Android Games Reviews 2

4. WHERE'S MY WATER?

One of the top android games with cool graphic and background music (published by Disney mobile). Stories start with a bask of crocodiles living in smelly and greenish underground water (which is below the center of city). Among them, there is a crocodile which has its own house and a bathroom. This crocodile finds hard to get water from water pipes in order to take a bath. Your task is to dig holes in order to make the water available on top surface reaching the water pipe that directs to its bathroom so that it can take a bath. Besides that, there are 3 toy ducks in each level and you need to enable the certain quantity of water to flow through it in order to collect it. There are three types of liquids- blueish water, purplish acid and greenish toxin. Different liquids have different functions, for example, blueish water for taking bath, purplish acid  for cleaning the moss, greenish toxin mixing with moss will form wall and mixing of purplish acid and greenish toxin will explode. Of course, acid and toxin cannot be directed into the water pipe of the bathroom!!! There are 6 campaigns (Meet Swampy, Troubled Waters, Under Pressure, Sink or Swim, Change is Good and Boiling Point) with 20 levels each and each campaign has different features. Besides that, there are 2 special features of this game, Collection and Achievements. For collection, there are some treasures hidden in some levels and you need to dig them out in order to make collection and three treasures will unlock a bonus level. For achievements, there are 29 in total. I have completed this game with 100% completion which means I have collected 396/396 toy ducks, 29 achievements and 36 treasures.

Here are some pictures of WHERE'S MY WATER?

Rating=4.5/5   Difficulty of solving= 3.5/5

5. Sleepy Jack

An arcade and action 3D stunning game by SILVERTREE MEDIA. Stories start with a boy named Jack dreaming himself flying with his small jetpack in different worlds such as outer space, dessert and sea. In his dream, he encounters different creatures that disturb him and he can shoot at his enemies in order to eliminate them. Sometimes, he is able to use new weapons that he get during his flight such as bomb and star shooter. This game currently has three campaigns (Deep Space Dreambox, Wild West Dreambox, and Deep Sea Dreambox) with 10 levels each. You will encounter a boss at the last level in each campaign, which means there are 3 bosses in total. In order to get 3 stars for each level, you must complete the level by reaching the finish line, collect certain amounts of Z, and complete the level within a given time. As usual, this game also have Achievement feature that enable you to view the achievements you get from this game.

Here are some pictures of SLEEPY JACK.

Rating = 4/5, Difficulty of solving=2.5/5

6. World Of Goo

A very unique game (by 2D Boy) that does not have a very colourful background, but interesting storyline. Stories start with Goo balls travelling from an unknown underground pipe to different worlds. Your task it to build a bridge or tower towards a sucking pipe so that Goo balls can be collected and being transferred to different worlds. In order to pass a level, you need to ensure that a given amount of Goo balls is collected. Different Goo balls have different functions: the most common Goo ball is black in colour and once it is connected to other Goo balls, it is fixed; green-coloured Goo balls can be disconnected after it is connected to other Goo balls:red-coloured Goo balls are functioned as balloon which enable the bridge or tower to float in the middle of air; white-coloured Goo balls function as line constructor. Different levels have different terrain difficulties such as spikes, windmill, flowing water, cliffs which will make you more difficult for constructing a bridge or tower. There are four chapters and 48 levels in total. Besides that, there is a special chapter called World Of Goo Corporation which players from all over the world can compete with each others to construct the highest tower and the number of Goo balls available for building the tower is number of extra Goo balls that collected from all levels. 

Here are some pictures of World Of Goo.

Rating = 4/5, Difficulty of solving = 4/5 

7. Frontline Commando

                                     

A third person shooter game by Glu with cool graphic and it looks really like some pc shooting games. A commander in US fights with terrorists in order to protect his country. He has different weapons, such as assault,sniper,shotgun and launcher but during mission, he can only bring two weapons and one armor. For items, there are armors,medkits and airstrikes. Missions are categorized into elimination (eliminate all enemies),sharpshooter (presence of sniper in field that you need to be very careful), rescue (eliminate all enemies while at the same time not hurting civilians)and survival (survive for a given time until bomber arrives). There are three types of missions: normal (blue in colour), elite (orange in colour) and boss (red in colour). Commando can be leveled up after he defeated each boss.

