You've been called to investigate a strange purple tide. And that's when the mermaid shows up...
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Not quite polished
This is a good, solid Match-3 game that's nicely responsive. But it's also unfinished in so many ways: the app does not respond to 'quit' and if you switch to another application you have to retrieve its window by clicking on the dock because there's no other way to un-minimise it. The garden is phoned in - this is a desktop app, and instead of one small area, that will be crammed with items when you're done (but has all of the layout from the start, a little more effort could have put into wandering around in the grounds and developing a more visually-pleasing result. The gameplay itself is a mixture of puzzle and luck - which means that if you want to 'solve' a level by getting maximum points, you will have to replay it a number of times until luck is on your side, but you click several times to replay it where a single button would have done the trick.
All in all, fun to play, but with limited replay value.
My favourite solitaire is SevenSeas solitaire, and admittedly thats a high bar to clear, but one cannot be a pirate all the time. This has an amusing backstory, but the levels themselves are boring and somewhat phoned in - draping the cards in different ways does not distract from the fact that most of them seem to be '4-5 rows that you need to match'. There's no feel of 'level design' here; the game lacks generosity (no undo for those 'oops, didn't see that' moments, cannot play a joker after the last card) and all too often I end a session because a level has three playable cards, they're all face cards, you cannot use jokers on face cards, so you hope that a playable card turns up sooner than halfway through your deck.
I like it, and it's worth picking up on sale, but don't expect great gameplay.
Great expansion on reasanable price (not as last EU4 expansions). It adds new layer of strategy, but also makes game more random and force you always to have backup plan for bad events. Witch is compensate by random bad events to your oponents. Also the new free patch is increadbly good so it deserves support.
I rarely go brilliant about a game - but this has a great story and game as well as a good bonus story. Warning though - if you do buy the non CE version the story ends VERY abruptly as it continues in the bonus!
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