Awakening: The Skyward Castle
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love this 'Awakening' series
Great game, worth to buy, but still the Moonfell Wood is my favorite.
March 17, 2013
Lost for words!
This game was my favorite of the series personally. Super fun, Lots of brain work and up to Awakening standards the scenery was B-e-a-Utiful!
March 12, 2013
Not a fan
This wasn't a very good game. Most of the challenges didn't make sense and a lot of the mini games were hard as what they asked you to do made little or no sense. Not a fan of this one and quit after a while as I just couldn't handle it anymore.
January 3, 2013
Worst Game Yet
My favorite BF games are the HOGs. I wasted time and money on this game that other people obviously love. I finally gave up on it and deleted it without finishing because I really hated all of the minigames. I know now not to try any of the other awakening games.
November 8, 2012
Another Good One
I totally enjoy the series you never get tired of it as the locations and graphics are stunning. So well worth to buy - great replay value.
I agree with other reviews this one has heaps of puzzles which I enjoy but they are quite easy but still fun to do. Thanks for reviews fishies. And great work dev - another good one to enjoy!
October 2, 2012
BOOM-ZAP GAMES ARE #1
5*****STARS ACROSS THE BOARD FOR THIS GAME & ALL GAMES BY THIS DEVELOPER, BAR NONE! 1ST CLASS ALL THE WAY IN ALL CATAGORIES!!!!!
October 1, 2012
Nice Finish to a Series
Beautiful story
Relaxing when I need a break from more hectic games
Got collector Edition earlier.
Looking forward to more like this
Enjoy :)
September 28, 2012
Good Pace and Graphics
I like the Awakening Series. Excellent graphics and a good story line. Good pace to the story and challenges. Bright not dark which is a good change of pace from some stories.
March 2, 2013
Worst of the three
I honestly tried to like this one as much as the other two, but the strategy guide in this CE is useless as far explaining some of the new puzzles. That is my largest complaint. I had to just skip most of the new type puzzles, just too little info to go on to try to solve some of them. I had to wait until the SE and walkthrough came out to see how to solve puzzles that stumped me. I really did not enjoy this one. It was just frustrating.
October 1, 2012
Kitty's Thoughts: The First Hour of Play is the Best part of the game.
Hello, this is kitty, and I just beat this game. However, I had to say.... I was highly disappointed in this game.
The start out was good, when you actually reached skyward castle, and you had to recover your alicorn or unicorn in the story. However, you encounter dreadmire who appears and causes destruction in the skyward land. You had to save people who were turned to stone, and at the same time find your parents that you've hadn't seen in a 100 years. So far soo good right,
Well, that's what you get for the first hour. However, the interest doesn't really hold itself much with the gameplay. As I will explain each part.
First the story line, I had to say, out of all the previous games, the story line seemed interesting at first. Believe me, it does start out really good. However..., the story tends to drag more as you go through the story. I even felt like when you get to one bit, it felt like the developers was just trying to drag on the story when all you want to do is finish the story. You feel like you are getting closer to the climax when all of the sudden... oh great more repetitive stuff to drag on the story. Which is my next bit...
The challenge I marked at the lowest... not because it is easy.... it's because it has unbalanced puzzles with some that don't even give you better instructions on how to solve it. Which was the biggest issue in their past games. I am shocked that even up to now that they did not fix that issue about the puzzles. For example. I probably would like the patch puzzle enough if the first puzzle give you a simple diagram on what the numbers tell you. Do not be ashamed to look at a walkthrough because you'll be depending on it on most of the puzzles because the owl is completely useless. If that's not bad enough, you might find a problem with the puzzles. There's also no balance between the puzzles that take you hours to solve verses the puzzles that give you a break from those. Sooner or later, you'll get to the point that you don't even care to solve the puzzle because they throw at you a bunch of time wasting puzzles along the way. The worst part is that they keep repeating them in different ways.
The only positive thing is the looks. I mean this game looks awesome and is unchanged from the last few games. As always, it feels like you're going through a nice picture book.
However, the last thing I would like to talk about is the fun factor. The game would seem fun at the first hour. I mean I was pulled in and brought the game. However, when I got to the mid point I realized how much the game is not giving you much direction on what you need to do. In time, you might start depending on the owl. If it gets really bad, than the walk through. By all means, do not feel ashamed to use a walkthrough if you're a person with a life.
Overall, for a kid with a lot of time may find this game fun, but if you're an adult and you only got limited time to play everyday.... this game is not for you. Avoid it at all cost because you will not have fun. If you want to play an awakening game that fits your needs. Play Dreamless castle or Moonfell Wood. Those are the best games that fit your needs. Goblin Kingdom is iffy, it has similar issues like this game, but it's not as bad. You might slide with Goblin Kingdom. It Sad because I really want to like this series. However, I won't delete this game because it was my free one. Overall, I would not recommend this game, and I believe this would probably be my last buy. I might as well save my money for the Dark Parable series. The ones that did it right.
Overall, Kitty Out!
June 1, 2013