Game Review - Triple Town
Recently, I downloaded a puzzle game that I heard so much about on the Internet. I’m not usually good with puzzle titles and they don’t appeal to me very much, but I got hooked on this one. Guess what it’s called?
Okay, so I admit I’m a little on the slow side. This game was featured on Applorer way back in February this year, and I’ve only got to it now. So don’t worry; if you haven’t tried it, better late than never! And this is such a good game too. Here’s why.
Basically, you place patches of grass, bushes, trees, houses, and bears onto spaces on the map until you fill up the entire place.
Just kidding! The trick is this: three grass patches placed side by side will combine to form a bush, three bushes form a tree, three trees form a little brick hut, three huts form a house, three houses form a mansion, and three mansions form a castle. So you’ll have to strategically group as many items as you can in order to earn the most points in the limited amount of space that you have!
Things are not that simple -- Sometimes, you’ll get bears to place on the map too. Bears move around in the space that they are enclosed in and they often hinder your progress. There’s also the Ninja Bear that hops around to any empty space, regardless of boundaries. Fortunately, you can get rid of these creatures! When bears get closed in on all sides, they turn into gravestones. Three gravestones side by side form a church, three churches form a cathedral, three cathedrals form a small treasure chest (which you can unlock to get coins), and three small treasure chests form a large treasure chest.
There are also items such as rocks that you can collate together to form treasure chests, and bonus items like crystals (which serve as “joker cards” – you can place a crystal beside two identical items and it’ll bring about the transformation even though you only have two pieces) and Bots (which turn bears and ninja bears into gravestones immediately without you having to trap them).
This is REALLY addictive. I’m not kidding! If a puzzle game can get someone like me who only plays action titles hooked so quickly, it’s definitely a good game. This title is simple in design but it’s the ingenious idea that thrills!
There are a certain number of turns you can get before you can’t continue playing. If you get addicted too, you can choose to pay a small, one-time fee which gives you an unlimited number of turns forever and on any Android device that you own. Otherwise, you can patiently wait for the number of turns to recharge and then continue once the bar is full again. Or, you can purchase turns and other game pieces with the coins that you earn from completing a game.
So far, my personal high score is just 150,000+ and I can’t go any higher! Tell us if you can beat that score. And share some of your own tips with us!!
Get it right here, right now via Applorer for FREE! http://applo.re/app
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