February 18th, 2008 by PCGGame Review: Sheep’s Quest
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Game Description:
You`ll love this stimulating Brain Teaser in which you guide a herd of sheep through seven game worlds in an effort to collect enough coins to rebuild their once magnificent farm. Steering the adorable animals around enemies and obstacles to the riches they need is as simple as placing arrows on the ground pointing the way. Featuring colorful graphics and delightful audio, Sheep`s Quest is sure to become one of your favorites!
Game size: 47.4 MB
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Review from: GameZebo
Classified as a puzzle game, Sheep's Quest is a mix of arcade action and logical brainteasers wrapped in the veneer of a coin-collecting mission to acquire the needed funds to rebuild a dilapidated farm for the world's fluffiest sheep. Avoiding, in the process, the requisite collection of enemies and obstacles. The end result is a charming romp filled with sheep thrills and woolly, lemming-like, follow-the-leader antics.
Offering a single play mode consisting of 85 timed levels to solve across seven worlds with six enemies and 30 obstacles to avoid, a half-dozen bonuses to employ and 17 farm upgrades to earn, Sheep's Quest has enough shear enjoyment packed within to keep you busy for quite a while. And the gist is simple, too. Help the aforementioned critters rebuild their homestead by guiding them through each level in an effort to collect enough coins to pay for the requisite renovations.
Levels begin very easy as you learn the sheep wrangling ropes, herding them through each maze-like puzzle by placing arrows on the ground to steer the adorable, fluffy creatures away from obstacles and enemies and toward the coins to be collected, maneuvering them onto jump pads that will hurl them across gaping chasms, over switches that power mighty fans, onto plungers that detonate devastating explosives and into waiting vehicles that transport them to the next segment of the maze. Impediments such as falling boxes, crumbling bridges and rolling boulders must be avoided or triggered properly to advance your sheep and thwart the baddies.
Being a shepherd of sorts, however, is not all cut and dry. A good deal of forethought is required for these sheep to reach their destination. As mentioned earlier, each level is timed. Take too long to reach the exit and you'll run out of time and have to start over. The same holds true if you lose too many sheep. Though not an issue early on, these concerns becomes significant factors as you progress further into the game.
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Offering a single play mode consisting of 85 timed levels to solve across seven worlds with six enemies and 30 obstacles to avoid, a half-dozen bonuses to employ and 17 farm upgrades to earn, Sheep's Quest has enough shear enjoyment packed within to keep you busy for quite a while. And the gist is simple, too. Help the aforementioned critters rebuild their homestead by guiding them through each level in an effort to collect enough coins to pay for the requisite renovations.
Levels begin very easy as you learn the sheep wrangling ropes, herding them through each maze-like puzzle by placing arrows on the ground to steer the adorable, fluffy creatures away from obstacles and enemies and toward the coins to be collected, maneuvering them onto jump pads that will hurl them across gaping chasms, over switches that power mighty fans, onto plungers that detonate devastating explosives and into waiting vehicles that transport them to the next segment of the maze. Impediments such as falling boxes, crumbling bridges and rolling boulders must be avoided or triggered properly to advance your sheep and thwart the baddies.
Being a shepherd of sorts, however, is not all cut and dry. A good deal of forethought is required for these sheep to reach their destination. As mentioned earlier, each level is timed. Take too long to reach the exit and you'll run out of time and have to start over. The same holds true if you lose too many sheep. Though not an issue early on, these concerns becomes significant factors as you progress further into the game.
Review from: CIAO
Cute graphics, very easy to learn and play and extremely funny in places.
The object of this game is to help a group of sheep to collect enough coins to restore their down-at-heel farm while avoiding assorted enemies and hazards throughout the 85 levels. To do this you must place arrows in strategic positions to guide the sheep along "safe" routes towards the "Finish" point. The arrows will also guide the sheeps' enemies either into areas where they can be safely kept away from the sheep or into the various traps and pits so they're destroyed. This is NOT as easy as it sounds - especially in the higher levels. I've lost count of the number of times I've forgotten to reverse the direction of a crucial arrow in time and so led the poor sheep either into the traps or into the areas where I quarantined their enemies! Sometimes the sheep come out so fast that you need the reflexes of a Ninja Grand Master to stop them from running into their enemies before you can place the first arrow to divert them or to move their enemies out of the way but, unlike some games, you can replay the levels as many times as you want if you fail the first time. If you get really stuck you can spend some of your hard-earned coins to let the game play itself out for that level. I did it a couple of times and got an "Oh! So THAT'S how it's done!" feeling at the end.
