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Friday, April 3, 2015
Its Thursday App Review of the Week 02 Tower of Saviors
Welcome to our second In Depth Review of the week : Tower of Saviors (Free)
Introduction
It is a strategic puzzle card game created by the Hong Kong Studio, Madhead. It is massively inspired by the Japanese game Puzzle and Dragons, but it is only available to North America and Japan.
There is a possibility to link your account to your Facebook one or Twitter which will save your progression in the cloud. So you can resume your game while changing devices (Smartphone to Tablet) or when upgrading your latest Smartphone.
The game is a massive hit and just reached 7M of downloads and just hired Taiwanese actress, Michelle Chen to represent the game.

Basics

The game world is divided between 7 worlds and there are 5 elements with a paper/scissor/rock logic :
- Fire beats Nature
- Nature beats Ice
- Ice beats Fire
- Dark beats Light
- Light beats Dark
There is one territory dedicated to each element plus a special challenging area (various challenges changing everyday) and the main tower which concludes each chapter.
Among the different possibilities of the game, you will be able to change your team composition :

Every 10 levels, you will be afforded a second team composition, so you can adapt depending on your opponent.

In your inventory, you can choose how you arrange your cards (HP, attack, etc...). You can also check each cards profiles and then level them up or make them evolve after reaching the max level.
Game Mechanics

Before each game, you need to choose an ally to complete your team. So you will be controlling 6 cards instead of 5 and it will act as if it was part of your team.
More often than not, you will be offered to partner up with very powerful allies and after a while (~ 5 hours), you wont be able to win fights (unless youre grinding) without such allies.
At the end of each stage, you will be able to make a friend request if the chosen ally wasnt one.
Each successful completed stage will award you 10 Friend Points if your partner is a friend and 5 otherwise.

Battles consist in aligning 3 blocks of the same color. There are 5 different colors representing each elements plus Heart stones which allow you to heal yourself if you sustained damage.
Each turn, you can choose one block and drag it on an unlimited distance but in a limited time frame (somewhat around 5 seconds or less). While moving your stone, you will move others as well and making combos : aligning several 3 blocks or more. The more you make combos, the more damage you will inflict on your opponent.
If you align 5 stones or more of the same color, you will be awarded a super stone on your next turn.

At the end of each stage (from 3 to 7 battles), you will be awarded new cards and experience.
In order to participate to a stage, you will need to invest Stamina Points. When you level up, all you Stamina Points will be restored.
At the beginning and even after a while (~ 10 hours), you wont need to spend money in order to restore your Stamina Points.
Game Store

The game currency is Diamond except for Friends Points which can give your a card for every 200 Friend Points.
1 Diamong will be awarded to you when you complete a full level consisting on defeating 5 stages and the main tower. So far, I have spent 5 free Diamonds to extend my inventory and the need to pay hasnt manifest itself yet.
The friend list is limited to 50 but I havent reach the limit yet either.
Those are the prices of the Diamonds :

Verdict
This is must have for every strategic puzzle game fan. It is a complete free game and it will be a while before paying for anything especially if youre not a ultra heavy gamer. I play around 30 to 60 minutes everyday which is already quite something and I have not spent a single penny so far.
On top of that, the game is Adsfree.
Monday, March 30, 2015
Its Thursday Weekly App Selection 05 by PhonAsia
Lets start with 2 games this week.
Army Truck Driver (Free)
Army Truck Driver looks like a lot Trackmania. There are currently 2 racetracks in which you need to collect every available ammo and 3 stars to get the max score.
The racetracks are really well designed with crazy curves, uphills and downhills "roads" (you will see that there will not often be standards roads out there).
Yes, you will drive a truck but the physic is much more like a very light kart, you will need to drive carefully if you do not want to get a reverse truck (very easily done).
It took me almost 45 minutes to get access to the second racetrack without 100% completing the first one. Every racetrack try is about 2 minutes length, so it is a nice fail and learn game which is free.
Star Wars : Force Collection (Free)

This is the official Star Wars Card Games made by Konami. It is a very classic card games, no innovations whatsoever. You collect cards, form a deck, make a card formation during your turn then the battles happen.
Misc Apps
TuneIn Radio (Free)

Vine (Free)

If you do not know about Vine, now it the time to really read this and download right away this app. Vine is the official built in video service of Twitter. It allows you to make up to 6 secs mini-movies and share them on Twitter.
The video format is ideal for the intended service and align itself with the 140 characters limit.
Comic Rack (Free)

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Army Truck Driver (Free)
Army Truck Driver looks like a lot Trackmania. There are currently 2 racetracks in which you need to collect every available ammo and 3 stars to get the max score.
The racetracks are really well designed with crazy curves, uphills and downhills "roads" (you will see that there will not often be standards roads out there).
Yes, you will drive a truck but the physic is much more like a very light kart, you will need to drive carefully if you do not want to get a reverse truck (very easily done).
It took me almost 45 minutes to get access to the second racetrack without 100% completing the first one. Every racetrack try is about 2 minutes length, so it is a nice fail and learn game which is free.
Star Wars : Force Collection (Free)

It is pure fan service app and it is targeted towards Star Wars fans since getting famous characters cards with insightful informations is the most valuable aspect of the game.
Unfortunately for me, I am a Star Wars fan, the game would have been fine but there are still so many loads time related to the network crippling the game that it can spoil the whole experience for you.
Anyway, feel free to try and give us your feedback.
Misc Apps

Tunein Radio is the ultimate radio app that broadcast channels through your data network (either your data plan of via Wi-Fi). Search a song and find which radio is playing this song, search you favorite channels or just browse the channel list.
It is easy, it is free and if you do not have a built in Tuner FM, then this is a must have app.

If you do not know about Vine, now it the time to really read this and download right away this app. Vine is the official built in video service of Twitter. It allows you to make up to 6 secs mini-movies and share them on Twitter.
The video format is ideal for the intended service and align itself with the 140 characters limit.
Comic Rack (Free)

Comic Rack is the best comic reader out there. I have been using this app all holidays long and if you are a comics fan, it definitively should be your app.
It is smartphones and tablets optimized and adjust to every screen size. It supports CBZ and CBR natively.
It can synchronize to the Comic Rack PC software (itunes like) and download all the comics from your desktop into your device. Plus, after the synchronization, you will add CB7, CBT, PDF, DJVU and WebComics support on top of the 2 native format.
A paid version exits too at 5.99 €, it removes all the ads and adds a wireless synchronization with the PC Comic Rack software.
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