It does all of this in a very casual, very accessible package with a high degree of polish and care. Strategy, planning, tactics, luck, risk, reward, surprise, frustration, and those all-important “eureka” moments. So what makes this game work is that it hits an awful lot of elemental gameplay buttons. ![]() READ ALSO: Cracked LCD- Clash of Cultures in Review There’s also water hazards, and the layouts can get pretty tricky to negotiate. Then there are cards locked up by sandtraps, requiring you to find a hidden sand wedge (is that what it’s called?) in the display. Cards block other face-up cards so there’s some strategy involved, and some cards are face down so there’s a risk factor involved in picking them. You flip a card, and then pull a face-up card off the display of either the next higher or lower number to it. The golf theme works surprisingly well even though it doesn’t really have anything to do with the gameplay. The gopher shows up and laughs in your face, but it’s never not charming. But then it’ll put the boot in and completely screw your perfect round on the last hole. It rewards you, constantly patting you on the back and giving you positive feedback. ![]() It has that mysterious X-factor thing that the best casual games have that make them very compelling and effortless to play. What the hell am I doing playing this game?Probably because outside of whatever Satanic pact the folks that made this game have entered into to make it so addictive, it’s really damn good. Thus, I can not explain why Big Fish Games’ Fairway Solitaire, recently released in iPhone and iPad flavors, holds such a sway over me outside of devilry. I just don’t particularly care for the mechanics of traditional solitaire games, and playing it electronically seems like something that you would do only if you were stuck monitoring some gauges or something in a remote Arctic substation and had absolutely nothing else to do whatsoever. I think I’ve played Windows Solitaire, the most popular video game ever made, all of one time when I first got a Windows PC sometime in the early 1990s.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |