Comments on: Magic Gem: It’s A Kind Of Tragic

By: Danofthewibble

Danofthewibble — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 16:58:51 +0000

Piyo Blocks 2 plays and looks a lot like Zookeeper. This is a Good Thing.

By: RevStu

RevStu — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:34:38 +0000

SSSHHHHH!

(Yes, it does.)

By: Colman

Colman — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:32:25 +0000

Something called “Piyo Blocks 2″ is on sale at the mo for £0.59/ €0.79/ $0.99 — it looks kind of Zookeeperish, and the iTunes description is ringing Zookeeper bells for me. I don’t like what they’ve replaced the animals with, though: some kind of dull, charmless, anthropomorphic block. Yeah, “block”. Apart from the colour, they all look exactly the same.

Don’t suppose it features in that upcoming roundup, RevStu?

By: RevStu

RevStu — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:07:56 +0000

I’m planning a little roundup of the few non-shit match-three games shortly. particularly with reference to the “games going on forever” issue. STAND BY.

By: Craig Grannell

Craig Grannell — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:45:35 +0000

What, pay for cheats? Absolutely. You don’t have to spend real cash money—you grab them with bonuses. The problem is that it makes a mockery of the high-score tables, because you’re not starting on anything like a level playing field. I’ve done this myself: I can usually average around 200,000 on Blitz, maybe getting up to 400,000 on very rare occasions. With a few boosts, 400,000 is pretty easy within two goes.

Still, if you want high scores, try Magic Gem. I actually gave up on one game after about a half-hour, because it was clear it would never end, and it was boring me to death.

By: romanista

romanista — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:38:26 +0000

Ah that’s why you were complaining, but people in YOUR friend’s list surely wouldn’t do that, would they?

By: Craig Grannell

Craig Grannell — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:28:17 +0000

Maybe Ignition signed a contract roughly along the lines of: “If you ever release Zoo Keeper for any other platform, we will kill you to death. You already annoyed us with Zooo on the PS2. Don’t do it again. Or else.”

Bejeweled Blitz is pretty similar to Zoo Keeper in terms of speed, for what it’s worth, although PopCap broke it will nasty ‘pay for cheats’ on Facebook.

By: RobF

RobF — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:02:27 +0000

Which once more makes me ask the question “WHERE IS ZOOKEEPER?”

Someone give me Zookeeper without Quest Mode and I’ll love them for life.

Actually, scratch that. The missus will steal my iPod.