Showing posts with label Secret. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Secret. Show all posts

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Pharaoh's Secret Game Review

It's just amazing how Egypt's many mysteries can still keep secrets up to this day when many documentaries and reports had already been made about them. Pharaoh's Secret is nothing different, even being a game that explores a fictional story about the secret life of noble Egyptian rulers; however, how it fares as a casual game is entirely a different matter.

The game is a match-3 installment that revolves around the adventures of an archaeology student named Daniel and his professor during their investigations of the great history of Egypt. I must admit, the story is a bit confusing since at first, you're off decoding a strange papyrus discovered from another professor's archives, then later on, you're trying to find the lost relic of the pharaoh Didumes. What's good about the game though is that you can review the story afterwards, I reckon just so to clear things up a bit on your actual mission, but if you're like me, well, I'll just go on and play the game in any case.

Anyway, as a match-3 game, Pharaoh's Secret follows the same gameplay as its predecessor, Da Vinci's Secret. The gameplay is unique wherein you need to group 3 or more balls in order to eliminate them from the board. A ball can be moved in any location within the board as long as there's a path for it to travel on the intended area. If a ball is moved and no matches were made, additional balls will appear on the board. Do this for several times, and the board will fill up, forcing you to retry a level.

There are several objectives for each of the levels, and you'll encounter a range of really difficult ones as you go along the puzzles. The most used objective is to put the key towards the same colored keyhole by clearing all balls blocking its path. Other objectives include assembling puzzle pieces by joining them together, and clearing out a mesh grating by matching the seal to its lock. Sometimes there are multiple objectives on a single level too, but don't worry too much, because even though the levels are timed (for a top score placement), you can always take as much time as you want in analyzing the puzzles.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Review of the game Pharaoh's Secret

It 'just amazing how many secrets are still secrets of Egypt until today, when many documents and reports have already been made about them. Pharaoh's Secret has nothing on his own a game that a fictional story on the secret life of noble Egyptian rulers understood but how it fares as a casual game quite a different matter.

The game is a match-3 rate, which revolves around the adventures of an archeology student named Daniel and his teacher arein their investigations of the great history of Egypt. Admittedly, the story is a bit 'of confusion, as found at first, is ready to decode a strange papyrus archives another professor, then you try to find the lost relics of the Pharaoh Didumes. What is good for the game is to control the story later on his own as clear things a bit 'on your real task, but if you're like me, well, I just go and play in anyHomes.

However, as a match-3 game, Pharaoh's Secret follows the same gameplay as its predecessor, Da Vinci's Secret. The gameplay is unique, but you need a group of three or more balls to remove them from the board. A golf ball is to be moved to any position within the board, as long as a location for which to travel. If a ball is moved and no games were the balls appear on the board additional. Do this a few times, and is composed of the Council willforces you to repeat a level.

There are several objectives for each level, and meets a number of those really difficult as you go along the riddle. The most common objective is the key to the keyhole of clearing all the same colored balls to block the path . Other objectives are the puzzle pieces fitting together to connect through them, and clearing a mesh network by the seal to his castle. Sometimes there are multiple targets on a singleincluding but not much to do, worry because even though the levels are now (for a score of placement at the top), a level can always take as long as you like puzzles in the analysis.