Hero Farm Saga

Description

King may not be the most popular bunch around these parts, but it's clear they have a good understanding of how to make a game that grabs people. I've put in some time on all of their games, partly to assist my grandmother with difficult stages, partly because they are good for passing the time without commanding your full attention, and it's my opinion that nothing else they've released has been on the level of Candy Crush Saga [Free]. Bubble Witch Saga [Free] and Papa Pear Saga [Free] are both a bit too derivative without offering compelling reasons to play them instead of what they're aping, and Pet Rescue Saga [Free] requires a bit more concentration than I'm generally willing to give to it. Candy Crush is simple and challenging, while still being pretty easy to zone out on while you do other things. It's also King's most popular game by far.

With that in mind, perhaps there's little surprise in them returning to the match-3 genre with their latest iOS release. The challenge here for the developers is in coming up with something different enough from Candy Crush to give the whole enterprise a purpose, while still getting the same things right. Farm Heroes Saga [Free] succeeds in some ways, but falls short in others. Structurally, it's set up very much like every other release from King. You're given a board game-style map Pokémon GO gg Candy Crush Saga gg Subway Surfers gg Temple Run gg Temple Run 2 gg Super Mario Run gg 8 Ball Pool™ gg Trivia Crack gg Clash of Clans gg Solitaire gg Flow Frgg gg Fruit Ninja® gg Minion Rush gg Draw Something Classic gg slither.io gg Color Switch gg Bike Race: Motorcycle Racing gg Jetpack Joyride gg Rolling Sky gg The Sims™ FrggPlay gg Crossy Road gg Clash Royale gg Piano Tiles 2™ gg Episode ft. 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Depending on how many points you score, you'll earn anywhere from one to three stars, and every once in a while, there's a wall that prevents you from going any farther unless you spend some premium currency or ask your friends on Facebook. As usual, there are a ton of levels initially, and I also expect tons more to be added as time goes on.
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As I mentioned, this game is in the match-3 branch of the puzzle genre. The theme this time is a farm, so you'll be matching up fruits and vegetables, along with the occasional barnyard animal. Like in any other game of this type, you can touch and slide to move a piece one space in any direction, with the aim being to match three or more of the same type in a row, horizontally or vertically. Nothing out of the ordinary here. Also keeping with the genre, if you match four or five of the same type at once, either in one line or in horizontal/vertical combinations, you'll be rewarded, though not with special pieces as in other games.
Clearing a stage generally requires you to harvest a quota of the various pieces within a particular number of moves, though there are some special boss stages where you damage the enemy by matching a particular type of piece. If you meet your quota with some moves remaining, you'll enter Hero Mode, which lets you play out your remaining moves with higher value pieces to boost your score. Those extra value pieces don't just come into play in Hero Mode, however.
This is Farm Heroes Saga's twist on the genre. When you make a match, surrounding blocks will temporarily gain an extra point in value towards the quota. Making special matches will add extra points to more pieces, and matching five in a row will harvest all of the pieces of that type on the board. As is the norm for King's games, this one starts off pretty gently, but somewhere around stage 30, the quotas start getting pretty high, so if you haven't figured out how to take advantage of those extra points, you're probably going to go nowhere fast. It's a pretty good addition, in my opinion, since it creates a benefit to matching pieces even if they aren't part of the stage's quota.
Photo 1-10-2014, 10 48 31As you progress through the stages, new kind of obstacles and pieces will come into play. There are flowers that require you to make matches in adjacent squares a few times, eggs that need to be matched to hatch them into a single chick, which needs to be matched with two of its mates to be collected, grass tiles that will add a bonus to any pieces you harvest on them, ice that will freeze a crop in place until you can match it, and so forth. The board shape and size changes from stage to stage as well.