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DISCOUNT (649p → 179p) Review of The School: White Day for iPhone and iPad – legendary horror

07/01/2022 by

The original version of the horror film White Day: A Labyrinth Named Schoolreleased for PC back in 2001, gained immense popularity in South Korea and other countries of the world, and many fans still remember this game with warmth. Considering that White Day still has a lot to offer players, the Korean studio Roi Games has prepared a remake of the game for iPhone and iPad – The School: White Day…

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The mechanics of White Day may seem unusual to some, but overall the gameplay is perceived well, especially considering that large companies are no longer interested in the horror genre, practically leaving it at the mercy of indie studios. White Day offers players three-dimensional graphics, an immersive storyline, and an atmosphere of hair-raising horror.

We play as a student named Li Hui-ming, who sneaks into school to leave a gift in honor of White Day, a holiday celebrated in many Asian countries a month after Valentine’s Day. On this day, young men give gifts to the girls they like, mostly made of chocolate.

However, an innocent undertaking turns for Li Hui-ming into a dangerous journey through a haunted school, where, among other things, a maniac watchman works, hunting anyone who meets him at night in the building. Our hero does not have combat skills, so the only thing left for him is to hide and run away.

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In addition to the main character, the school also has four girls with whom you can conduct a dialogue, choosing certain phrases. The plot of the game is non-linear and all actions will in one way or another affect its outcome. There are 7 possible endings in White Day.

As the game progresses, you will have to solve many puzzles. Although they are made in an interesting and thoughtful way, due to poor lighting and almost indistinguishable textures, it is sometimes quite difficult to find this or that object, so you have to explore the same location several times.

In many horror movies, the main emphasis is on the visual component, in White Day the atmosphere of horror is achieved through sound. The game perfectly manipulates sounds, evoking a constant feeling of fear, even when the hero is hiding in cover.

One of the notable features of the game is the difficulty selection. Unlike other games, where difficulty affects the amount of hero’s health and damage inflicted by enemies, here, the higher the difficulty level, the more often you will meet with enemies. In addition, at medium difficulty, you will not be able to see the hints. Saves in the game are also limited, and the difficulty level affects how often progress can be saved.

Curiously, the puzzles in White Day are randomly generated, so even after repeated playthroughs, the game does not feel jaded.

Despite the venerable age, The School: White Day still can give a lot of pleasure, primarily due to the masterfully preserved intrigue and atmosphere of fear, created by high-quality musical accompaniment.

The cost of the application in the App Store is 649 rubles. Download requires an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 8.0 or higher. The game has been translated into Russian.

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DISCOUNT (749p → 179p) Review of the game Kingdom: New Lands for iPhone and iPad: an exciting story of the swamp kingdom

14/12/2021 by

Fans of strategy will probably be familiar with the game Kingdom, originally available only for PC and Xbox. Now your favorite game is optimized for touch screens, and you can play it on Apple mobile devices.

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Kingdom: New Lands received old-school minimalist graphics and only three control buttons. However, the apparent simplicity should not mislead you – there are many secrets in the game, and you will have to pretty much puzzle over them. Some people may not like the lack of prompts, but objects, characters and mysterious statues will help you in solving problems. True, first you need to find out exactly how they can help.

The goal of Kingdom: New Lands is to build a kingdom in the swamps and protect it from the demons that are constantly attacking your domain after sunset. Keep in mind that you cannot build something on your own, but you can hire builders for a fee. The same goes for attacks. To carry out attacks on the enemy, you will need to pay mercenaries. All you can do is ride left and right on horseback and pay in coins for services. However, everything is as befits a true king. Be careful – losing Kingdom: New Lands is as easy as shelling pears. Demons can attack you and steal the crown. In this case, write wasted, the game is over.

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The lack of clues adds mystery to Kingdom: New Lands. It should be noted that the mysterious atmosphere is one of the main advantages of the game. At the very beginning, you will be greeted by the ghost of the king or queen. He will tell you how to get to the fire and give some advice, and then the fate of the kingdom will depend only on you. Resist the temptation to take advantage of online guides. It is much more interesting to see the consequences of your actions yourself. Yes, some of your actions will lead to death, but do not despair – each time you will gain more experience and become more visionary.