Here are some pictures of Frontline Commando.

Rating= 3.5/5, Difficulty of solving = 3.5/5

Local Foods

1. Tangyuan

On 22 December, like usual, we celebrated Winter Solstice which is one of the Chinese traditional celebration festivals. Chinese is well known for their mouth-watering foods and tangyuan is one of the foods. Tangyuan is made of glutinous rice flour and it can have different colours depend on the colouring. My mom made three colours of tangyuan which are red,white and green. Actually, tangyuan is tasteless because it is made of flour but what really makes tangyuan such appetizing is its soup. Its soup is ginger flavoured which must be eaten together with tangyuan. Due to modernization, tangyuan has been modified to have fillings such as bean paste and black sesame. After that, we prayed our ancestors with tangyuan and other dishes. My mom said that winter solstice celebration is more important that chinese new year and after you ate tangyuan,you will grow one year old.

Dishes for praying ancestors

A pot full of tangyuan

2. Chee Cheong Fun (rice noodle roll)

A thin roll of rice noodles which has shrimp, pork and sesame as its fillings. In Cantonese, chee cheong fun means pig intestine noodle. Teluk Intan, a city which is near to my hometown, is well-known for its chee cheong fun because its chee cheong fun is more unique from the others. Special chee cheong fun which only can be found in Teluk Intan has more fillings and bigger size, that's why it is so scrumptious.

3. Doraeyaki Pancake

This is the pancake which is eaten by Doraemon (it is actually japanese pancake). What makes it so special from other pancakes is its simpleness, appearance and of course Doreamon. It has four or five fillings which are peanut, strawberry, chocolate and others. One is sold for RM 1.50. The one which I bought is peanut filled.

4.Curry Chicken Bread

A big bread with curry chicken sealed inside it. It is also known as Golden Pillow because the bread is baked into golden brown colour, its appearance looks like a pillow and its size is slightly larger than Ipad. The curry chicken is kept inside the bread so it will remained warm although you have left it for a long time after you bought it. The texture of the bread is very soft and its surface is crispy like baked bread. Meanwhile, the curry chicken is warm and it tastes very well when serves together with bread. Kampar curry chicken bread is so famous until it is being sold in Kuala Lumpur,capital of Malaysia. The prize for small curry chicken bread is RM 28 (USD 8.90), big one is RM 46 (USD 14.60).

Recommended Android Apps

1. No Root Screenshot It

This app enables you to take screenshot on phone which is similar to printscreen on computer. However, this app is quite troublesome and requires many steps to complete before you can take screenshot. This app will guide you to take screenshot so no need to worry about it. If you have finished all the steps required to take screenshot, you need to enter this app and choose the time delay to take screenshot (no delay,5,7,10 or 15 seconds) and then click take screenshot. After that, go to the place where you want to take screenshot and wait for the time to pass. Then, a screen will pop up and ask for your permission to crop,share or save the screenshot. Overall, it is quite a useful app that enable you to take screenshot on your phone which you wish to share with your friends or others. 

2. Regina 3D Launcher

A home launcher with 3D view. This app enables you to edit workspace such as its wallpaper and name. The maximum number of workspace that you can put on your phone is 7. Other than that, you can manage the apps, shortcuts, folders or widgets (Regina widgets or Android widgets) that you wish to put on your workspace. All you need to do is collect wonderful wallpaper and edit each of your workspace so that your phone looks impressive. I edited my workspaces and categorized them into different groups-Home,Games,Media,Social,Applications,System and Tasks. Overall, it is quite an impressive launcher and it is FREE!! 

If you have any problem of using it, you can view this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-tobcffCR8

Advantages: Stunning 3D view, easy to use

Disadvantages: Requires better processor, drains battery

Here are some screenshots of my edited workspaces.

Back to the world of YOYO!!!

It has been years I didnt play yoyo and the reason why I decided to "touch" yoyo again is.....I AM TOTALLY BORED!!! I have another 2 more months holidays (3 months in total. Can you imagine that? o.0 )and I think I must do something meaningful (besides sitting in front of computer and tv) in order to spend my holidays wisely. Unfortunately, I have to buy another yoyo because I have threw my yoyo long time ago. 

