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  • Type:Rider Review
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    Type:Rider Review

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    They say a picture can be worth a thousand words, but as I've learned already this week, a mobile game can sometimes speak for centuries. I have a long personal history with words and different types of fonts myself: after all, I read, write, and edit articles all day long here at Gamezebo, and then by night I take graduate courses about the publishing industry. So the idea of a Limbo-like mobile game that focused on the entire history of typography, and that let you play as two punctuation marks no doubt, seemed more than right up my alley. And luckily, writing fanatic or not, Type:Rider serves to provide one of the most whimsical and artistic adventures you're likely to ever experience on a mobile game device today.For such a relatively short game, the sheer amount of variety in Type:Rider is simply astounding, and each level serves as a wonderful visual homage to a different era in the history of typography. Throughout the course of your journey towards the modern day of typing, you'll experience the whirling mind work and ideas concurrent with the Didot period; you'll ride mine carts and dodge the bullets of a Wild Western shootout in the Clarendon era; you'll traverse an industrial world of grinding gears and churning typewriters by the time you get to Times New Roman; and you'll ski down the marvelous snowy white slopes in front of a blood-red sky during the Helvetica chapter."These are just a few of my many favorite moments throughout my Type:Rider adventure, and I was constantly amazed at every turn by how rich and engrossing the slight changes in scenery managed to be, and how the letters themselves were always incorporated into the platforming segments in fresh and exciting new ways. Although the bulk of Type:Rider is more about the experience, rather than the gameplay, you'll still be met with a few nice platforming sections and the occasional interactive puzzle or two: the latter of which are always extremely unique, and involve you getting a third white circle into a three-pronged ground slot, along with your two controllable punctuation marks.
  • KAMI Review
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    KAMI Review

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    I once tried my hand at a bit of Origami. I had a double free period during school, and there just happened to be a big ol' book of Origami patterns lying on the library desk. Several sheets in, and I knew that it probably wasn't my forte. KAMI, a new iOS game about folding paper to change its color, definitely backs up my theory that paper folding and me aren't meant to be.KAMI is all about filling the screen with the same color in as few moves as possible. It's gorgeously styled and surprisingly complex, with plenty of rules and tactics available to get you through its 36 puzzles. It's not massively exciting as such, and you won't exactly spend days or hours afterwards thinking about it, but as a distraction for a bus ride or two, KAMI will keep you tapping.On each level you're provided with different colored paper that is overlapping all over the place. By tapping on the paper you can change its color, potentially causing it to merge with similar-colored paper around it. Using this method, you can tap-by-tap fill the entire screen with the same color. But there's a catch - you only have a specific number of taps you're allowed to make before you lose.KAMI's paper-folding animations and general look and feel are great. It's very easy to pick up and play, and resetting puzzles is as simple as a single tap. The way that the paper looks when folding out from your tap is really gorgeous, especially that final tap that expands all around the book. KAMI has managed to capture that feeling of paper-on-paper remarkably.
  • Jewel Quest Review
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    Jewel Quest Review

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    Before there was Candy Crush Saga, there was Jewel Quest. The first Jewel Quest game hit the PC in 2004, which practically makes it ancient in video game years. This match-3 classic has spawned several sequels, many of which have been ported to different consoles, handheld systems, and any number of web-based game stables.Now the series is gaining new levels, tricks, and traps with Jewel Quest for smartphones and tablets. It's a solid experience—despite the pitfalls that are practically inherent to free-to-play games these days—but it's still very much a typical match-3 game in an overflowing market. It feels strange to say it, but Jewel Quest is an unremarkable entry in a genre its predecessor helped bring to the mainstream."You play through Jewel Quest as an archeologist seeking her fortune in ruins previously thought lost to time. Don't think too hard about it; in the end, it's just an excuse to get you to swap some jewels. Nobody needs an excuse to play a match-3 game, though. Matching up lines of gems just scratches some kind of itch we're all born with.
  • Jewel Quest Walkthrough
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    Jewel Quest is a match-3 puzzle game created by iwin, Inc. You match up same-colored gems in columns of three or more to turn the "sandy" tiles on the board into gold. It's not an easy task, though, since there are traps and tricks galore that aim to keep you from achieving your goal. Gamezebo's quick start strategy guide will provide you with detailed images, tips, information, and hints on how to match up gems like a pro."
  • Flux Review
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    Flux Review

