Pyramidville Adventure
SCORE: 82
Social games are all the craze right now.
Why? Well all your friends and family love to hear how you just built a
house, sailed a boat, harvested some lettuce, or chopped down a tree
inside a video game. All joking aside, there are a fair number of people
who like to game together. They compete in games, and even trade in
them.
Bulkypix has teamed up with Kobojo to bring Pyramidville Adventure to
the iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad. The concept of Pyramidville Adventure is
pretty simple. Build up your Egyptian style town. This involves clearing
out areas, building houses, harvesting crops, using the mill, and
trading with neighboring towns.
The catch to Pyramidville Adventure is you have to wait for things to
happen. Send a boat off for a trade and it won't be back for thirty
minutes. Certain things in the game require gems to purchase them. Which
are hard to come by. Unless you decide to pay for more to be put in your
inventory. Pyramidville Adventure reminds me of the recent Virtual City
release. Both franchises have a great imbalance in that regard. It is
easy to collect gold, but those gems will hold things up.
Ultimately that is going to be the downfall of Pyramidville Adventure in
my opinion. Gamers either have to keep shelling out money to complete
missions, or they wait for days for things to accumulate. I can see
gamers giving up on Pyramidville Adventure because of having to wait.
Especially if they can't convince their friends to shell out money to
keep going.
I also ran into some issues with Pyramidville Adventure crashing. It was
unplayable on an iPod Touch 3rd generation. It was much better on an
iPod Touch 4th generation. But it still would crash from time to time on
it as well. Players need an internet account and connection to play
Pyramidville Adventure. Otherwise it will not work at all.
The Egyptian music and sounds in Pyramidville Adventure are distinctive.
They are also pleasant to listen to in my opinion. The graphics have a
very bright and colorful look. I should warn you that there are plenty
of characters in Pyramidville Adventure who are only partially dressed.
Pyramidville Adventure teaches the basics of an economy and how to grow
it.
- Paul
Graphics: 82%
Sound: 88%
Replay/Extras: 85%
Gameplay: 77%
Family Friendly Factor: 78%
System: iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad
Publisher: Bulkypix
Rating: ‘4+’ - 4+
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