Today I went to supermarket to look for a good quality yoyo. I found it but it has cartoon picture on it. Haizzzz..

It costs about RM 18(approximately USD 5.74 ) which is more expensive than my previous one. I bought it (my mom bought it for me actually), unpack it and try to relearn all the tricks that I have learnt before. I surf the net to learn some new tricks and there are more than 30 tricks for yoyo beginner (enough for me to spend my holidays). Hope that I can master all this tricks before I back to my university for second semester.

Recommended Anime

1. The Law of Ueki

An awesome anime which I wish to watch again if I have free time. Stories started with the main character, Kosuke Ueki,

an ordinary student who was later given special ability (growing trees from his hands) by his teacher, Mr.K. He was kind-hearted and possessed great characteristics (which should be possessed by the main characters of every anime). Later, he was being forced to engage in battle with other people with special abilities in order to win the tournament and becomes new God of Heaven. During his journey, he met some friends, Ai Mori

,Seiichiro Sano (who can change towel into steel and magnet),

Rinko Jerrard (who can turn beads into bomb)

and Hideyoshi Soya (who can make sound from portraits)

and they began to form a team. Later, they met their stiffest rival Robert Haydn (who can make bubbles to trap people and changing gravity).

They started to fight like a team and they planned their battle very well. The most interesting part of this anime is how people fight and take down their enemies strategically. Ueki starts realizing that he was heavenly being and can grow up to 10 levels (each level with unique sacred weapon) when he was battling. They made it to the final tournament after a long time of battling. Ueki dint realized that he was son of the current God of Heaven until he was told by his teacher. Unfortunately, when he wanted to meet his father, his father was murdered by evil form of Robert Haydn, known as Anon.

The rule of game had changed suddenly. Their final rival is not God of Heaven, but Anon. Finally, Ueki defeated Anon strategically but he didnt kill Anon although Anon killed his dad and this showed that Ueki really possesses great characteristics. Ueki received The Blank Talent, which winner is allowed to have a talent that he wishes. At the end of this anime, Ueki wrote Talent of Goodbye.

The link below is The Law Of Ueki - Opening Theme 2 with "No Regret" theme song by Kumi Koda.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZv9yY2poQ&feature=related

Rating= 8.5/10


2. Kekkaishi Season 1

An anime which I watched about 3 years ago. Stories started with supernatural power users, known as kekkaishi who can create barrier to capture and destroy the evil spirits and monsters in order to protect the citizen. Two main characters, Yoshimori Sumimura

and Tokine Yukimura

 are teenagers who play the roles as kekkaishi as their family members do. They have their own pets which help them to locate the enemies and protect their masters all the time. In the morning, they are ordinary secondary school students but at night they are kekkaishi who eliminate evil spirits which came out at night to harm the citizen. As they fight, their enemies become stronger and they did suffered a lot due to their responsibilities and more over they are just teenagers. Later, they encountered their new friend, Gen Shishio 

who finds it hard to control the spirit inside himself and once he lost control he will transform into a powerful wolf. Three of them build up a team to eliminate any evil spirit which wants to create chaos. At the beginning, they find it hard to accept each other as friend due to some little arguments but at last they appreciate and take care of each other because they had spent a lot of time together. Later, Yoshimori Sumimura's elder brother, Masamuri Sumimura, 

began to appear due to the rise of new evil force. Masamuri was an awesome kekkaishi who can use the ultimate skill of kekkaishi, known as Zekkai. He separates himself from his family because he was not Legitimate Successor, but his brother,Yoshimori Sumimura was (a Legitimate Successor will have Houin Mark on his/her body. At the climax of this anime, they  fight with the leaders of the evil spirits and most of them are like human form. Unfortunately, Gen was killed during the great battle with one of the leaders of evil spirits. This is the hardest thing to be accepted by their friends but after a while, they get used to it. At the end of this season, they were battling with their stiffest rival, Kaguro. 

At last, Yoshimori killed it by using newly learnt skill, Zekkai. 

Rating=8/10

3. Naruto Shippuden

A must watch and ongoing anime that will definitely make you being addicted to it. I start watching it since last year until but due to lacking of time, I have to read manga comic.

