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Infinity Blade II

Infinity Blade has made users on other platform than iOS envious. It has been claimed to have the best graphics of all mobile gaming platform. I agree but the gameplay is short and lack of full real time combat style. In essence, it’s real time combat but the characters just stay in one position. After an hour of game time, I believe that some of us would be bored as we would have fought all types of enemies in the game. I made myself a mission which is to use and master all weapons available. It took me a couple of days to do so but after than, Infinity Blade sits inside a folder called “Finished Game”.

Infinity Blade II starts where Infinity Blade ends. The graphic doesn’t look any better than Infinity Blade and it’s already outstanding. The battle style is still the same except that there are more weapons to choose from. Certain types of weapons do not work with shield. In other words, you can’t block but dodge and attack. Each of the weapons can also be paired with gems found in the game. Gems when paired with weapons enhance certain ability.

There are now more chests and gold bags in Infinity Blade II. However, most chests requires Small, Medium or Large keys. So far, I find that small keys can be easily obtain. I managed to get a Medium key by beating one of the enemies. Not to worry though, gems and keys can be bought in the store using money earn from winning against the enemies or collecting gold bags.

Infinity Blade II seems to offer a few more alternative paths compared to two in the first Infinity Blade. I have yet to explore all available routes as most paths will only be unlocked after a few rounds.

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Paradise Island

When I first bought my Android HTC Desire, I was very excited. That was the first time that I bought a newly launched smartphone. I owned quite a few mobile phones before this but they were already in the market for sometime. The build quality is great. In fact, everything about it is great only to be let down by the limited internal memory space and the problem with multi-touch when playing games. Due to these two problems, I am only using my HTC Desire for stuffs like e-mail, social network, document transfer and web browsing and some light gaming which don’t require multi-touch. Paradise Island is one of those games which could keep me playing for quite a while. I call it semi-addictive.

It’s free

Paradise Island is available and free on both Android and iOS. It is like one of those tycoon games where you build a city and collect taxes from the buildings that you have built. Different types of buildings have different taxes collection duration and caps. Some buildings can take up to 20 hours or so before you can collect money from it. It’s hardly challenging but I like to see how it looks once I have access to all the buildings. I like the simplicity.

Collecting money and piastres

On a smaller screen like my HTC Desire’s 3.7″, Paradise Island actually looks quite good. I have it installed on my iPad2 but Paradise Island’s resolution doesn’t look good on it. Furthermore, I have already been playing Paradise Island for months on my HTC Desire before I bought my iPad2. Hence, I decided to stick to my HTC Desire rather than having to rebuild Paradise Island on my iPad2. Paradise Island only takes a few minutes of my time a day as I only enter the game to collect the money. The game itself actually runs in the background so you don’t have to be in the game all the time to collect the money.

Piastres is special money in Paradise Island where you will need to purchase some special buildings. Collecting Piastres is difficult and it’s the way where the developer hopes to earn some money. There are currently three ways to increase Piastres, build a building that will earn you a piastre in about 20 hours, complete some designated tasks or purchase from the developer.

Battery consuming

Sooner or later, I will have to reorganize all my buildings either to make way for new buildings or to make it look better. When Paradise Island is running in the background, it consumes little or not noticeable amount of resources. However, when you are actually in the game, it will use up the resources very quickly.

Finally…

There are practically no cheats in Paradise Island. Several gamers have tried moving forward the time. It did help by collecting the money faster. However, the they switched back to the current time, Paradise Island branded them as cheaters automatically and it will take them 24 hours before they can collect money from each of the buildings that they built. I think I will still keep playing it unless I change my HTC Desire which I probably will resort to playing Paradise Island on my iPad2 instead.

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