graller
1661
open feint - grallerqt3
Also dying for some numbers over my Uniwar icon. No one has invited me in months! <sulk>
Hugin
1662
Seven Cities has two levels of speedup if the ships are too slow for your tastes. There’s a also an iron man mode that allows you to create your own map layout. Also, are you playing the later maps on hard?
I had not noticed any speedup controls, where are they?
tomchick
1664
The “play” arrow at the bottom of the screen.
-Tom
Why wife just got me an iPod touch for Xmas, and she went ahead and gave it to me so I can start playing with it. I didn’t even ask for one, so I was totally stunned by it. I also haven’t thought about the games for this thing AT ALL, but browsing through them they look pretty good! This thread is really long, so I guess I have some reading to do.
Ephraim
1667
Dave is predictable, and oh so right.
Thanks… I thought that was just the play/pause button.
Wow. Uniwar does look awesome. These games are cheap!
How did Song Summoner turn out? It looks like a Monster Rancher game mixed with FFTactics. It’s mentioned earlier in the thread, but I don’t see a followup.
Uniwar and Rolando 2 (or Rolando 1, or both). And Edge the next time it’s back in the store. And probably Defender Chronicles.
Equis
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Did not like the story, and the soldier/song summoning seems impenetrable. Personally, I think it’s too fiddly for an iPhone game and not enough tap:action ratio. It seems like a throwback to console jRPGs where the majority of the time is spent managing your troops and comparing various amounts of stats. It’s not something I’d play on the iPhone myself.
Try the lite version at least. You may like it more than I did.
@Robert: Be sure to check out Prism and 7Drop. Civilization Revolution, Bookworm, Peggle, Jet Car Stunts, Triazzle, Earth vs. Moon, Mecho Wars, Beneath a Steel Sky, Soosiz, SmartGo (if you like Go), Undercroft, and Dungeon Hunter are also great.
Check appventcalendar.com every day till Christmas for free games, and download PandoraBox ASAP. It tracks bargains and lets you flag games you want so you’re alerted when you’re on sale. Games for this system may be cheap, but they really add up if you’re paying more than a buck a pop for them.
The correct name is Drop7, but it’s indeed an excellent puzzler. Also still on my list of favorites are Galcon and Toki Tori (just finished the second world, and it’s still great). And Nick Chase: A Detective Story for more adventuring.
Regarding 7 Cities, speeding up the game helped quite a bit. After four levels on Normal I’d say it’s an okay game – not as terrible as Field Runners but neither on the same level as Defender Chronicles or even GeoDefense. The single preset path without crossings or branches or flyers is really rather too simple. But I also think they fumbled the upgrade design.
Usually you pay the same money for upgrades as you do for new towers. That means there’s a tradeoff decision to make: do you strengthen existing towers or build new towers? That tradeoff does not exist in 7 Cities because upgrades require a separate currency (gems) which towers produce automatically as they level up. Yeah, you can buy one (1) gem for 100 gold but that’s just silly – I could buy several towers for that money, and have them earn several gems in no time! And the yellow gems for branching upgrades are not even pooled, so you can only spend them on the towers that earned them.
So initially there’s just a lot of busywork where you give each tower its obligatory first gem (which provides an amazingly huge damage boost). And unless I missed it, you can’t even see the gem upgrade level of each tower without selecting it. Decisions don’t come in until later when you’ve accumulated lots of blue gems and wish to boost specific towers.
Likewise, there are more red gems than corresponding upgrade options so the tower customization outside of the game is a bit of a no-brainer, unlike the hero customization in Defender Chronicles. The game’s not outright bad but could easily have been better if the designers had not been so overly generous with their upgrade items.
Wow, UniWar is free for 24 hours - grab it now if you don’t have it, and then learn the ropes so we can shoot your dudes.
Equis
1678
Openfeint ID: Valiumaddict.
Add me so I can compare my geoSpark score with Krok and Chick.
You’re in third place. I’m having trouble playing geoSpark at the moment, it’s so humid up here that my finger sticks to the screen enough to make it challenging to play anything that requires precision swiping.
And with that bit of whinging, Tom’s score topples.
