Harry Potter - The Hogwarts Mystery

Harry Potter

The Hogwarts Mystery

This is a game for all the Harry Potter fans, no matter how whom you are.

This game is played on a mobile phone, and is quite a nice game. You get to be a student in Hogwarts, meeting new friends, make decisions, and go to classes.

Story

The story takes place a around a decade before Harry reaches school.The game starts when you are in Diagon Alley, buying your books for your first year at Hogwarts. There you meet your first and closest friend, Rowan Khanna. There you tell Rowan about your brother, whom had been to Hogwarts and mysteriously disappeared. Then you hop on the Hogwarts Express, and reach your new school. There you are sorted into your house (You get to choose which one you want to be in) and classes start. Soon after that, you meet a nasty Slytherin girl named Merula Snyde. Have an experience locked in a room with Devil's Snare choking you. After that, you start making new friends like Ben Copper, and Penny Haywood. Ben is much like Neville Longbottom, a cowardly Gryffindor, and Penny is a bit like Hermionie Granger, but more interested in potions than anything else. Later, you hear  about the Cursed Vaults, and how they contain cursed ice. I have described only the main parts of the story because the finer details really depend on how you play the game., for example, I am a Slytherin, meaning that Rowan was too, and I tried to stay in the good books if the teachers. I also only described the first year, because that would take too much time to write and read, and I am not yet finished with the second year

Gameplay

The graphics are actually very nice in my opinion, and are somewhat nice to look at. However, the game play overall is not the greatest. I enjoyed talking to people and making different decisions, but the game's mechanic of to make sure you don't finish the game too quickly is to make you spend energy points that replenish over time. you start wit a max of 20 energy points, and once you spend them all, you have to wait 4 minutes for one energy point. To put this in perspective, a class typically takes around 30 - 40 points. The most annoying part is that once you spend all your points and you get out of the game to wait for more, by the time you have enough, you've probably forgotten about it. Though I like this game, many will not due the need to wait for long periods of time to progress in the game.
Good luck and have fun if you are playing this game.

Pokémon Go

Pokémon Go

Pokémon Go is a game designed to make you walk through and around your neighborhood. By doing so, you find pokémon and can catch them much like in the pokémon TV show you can get pokéballs and different berries to help 'catch 'em all' at Pokéstops. There are three teams you are allowed to join: Red, Yellow and Blue. Each team is designed for a different kind of pokémon trainer. When catching pokémon in this game, you do not have to weaken your opponent with your own pokémon, and just have to throw pokéballs at them. Each gym belongs to one team, and members of that team may put their pokémon inside to guard the gym and keep it to their own team. You can overthrow a gym with your own pokémon and win it for your team. With the new updates, there are raid battles, battles that have one extremely powerful pokémon for you and friends to attack. You may have up to 20 friends attacking at once! There are a lot of things in this game that could be better like the fact that you can't use your pokémon to damage wild ones to make it easier to catch them. Instead, you have to use Razzberies and often times, great balls and ultra balls instead of the regular pokéball. I also don't like that your pokémon do not evolve by themselves with experience. You have to catch more and more of them for candies, and the take forever to acquire. Take Magikarp for example, every time you catch one, you get 3 candies, and can give one to the professor for 1 extra. It takes 400 candies to evolve. that means you must catch at least 101 Magikarp to evolve it to Gyarados, and more for a better one. I have been playing this game for aroun 4 months now, and have caught 5 Magikarp. It also takes candies to make pokémon stronger, so you need more and more candy for everything. One more problem is that the candies of pokémon that are super common like Rattata and Pidgey go to complete waste once I've evolved 1 or 2 of them (I have 218 Rattata candies and 2 Raticate). This game isn't all too bad though, it can really kill time on road trips or anytime that you are a passenger in a car because you don't have to put any effort into walking at all! Overall, if I was to rate this game, I would say it gets a 3.5 star rating. This game is available for free on mobile devices. As always, good luck, have fun and stay safe (You should really stay alert, people have died playing this game).

