Showing posts with label Oregon Trail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oregon Trail. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
That Android Podcast Episode 1 covering village sims
The first episode of my new Android centric podcast will feature reviews of several village sims including jThe Simpsons Tapped Out, Paradise Cove, My Little Pony, Oregon Trail American Settler, The Pioneers and strange action quest kinda village like game Western Hero... cast is coming soon, stay tuned for updates.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Inappropriate NPC Theater Presents : Randomly Inappropriate
Randomly inappropriate, one village game at a time.
The cat in the tornado disaster from Oregon Trail American Settler
Ok, when I first saw the intro animation for tornado disaster I didn't think much of it... until the upgrade when the disasters actually spawn in your town and linger until fixed. Burning building, buildings surrounded by running bulls, storm cloud eclipsed buildings... and tornadoes with a wee cat animation spinning around and around and around and... whoa, dizzy.
Title card titillation from Tribez
Is it just me or... why does it look like most of the characters are glaring at the games one token female? It's creepy enough by far to have only male characters in this village SIM do far, the only female being this one narrator character who hands out half of your quests, it's worst that she seems to be fixated on by these three on the game title card.
We have the other world scientist, occasional story mode presence, who seems be using his cell phone comm to take pictures of her backside. We have the idol with the glowing sphere fixated on her butt. Best is the dino to her left, your right, drooling over her chest.
So when does this game feature some female villagers!
Pirate Batman clone from Paradise Cove
For some reason you have a long grinding 8 part mission with an obvious Batman/Zorro pirate hybrid character... if the costume isn't enough clue, or his dark stallion or archnemesis in the Clown, he lives in Bruce Mansion, and the eighth mission unlocks a giant ship with huge bat motif sails.
I'm guessing this game released around the time The Dark Knight Rises hit theaters.
Well that's Inappropriate NPC Theater for this one. Next time? Back to Oregon Trail and the story mode unique female in the overalls... and seemingly nothing else. See you soon!
The cat in the tornado disaster from Oregon Trail American Settler
Ok, when I first saw the intro animation for tornado disaster I didn't think much of it... until the upgrade when the disasters actually spawn in your town and linger until fixed. Burning building, buildings surrounded by running bulls, storm cloud eclipsed buildings... and tornadoes with a wee cat animation spinning around and around and around and... whoa, dizzy.
Title card titillation from Tribez
Is it just me or... why does it look like most of the characters are glaring at the games one token female? It's creepy enough by far to have only male characters in this village SIM do far, the only female being this one narrator character who hands out half of your quests, it's worst that she seems to be fixated on by these three on the game title card.
We have the other world scientist, occasional story mode presence, who seems be using his cell phone comm to take pictures of her backside. We have the idol with the glowing sphere fixated on her butt. Best is the dino to her left, your right, drooling over her chest.
So when does this game feature some female villagers!
Pirate Batman clone from Paradise Cove
For some reason you have a long grinding 8 part mission with an obvious Batman/Zorro pirate hybrid character... if the costume isn't enough clue, or his dark stallion or archnemesis in the Clown, he lives in Bruce Mansion, and the eighth mission unlocks a giant ship with huge bat motif sails.
I'm guessing this game released around the time The Dark Knight Rises hit theaters.
Well that's Inappropriate NPC Theater for this one. Next time? Back to Oregon Trail and the story mode unique female in the overalls... and seemingly nothing else. See you soon!
Monday, June 10, 2013
Upcoming Reviews : What villages am I raising (GameLoft edition)?
Much like how Zynga seems to dominate Facebook social gaming, GameLoft (aka that cloner company) dominates the Android app store.
Oregon Trail : American Settler
When I first started reviewing this I thought Gameloft actually did something right for a change... but they soon updated it and down the slippery slope of wrong it went.
Cosmic Colony
The newest thing I am reviewing. Presently has potential but kinda lacks the personality and charm of Oregon Trail American Settler... also lacks the new pitfalls too so I am still hyped about this review.
