Some comments of the games on this site
3 years, 4 months & 11 days ago
13th Jul 2021 02:17 General Impression
A lot of these games seem to be copies of older or more classic games in video game history, only with a marapets redesigning. I don't really mind, because this way I have more experience to handle these types of games.
Fairy Flight
This game reminds me of Flappy bird. Similar mechanics, but oddly frustrating and addicting at the same time. I'm very bad at this game. Not sure why it's popular, but I can't stop playing it. It's so annoying, I have to keep playing this game.
Guess the Flag
Conveniently, I just take the time to look up a list of flags online, and with enough tries, I can find the country. I was worried it was going to mention in game countries, but oh well.
Toy Blocks
A seemingly casual game that is meant to test your mental flexibility. That is, your ability to shift your focus from one subject to another. The type of things you find in IQ trainers and brain testing games, but in the disguise of a game for children.
Ninja Nino
Isn't this just Fruit Ninja? But I do like the humor of references in this site. I saw the CDs. One said "Arinya Grande Hits." Other CDs were similar. I wonder if a lot of CDs are just references to musical artists I haven't heard of. I actually laughed out loud.
Space Rocks
Basically Tetris, but this game and me go years back with me entering online competitions with this. So fairly enough, I do very well with this game. I actually find gummy bricks, the more popular similar version of this game, harder. Not sure why.
Maze
I like to start at the end of the maze, then try to trace the steps back. It makes it a lot easier. Figured out this technique myself as a kid reading kids' magazines. Same thing with Wacky Workshop and Blackout. I find it helpful to find the beginning and the ending pipes for the later levels, then try to figure out the middle later on.
Chess
People would think I am good at this game, but I'm not. Though fairly enough, I'm good at getting ties or stalemates, and that still has a lot of MP to it.
Colors
Why is this Uno game so surprisingly hard? I thought this game was supposed to be easy.
Gold mine
Another visual puzzle game not exactly as popular like Tetris that I'm good at. Enough levels in, I'm honestly a bit stuck. Though you do get paid more MP the higher you go.
Code breaker
Finished the first levels in 5 or below tries, but now I'm stuck at this point. Oh well. . . I'll figure it out eventually. Helps to have taken a logic course in college, and watched videos about it in high school, with some books. Useful to be nerdy.
Pumpkin Patch
I can't seem to get used to how the head of the pumpkin man is the one that is hitting for the points rather than the pumpkin at his hand. This is . . . so confusing, but I did it.
Mother Mardo
Like the above, but a helpful factor in the game strategy is that the goal is to get all her babies out of the colored balls, not to remove all the colored balls. It also helps to just bounce stuff on the wall to reach higher ceilings of the game.
Monty's Great Escape
Crazy Taxi, but with a cute monster looking figure. I'm surprised there was a down button for this though. Couldn't get the cookies before, until I accidentally clicked the down arrow key, then I can get under the traffic signs. I also find it helpful that you can still move left to right as you jump.
Memory and Echo
Both memory games I'm fairly good at. I don't know why, but the latter game is harder even if the first seems more complicated. Maybe because I can check two cards at a time, while you only get one shot in hearing the pattern in the next one even if there's less to remember. It helps for me to give some nicknames to the cards in Memory to remember it. Like "Cyclops guy," "Ice cream guy," "Delivery Turtle guy."
The Echo game focuses on developing working memory, which is the amount of things you remember in one moment. Most people can only remember about 7 things at a time, so it helps to chunk it. That is, to split the patterns up into groups. Maybe memorize three or four fish colors at the same time, then it gets easier.
Mahjong
This is the hardest match visual game I ever played, and I'm a bit addicted to it. I don't seem that good at it, but I at least finished some medium ones. Hard levels, I have no clue.
Word Search and Word Pirate
Well, I'm glad I read a lot of books for vocabulary games. Oddly enough, I'm very horrible at the anagram sam games, less because I can't think of any words, but the words I think of aren't listed in the software's dictionary. Maybe I have to list down some common words marapets uses because it often repeats itself throughout different games. It also helps to know how to read forward and backwards, vertically, horizontally and diagonally.
Sometimes I just guess random common people names or pet names in the word pirate game, and it ends up as correct even if I barely know about all the pets on this site. Somehow it works.