Feed: Musings From Me - AggScore: 45.1

The Hobbit or There and Back Again (Revised Edition)

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While many have seen the cartoon and many have notions from seeing the Lord of the Rings films you do not quite get the full scope of the story till you actually read the book. The Hobbit is a story of, well a Hobbit and the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings. That Hobbit’s name is Bilbo Baggins and he is about to set of on an adventurer that will change his life and that of the entire world

Apple Pie

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There are many match 3 games out with restaurant themes, and this one is pretty much one of the more boring of the bunch. The graphics were a bit stretched at first, but it seems that this game was meant to be played in Windowed mode, because once I switched it out from full screen, it worked much faster and looked much better.

Marie Antoinette and the Disciples of Loki

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Marie Antoinette and the Disciples of Loki sounds like the name of some weird 1960s goth band, and there might actually be such a band with that name, but as a game, this was really lacking. While the storyline was intruiging, with the interesting historical figures we run into, and the great cities and cultures of the 1780s, the graphics were really lacking.

Jewel Quest Mysteries: The Oracle of Ur

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Iwin Games makes some pretty nice casual games, but I was a bit disappointed when I booted up Jewel Quest Mysteries: The Oracle of Ur. I was expecting a match 3 game, but I was given a HOM from the beginning. Now, I love an adventure game, and the setting was pretty unique, since looking for artifacts in Mesopotamia does not get as much media attention as Egypt or Central America.

Mermaid Adventures: The Magic Pearl

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When King Neptune leaves the kingdom grotto for a few days, and leave his daughter Alice in charge, things go horribly awry, and the evil octopus, Sprutto, steals Neptune's magic pearl. It is up to us, Alice, and her little friend, Crabby (seriously?), to get it back.

Herbie Goes Bananas: The Road To Rio Has Never Been Bumpier!

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When Pete Stanechek (Stephen W. Burns) inherits a car from his uncle, Jim Douglas, he has to go to Puerto Vallarta to pick it up, and this begins another whirlwind adventure for everyone's favourite 1963 soft top Super Beetle, Herbie! 53 is now racing from Mexico to Rio by land and sea to become a contender in the Brasil Grand Primeo race, but he has to survive many obstacles first.

Haunting Mysteries: The Island of Lost Souls Collector’s Edition

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This is my first review of a HOM from Fuzzy Bug Games, and it definitely has a different feel to it from the beginning. Instead of crashing a car at the outskirts of some creepy small town, we are crashing a plane in somewhere in the islands of northern Scotland.

Open Season: The Odd Are About To Get Even.

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The mid 2000s were a great time for animated movies, and bringing animal characters to life gave us a whole new kind of format and lots of fun times when our favourite actors could cut loose with no cameras on them Just a script and a soundboard. No wonder actors love doing voice acting. We are treated to the talents of Martin Lawrence, Ashton Kutcher, Debra Messing, Gary Sinise, Billy Conolly, Georgia Engel, Gordon Tootoosis, and Patrick Warburton are just part of the crew assembled that takes back the forest when the local authorities declare Open Season in some random forest town in the Pacific Northwest.

Best In Show Solitaire

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While I like dogs just as much as cats, and I have to admit that the dogs in this game are very cute, it was not really gripping, but if you've got a bout of insomnia, or the neighbor's dogs are keeping you up when they bark at their nocturnal kitty friends at night, Best In Show Solitaire, will put you right to sleep.

Trivia Golf

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So take a day on any one of your favourite beach golf courses, and imagine you have to line your shot up, then you have to answer some random trivia question before you can take the shot. Your question's difficulty is based on how far you want to hit the ball. The closer you get toi the putting green, the more difficult the questions become, and if you've grown up with North American culture, many questions won't make sense to you, since apparently, whomever came up with them is British.