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  • DuckTales: Scrooge’s Loot Review
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    DuckTales: Scrooge’s Loot Review

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    Life is like a hurricane. It slowly turns in a large circular motion, eventually leading all things back to where they started. There's no better explanation for the recent resurgence of DuckTales, a series which—after lying dormant for about two decades—has seen two new games within the past two months. Unlike its older sibling, DuckTales Remastered, DuckTales: Scrooge's Loot is a brand new title with a vastly different approach: a team-based shooter.Scrooge's Loot starts off with a cutscene of Scrooge McDuck writing a letter to his nephews. Suddenly, he realizes his money vault is being attacked by his greatest villains. That's the extent of the story, for the most part. The voice acting in the initial cutscene is covered by the original cast, which is a nice touch, but that's as far as the nostalgia blast is willing to go.Scrooge's Loot is DuckTales in name only. After the initial cutscene, you'll be given a generic, customizable character who will battle other generic, customizable characters. The only carryover from the source is Launchpad running the tutorial and commenting on your deaths. This lack of involvement with the rest of the series makes the main menu's version of the theme song feel like a lie. The game lacks the charm and character even DuckTales Remastered manages to implement.
  • DuckTales: Scrooge’s Loot Walkthrough
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    DuckTales: Scrooge’s Loot Walkthrough

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    DuckTales: Scrooge's Loot is a multiplayer team-based shooter game created by Disney. In it, you'll create your own customizable duck, and then compete against other teams in a battle to see who can collect the most gold in a round. Gamezebo's quick start strategy guide will provide you with detailed images, tips, information, and hints on how to play your best game."
  • CastleVille Legends Walkthrough
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    CastleVille Legends Walkthrough

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    CastleVille Legends is a simulation/town building game created by Zynga. You play as the steward of a kingdom that's fallen under a wizard's evil spell. To restore the kingdom, you must grow crops, raise animals, send your heroes to explore ancient ruins, and sell whatever food and goods your kingdom produces. Gamezebo's quick start strategy guide will provide you with detailed images, tips, information, and hints on how to restore your kingdom's glory."
  • CastleVille Legends Review
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    CastleVille Legends Review

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    While the original CastleVille fits snuggly in the history of Zynga's Ville games as the spiritual successor to The Pioneer Trail, CastleVille Legends sets out to be something ambitiously new. Designed from the ground up for mobile, Legends is more a game of trading and economics than it is a medieval life simulator.If that description scares you off, don't worry - much of Legends will feel like a familiar experience to the Zynga faithful. The nuts and bolts that bring the game together (crafting, quests, etc) are things that you're already doing in other games. The trick, though, is that these elements come together in Legends in a way that creates something we haven't seen before in a Zynga title.If we were to break CastleVille Legends down to its base mechanics, it would probably look something like this: creating resources, crafting those resources into products, and selling those products for fun and profit.On paper, I admit it sounds a little like FarmVille 2. But the execution here feels markedly different.
  • Valkyrie Crusade Review
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    I have to admit; I'm rather shocked and mystified by Valkyrie Crusade. It's a combination collectible card game and town builder, which in itself is an odd match; but both elements support each other a lot better than I'd have expected. So much so, in fact, that it might just be my current freemium favorite despite all the needless issues.The sim elements of Valkyrie Crusade are fairly typical: collect three kinds of resources (gold, ether, and iron) and use them to build/upgrade structures that can gather and store more resources, as well as make incremental changes to the core mechanics. The card side of things is also rather familiar, with "friendship points" earned through befriending other players needed to summon (i.e. buy) more cards, card fusions, evolutions, etc.However, there are a few key differences. Cards used in attack and defensive formations have applicable stats, as expected, but they also have health (represented by "soldiers" for some incredibly odd reason). Different cards have different maximums, and it costs two of all three resources for every one players refill. So when these bizarro health bars get into the thousands, it can be quite expensive to keep everyone topped-off. Totally worth it, though, as the more durable a unit is the longer it should take for them to get knocked out in battle.
  • Castle Clash Review
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    Castle Clash Review

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    Perhaps the most commonly regurgitated complaint from mobile gaming's critics is that there's way too much copycatting in that portion of the industry. While the haters claim the lack of originality is a bad thing, it isn't inherently so. Many of the "blatant ripoffs" we've seen on Android and iOS has been about as good—if not better—than the games that inspired them. Then there are games like Castle Clash, which obviously draw inspiration, but lack that certain oomph needed to hold its own.Similar to last month's Jungle Heat, Castle Clash is a base-building strategy game that requires players to build armies, attack enemies, research goods, gather resources, and become the most powerful player. Anyone who's played games like Clash of Clans and Jungle Heat will notice the immediate similarities. While the art style is different, the actual gameplay is pretty much identical. The game kicks off with a brief tutorial session then leaves you with a barebones base with minimal defense. From there, you need to upgrade your structures and hire troops.The single player offerings are limited, but important. There's a series of levels players can play through as they wish. Each level consists of a battle against a pre-built base, making it an excellent tool for helping new players learn how to play, as well as what does and does not work when constructing a base.  Rather than mocking players with the hodgepodge of levels in multiplayer, the level-based single player mode will quickly evolve from "a nice way to earn a few resources" to "adapt or die!"
  • Valkyrie Crusade Walkthrough
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    Valkyrie Crusade is a combination city builder and collectible card game created by NUBEE. The emphasis on both card collecting and managing your own personal kingdom takes some getting used to, but there aren't actually as many tiny details to worry about as you'd expect. And for that stuff you do have to worry about, we've got you covered. Gamezebo's quick start strategy guide will provide you with detailed images, tips, information, and hints on how to play your best game."
  • Castle Clash Walkthrough
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    Castle Clash is a freemium strategy game created by IGG.COM. In it, you'll construct and defend your base, gather resources, build an army, and attack enemies. Gamezebo's quick start strategy guide will provide you with detailed images, tips, information, and hints on how to play your best game."