Animal Cove: Why You Should Give It A Chance!

Hi there!

Kingsisle has recently released a new mobile game, Animal Cove, globally on both apple and android devices! Animal Cove has so far averaged out 4.5/5 stars on Google Play and 4.8/5 stars on the App Store. Today, I thought I'd make a new blog post about why you should try out this new game. Before I share these reasons with y'all, let's talk a little bit about the game.

Animal Cove: Match 3 is a mobile game about a human (you) that gets trapped on a mysterious island with talking animals, a helpful new friend, and a billionaire! You have to help build a habitable island by restoring areas for all of your new talking animal friends. You're the only human that can talk to these animals, so you have to clean up the island, build a new home for you, and build homes for your new animal friends. In order to progress in the story, you have to earn keys. These keys can be earned by solving the puzzles, in which there are currently 300 puzzles/levels. This is a brief summary of the game. Here are three current things that I love about this new game:

The Storyline - My Review: 5/5

You start the game off by restoring a home for yourself and then building new homes for your talking animal friends. As you progress the game, you'll become interested in where the story is going. This is a match-3 game, but there is much more to Animal Cove than the puzzles itself. The storyline becomes very interesting and many times, hilarious!  I definitely give Kingsisle an A+ on the storyline. It's nice to see that this game team always sticks to their storytelling roots. I haven't been through the entire game, but I'm sure it gets even better as you restore the different areas throughout the game.

The Graphics - My Review: 5/5

I am not a major mobile game fan myself mostly because of the graphics of them. Kingsisle did a fantastic job on the graphics of this game. Starting off the game you get a cut-scene (which KI is known for in their computer games). This cut-scene surprised me because I felt as if I was watching a trailer for a new cartoon/movie. Their cutscenes are amazing, but so is the gameplay graphics from the puzzles to the idles of your friends. I apologize to other mobile game makers, but I am so happy that I can actually see the characters when they're walking around! Thank you for creating such amazing graphics... I may have to share more posts about my progress and new updates as I continue questing through this game.

Free To Play - My Review: 5/5

You can download Animal Cove for free on your Android and Apple devices. I'd say that this is definitely one thing that I love about the game and game team. Since the beginning, they've allowed players to try out their product for free with an option to buy items. You can complete the puzzles throughout the game. You don't have to buy anything, but if you would like to support Kingsisle to continue updating this mobile game - you have the option to buy coins, bundles, and a VIP membership.

Apple

https://itunes.apple.com/app/animal-cove-match-3-adventure/id1217914031?mt=8

Android 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.KingsIsle.RES&hl=en_US

Now I think I'm going to leave you to try out this new game. There is still so much more that I haven't even mentioned, but I left that out so you can check it out. If you do try it out, feel free to add me in-game by typing in "EdwardLifegem". Adding friends in-game will give you an option to send and receive lives (which you will need if you mess up on a puzzle). That's all I'm going to say about the game for now. Until next time, I'll see you around the... mysterious island! 

Pirate101: Witchdoctor Sidequesting!

Ahoy Pirates!

I hope you're having a wonderful week so far! This week has been amazing for two reasons: I've been planning events & I've got to quest in Pirate101. Lately, I've been questing with Autumn's witchdoctor to try to complete Valencia Part 2. We still have to do the last quest, but for now, we're catching up on our side quests!

Autumn & I quest our musketeers through the end of Valencia Part 2 a few months ago. We noticed at the time that there are a few side quests in VP2 that give quite a bit of experience points. Picking up your side quests and actually doing them really do help out in the long run. We received our final quest in VP2 at around level 67-68. Keep in mind that the level cap is now level 70, so we were behind a few levels. 

These side quests eventually help level me up to level 69 and Autumn up to level 70! Now, we had to travel to other worlds to complete these quests, but it was really easy experience points. So I'll stress it again to those who didn't watch our a stream a few months ago: Complete Your Sidequests! :D I should get going because we have to prepare to fight Kane! I'll let you know how that goes. Until next time, I'll see you around the skyways. :D 

Twitch Announcement: Weekly Streaming Coming Soon!

Hi there!

I'd like to officially announce that Autumn Dreamwalker and I will soon officially do weekly streaming! We'll still be having our event streams, but we're also going to have a few days out of each week where we stream for Y'all. :D I'm not going to officially announce the days/times until a later date, so you'll have to check our blogs for an official announcement. For now, let's talk about a few things that will change. Now for a random screenshot to make this post look amazing:

Twitch is a new journey that we took for events for the Halloween Run last year. The streams help with the avoidance of any confusion that the events previously had. As of recently, Autumn & I have been talking about weekly streaming. This means we'll be questing and maybe have a few parties to interact with you more than we previously have. It's still a work in progress but we've officially added Subscriptions & Bits to the channel.