A few words about the design of the game. The eight-bit retro-style graphics are truly eye-catching. The light of the stars, glare on the water and natural phenomena are clearly traced. Day turns into night and vice versa. The weather also does not remain the same; changes in the seasons are noticeable.

Musical arrangement will not leave anyone indifferent either. The soundtrack is very calm and melodic, but at the same time, it evokes an eerie mood. When the environment changes, so does the music. In addition, changes in the melody suggest what to expect next. Importantly, the soundtrack does not seem monotonous, and the repetitions of the melody are imperceptible.

Among the drawbacks of Kingdom: New Lands, we can note that the game is somewhat protracted. Few people manage to go through it to the end.

The game can be downloaded from the App Store for 749 rubles. Kingdom: New Lands is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch running iOS 10 and later.

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DISCOUNT (599p → 179p) Dandara – a dynamic game for iPhone, iPad and Apple TV in the style of Metroidvania with unique mechanics

13/12/2021 by

Long Hat House’s quirky game Dandara is undoubtedly an eye-catcher. It is a 2D metroidvania-style platformer (an action-adventure genre with gameplay similar to Metroid and Castlevania) with unique gameplay mechanics and a beautiful world that makes you want to explore. Despite being released on multiple platforms, the game feels like it’s designed for touch screens.

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The plot of the game is simple: the main character, Dandara, needs to save the world of Salt from the forces of evil. Since Dandara is an unusual metroidvania, you will not be able to move in the usual sense of the word, but only jump from surface to surface. By pressing and holding the area on the right side of the screen, you indicate where Dandara should land, and she can only move around certain areas of the platform, usually highlighted in white.

Interestingly, the game is not familiar with the concept of gravity, the heroine is able to jump both on the ceiling and on the walls. The game changes orientation from time to time, which is a little confusing even with a map, but that doesn’t make it any less fun.

You will have to act quickly and decisively to dodge and defeat enemies. To do this, you will have to shoot your opponents using tapes on the left side of the screen. Dandara cannot be called too difficult, but it will make you sweat, especially when you have to fight the enemy on the go, trying to accurately hit the target.

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Most likely, you will die more than once or twice before adjusting to the gameplay. As with other games of similar genres, Dandara has zones that cannot be accessed or completely unlocked. But you can return to them later, having earned the necessary improvements.

As you progress through the battles with huge bosses await you, it is at these moments that the unusual design is most striking. For the most part, Dandara’s elements are slightly pixelated retro, but bosses and other talking heroes have their own aesthetics that make it feel like the characters came from another game. Surprisingly, all this is harmoniously combined with each other, creating a unique picture that matches the same unique game mechanics.

The soundtrack is also on the level. Although Dandara does not have a soundtrack as such, but only background music, this is enough to create an atmosphere, and the motives change from level to level, just like the sound effects.

Dandara is an excellent iOS game with interesting gameplay, stylish graphics and a touch of nostalgia that is hard to break away from once you try to play.

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DISCOUNT (459p → 179p) Bridge Constructor Portal game for iPhone, iPad and Mac – a hybrid of Portal and Bridge Cunstructor

09/12/2021 by

Back in 2007, the game Portal was included in the popular collection of computer games The Orange Box from Valve. The long-awaited release of Half-Life 3 or Portal 3 never materialized and turned into a meme. Valve fans have long ceased to hope for the release of a new “Portal”, so the emergence of the Bridge Constructor Portal is a real event.

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In the game, you have to become a new employee of the Laboratory for the Study of the Nature of Portals, whose duties include ensuring the safety of the movement of men in toy cars from one edge of the screen to the other. To do this, you have to build bridges, ramps and other objects in 60 cells. You will have at your disposal repulsive and accelerating gels, air panels of faith, cubes, etc. With the help of a special blaster, you can shoot orange and blue portals. Upon entering the blue portal, you will exit the orange one and vice versa.

