Giveaway of the Day - Save the Snails!

Just a very basic review today:

Installation:

Here’s another Wheemplay game. Most of you know the score with these games. They are flash based games that install to the following path:

C:/Games

The 7.88Mb zip file unpacks to a read me and a dual activation and set up module that’s wrapped with the giveaway custom wrapper. Once installed you’ll need to create a shortcut. You’ll find the executable in the games folder but not in one of it’s own (as with all Wheemplay games).

The game plays on XP, Vista and Win 7

Main Menu

Level Selection

Introduction

Grab items, collect crystals and avoid touching bad guys! Submit highscore and get awards!

Reference accessed HERE 14th Aug 2011

The Game

Here’s a very simple physics based game where you have to balance snails on rafts of various sizes and shapes. There are 30 levels in total. Each successive level includes extra snails sometimes of different sizes and eventually enemies and crystals. If you tip the raft so that the snails fall into the water you’ve lost and have to restart the level.

Once you’ve played several levels you’ll be introduced to bad guys and collecting crystals. You have to collect the crystals while avoiding touching the bad guys, which makes it a little more difficult to save your snails from falling into the water.

Initially you’ll get logs for the snails to float on but later things become more complicated with barrels, boxes and other shaped floatables. The aim of the game is to make sure the snails don’t fall directly into the water because they sink to the bottom. You’re allowed to immerse the snails in water, but they must still be supported by a floatable object beneath them. If a snail does fall off a floatable you have to replay the level. At the beginning of the game all levels are locked apart from the first two levels; as you progress you’ll always find two levels unlocked which helps a little if you’ve become stuck.

There are only 30 levels to play with achievements to win and a high score table. The game starts in windowed mode, but you can play the game in full screen mode by clicking on the maximise button to the top right of the window. You can also close the game from this location. To the top left of the game playing area you’ll find three buttons. These are toggles for sound and music plus a reset button that allows you to restart the level.

Features

•Enormously emotional snails!

•30 awesome and addictive levels with different
approaches

•Achievements and highscores

•Highscores and awards

Free Online Version:

If you want to see if the game is worth downloading, you can check the browser version of the game HERE

Video Walkthrough:

There’s a spoiler video walkthrough of the game HERE.

Conclusion

Save the Snail is a very simple game that for me got tired very quickly. There’s little variation in the game which makes it hard to enjoy (IMO). Though after playing through the first several levels I did find it increasingly challenging but not impossible. You needed to balance the snails on the variety of floatable objects that changed every few levels from logs to rafts and various shaped pieces such as barrels, boxes, and even triangles.

I’m a little torn with this game. My initial thoughs basically said “boring” but persevering and getting past the first 10 or so levels I found the game to be quite challenging. It’s still got little in the way of variation but I wouldn’t write the game off totally. Give it a try and try and see if you can get to the end without falling in the water. I bet you can’t go the whole 30 levels without at least one snail falling into the water,

Scoring

Gameplay – 5
Graphics – 4
Sound – 4 (became very annoying after a while)
Re-playability – 5

Overall score 4.5 out of 10

what a yawn for a sunday! i decided to play dungeon rider(little mexican with the big sabrero), wow , still so exciting.However i find myself stuck at the magenta castle, still trying to find a solution.Give us a challange well enjoy , like dungeon rider, youda farmer, or similar.