Subscriptions & Bits: We've added these as options to our Twitch. I'm working hard to figure out the exact details of the Subscriptions if anyone does subscribe to our channel in the future. I'd like all of you to know now that we're not going to ask anyone to subscribe to the channel. It's an option to subscribe or not to subscribe. We'll leave it at that. :) Our main goal is to bring this community together. If you want to subscribe, please do not subscribe to this channel until we officially announce our schedule. You'll hear more about his announcement on our blogs, this website and Secrets of the Spiral. 

So what will we be streaming? I will let you know that we will be streaming both Wizard101 and Pirate101. We haven't figured out the exact details, but we will be focusing on both games. This is going to be an amazing adventure! I hope you're able to join us on it. Keep an eye out for more information.. We'll provide all of that as soon as we can. For now, I want to thank you all for your support! I will continue blogging, having events, and everything else. Here's to a very bright future! By the way... if you would like to check out our first unofficial first Affiliate Stream, click play on the video below. :) You can also check out our Twitch Account by clicking on the link below! Remember to keep an eye out for more information about our schedule! Until then, I'll see you around the spiral. 

https://www.twitch.tv/edwardlifegem

Watch Streaming With Autumn - Plus An Unannounced Announcement! from EdwardLifegem on www.twitch.tv

Side Questing with Edward Cringle!

Ahoy Pirates!

I hope you're having a wonderful weekend. Yesterday, I was able to quest a bit in Pirate101. This time, I decided to quest one of my pirates, Edward Cringle. Some of you may know him if you have read my Swashbuckler walkthrough posts.

I created my Swashbuckler Pirate, Edward Cringle, in December of 2012. I started questing him through all of the different worlds of Pirate101 and made a post about each quest starting when he reached level 5. I recently took a break from questing him, but I am proud to announce that I am back and I'll be questing him a lot more! Before I talk about what I did recently, I invite you to read the posts that I've done on this character so far. If you'd like to catch up on my previous Edward Cringle posts, feel free to click on the link below:

Edward Cringle Questing Posts

http://www.edward.p101/search/label/EdwardCringle

Yesterday, I logged into my Swashbuckler for the first time in months! I was planning on continuing my main quest until I noticed the 18 pages of side quests that I had. It's amazing how many side quests Pirate101 has. What's also amazing is how much side quests can level you up. I decided to put a small dent into my side quests by sinking Inoshishi Ships in the Khoton Skyway in Mooshu. I had two quests that would give me about 800 experience points combined. So I decided to start sinking as many ships that I could. One quest required me to sink 4 Inoshishi ships and the other given quest wanted me to sink 12 of these ships. It was relatively easy! A few times I did purposely enter deck battle so I could take screenshots for future posts (such as announcements), but I had no trouble sinking these ships alone. Eventually, I completed the two quests and leveled up!

I've mentioned this in previous posts but I'll mention it again. Side questing really does help in the long run! My pirate will enter Marleybone soon and I want to be at the highest level that I can before I start questing there. Having additional attacks/powers will help me survive in these different worlds. Along with side questing, nautical leveling is also a good thing to do. You'll want to buy the best ships and ship equipment as you go. I usually wait until my ship can no longer keep afloat so I'm able to save up as much as gold as possible for gear and eventually a new ship/equipment. Anyway, questing this pirate was a lot of fun. I'll probably work through a few more of these side quests before I start making main posts again. I'll let you know when Edward Cringle is officially back! Until then, I'll see you around the skyways. :D 

Mooshu is such a beautiful world. We're nearing the end, but at least I'll be ready for Marleybone!

Questing My Witchdoctor Again / Randomness!

Ahoy Pirates!

Wow, it's been forever since I've made a post that had nothing to do with the other amazing game that I shall not name. Recently, I started questing my witchdoctor with Autumn Walker's witchdoctor. It's actually been a few years (which is crazy when you think about it) that I've last quest this pirate. I thought it was about time to quest him again especially since witchdoctors are my favorite!

Autumn and I started questing again towards the middle of Valencia 2. For our first quest together, we had to fight Cyclops and a few.. bleh... snakes! I think what made fighting snakes fun was that you can attack them from far away if you're a witchdoctor. Most other pirate schools require you to run right up to the deadly snacks (yes, I purposely did that - it's a Suite Life on Deck). Just naming off all of the amazing things about witchdoctors!

Okay, I'm being very random today and not talking much about what we did on the game, but at least we made it to level 67 - 3 levels away from level cap! Why did I ever stop questing this pirate or any of my other pirates? I think it's time to bring back my old-school Pirate101 posts, whether they're random like this or not. For now, I think I'm going to end this post so you can enjoy the rest of the song above. I'll make an update post once we finish Valencia 2. Until then, I'll see you around the skyways. Thank you so much for reading!

I mean, look at that! Definitely my favorite game for screenshots!