Game Description:
Step into the tailored shoes of a young Japanese fashion designer ready to break out on her own. Before Hana can truly succeed, she must journey to the fashion capitals of Asia to learn the Zen Fashion secrets of her ancestors. Begin in Kyoto and gather blossoms to finance her travels in this stunning match 3 puzzler. Each new fashion combo increases your Zen Fashion powers, giving you new artistic skills and abilities.
Game size: 46.6 MB
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Review from: GameZebo

On paper, Zen Fashion works marvels, combining two favorite passions - inner peace and haute couture - into an intriguing match-three puzzler that sends you trotting about China, Japan, Korea and the bulk of the Asian continent. Unfortunately, a snappy Far Eastern aesthetic and soothing soundtrack, not to mention somewhat novel play conceit (donning new duds to mix and match powers), can't save the title from an inconvenient truth. Specifically, that the melding of these twin concepts suffers due to inconsistent level design, too-leisurely pacing and a handful of issues that'll have even the most patient player ready to kick the creators right in their dharma.

Starting out, you'll take on the role of a young woman hoping to follow in the footsteps of her grandmother, a famed fashion designer. To master the craft, she needs context, and therefore sets out to explore her roots by traveling to the Orient's most fashionable cities. Working your way across an attractive campaign map spanning a dozen destinations such as Singapore and Bangkok, you must progress through 96 levels - 8 per stopover - to ultimately achieve success. And, of course, master the all-too-familiar basics of the mostly innocuous outing, which simply involve dragging your mouse to link horizontal, vertical or diagonal chains of three or more flowers, which disappear from play when grouped.

Incredibly relaxed in nature, stressed out owners will find the setup further benefits from the presence of between-mission "zen breaks" that let you stop and stare at glistening lakes and gorgeous sunsets. The chief problem being that, despite the presence of periodically hard-to-reach pieces or obstacles such as blocks that must be destroyed by eliminating tiles around them, meeting your end goal - removing all colored tiles by making matches atop them before time runs out - is seldom difficult, let alone engaging.

Moments of excitement generally come at the expense of serenity as well. The most frequent example: Times when you're desperately trying to collect a poorly-located tile, but can't because play's mercurial nature (eliminated flowers are automatically filled in with randomized replacements instead of existing tiles filling in from above) inherently works against you...
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Review from: Casualicious dot Com

I really loved the Zen Fashion game’s graphics and relaxing sounds and as a matter of fact, the guys at Boomzap Entertainment themselves are proud about the overall presentation of the game. In fact, there’s this Zen Break feature also wherein you get to take a break from all the hectic action to watch a beautifully rendered wallpaper scene featuring Zen-themed locations in Asia. But what I really liked is how Hana looked good in all those clothes. Well, not really because I’m some perverted guy, but it’s just because I’m into all those fashion stuff myself… HONEST!

Moving on, I also liked the additional features of Zen Fashion like the trophy system and how you can mix and match all the Asian costumes presented in the game. If you’re into fashion (like me, lol), the game will let your creativity soar as you dress Hana with all the combinations of 108 fashion pieces you can collect throughout the whole adventure. It’s quite a wonder too how the different Asian costumes can blend together, showing us how much we are all just intertwined in this crazy world (that’s deep analysis for you)...
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Review from: grrlgamer.com

Zen Fashion didn't exactly get my attention with its title, but with the magic word, "puzzle". I actually haven't played a casual puzzle game in a while, so I jumped right in.

Zen Fashion could be described as a "match three" puzzle, but the mechanics are actually similar to a connect-the-dots game. You must connect any adjacent flowers of the same kind to clear the tiles, with a minimum of three. The flowers must be touching either horizontally, vertically or diagonally, which makes up for some rather large combos in some cases. You just click the first flower, then drag the mouse over the matching ones to make your combo.

So why the "fashion" in the title? Your protagonist sets off on a trip through Asia, researching traditional outfits and fabrics. The game is separated into 12 areas, each composed of 8 levels, depicting lovely landscapes. When reaching certain levels, you unlock new outfits for your character: a hair style, a top or a bottom piece. Each piece in your wardrobe (with the exception of the starting ones) has one or two Zen Powers that will prove helpful while clearing the puzzles, since they get more and more complicated as you advance through the adventure stages.

The initial tiles you need to clear are golden, which means you only need to match a flower on them once. But there are silver tiles (match two flowers), blockers (match a combo near them to open up the flower) and chained tiles (match two combos near them). Since in the normal adventure mode you are on a timer, every power-up helps. For example, a bomb to replace all the flowers in a particular area, a hand to remove a flower, a lightning bolt that clears a golden flower tile, time bonuses, and a few more. If you find yourself out of moves, the puzzle field will be replaced with a new set of flowers...
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