Stories start with a little and disobedient kid (the main character), Naruto Uzumaki 

is taking the test with other kids in his village to become ninja and this is the tradition of his village, Konohagakure. He does not have the talent of being a ninja as everyone said. His bad behaviour makes everyone in his village away from him and label him as the disaster of this village. Actually, Naruto was related to the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox that attacked his village many years ago. The Fourth Hokage (leader of ninja in his village and he was Naruto's dad) seal the demon fox inside Naruto's body by sacrificing himself. Hovewer, Naruto passed the test by doing some tricks and becomes a young ninja. All young ninja are divided into different groups and each group is guided by a senior ninja. In Naruto's group, there is Sasuke Uchiha 

and Sakura Haruro,

three of them are guided by Kakashi Hatake. 

They start to take missions with different ranks, from easiest to hardest, in order to pass the test to become senior ninja. Naruto has a dream, which is to become the next Hokage of his village. Meanwhile, Sasuke has a strong will to become top ninja in order to get revenge on his brother, Itachi who destroys his own clan. The appearance of Orochimaru 

had changed the whole village totally. Orochimaru had killed the present Third Hokage by using one of the greatest Jutsu but Third Hokage manages to seal the power of Orochimaru so that he cant use Jutsu anymore. Orochimaru offers Sasuke the dark power which he can use in order to get him stronger to defeat his brother. Due to his thirst for retaliation, he follows Orochimaru and joins the dark side. Later, some senior ninja, Jiraiya 

and Tsunade

are being summoned back to the village to solve the chaos. Tsunade is promoted to become the fifth Hokage temporary. The truth has been revealed. Jiraiya, Tsunade and Orochimaru were once known as the three legendary ninja of Konohagakure. Orochimaru was being chased out from the village by Third Hokage because he learn some forbidden Jutsu secretly. Later, Jiraiys becomes guider of Naruto and Tsunade becomes guider of Sakura. As time flies, they grew up and had new appearance.

A criminal organiztion known as Akatsuki,

which the members are world's most wanted ninja and all of them are S ranked, starts capturing tailed beasts (nine in total) that had been sealed inside some people in order to harness their power and rule the world of ninja. Ninja from Konohagakure are given order to eliminate this organization. Naruto and his friends wish to save Sasuke from the evil force by getting information from the members of this organization. On the other side, Sasuke betrays Orochimaru by using the power of his eyes, named Sharingan (one of the legendary Eye technique that possess by certain ninja besides Rin'negan and Byakugan). Sasuke manages to find his brother in Akatsuki organization and killed him at last. However, he is told that the truth is his brother was being ordered by Third Hokage to destroy his own clan. Sasuke fells sad and frustrated that he was being cheated for a long time and decides to join Akatsuki to destroy his village. Back to Naruto, Naruto's guider, Jiraiya was killed by Pain, the leader of Akatsuki, when he was investigating them by sneaking into their base.

After some of the members of Akatsuki were successfully eliminated by ninja, the Pain invades Konohagakure to capture Naruto's nine tailed beast. Jiraiya knew that this day will come so he left Naruto to his teachers to trained Naruto intensively. Konohagakure was destroyed by Pain and most of the ninja died including Kekkashi. However, Naruto defeated Pain with his newly learnt skill, Sage Mode and he asks Pain to revive everyone that has fallen during this invasion and leave Konohagakure. Pain promise him because they believe that Naruto is able to bring peace to world of ninja. After this great battle, all ninja rebuild Konohagakure by working together. The fifth Hokage was injured and falls into a coma. New Hokage must be elected according to all the ninja in Konohagakure and Danzo Shimura (the mastermind who orders Itachi to destroy his own clan)

offers himself as the next Hokage and he did it. Sasuke and his new team members manage to find Danzo and killed him by using the ultimate form of Sharingan, Mangekyou Sharingan. Meanwhile, Madara Uchiha,

the real leader of Akatsuki and also the ancestor of Sasuke's clan has revealed himself and announces that he will obtain the power of nine-tailed beasts. The fourth ninja world war between good forces and evil forces has begun and the stories still continue....

Rating=9/10



(This post is being re-edited)