The bonus games between rounds are very funny - without wishing to give anything away, watch out especially for the sheep sitting on the roof in the background! When you start to earn enough money to begin upgrading the farm, you realise that this is NOT your average farm - which is another humorous touch, as are some of the enemies your sheep encounter!
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The object of this game is to help a group of sheep to collect enough coins to restore their down-at-heel farm while avoiding assorted enemies and hazards throughout the 85 levels. To do this you must place arrows in strategic positions to guide the sheep along "safe" routes towards the "Finish" point. The arrows will also guide the sheeps' enemies either into areas where they can be safely kept away from the sheep or into the various traps and pits so they're destroyed. This is NOT as easy as it sounds - especially in the higher levels. I've lost count of the number of times I've forgotten to reverse the direction of a crucial arrow in time and so led the poor sheep either into the traps or into the areas where I quarantined their enemies! Sometimes the sheep come out so fast that you need the reflexes of a Ninja Grand Master to stop them from running into their enemies before you can place the first arrow to divert them or to move their enemies out of the way but, unlike some games, you can replay the levels as many times as you want if you fail the first time. If you get really stuck you can spend some of your hard-earned coins to let the game play itself out for that level. I did it a couple of times and got an "Oh! So THAT'S how it's done!" feeling at the end.
The bonus games between rounds are very funny - without wishing to give anything away, watch out especially for the sheep sitting on the roof in the background! When you start to earn enough money to begin upgrading the farm, you realise that this is NOT your average farm - which is another humorous touch, as are some of the enemies your sheep encounter!
Review from: Casualicious dot Com
The Apiary Quest game is just your average everyday Match 3 game where you’re tasked to match flowers (and other random things) in a straight line to gather enough honey in order to advance to the next level.
And if you’re confused about the term “Apiary”, then here’s some Wikipedia information to help you out. Not that it will help you playing the game though.
There’s Gotta Be Something New Right?
I’m gonna say that you’re both right and wrong at the same time. Why?
Well, in terms of the game area layout, you got it right because instead of the usual square enclosures, the Apiary Quest game features hexagonal enclosures which is probably a mimic of the shape of an actual beehive. Now, the advantage of having a hexagonal shape is that you have 6 ways to swap your tiles instead of the 4 ways as you are accustomed to on a traditional Match 3.
But that does not hide the fact that this is just another Match 3. And what I can definitely say about this is that it is one hell of a boring game also.
Now Why Would I Say That?
Look, I’ll give 3 reasons that can back up my claim.
First, there’s not even a tad hint of originality on the game as far as gameplay is concerned. As I had said before, it’s just traditional Match 3. It’s even frustrating that the game lacks some firepower to attract even a spark of interest. Not to mention that playing the game is entirely dependent on luck. In fact, I once ran out of time on a particular stage but was also able to finish the same stage within 30 seconds after I retried. Well, I can’t fully blame the Apiary Quest game because luck is somewhat essential on most Match 3 games, right?
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And if you’re confused about the term “Apiary”, then here’s some Wikipedia information to help you out. Not that it will help you playing the game though.
There’s Gotta Be Something New Right?
I’m gonna say that you’re both right and wrong at the same time. Why?
Well, in terms of the game area layout, you got it right because instead of the usual square enclosures, the Apiary Quest game features hexagonal enclosures which is probably a mimic of the shape of an actual beehive. Now, the advantage of having a hexagonal shape is that you have 6 ways to swap your tiles instead of the 4 ways as you are accustomed to on a traditional Match 3.
But that does not hide the fact that this is just another Match 3. And what I can definitely say about this is that it is one hell of a boring game also.
Now Why Would I Say That?
Look, I’ll give 3 reasons that can back up my claim.
First, there’s not even a tad hint of originality on the game as far as gameplay is concerned. As I had said before, it’s just traditional Match 3. It’s even frustrating that the game lacks some firepower to attract even a spark of interest. Not to mention that playing the game is entirely dependent on luck. In fact, I once ran out of time on a particular stage but was also able to finish the same stage within 30 seconds after I retried. Well, I can’t fully blame the Apiary Quest game because luck is somewhat essential on most Match 3 games, right?