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    Flux is the kind of puzzle game you can play during a quick coffee break, or sit down for a marathon session. It's simple to learn and easy to play, but getting to the point of mastery means learning to think ten steps ahead. This works in Flux's favor, however, as the game doesn't bother with power-ups or mini-games to distract you from the puzzles at hand.The overall goal of Flux is to create an uninterrupted flow from the source tile (purple and marked with an arrow) to the sink tile (purple and marked with a circle). To accomplish this, all you need to do is swipe green tiles to change the direction they're pointing, 90 degrees at a time. Tiles that enter the flow turn from orange to green, while immovable tiles stay blue, and tiles outside of the flow orange. You can only change green tiles and the source tile, which limits how many moves ahead you can work. It's essentially a simplified version of Pipe Mania, but all you have to worry about is which direction each tile is pointing."Flux comes with ten level packs that are unlocked successively by collecting a certain number of stars. Getting a perfect star score is an exercise in extreme precision, as you quickly lose stars by using more moves than the level allows. After you play through the initial ten packs you'll find yourself staring at an additional 375 puzzles waiting to be unleashed. Even with a perfect score on the previous stages you'll need to dip into Flux's in-app purchase system to nab extra stars. You can also get ten stars for free by sharing the game on Facebook, which isn't too bad.
  • Knock-Knock Review
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    It's surprising just how massively unsettling Knock-Knock becomes. Despite the artsy, comic-like visuals and 2D-on-3D animations, I could feel a knot in the pit of my stomach throughout my entire playthrough. I didn't think that I'd be roped into the game's dark world as much as I was; yet I felt on edge within moments of booting the game up.You can give the "gets horror right" box a great big tick, then - although other elements of the game aren't so well established, thanks to repetitive gameplay mechanics, dialogue that is touch-and-go, and some incredibly odd level inclusions. Knock-Knock is an extremely unique experience, and as with many unique games, it stumbles as much as it innovates."You are an unnamed crazy guy living in the woods. Said crazy man has a touch of the old insomnia, and chooses to wander the halls of his house at night instead of going to sleep. The problem is that every time he wakes up he's in a completely different house. Oh, and there are horrible monsters roaming the halls, and creaking and knocking coming from every direction.The aim of Knock-Knock is simple - survive each night until the sun comes up. As you tiptoe around each house, the clock in the corner of the screen will keep ticking away, and you can find special machines that will advance time more quickly. However, the further that time progresses, the more dangerous the monsters in the house will become. If one gives chase and touches you, the clock will rewind and you'll have to survive for even longer. If you touch too many monsters, you'll have to start all over again.
  • Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign Walkthrough
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    Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign Walkthrough

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    Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign is a puzzle/action game created by D3Publisher of America. You match three or more same-colored gems on the game board to power up your assembly of Marvel heroes and attack villains. Gamezebo's quick start strategy guide will provide you with detailed images, tips, information, and hints on how to save the world alongside Iron Man, Thor, and their pals. "
  • Jewel Quest Preview
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    Jewel Quest is practically Match-3 royalty. The original game hit the PC in 2004, and has since been ported across several consoles and portable game systems. It's even free-to-play on many web-based game sites. Maybe you still tab it out when you hear your boss's feet sweeping towards your office.Now Jewel Quest is finally coming to mobile phones and tablets. No surprise there, since the likes of Candy Crush Saga has made Match-3 games a pretty hot ticket. Digital marketplaces are currently brimming with Match-3 titles as a result of their popularity, however. Will one of the genre's precursors manage to wrench some attention from the candy-crazed masses?There's always time for a little Match-3 gaming, and Jewel Quest aims to capture players by giving the original some depth. Whereas the original Jewel Quest doesn't require much of you beyond turning the sandy portions of the board into gold by making matches, the mobile Jewel Quest goes around the world with a story. You play as an archeologist who's trotting the globe in search of treasure and wonder. It doesn't take long before you stumble on both. In the end, however, it's all just to motivate you into solving puzzles."Though there are some new twists, Jewel Quest's core gameplay should feel familiar to series veterans. Each sand-covered game board is scattered with jewels. When you match up jewels of the same color, the sand lying beneath said jewels transforms into gold. When you turn the entire board gold, you move on to the next level.