Ski Safari: Adventure Time Review

Ski Safari: Adventure Time Review

Mathematical! Defiant Development has taken their mobile endless skier game Ski Safari and given it the full Adventure Time treatment this week! But while Ski Safari: Adventure Time,this  ADV game feels right at home in the wide range of quirky canon that accompanies the cult-favorite Cartoon Network TV show, does it also have that addictive blend of endless gameplay to match, and to give it that much needed lasting appeal? Or does it simply find itself caught in a candy-encrusted avalanche that stops any fun to be had in its tracks?

In the game, players take control of Adventure Time series hero Finn, as the boy gets abruptly woken up from a slumber and is immediately sent on a careening ski adventure down some never-ending natural hills throughout the Land of Ooo. Simply tapping on the screen causes Finn to leap through the air, while holding down on the screen will execute some awesome in-air flips for a seriously algebraic score bonus. You’ll also have the help from numerous other Adventure Time characters along the way, like Jake, Marceline, and Princess Bubblegum, who can all be utilized in different ways by Finn to keep him skiing (and sometimes even flying) in the utmost of style.

The biggest strength of Ski Safari: Adventure Time is in Defiant Development’s extremely close representation of the original source material, right down to the bouncing soundtrack and Finn’s accompanying shriek of “Ski Safari!” at the start of the app. Everything from the colorful illustrations to the actual animations look like something straight out of an episode of the quirky TV show, and Adventure Time fans will definitely find a lot to love here, although sometimes the screen can move so fast that trying to key-in on a few of the finer visual details results in an unwanted dizzying effect. You’ll start the game out by skiing through the cottony pink Candy Kingdom, but the Ice Kingdom and Mystery Mountains can also be purchased by racking up those coins on your skis.

Unfortunately, the overt kiddie nature of Ski Safari: Adventure Time also winds up being responsible for the endless runner’s biggest downfall: the game is just too easy. And when I say “too easy,” I mean effortlessly easy, almost to the point where all of the upgrades that you’re working towards unlocking don’t even matter, because there are so very few ways to be hit with that Game Over screen. For instance, the very first time I started up the game, I reached an obscene distance of over 30,000m, and I actually had to make a conscious effort to make myself lose so I could move on to other aspects outside of the main action.

It seems that there’s really only two ways you can actually lose in Ski Safari: Adventure Time, and that’s if you run into a rock or horribly botch a backflip and end up landing on your head. But in both cases, you’ll still have ample time to tap on the screen and right yourself up before the slow moving avalanche comes up from behind and overtakes you. Literally everything else you can collide with on your runs will end up helping you in one way or another, as Finn will effortlessly straddle every creature that comes along to use for some fanciful new way of skiing. One time I tried to collide with an evil-looking wolf that had hopped in my path just for the sake of ending my run, only to have Finn leap on the wolf’s back and keep on skiing like nothing had even happened.

As mentioned before, the almost nonexistent difficulty of the game renders a lot of the supplementary items and upgrades you can earn fairly pointless from an actual gameplay perspective. There are tons of things you can buy in the game store to accent your skiing experience, from offbeat new costumes for Finn to wear and special thrones you can ski on, to the typical power-up boosters like coin magnets and score multipliers, to upgrades for your secondary ski-assist characters, like faster flipping for the Banana Guard or greater “beard flaps” for the Ice King.

You’ll still want to be buying as many of these upgrades as you can, though, since almost all of the in-store prices are extremely lofty for how many coins you’ll earn on even your most monstrous of runs; but the whole thing just seems rather redundant after a while. The only hints of actual progression come in the form of missions, which task you with doing things like jumping over 3 cabins with a Jelly Bean, or landing 5 backflips inside of caves for an added rank boost. You’ll get to work towards completing three of these missions at a single time, and while they do give you something else to do besides just landing flip after flip, their overall presence is still largely unfelt.

So in the end, if you’re a big fan of the popular Cartoon Network TV show and just can’t get enough Adventure Time to fill up your day, then you’re sure to find something to love in Ski Safari: Adventure Time, as the game is incredibly faithful to the spirit and presentation of the source material. But if it’s actual gameplay that you’re in the market for, then it’s probably best to ski on down some other slope entirely: as the sheer lack of challenge or difficulty in the game makes this one literal endless runner that you’ll do everything in your power to actually make end.