Age of Mythology: Extended Edition

Age of Mythology: Extended Edition

Released in 2002, Age of Mythology is a legendary game that I grew up with. I used to play this game all the time, and am pleased to finally write this review. This game is a real time strategy game based around war, in ancient times. Whats unique  about this game is that in this game you may train mythical beasts ranging from the Greek Cyclops to mighty Titans. This game is played on the computer, it can be played online. I play it on steam.

Gods and their benefits

Though the Titans are only in the extended versions of the game. This game is filled with many civilisations: the Greek, the Norse, the Egyptians, The Atlantans, and the Chinese. The original game only included Greek, Egyptians, and Norse. When you play, before the game commences, you must choose one major god to worship.

Each of the civilisations have 3 different gods:

Greek: Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades

Egyptians: Isis, Ra, and Set

Norse: Thor, Odin, and Loki

Atlantean: Gaia, Oranos, and Kronos

Chinese: Fu Xi, Nu Wa, and Shennong

Each civilisation has its own unique strategy, benefiting certain aspects of your arsenal. Each god benefits another part of your army, with the benefit of the civilisation (Example: Hades benefits his archers, and the Greeks have strong infantry).  With each god comes 6 minor gods with each of their own improvements to your army. You may choose 3 to advance through the ages, each of them give you unique god powers,  powers you may call upon at any time of the game to assist you, economically, or assist your army.

Advancing through the ages

There are 4 ages in the game, In the Archaic age, you have almost no military, and limited technologies. It is useful to scout the area for food sources, and gold during this time. 

During the archaic age, you main aim is to gather resources and set up a basic economy. 

In the Classical age, you have basic military, and some technology. During this time, what I do is try to build a small army to fend off enemy attacks and perfect my economy.  

Then come the Heroic age, when you get your palaces, large buildings that withstand heavy attack and gives you a larger choice of military to attack with. At this time, you get siege weapons to tear down buildings. The heroic age is the time at which you need to set up trade routes to substitute for gold mines, and build up your army and upgrade it. At this time many people launch small attacks on their enemies to cripple their economies. 

The final age is the Mythic age, the time at which you must upgrade and attack! You get powerful units and god powers to crush your opponents! In the Mythic age with certain upgrades, you can get a Titan to fight for you,  and research omniscience, which allows you to see all that your enemies see!

Types of Units

Each unit in the game is strong against one other type of unit and weak against a different unit (almost like Pokémon). There are 3 main unit types: Infantry, Heroes, and Myth units. 


This game has tons of information embedded inside of it, and is a brilliant game to play. Each unit or building has a description of how significant it was in history (with exceptions on things like goats or pigs). There are many fun cheats in the game. To use a cheat, you must type the cheat in all caps in game. The cheats are so unique and funny, like GOATUNHEIM is a cheat that gives you the god power to make every unit in the game a goat.
I live this game and have learnt so much and I hope you will too so good luck and have fun!

The Impossible Quiz

The Impossible Quiz

The impossible quiz is such an old game, released on the 20th of February all the way back in 2007. This game is liked by so many people on the internet, that it has been on the top 10 games of notdoppler.com ever since it was there. This game is filled with 110 questions that are so ridiculously senseless, the only strategy for you to get through this game is to think vary far outside of the box* and don't try answering with any sense whatsoever. that will get you through this game (or of course, the impossible quiz wiki). The aim of the game is to answer all the questions and earn skips in the game and eventually finish all of the questions (hint: you need all of the 7 skips you get in order to complete the last level). 

At just question 5, you probably would get stuck, considering you're actually supposed to move the mouse outside of the game and to the other side.
This game is truly legendary and I would definitely suggest it to anyone.
Have fun, and Good luck!

Jurrasic World: The Game

Jurrasic World the Game is one of those games that take real time to play.

It's about creating dinosaurs for you to level up, and to fight other dinosaurs.

This game is a rather large game due to it having many animations and 3D models for so many different dinosaurs, so I would not advise you to play it on an old device that's not very powerful, because it has a tendency to crash. This is a game played on your phone but I

 recommend playing this on a tablet.

Anyway, There are four main types of dinosaurs.

