Garfield's Diner
Last Updated: 2012
Company: Web Prancer
# of Levels: Made it to level 7
Price I Paid: N/A
Time Spent Playing: 22 Minutes
Story Line: Irma convinces Jon to take over the diner for the summer
Review:
+ Love the look of the game itself. Jon and all the characters look liked they just stepped off the pages of a Garfield comic strip.
- There are no instructions at all as to how to play the game or how to use (what I assume) are power ups.
- There is no pause button which is something every game needs in case of a sudden distraction.
- In order to collect your daily Garfield points you will need to be connected to the internet which is tough for people who want to play but have to use their data because they aren't in a wi-fi zone.
- You can't pre-program ANY actions. You are constantly waiting for Jon to be done every task before you can send him to the next one which means you never get to be one step ahead.
- You should have the option to end the level after you've completed the challenge instead of just keeping the diner open longer.
- If you fail a challenge then you shouldn't be allowed to level up yet in this game the challenges are only there to earn extra points and not mandatory to progress in this game.
- The 24 hour clock is terrible because it only counts the time in minutes instead of other games which shows you the progress of time in a pie style clock or one that simply just counts down the time you have left. It took me a little while to figure out why it started counting upwards at 900.
- The controls are really sticky and it's hard to move characters to different locations or tell Jon where he needs to go/what he needs to do next.
- Like I've said before, I would rather pay money for the game as a whole then sink my money into game "upgrades" or in this case "unlockable characters". Sure, you can get to 500-2000 Garfield coins to select new characters without having to pay, but it might take you a year and I don't have that much time to spend on this one game.
Overall:
It's very clear that this company spent the majority of their game money on getting the Garfield licence and making it look authentic because it really does look incredible. I think they forgot however that part of the game is the actual game play which is severely lacking. From the fact that there's no pause button, you can't pre-program Jon's actions, the 24 hour clock isn't the easiest to read, the controls don't work very well and so on and so on. I wouldn't recommend this game unless you're fine with sinking money into unlockable characters and upgrades so you can pass every level or you have a lot of extra time to figure everything out without instructions.
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