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Hobby Farm
Game description:
Jill's longtime dream is finally coming true as she has stumbled upon an island farm while on vacation. It took a little convincing, but her husband Jack has agreed to purchase it and now they are both ready to run a farm on their very own island. With rumors of buried treasures and pirates swirling around however, her newly-found hobby might just prove to be a bit more challenging than she imagined. Join Jack and Jill in this charming endeavor to make their island farm thrive. Harvest exotic fruits, care for free-roaming animals, and operate handmade machines to produce even more bountiful products in 50 enjoyable levels. Purchase new equipment to keep the delicious crops coming and work the farm under the gorgeous sun, but beware of nightfall because looters may strike. With two game modes, rewarding trophies, and a host of items to harvest, and a customizable setting, Hobby Farm is certain to fill your leisure time with fun. Sheeparcade exclusive review:
Introduction:
There is something strange about games that you see repeat the core structure of other games, on the game market and the manufactures are completely aware of it, so asking yourself a question why it is happening, is totally understandable. But what probably comes as a more confusing fact is the number of answers to this question is multiple. For this review I will select the obvious one as it seems that way from my perspective is the most logical one. To begin with you need to be aware that besides the gameplay, the game’s premise is also used a couple of times in other games, making the game a clear copy & paste when you look at it from that point of view, but like I said I look at it from another perspective.
Gameplay:
Let’s start from the beginning with the description of the game which kind of shows the regular circumstances in which games are normally made. The story is set on a tropical location where our heroine while walking through the mentioned location suddenly sees a sign saying a farm is for sale and at a very low cost too. This was like a sign from the heavens for our heroine as her lifetime dream was running a farm at a location just like this, so she can enjoy her favorite job in the world in the most beautiful location that exists. The game is set to be played in two different modes, relaxed and timed. Both of them are clear to all of the players, but the relaxed mode isn’t available from the beginning of the game as you need to finish up the first five levels of the game before it becomes available. The number of levels that are in the game is fifty. Now considering that you need from 3 to 5 minutes per level (depending on how well do you know this type of game), you do the math and calculate how much time does the game have when it comes to terms of length. Adding to all of this is the replay value of the game which is somewhat standard for this type of game. There are trophies that you win through the game, but the best ones are gotten for replaying the certain levels of the game, if not all of them… The general idea of the gameplay is also very famous in the casual games world, as I mentioned earlier where you need to seed different types of seeds, tend to them and harvest them later for which you will get paid, depending on the type of product that you produce. This is all very familiar to a nice number of games out there on the market, but since I read other reviews I saw the game My Farm Life was mentioned a couple of times. I haven’t played that game personally so I can’t say are we talking about similar games, but there are some facts that I can really conclude with other editors and their reviews, but more about that later. The products that you get don’t have to be used for selling straight away, as they can be used for additional production of other products, increasing the value of your final product and earning you more money. However those possibilities are handled more often later in the game when you start upgrading your machines on the farm. Watering, mixing up cocktails, some crazy combinations are all part of this game, and as fun as it sounds, it is all seen at least partially in the games that I have so far reviewed. There are some features in the game that come to show its real potential like when the upgrading starts; you will also need to repair the already existent machines. As the game continues so do the rest of the features show themselves. Some of them are the changes between the night and day, where at night thieves start snooping around. Because the animals are generally very sensitive and they have some sort of sixth sense for these situations, the production of the goods stops in the game until you remove the danger that is the thief. To help you around this situation is a couple of power-ups that enable the continuing of the goods production of animals and plants. Scaring of thieves means a couple of stars for you which can come in handy a couple of times through the game, like a speed boost for Jill or even moving your husband from the chair and helping you around the farm as he never does that. But from what I can tell there is one thing that separates this game from many other and that is the user interface or better yet the controls in the game,. There are always some flaws in this part of the game whatever the type and genre of the game it is, but this game has put those flaws to almost zero. Besides the standard controls the manufactures have added some options that have found their way to a list of often complaints of constantly missing through a nice number of games. For example the option of canceling an action in progress is there. When it comes to moving around the game, each part of the game can be easily reached as the map part of the game is very flexible and accessible.
Graphics and sound:
The problem that will disappoint all of the players of the game is in the graphical part, as you could expect more from this game hence the effort put into the gameplay to provide a flawless experience. The graphics of the game isn’t the satisfactory level of the games released at this time, so I’m really starting to believe there is an unwritten rule for casual games that says, ‘There always has to be one wrong thing about the game’. Most of the games in this genre and similar gameplay will be extremely well done in graphical part but will lack the proficiency that this game has when it comes to the gameplay. So there you have you decide, will it be the graphical surroundings, or the enjoyment of playing a game where you don’t have to worry about making a huge mistake!
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