Carnivores

Herbivores
Pterosaurs(flying dinosaurs)

and Amphibians (I really don't know)

Each class of dinosaurs has a disadvantage towards one and an advantage to another (and one that it is neutral to).

There are many different dinosaurs In this game, and each of them are sorted into these classes.

They are also sorted into the categories:

Common, Rare, Super Rare, and Legendary. Common is the weakest of all classes, and legendary is the strongest of them all. (There are hybrids of dinosaurs that are even more powerful but I'll let you learn about that yourself). There is a story line in this game but I never payed attention to it, just because it really has no end.There is a part of the game when you must use dinosaurs that live in the water, with 3 different classes instead of 4. They are: surface, cave, and reef. Reef has an advantage to surface, surface has an advantage to cave, and cave has an advantage to reef.in the water it is really quite the same as land as to battles except it is a bit more laggy. If you do want to play this game I will warn you that paying money is not worth it.This game has wonderful dino graphics and animations, there are around a hundred dinosaurs in this game with each of them having 4 different textures. Personally, I have been playing this game for a bit more than half a year now, I haven't spent any money and I am close to being half done with the game. Now this doesn't mean that the game takes a year to finish, it takes more because as you progress, the time it takes for dinosaurs to evolve, hatch and heal(after battles) get  higher and higher. due to the latest update, there is the raptor squad in the game. What the raptor squad does, is give you in game bonuses for extra attack, block, etc. The raptors in the squad are the same raptors in the movie (Charlie:attack Echo:sabotage Delta:support Blue:defence). The squad only can be used in some events, so they are not too useful. Updates come out very frequently. Not too long ago Ludia introduced us to the Cenozoic era, or the ice age, when wooly mammoths and smilidon (sabre tooth tiger) existed. This game isn't too bad but not that great in my opinion. It is very time taking, as it took me around a year to finish around 1/3 of the game, and I'm a pretty serious player! So if you start to play this game, you will soon realise that I only wrote a bare summary of what is really in the game. If you liked this post, read my other posts and see if you like them! Have fun and good luck!

Stick War Legacy Crown of Inamorta

Stick war legacy:

Crown of Inamorta

I already have a post for stick war legacy, but this post is for the Crown of Inamorta part of the game. The Crown of Inamorta is a tournament in the game in which you play against different types of characters in different modes of the game (deathmatch, classic..). On top of playing with different types of opponents you get to choose your own avatar. These are the avatars and their abilities:

Miner: Every time a miner deposits their gold, you get 10% extra.

Swordsman: They train 20% faster.

Archer: Controlled archers do 180% more damage.

Spearton: Regains thrown spears in 10 secs.

Mage: Creates 2 minions at a time, have double health.

Giant: Costs 25% less (1125 gold)and trains 2 times faster.

Although you do need to unlock them with crowns that you get after winning the tournament, most of them are really worth it. This part of the game is actually pretty fun to play because of the different maps and the fact that you get to have 15-25 upgrades for your units and that they refresh every game. I like playing as all of the avatars except for the swordsman because its really not that useful and I really don't use them very often. Speartons are a much better option. Make sure you check out my review of the campaign part of this game. Have fun playing this game!

Black 4

Black 4 is a game that I didn't know till very recently. It is about a man breaking into a big building. The intro didn't really specify much, but it might be a bank. You have 8 guns to use. All of them shoot very quickly except for the pistol, shotgun, and the rocket launcher. This game is actually very well programmed but I did find a glitch. I don't know how it happened, but I was walking towards the wall, and I went right through. And in that room, I skipped fighting almost all the enemies. In this game there are researches that you can research to upgrade your guns, you can upgrade you own speed, health and the slow motion ability. The slow motion ability basically allows you to slow down time, and dodge your enemies bullets. Many different enemies are in this game like turrets, police officers, and scientists. The turrets are very annoying because of their extreme health and their fast attacks. The way I destroy these pests are by using the one and only, rocket launcher! The rocket launcher is so powerful that it can destroy the turret in 1 shot. 

This game is absolutely brilliant in my opinion so if you do want to play it, click here. Have fun and good luck!