The Bridge Constructor Portal itself would not be such a wonderful puzzle if it were not for the presence of the ubiquitous helper GLaDOS. She will teach you everything you need to do your job and take the game to a whole new level.

It should be borne in mind that Portal Bridge Cunstructor is not a Portal after all, but rather a Portal-themed Bridge Cunstructor. Just like Bridge Cunstructor, you have a lot of tools for building bridges, but like Portal, you will have to solve puzzles (for example, use the force of gravity to speed up objects). The game also received switches and cubes from the original version of Portal.

The game controls are intuitive and very smooth. To mark the place where you want to put the new bridge component, just slide your finger across the screen. To move objects, touch, hold, and drag. The zoom will help you set the desired element as accurately as possible.

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The game is great fun on the iPad, but it’s also optimized for the iPhone (though you’ll need to zoom more often because it’s not easy to position the element on a small display). The small screen can be annoying not being able to drag the subject to the desired location, but the zoom easily solves this problem.

Bridge Constructor Portal is divided into levels. To complete the level, it is enough just to bring to mind one test object, while the entire constructed bridge may collapse altogether. True, the game has a significant drawback – if you cannot solve the problem for a long time, the whole process will stall until you find a solution.

Other puzzles like The Room have a hint system. If you’ve been thinking about a task longer than usual, the game will provide you with a little hint. If it doesn’t help you, a second, more specific one, will appear in a few minutes. However, if she also turns out to be powerless, the third clue will literally tell you what to do. However, the Bridge Constructor Portal does not have anything like this, and if you get stuck, it’s for a long time.

Portal fans may not like this part of the game. If you are a fan of Bridge Cunstructor, then this new product will be to your liking. Moreover, the new mechanics borrowed from Portal makes the construction of bridges even more interesting.

The game is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch running iOS 9 or later. There is a localization into Russian.

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DISCOUNT (179p → 0p) Hocus game – a minimalistic puzzle with an extraordinary design

06/02/2021 by ALOK DAS

The developers describe Hocus as “an elaborate, smart and minimal puzzle game with dozens of levels and an extraordinary design.”

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Outwardly, “Hokus” resembles the order-bearing Monument Valley. All that is required by the story from the player is to lead an unusual cube to the exit from the level. At first, this task will not be difficult, but the further, the more difficult.

There are 120 levels in the game, new ones are added periodically. In addition, the developers invite everyone to create their own levels and share them with other Hocus fans.

App Store editors note that the game is truly addictive:

“… She makes you look at things in a new way.”

Praise of the strict jury was also awarded to the graphics and “soft” music.

In the meantime, there is no need to know about it. ”

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DISCOUNT (499p → 179p) Review of the game Gris for iPhone and iPad: a meditative, smart game with a thoughtful animated world and a cool original soundtrack

04/12/2020 by ALOK DAS

The Spanish developers from Nomada Studio clearly wanted to stand out from the crowd with their debut project. The spectacular visuals of the platforming game itself mean a lot, but the creators of Gris managed to make the game a model of modern art. Or did they give their creativity the form of a game? Gris is the case when you want to enjoy the game, giving it your time and plunging into the emerging feelings. A story told with watercolors and sounds does not particularly require textual accompaniment.

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The opening video shows us a girl singing on a huge stone hand and losing her voice. Together with him, her support collapses. The girl falls and slowly wanders somewhere, we try to start controlling her, but instead of jumping, our character only falls. Feelings of sadness and grief appear immediately. But soon Gris finds the strength to run through lifeless, but clearly detailed traced locations. The description of the game explains the situation to us – the naive Gris found herself in her own world, hiding there from the pain that pursues her in reality. Obviously, we have to help the girl get stronger emotionally and teach her to see the world differently, giving it not even new, but forgotten colors. It is no coincidence that the name of the heroine was chosen – in translation from Spanish it means “gray”.

In the surreal world of Gris, the transition between locations is carried out over the star bridge. It is required to build it anew every time, looking for shining spheres located in secluded places. Gradually, the heroine acquires new skills: double jump, swimming, hovering in the air, and her singing will make hidden mechanisms work. And even the girl’s dress becomes her indispensable tool, turning into a heavy cube.

