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  • A Mystical Land Review
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    A Mystical Land Review

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    A Mystical Land is a new multi-platform MMO that's using the Portalarium player (which does require a download and install) to run through Facebook's platform. It may strike some players as reminiscent of Runes of Magic, which is not coincidental. A Mystical Land is one of the first projects released by Neonga, a company formed by former executives of Runes of Magic publisher Frogster. A Mystical Land's 3D graphics are very striking and its gameplay is a bit more polished than the usual Facebook MMO fare.
  • Mahjong Trails Review
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    Mahjong Trails Review

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    Mahjong Trails applies the formula currently popular for Facebook puzzle games to the old computer puzzle version of mahjong. The game contains several areas, each with a variety of different tile layouts. The rules of the game are the same as always, simply asking users to match all of the tiles before five minutes is up or before it becomes impossible to match more tiles. The game usually offers players one free reshuffle of the tiles, but it's not long before levels become very difficult to clear within the time limit. The real point of Mahjong Trails is to amass a higher score than all of your friends who play the game.
  • Pirate Galaxy Review
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    Pirate Galaxy Review

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    Pirate Galaxy is a browser-based free-to-play MMO that's making itself available on Facebook like so many others. There are a few unusual things about this particular game, though. For one, it's written completely in Java instead of the usual Flash, so you may find yourself having to do some Java installs before you can play it. The game's theme is pure science fiction, with the player controlling a spaceship instead of any sort of human avatar. The 3D graphics create some extremely impressive landscapes compared to most things you'd see on Facebook, but the gameplay itself is fairly standard.
  • Platform Hero Review
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    Platform Hero Review

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    This is one of those games where the score can be quietly disregarded. Platform Hero is so far outside the usual remit of Facebook game design that comparing it to anything else out there is awkward at best. Platform Hero is actually a programming project by undergrad student Scott Curtis that lets users design, upload, and play each other's 2D platformer levels. Like the handful of other Facebook platformers out there, Platform Hero features simple movement controls that use the WASD keys and one mouse button to fire projectiles at enemies.
  • The A.Typical RPG Review
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    The A.Typical RPG Review

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    A.Typical RPG sounds like a lot of fun when you read about it. The game's premise is very Groundhog Day, letting you control a typical college student through one day of his largely mundane life. In the course of that day you will play soccer with bullies, wander around town, attempt to woo a lovely girl, and try to pass an exam. The game promises that it will make these mundane tasks feel epic through gameplay, an ambition that's never really realized. Instead A.Typical RPG is a funny game hampered by design flaws.
  • TriviaTown Review
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    TriviaTown Review

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    TriviaTown is all too typical of sub-par trivia games on Facebook. From a bare-bones interface, users select one of 10 trivia categories and then have three minutes to answer as many questions as possible. Users who amass at least 100 points during the initial three minutes go on to a bonus round, where answering five questions correctly in 30 seconds is worth 500 points. During the initial three minutes, players can get extra time by answering lots of questions correctly in an unbroken streak. Players can also use power-ups to make questions easier to answer, to skip tough questions, or to amass points more quickly.
  • Planet Stronghold Review
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    Planet Stronghold Review

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    It's hard not to think of BioWare's Mass Effect series of console and PC RPGs when you first begin playing Planet Stronghold. A lot of the defining features of Mass Effect are present in Planet Stronghold, if in a simplified form: you can date many of the game's characters, you can select your main character's class and gender, and you can select your responses in dialog at many different points in the story. Planet Stronghold is obviously a much simpler game than Mass Effect, but it holds up surprisingly well to the comparison.
  • Bubble Saga Review
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    Bubble Saga Review

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    There are a lot of really good bubble-pop match-3 games on Facebook, which makes it all the more impressive that Bubble Saga still manages to feel especially noteworthy. Where most bubble-pop games use 2D graphics, Bubble Saga uses an entirely browser-based 3D graphics engine that models the bubbles as solid objects with appropriate physics. This may sound like a very minor change, but it makes Bubble Saga feel like a very different and perhaps more engaging game than 2D-based bubble-pop games like, say, Wooga's Bubble Island.