Saturday, June 28, 2008

SpongeBob SquarePants Diner Dash

Do you love watching SpongeBob SquarePants? How about playing Diner Dash? Well, I’ve got a game for you. Why not try the SpongeBob SquarePants Diner Dash. It’s a whole new game, similar to the original Diner Dash, but this time catering to the much younger crowd. Who doesn’t love SpongeBob anyway?

Instead of seeing Flo operating the diner, here you will see SpongeBob, working for Mr. Krabs who wants to expand his Krabby restaurant. The instructions are similar: seat customers, get orders, deliver food, get the check and clean the tables as quickly as possible. The happier, the better! I mean, you wouldn’t want them to leave right and lose some money?

Of course, there will be different customers with different levels of patience and generosity. But at a later level, you may get a podium so you can chat with the customers waiting in line and distract them from complaining too much. The game may be familiar, but every level will provide an interesting and challenging twists.

Rating: 8/10

Monday, June 23, 2008

Jane's Hotel

A lot of time management games have been released with different storylines but almost the same instructions on how to play the game. You will just need to control the character to serve your customers in a timely manner.

Another great game I loved is the Jane’s Hotel. I have also played its 2nd game release which is the Jane’s Hotel Family Hero.

We all know that working for a hotel is not an easy job especially if you’re alone operating the whole business. The instructions may be easy; just serve all your customers with just a click of the mouse. Give them what they want fast. And in between levels, you may upgrade your hotel so you can fully satisfy your customers and provide 4-star service to your guests. If you want to earn bonus points, you may chain actions together.

Also, a cleaning lady is available to vacuum the rooms after each guests leaves and water the plants to prevent from drying. In the 2nd game, there will be another crew to help you when a certain machine does not work.

Although this might be similar to the Diner Dash games, I think the game still lacks a certain quality. I think it should improved more on the type of customers and make the game livelier.

Rating: 8/10

Monday, June 16, 2008

Jojo's Fashion Show

I love this game.

It's not the usual fashion management game that takes place in a store and helps your customers to get what they want. You get to dress your models in different themes and stylish outfits from a simple jeans and shirt to elegant dresses and showcase these stunning outfits on the runway.

You get to go to 5 fashion capitals to showcase your styles. I loved it that the game has so many clothes to choose from. If you think you don’t have the right fashion sense and dress up your models appropriately, you can just click on the name of the style above each model to check out on the description on what kind of clothing the model needs. Jojo and Rosalind will give out specific details on what the style is about.

The two stylists will also show you their own signature outfits and if you were able to re-create those outfits, at the end of the game, you will be able to unlock those outfits in dress-up mode. Dress-up mode is the place where Jojo can dress up models ranging from a variety of clothing and signature outfits that you have unlocked. Moreover, you can save those outfits you made on the models by getting a photo and save it on your computer.

If you think you won’t be able to use the clothes stored at the bottom of the game, you may be able to shuffle it to change the styles, change only the bottoms, change only the tops, or change only the shoes. You may also choose to pick an outfit off the rack and save you from getting your models out on the runway with just their undergarments. Another helpful trick is when you get to choose more time by simply dazzling your audience for a few seconds.

Rating: 9/10

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Diner Dash

Whenever I go to the restaurant, I would always think of Diner Dash. How long will the crew get our orders and deliver our food to us.

As I have previously posted, my love for online games started with Diner Dash. I have loved every game it has released. I have loved time management and strategy games. I think it’s the best game ever and it is very addictive! I don’t get bored when I play it!

I love it that the persons behind the game have been releasing different game settings and stories in each game they release.

The game is pretty much easy to play. You will just click your mouse to control Flo. Moreover, you get bonus points if you chain actions together and seat them according to their clothing colors. You could get full hearts by giving them a glass of soda. You can even hire another crew to clean the dishes, give customers free soda, chat with the customers waiting in line or even play music to increase everyone’s patience. Or else, the customers would leave when they lose their patience for waiting too long for something.

In between levels, you will be able to upgrade your shop to better serve your customers. And like any other games, there will be different customers with different levels of patience.

Rating: 9/10

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Burger Shop


I don’t remember when this game was released but when I got to try it out for an hour, I instantly loved it. It was so worth it. You get to enjoy 80 levels in story mode, and while your rank is getting higher, you’d get to unlock the other game modes like the challenge mode and the relax mode. And you think that’s it? Absolutely not! You know when you get to finish a movie or in this case, the whole game, you would see the credits afterwards… In this game, you would also see what happened to your customers – like what they are doing now, what they are up to, and where could you find them. And after you have completed the story mode, you get to unlock the expert mode too. In short, you’d get to enjoy another 80 levels of the game! Isn’t that great?

I really enjoyed playing the game. You would get trophies too while you get a higher rank and could view your hall of fame. And yes, some levels are simply confusing. The orders of the customers can be really confusing especially when you have to add their favorite sauce: ketchup, mustard and ranch dressing or when they want their fries and sodas in a smaller size or when the customer orders 3 burgers at one time like what the surfers do (they are actually my least favorite customers).

One of my favorite customers would be the clowns. They would order some crazy combinations of food that is not available in the menu. They prefer their burgers with 4 patties, combination of chicken and burger patties in one sandwich, an empty fry carton with sauce, and mustard or ketchup on their ice creams. Who would want to eat that?

Final Rating: 9/10 – I would definitely recommend this game to everyone. Try it and surely you’ll have fun.