There are many birds you can collect but there is a very low chance of getting one when you hatch an egg. You do have a chance to get free chests or other rewards. You have the option to watch videos to reduce the timer until another egg appears but there seems to be a daily limit of eggs as well.

I now return to the big button at the bottom of the screen. As you progress along it takes a large amount of light to unlock a new part of the island.

When you click on the growth tab, you come to a list of very big upgrades that affect everything about your progress. These upgrades are ones you need to focus on for the most progress in this game.

When you buy a new island you get a small cutscene for each animal you unlock. This also brings you back to 'meditate' mode where you can sit back and watch the animals play and just listen to the music.

One of the quests you get from time to time is to enter into picture mode. You gain bonus light for taking pictures of the animals on the island. It doesn't seem to matter what you capture, it gives the same amount of light every time.

You access this menu by clicking on the paw button hidden at the bottom of the screen. As you level up the animals they boost the light each part of the island produces. Sadly at this time, it is very difficult to gain up hearts to level up all the animals.

The rare animal tab shows you all the cards you have collected to unlock them. Every level of the rare animal adds an extra animal that acts as the base animal per island. The more animals you have the more times the multiplier counts towards light collection.

Overall:

 4 of 5 cogs.

This is a chill game that claims to be relaxing. A lot of the time you're waiting offline to collect light or hearts. Other than waiting, there isn't much you can do but watch the screen. Sometimes you can collect coins from cleaning up bits of corruption on the islands.

Story:

 0 of 5 cogs.

This is the story you are looking for.

Amount of ads:

 optional only.

There are no ads that pop up except for the optional ads you can watch for the various rewards or advancement.

Accurate Advertising?:

💯%

I've seen this game advertised many times and the ads never really show much, but from what is shown exact screenshots from this game.

Graphics:

 4 of 5 cogs.

Graphics are very simple and follow a simple shading style like many indy games I have seen lately. The animations for the animals are well designed and look fairly realistic.

Gameplay:

 4 of 5 cogs.

The game consists of simple tap controls. There isn't much you can really do in this game but try to make the numbers grow and idle as you watch animals moving around their small sections of the island. I considered giving this game a much lower ranting for gameplay but it has some simple charms to it. I doubt anyone will play this one for too long sadly.

Free play:

💯%

This game is very generous to those that play for free. You can collect rainbow gems just by playing and completing objectives and working to unlock everything. There are some balance issues that do make the game feel bogged down a lot as you progress and soon will become stuck waiting for enough light to continue on.

Fun factor:

☃ Chilly.

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Traffic Puzzle: Match 3 & car puzzle game

 

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Help the trains reach the station in: Traffic Puzzle: Match 3 & car puzzle game

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Today I bring you a short blog about a game that combines match 3 with a very old game concept. You have a parking lot full of cars and you have to move them around until all the cars can exit. Every 20 levels or so a new mechanic is added to the game to make it more complicated.

Every couple of days there is some kind of event that draws people into playing. Some of them give some nice bonuses.

The main map is an endless vertical scrolling map. You have to beat the last level in the section to get a key to progress on. Every so often there are super hard levels designed to make you burn through lives or powerups. This game follows a lot of what Candy Crush does and unless you get very lucky some levels are very impossible to beat without power-ups. I made it to level 128 then I could not progress anymore as it was impossible to get more coins to buy power-ups.

You have very basic options here, sound and music. Nothing exciting here to find.

There are many packages to buy power-ups and coins. Some of these packs get very expensive as the cheapest power-up is 25 gold coins. Which is over $4 USD, which is very expensive and not a good value at all.

Each level has a max of three stars and you have a simple image that tells you the objective of the level. You will run into the same kind of objectives as you play through and some of the hazard levels are thankfully rare.

Here is an example of the game field. You have to pay attention to the direction to which color of cars are matching and which direction cars are facing. If you clear a car by matching it, the other cars can drive out of the way and off the map even if you do not intend them to yet. There's a lot of thinking and planning that has to be put into the game. There are 4 power-ups. The van changes colors to match a car it connects with. The clown car will clear the car in front of it and to each side, This will not repair broken cars in later levels. The police car can remove cars in a straight line. Lastly, the rarest power-up is the tow truck that will remove all cars of the same color. As far as I've played I never got this power-up for free at all.

Overall:

 4 of 5 cogs.

The game is a very unique take on the parking lot puzzle and match 3. I would love to rank this higher but this game suffers from the same problem Candy Crush. There are too many artificial difficulties that are added in the game to try to goad people into paying for money. This game is semi-pay-to-win and at the end of the day, it just leaves me feeling a bit swindled. 

Story:

 0 of 5 cogs.

None. Zero.

Amount of ads:

 

many

After level 10 you are forcefully shown a video after every completed level, and that really slows down your progression. Sometimes you can watch a video to earn extra moves on a level. 

Accurate Advertising?:

💯%

The ads are not click-bate and are the most genuine thing in this game.

Graphics:

 5 of 5 cogs.

The graphics are professional and high quality with a chibi style to them.

Gameplay:

4 of 5 cogs.

The game engine is unique and combines two different elements into one in a unique way. There also appear to be several clones of this game as well that may or may not have the same mechanics.

Free play:

50%

You could potentially play this game for free if you become very lucky to beat the harder levels. This game does a lot of under-handed sleight of hand to try to get you to spend money.

Fun factor:

🚗 "I like to move it!"

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