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  • Lilly & Sasha: Curse of the Immortals Review
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    Lilly & Sasha: Curse of the Immortals Review

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    The most important element of any RPG is narrative. Players spend hours reading dialogue, and if it's filled with typos, written by someone noticeably uncomfortable with English, or just plain boring, the experience can quickly become unbearable. Happily, this isn't a problem for the wonderfully witty Lilly & Sasha: Curse of the Immortals, a new game from independent RPG shop John Wizard.
  • Virtual Villagers 4: The Tree of Life Review
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    Virtual Villagers 4: The Tree of Life Review

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    Something is wrong on the lush island of Isola. Life is drying up. Animals are disappearing, and the once bountiful environment is no longer providing. The chief decides to put together an expeditionary force to head off to the hitherto unexplored eastern shores, where, it is hoped, the root of the problem might be found. So begins Virtual Villagers 4: The Tree of Life, the latest chapter in Last Day of Work's popular casual sim franchise.
  • Sarah Maribu and the Lost World Review
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    Sarah Maribu and the Lost World Review

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    Sarah Maribu and the Lost World, a new hidden object game from ERS G-Studio, has a prologue that consists of a mere two sentences of text dialogue, but it's enough to set up the basic premise, which is that a young woman is headed to a forgotten atoll discovered by her grandfather that contains ancient mysteries and treasures. What follows is a competent, if unexceptional, HOG filled with lovely art, a relaxing score, and fairly average hidden object challenges and mini-games.
  • Simplz: Zoo Review
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    Simplz: Zoo Review

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    If you're shopping for a match-three game with a bit of meat on the bone, look no further than Simplz: Zoo. This lengthy puzzler serves up nearly a dozen hours of polished puzzling plus several more spent building and customizing a monster-sized zoo. You're unlikely to find many other games in the genre that offer more bang for the buck. The story begins with a handwritten letter informing players that they have inherited a zoo from their grandfather, and that he hopes we will fulfill his dream of making his menagerie the top-ranked facility of its kind in the world (though, it's worth noting, he doesn't seem to have done much to achieve this goal himself, given that we start the game with just a single attraction). Then it's straight to work.
  • The White House Review
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    • PC
    The White House Review

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    No surprises are in store in The White House, a thoroughly middling hidden object game set in the nation's capital. Its few minor innovations are overshadowed by a substandard visual design that features poorly rendered objects which are often badly hidden in muddy, dull environments. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Players take on the role of college student Miranda Hunt (get it?), longtime friend of a professor who has gone missing while exploring and researching artifacts scattered about the White House. The FBI recruits Miranda to help find him, giving her access to freely move about the President's home.
  • Defend and Defeat: Kingdoms Review
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    • PC
    Defend and Defeat: Kingdoms Review

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    Defend and Defeat: Kingdoms puts players in the shoes of a noble who is trying to conquer and reunite the land after an inexperienced teenage couple thrust into the roles of king and queen let it fall to chaos. That's about all the story we're provided in this humdrum medieval-themed strategy affair from Pigdog Games before being thrust into a series of 17 missions, each of which involves building up a town from scratch, defending it from enemies, and satisfying a series of objectives.
  • Immortal Defense Review
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    • PC
    Immortal Defense Review

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    Tower defense games follow a pretty predictable formula; build turrets, fend off waves of encroaching enemies, rinse and repeat. Radical Poesis Games and Creations' Immortal Defense doesn't really deviate from this formula, but it still stands out from the crowd by virtue of its original presentation and strikingly imaginative science fiction story.
  • Anka Review
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    Anka Review

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    Anka, a new puzzle adventure from Ovogame, has a great concept but suffers from middling execution. The idea is to provide players with a wide variety of brainteasers-word searches, mahjong, tile-sliding puzzles, and much more-within the context of the game's story, which concerns a boy trying free his mother from jail for a crime she didn't commit and find his missing father. Sounds great. The problem is that it ends up becoming a jack-of-all-puzzles-and-master-of-none. The variety is nice, but few of the game's conundrums are compelling enough to make us crave more.