The locations are quite diverse and force you to use new skills. If at first Gris just runs through the gray desert and jumps up the stairs, then in the underwater kingdom she will already have to dive, in the sky-high palace to control gravity, and in the world upside down, we will need to use spatial thinking. At the same time, the locations also take on their color, obviously, to match the mood of Gris. One of the locations is generally hopelessly black, but who can reproach the girl for such feelings?

The platformer can hardly be called heavy, forcing you to masterfully control the hero. Fans of clever puzzles may even get a little bored. There are places in Gris that you will have to think about passing, but usually a couple of minutes is enough for this. And you can’t die in the game. Falling down from any height will occur on a bridge or a fountain, and Gris’s dress saves, like a parachute. Flying axes, acid ditches and shooting enemies could not have been in this kind, thoughtful meditation game. And the monsters encountered do not attack the girl and do not pose a danger.

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The animators from Nomada Studio managed to create a fabulous, beautiful and conceptual world. It is he who is the foundation on which the game is built. Without this clearly lovingly and carefully crafted image, Gris would simply have gone unnoticed and impersonal. The game has many elements that attract the attention of aesthetes: glass palaces, exquisite staircases, dark tunnels, watercolor sky. The animators paid the required attention to details and small strokes.

At the same time, the drawn world is conceptual and surreal. But this makes us look for metaphors, hints and hidden symbols in it, thinking it out. So we are invited to shape our story of Gris’s experiences and dive deeper into her feelings. I want to interpret what is happening to the girl. It is not difficult to see in history the motives of overcoming, resurrection and purification. But these ideas are smeared over the gameplay, which can be perceived as an author’s movie. The final scene will deservedly become the highest emotional point.

The second important component of success is the atmospheric and meditative soundtrack from the Berlinist group. Gris’s journey is accompanied by the sounds of piano, organ, violins and crystal chimes. All this only adds to the feeling of magic from what is happening with Gris.

The Gris game can be called a rare representative of the art therapy genre that suddenly appeared in games. The heroine’s journey in abundance gives light feelings and visually touches, no worse than the paintings in a museum. Gris shows how you can overcome depression by falling and getting up, crying with pain and joy. It is no coincidence that most critics evaluate the game positively, claims to it are connected only with passivity, simplicity and a bias in visual design to the detriment of activity. But art also evokes different feelings for everyone, and Gris can really be considered a bright creation that gives and reveals emotions.

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In the meantime, there is no need to worry about it. ”

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DISCOUNT (359p → 179p) Dragon Hills 2 game for iPhone and iPad – dragons and zombie apocalypse

05/11/2020 by ALOK DAS

The developers of the studio Rebel Twins have released a sequel to the exciting runner Dragon Hills, presented in 2015. If you are into high-speed arcade games like Grapple Gum or Pigeon Wings, Dragon Hills 2 will not disappoint you.

Download a game Dragon Hills 2 for iPhone and iPad (App Store)

The sequel to Dragon Hills offers everything you could want in a regular game – addictive gameplay, vibrant graphics and challenging missions. In this part, you have to destroy zombies, cowboys and aliens riding a mechanized dragon, crash into the ground at great speed and jump out of it at the right moment to neutralize as many enemies as possible.

Like most similar games, Dragon Hills 2 belongs to the category of autorunners. Controlling the game is pretty simple. The character moves automatically, and in order to make your dragon crash into the ground, a building or a crowd of opponents, you need to press your finger on the screen and hold it. When you release your finger, your dragon will jump up, allowing you to move to new platforms, collect coins, dodge obstacles and destroy enemies.

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On the way, you will come across various obstacles: zombies using cars to attack, firearms and even chainsaws, or acid pits, hitting which will end in the death of your character. This is exactly the difficulty of Dragon Hills 2, since you can only move up and down. With such fast gameplay, it is quite difficult to determine exactly where your dragon will bury itself in the ground and jump out of it, so you have to always be on the alert and calculate your reaction.