The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle Earth: Top 5 Tips You Need to Know

The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle Earth: Top 5 Tips You Need to Know

1.Forge alliances:
One of the central themes in The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle Earth is joining and supporting an alliance. This is pretty common for cross-platform city builders and holds true here. You can do this once you build an embassy at level 3, and cruise through the list of alliances after tapping the button at the bottom of the main screen. The X or checkmark next to the name of each alliance will show whether or not you meet their prerequisites for membership.

After tapping an alliance you like, you'll have the option to leave your submission. Send help when requested in alliance chat and communicate often. Not only will this translate to others helping your empire grow, but you’ll also have a lot more fun playing the game.

2.Start with the recommended quests:
The recommended questline provides a strong foundation when you’re first starting off. It will guide you through the steps of building a consistent economy and take you through the core game elements. Just tap the Quests on the bottom bar of the main screen, and the recommended quest should be at the top of the screen.

3.Log in Daily:
There are free resources and prizes doled out every day, so log in often. Moon runes are available throughout the day via the icon on the left side, while you get a free spin at Galadriel’s Gift once a day. Tap the Chance button along the bottom if it doesn’t pop up when you log in for the first time during the day. Your daily rewards also increase based on how many consecutive days you log in; tap the calendar icon on the right side to check your progress and make sure you’re checked off for today.

4.Focus on food:
Unlike other resources, your food is constantly being consumed to feed your troops. It works in your best interests to have a large surplus of food in order to support a growing army. Tap the resource bar at the top to make sure your production outspeeds your upkeep. Also, tap items at the bottom of the main screen and the My Items tab at the top. Sort by Resources, and make sure to use up the one-time consumable resource power-ups as you get them.

5.Get a second city as soon as possible:
A second city might seem a long ways off, but it should be your first goal. The most straightforward way of going about this is earning Second City Relics, which are acquired by raiding other players, or goblin camps between levels 6 and 10. You should be able to get these by putting a few hours into the Necromancer campaign. At level 7, you can build a Sage’s Tower which increases the quality of the relics you find. The one bottleneck here is that you can only engage in so many campaign battles a day, so make sure you check each one to see if a relic is a potential find before diving in.

Once you earn 100 Second City Relics, you can trade them in for a deed, and you’re good to go. If you’re ready to dive right in, you can buy enough mithril to get your second city deed through an $20 in-app purchase. You can also earn mithril by watching ads or participating in affiliate programs, accessible at the bottom of the mithril purchase list.

Teen Patti - Indian Poker:The Same Name Movie Review

Teen Patti -  Indian Poker:The Same Name Movie Review

Teen Patti - Indian Poker is a popular game on 9Game. Do you know that Teen Patti is a story of love, hate and betrayal and how the lives of three friends, Arya, Mohor and Mukul, get altered by these forces?

Actually,it rarely happens you come across a movie that is a culmination of all the archetypal filmi ingredients - Jai-Veeru type friendship, love triangle, a murder and several suspects, a tough-as-nails police inspector, one femme fatale, a girl singing in bars to support her sick mother and drunken father and, keeping pace with the latest fad, a psychological thriller-type ending. Teen Patti, a debut film of director-duo Rehena Parvin Jenny and Dipayan Mandal, provides all the above-mentioned masalas, but, unfortunately, forgets to provide the string to attach all these ingredients in a coherent story.

The film starts with the murder investigation of a businessman called Rupak Chakraborty. Young Crime Branch officer Siddhartha Roy ( Koushik Roy), in charge of the case, finds a diary in Rupak's house that tells a story of three friends - Arya (Indraneil), Mohor (Puja) and Mukul (Ritwick). In an ek-phool-do-mali-type situation, childhood friends Arya and Mukul fall for the same girl. The directors then very carefully construct a prolonged scene where Mukul teaches Arya how to propose Mohor and how they take part in a bike race to decide who'll get the girl. And by the time Arya bares his heart to Mohor and they get married, you are bored to tears. Then the plot meanders through varied and bizarre twists and turns and the end result can be compared to a dish of mixed vegetables without salt. Weak script and dialogues, some unnecessary characters and some disjointed editing make it more tedious.

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Though the movie tells the story of love, hate, betrayal and the how the three friends' lives alter, the directors have failed to build the characters substantially. So you fail to empathize when Arya goes through heartbreak or Mukul loses the balance between right or wrong. As no one relates to them, Indraneil's acting doesn't leave any mark and Ritwick looks like he is trying too hard. Among the others, Puja is in her elements only when she is wearing a shiffon and lip-syncing to the songs and as Ushasie's character (business tycoon Gargi Sen) doesn't get any proper closure, it's instantly forgettable.


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