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Very Very VERY old school & tey play very slow compared to modern RPGs. You have to play them with rose tinted glasses

I've purchased the first two but you are better waiting till Square have a sale before purchasing. I think I got them for £2.99 each.

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Yesterday is very good. It's a proper point and click adventure in the vein of Broken Sword, using and combining objects to solve puzzles. So far I've investigated a derelict subway and found a weird cult's lair, where the cult boss made me prove my intelligence by solving Chess puzzles! Nice. I'm trapped in a subway car with a loony henchman now.

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Thanks for the recommendation Phelan.

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Yesterday is very good. It's a proper point and click adventure in the vein of Broken Sword, using and combining objects to solve puzzles. So far I've investigated a derelict subway and found a weird cult's lair, where the cult boss made me prove my intelligence by solving Chess puzzles! Nice. I'm trapped in a subway car with a loony henchman now.

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Thanks for the recommendation Phelan.

Yeah I'm enjoying it too. Feels nicely old school with new school. Was playing on train today and someone asked me what the game was so they could buy it!

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toythatkills

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Drop7 fans might want to check out NineOut.

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The tiles at the bottom are yours to play with. You place them on the board wherever you want, and if the tiles surrounding the number you placed add up to that number, you absorb them, so here you'd play the 7 next to the 5 or 2. When you play a 9 next to something that adds up to 9, the tiles are absorbed and the 9 disappears, and the numbers on all the other tiles on the board are reduced by 1 (a 'nineout'). In this way, it's possible to clear the whole board, at which point you level up and your time is increased. Blank tiles are revealed by performing a nineout next to them.

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Drop7 fans might want to check out NineOut.

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The tiles at the bottom are yours to play with. You place them on the board wherever you want, and if the tiles surrounding the number you placed add up to that number, you absorb them, so here you'd play the 7 next to the 5 or 2. When you play a 9 next to something that adds up to 9, the tiles are absorbed and the 9 disappears, and the numbers on all the other tiles on the board are reduced by 1 (a 'nineout'). In this way, it's possible to clear the whole board, at which point you level up and your time is increased. Blank tiles are revealed by performing a nineout next to them.

Thanks, loving this.

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DukeOfEarlsfield

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Brilliant game. I also have virtua tennis for iPad - this is way better.

Brilliant game. I also have virtua tennis for iPad - this is way better.

I think Evolution Tennis is the finest single player tennis game I've ever played. It feels like a proper game of tennis, rather than tennis themed pong. The range of tactics and shots available from such an absurdly basic control scheme must be the result of some sort of game design voodoo. It's also brutally hard to start with. New players need to be prepared to lose. A lot.
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toythatkills

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I think Evolution Tennis is the finest single player tennis game I've ever played. It feels like a proper game of tennis, rather than tennis themed pong. The range of tactics and shots available from such an absurdly basic control scheme must be the result of some sort of game design voodoo. It's also brutally hard to start with. New players need to be prepared to lose. A lot.

Yeah, definitely found this, and it's making it very difficult to actually enjoy. The control scheme feels like rubbing your belly and patting your head at the same time, I just can't get the hang of positioning myself and aiming shots accurately as well in the 0.5s you have to do it in.

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DukeOfEarlsfield

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Yeah, definitely found this, and it's making it very difficult to actually enjoy. The control scheme feels like rubbing your belly and patting your head at the same time, I just can't get the hang of positioning myself and aiming shots accurately as well in the 0.5s you have to do it in.

There's not much advice I can give except that you do get better with practice. It gradually becomes very intuitive. Just be aware that you can tap to move several times. It's usually best to to move your player into a central position immediately after playing your shot to hopefully give yourself more time to react to your opponents reply. Just like real tennis basically.
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Miner Willy

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It's the only tennis game I've ever played that isn't piss easy in single player. It took me a while to get to grips with, and even now it's tough to beat the top players.

I also think he's tweaked the difficulty between versions: for a while I was winning everything, then it got impossible to beat the top players. Now it's in the middle, and about right.

But yeah: brilliant, brilliant game.

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Miner Willy

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Free it may be but it's a dreadful attempt at tennis. The presentation is equally appalling.

I didn't like it...

I would suggest you need to give it a proper go. The presentation may be lacking, but it plays a superb game of tennis. It just takes some getting used to as it's tough to get to grips with the requirement to position your player and then hit the shot location a fraction of a second later. But once that clicks it's a brilliant game.

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Magic 2013 is perfect if, like me, you're an addict.

But the app crashes every time I try to start a planechase campaign (iPad 1).

Well if you weren't aware, it does say it's recommended for iPad 2 upwards, so perhaps that is why.

You are now top of my shit list now by the way for showing me that it is at least somewhat playable on the original iPad. I'm going to have to check it out and possibly lose the last little bit of spare time I have now. Yeah, thanks for that.

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Disgraced Toblerone

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Well if you weren't aware, it does say it's recommended for iPad 2 upwards, so perhaps that is why.

It's perfectly playable, but it's slow when you reach the point where each opponent has a dozen creatures on the field...

It very well could be the final nail that will force me to buy a new iPad. Fuck.

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It's amazing how well it holds up isn't it, when I got my iPad 1 earlier this year I was worried it would feel sluggish like the older iPhones can do, but it isn't apart from specific instances.

I honestly don't think the general public would know the difference if you took a New iPad off them and gave them back the original one.

Seems pretty quiet for iOS games of late, I need my new arcadey game fix!

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Seems pretty quiet for iOS games of late, I need my new arcadey game fix!

Cthulhu Saves the World tonight.

But yeah, there hasn't been much on iOS for about six months that's managed to hold my attention for more than half an hour, New Star Soccer and Pocket Planes (to an extent) aside.

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It's amazing how well it holds up isn't it, when I got my iPad 1 earlier this year I was worried it would feel sluggish like the older iPhones can do, but it isn't apart from specific instances.

I honestly don't think the general public would know the difference if you took a New iPad off them and gave them back the original one.

Seems pretty quiet for iOS games of late, I need my new arcadey game fix!

I find that my ipad1 is far slower than the 2 and 3 for many things. Safari is incredibly slow in comparison and many games slow or constantly bomb. On top of that, more and more apps and games are traded that simply don't run on the 1st gen iPad.

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Cthulhu Saves the World tonight.

But yeah, there hasn't been much on iOS for about six months that's managed to hold my attention for more than half an hour, New Star Soccer and Pocket Planes (to an extent) aside.

In my case, the novelty has very much worn off with my iPhone. I've enjoyed a fair few games for it, but I'm going to get a 3DS XL.

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