During the game, you will collect coins that can be used to purchase bonuses that allow you to defeat bosses and advance further in the level. The problem is that these bonuses are expensive and the number of coins at each level varies significantly. Fortunately, coins are not required to advance in the game, but their presence will allow you to advance much faster. The levels in the game are procedurally generated, so none of them are alike.

The graphics are perhaps the most impressive part of Dragon Hills 2. The vibrant, saturated colors don’t hurt the eyes, the foreground and background are perfectly balanced so that obstacles, enemies and buildings are clearly visible in the foreground. A small disadvantage is that at times too much chaos, explosions and destruction appears on the screen, so it is difficult to understand what is happening in the game.

The game fulfills all promises, offering a bright, fun and hot adventure, which is not a shame to spend a few hours. If you are a fan of Dragon Hills, or looking for a new game that will help brighten up the time on your way to work or school, check out Dragon Hills 2.

To download the game, you need an iPhone, iPad and iPod touch with iOS 8.0 or higher.

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DISCOUNT (359p → 179p) Game Reigns: Game of Thrones for iPhone and iPad – a real gift for fans of “Game of Thrones”

04/11/2020 by ALOK DAS

Reigns: Game of Thrones is a mobile card game based on the cult HBO series. Here you will meet your favorite characters: Cersei Lannister, Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, Tyrion Lannister and Sansa Stark, but you should not expect the game to accurately repeat the plot of the series.

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According to the prophecy of the priestess Melisandre, a new ruler will soon ascend to the Iron Throne, but for this he will have to show remarkable ingenuity, maneuvering between the cunning intrigues of the warring houses of the Seven Kingdoms. Through the eyes of Melisandre, you will be able to see the fate of those who have been honored to ascend the Iron Throne.

As the game progresses, new contenders for the throne appear, and for each of them there will be exclusive trials designed only for him. Get ready for the most incredible events that run counter to the series’ storyline. For example, you will have the opportunity to rebuild the Great Sept of Baylor while playing as Cersei. What about Jaime Lannister and Sansa’s wedding? Quite unexpectedly, but this is precisely the highlight of the game.

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So intrigue. As in the series, in Reigns: Game of Thrones they are given maximum attention. To win the throne, your actions must be as unpredictable as possible. You cannot do without successfully made alliances and betrayal of friends.

The real ruler, under any circumstances, must remain cold-blooded and insidious, otherwise rivals will not keep themselves waiting long. Manipulate people and strengthen your power, because winter is coming.

Don’t be afraid to impose your will. With just one flick of your finger, you can decide the fate of all the Seven Kingdoms with one flick of your finger. When the people of Westeros come to you, decide which one to listen to. Are you tired of their pleas and demands? Just chop the first one you come across by ripping his card in half. However, keep in mind that such decisions will not go unpunished. But you are the future ruler of the Iron Throne, and you have nothing to fear, right?

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While intrigue plays a big role in Reigns: Game of Thrones, the game is not all about it. The future ruler must at least occasionally pamper himself with a knightly tournament or just a drunken fight in a tavern.

For those who are not familiar with Reigns, we explain – this is a series of card games where you need to make decisions. The cards provide you with an event, and how it unfolds further depends on your response. Depending on the reaction caused by the card, the balance of the four “elements” (military power, church power, the strength of the people and the wealth of the treasury) changes. When the “element” reaches its maximum or minimum, the game is over, and you start over as another master.

I must say that in Reigns: Game of Thrones there are more than enough cards – at least a thousand. According to some users, the novelty is far superior to the other two games in the series.

Learning reactions and deciding destinies in Reigns: Game of Thrones is sheer pleasure! Another nice bonus for Game of Thrones fans is the soundtrack by composer Ramin Javadi, which has “migrated” from the series to the game.

In the meantime, there is no need to know about it. ”

You can download Reigns: Game of Thrones from the App Store for 359 rubles. There is a localization into Russian. The game is compatible with iPhone, iPad or iPod touch running iOS 9.0.

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