Raise This Village (a new direction and name)

Now that I advanced my tech, and added new reviews, we're looking at casual games anew. Featuring content for tablets (Android), Nintendo's 3DS, and more as time goes on. So, changing the info and getting to work.

Stand O Food (Sony PSP)

Unlike Nintendo the amount of food and cooking games are few and far between in the land of Sony. One Cake Mania game compared to four from the DS, one Diner Dash compared to two and spin off Wedding Dash on the DS, and alot of cooking games only appear on the DS. This is one of the rare stand oits on the PSP, and its pretty good.

Working your way across a giant map of diners you pick up ingredients from a chain of conveyor belts, filling out orders of customers in order to pass. Can't find enough ingredients? Place down ingredients on hold plates to shuffle stuff about, or pick up a large stack of stuff to find the ingredient you need and put it on the hold plates (which you buy as part of ipgrading your diners). Got the order of ingredients jumbled? Throw it into an order box to ship (again something you'll buy). Need more time? Buy and upgrade a jukebox and air conditioner to keep your customers patient. Need to do it faster? Buy and upgrade a coffee pot to speed up. Finally need a way to make more money and can handle remembering extra detail? Buy condiments to add money to what you make (though I beat the game several times without ever buying condiments).

An overall good game, but abit short. Also it's a simple casual game, just filling orders, and while I liked it you might not have the same experience with it.

So like it, hate it, its up to you. I'm giving it a nice 3 out of 5, pretty nice, and it's cheap so try it out for yourself sometime.

Bejeweled Blitz (Nintendo 3DS)

Recently I started work on a year long preview podcast called Wii U Life, covering 2012's release of the Wii U... and one of the things I learned was that the Wii U is at last the next gen entry by Nintendo, looking to win by core gaming fans who left Nintendo for HD pastures.

At first I was worried this would mean Nintendo would be throwing casual gaming fans under the bus, but that shouldn't be a fear I think... though at least casual gamers will always have the 3DS. And games like Bejeweled Blitz.

Blitz is a simple addictive match three game. You can raack up matches, make challenge matches to speed up the match meter which turns a board piece into a mega fruit which clears the entire board of that color as well as add time to all on screen bombs. Match four for a fire piece that explodes when matched. Match five for a lightning piece that clears a giant cross section of pieces. Finally the ultra rare supernova piece, matching 7 and up pieces.

Game ends whwn you fail to disarm bomb pieces... and that's it. Otherwise the game can last 1 to 2 hours a play, and can become super addictive before you know it. A 5 out of 5 for a game you'll have a hard time putting down... yes, bells and whistles are non exsistant but who cares when the game is this addictive.

Next time - Speaking of addictive come back Thursday for the rare food game on the PlayStation Store... Stand O Food. See you Thursday!

This week's reviews

Ok since we had no comments, no spam, no nothing let's start reviewing... casually.

Tuesday - Bejeweled Blitz (3DS)
Thursday - Stand O Food (PSP)

Casual Gaming?

My first thought for the revisioning of this group is the coverage of casual gaming, but what is everyone's thoughts on it? Casual gaming is popular and quite abit genre wise is covered by casual gaming. Thoughts?

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