FOX/Blue Sky' Epic
Another game slapped together to shill another movie. I didn't come into this review with much expectations, so I wasn't too disappointed with the results.
Fantasy Town
Short stack of repetative grinding for coins and levels with little payoff... joy.
Jurassic Park Builder
Jurassic Park 4 may presently be getting no love, but I am going to tell you why Jurassic Park Builder is worth your time and effort. It's not perfect, but it is good.
My Little Pony
To be honest? I am most conflicted on this one. I like me my pony, but honestly it's the Brony in me talking so... how will you like the game if ponies ain't your thing? Let's find out.
And that is my present GameLoft village SIM checklist. Though it's shorter next time we'll look st upcoming Pocket Gems reviews.
Oregon Trail : American Settler
When I first started reviewing this I thought Gameloft actually did something right for a change... but they soon updated it and down the slippery slope of wrong it went.
Cosmic Colony
The newest thing I am reviewing. Presently has potential but kinda lacks the personality and charm of Oregon Trail American Settler... also lacks the new pitfalls too so I am still hyped about this review.
FOX/Blue Sky' Epic
Another game slapped together to shill another movie. I didn't come into this review with much expectations, so I wasn't too disappointed with the results.
Fantasy Town
Short stack of repetative grinding for coins and levels with little payoff... joy.
Jurassic Park Builder
Jurassic Park 4 may presently be getting no love, but I am going to tell you why Jurassic Park Builder is worth your time and effort. It's not perfect, but it is good.
My Little Pony
To be honest? I am most conflicted on this one. I like me my pony, but honestly it's the Brony in me talking so... how will you like the game if ponies ain't your thing? Let's find out.
And that is my present GameLoft village SIM checklist. Though it's shorter next time we'll look st upcoming Pocket Gems reviews.
Inappropriate NPC Theater Presents : The Little Girl NPC from Oregon Trail American Settler
Sometimes NPCs are just plain wrong. And no I don't mean like the Sorceress character from Dragon's Crown wrong... but I got a few like that coming up in a Game On blog post. No, sometimes NPC are just animated wrong. Case in point, the little girl NPC from GameLoft' s Oregon Trail American Settler.
In this village SIM your Oregon frontier town of the 19th Century is filled with four generic types of people as well as story specific characters, each of the generic townspeople can move about (something story specific characters cannot do) each with their own walk animation, sickness animation, and standing still animation. And for the most part that is all rather straight forward and simple enough... until we examine the standing still animation of the generic little girl character.
Her standing still animation has her rocking back and forth, almost as if she can barely stand still so full of youthful energy. This would be alright and all... except the animators put way too much hip thrust in her animation. She should look like a bundle of energy, rocking back and forth ready to take off anew... only... let me put it to you this way... look at it carefully, her standing still animation... now move her to stand very suggestively behind a sheep or miniature horse... ok really, do you not see yet how completely inappropriate her standing cycle is yet?!? Come on!!
And yes, I do have something to say about that story character young teen female who looks as if she's wearing overalls... and nothing else. Inappropriate NPC part 2 coming soon!
In this village SIM your Oregon frontier town of the 19th Century is filled with four generic types of people as well as story specific characters, each of the generic townspeople can move about (something story specific characters cannot do) each with their own walk animation, sickness animation, and standing still animation. And for the most part that is all rather straight forward and simple enough... until we examine the standing still animation of the generic little girl character.
Her standing still animation has her rocking back and forth, almost as if she can barely stand still so full of youthful energy. This would be alright and all... except the animators put way too much hip thrust in her animation. She should look like a bundle of energy, rocking back and forth ready to take off anew... only... let me put it to you this way... look at it carefully, her standing still animation... now move her to stand very suggestively behind a sheep or miniature horse... ok really, do you not see yet how completely inappropriate her standing cycle is yet?!? Come on!!
And yes, I do have something to say about that story character young teen female who looks as if she's wearing overalls... and nothing else. Inappropriate NPC part 2 coming soon!
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