Disclaimer: Being a mobile gamer requires INTENSIVE DISCIPLINE – strictly during FREE time only and once all tasks are done. 😀

Hi there, Friday readers! 🙂

I already made an article draft a few days back to be posted supposedly today. But I thought I’ll just post it next Friday. Meanwhile, I am feeling giddy today to share the new updates on the mobile game apps I am currently hooked on aside from my usual hobbies. Thus, the birth of this article.

Thank God too I finished early today with work and with our meeting. I intentionally woke up around 7:45am which is too unusual for a nocturnal being like me. I also usually sleep at around 2am then wake up at 9 or 10am. But then again, I have to finish my tasks early so I can write this a.k.a. discipline. 😉

Nope, just to set the record straight, I am no online game addict. In fact, I used to detest it. Why? I had this pretty awful experience back in college wherein I totally got addicted to StarCraft. One semestral break, my older sisters allowed me to play it with no time limits – classes are over. Can you guess what happened? I played all day long until night time and woke up too early the next day which went on for several days. You know what happened next? I experienced blacking out literally while going to my sister’s bedroom. Yep, lack of sleep. 😀

It’s the worst feeling to not see anything at all but you can still feel your limbs, you can move around, and I was still walking! Yes, just like a zombie. When my 3rd sister saw me, she probably wondered why I was walking aimlessly and she asked me if I’m okay. I told her that I’m okay but I remembered stopping for a moment (because I can’t see anything), then I leaned on the wall with my back against it. That was before I slumped to the floor. lol

Ah yes, the first and only experience I’ve had so far of blacking out. When I told my sisters a few hours later what really happened, they agreed to only one solution – have a time off from playing it. Nope, they didn’t ban me from playing it – just exercise discipline. 🙂

Alright, so much for my disclaimer it already filled up half of my article. lol 😀

Ocean Is Home and Legacy Review

So on with my review for Ocean Is Home and Legacy. My review will be divided into two parts, what I liked about the game and what I don’t like about it. I’ll start with Ocean Is Home since it’s the first mobile game I played after the “blackout” incident – 16 years after. 😀

1. Ocean Is Home: Survival Island

I already gave a brief description of this game in one of my previous articles. I also shared some screenshots of it on my Instagram account. But this one will be a detailed review.

What I like about the game….

• you can now have your own pet, a Rottweiler, when you build the doghouse (the dog comes along with it)
• the dog has two tasks: follow you around or walk around
• there is a new, bigger island (I spent around 2-3 hrs trying to discover what’s in it)
• there are now zombies and monsters (the old version only has Steve as your enemy)
• they now have a boat which you can use to travel to the other island
• absolutely digging the graphics, the ocean almost looked real!
• the loot packages are just the right amount
• the new update fixed the controls of the boat for easy maneuvering
• more guns! (they now have the Dragunov which is perfect for shooting the zombies from a tower)
• more options for building materials (loved their CAD concept of it)
• the bunkers aren’t open yet but I take it this is how they keep your excitement going

What I don’t like….

Well, not really “not like” but sort of a bit challenging to the point that some tasks are impossible to achieve. I love challenges though because we all learn from it one way or the other. Or let’s just say I haven’t discovered the proper technique to get my way around it yet. Here they are:

• killing a deer, boar, and bear is so difficult it requires a lot of ammo and I still wasn’t able to kill one. lol (poor me, I need those animal skins to try the tanning rack and make my leather clothes)
• the set of coins now cost more compared to the previous version (pretty understandable, this is how they earn to make the game better)
• if you use the vehicle, you need to stack up on car parts which you can create if you have enormous supplies of rubber, plastic, etc. (you can buy them or build one but it will take you a long time)
• new update releases take quite some time (they add a lot of new features that’s why it takes them that long, so all the long wait is still worth it)

All in all, I gave it 5 stars in Google Play. If you love to build and design, you love working on your own, you love to discover new things, you love to strategize and improvise, or just all in for an adventure, and very patient, this game is the perfect one for you. 😉

You may download the mobile game app here: Google Play Store & Apple Store

2. Legacy of Discord: Furious Wings

This is the newest mobile game I am currently interested in. Well, I sort of got intrigued how hubby (a true-blue RPGamer) does it with Lineage. 😀 We found out both Legacy and Lineage have the same game controls, concept, and even similar characters.

This is the first role-playing game I played and since I enjoy working alone, I was pretty much comfortable without a guild. But lo and behold, hubby was intrigued too so he joined in. He noticed I easily leveled up in my BR (Battle Rating) because I maximize the use of single player arenas. lol He urged me to put up a guild and be the leader. When he told me that, of course, you know my answer – NO. lol

How can I lead a team when I never even played an RPG game before in my entire human life?! hahaha 😀 Well, I made a deal with him instead. We will put up a guild on one condition – he will be the leader. We will just use my BR to acquire more points during guild wars but he will lead all the guild members to battle.

Every time we enter an event I always follow my husband where he goes. But at one point I totally got separated and I was like, “Where did everybody go?!” When I looked at my husband, he’s so laughing out loud and teased me, “Hon, didn’t you see the map? You always have to look at that so you’ll know where all of us are going.” My answer was this, “Insert gameface on.” lol

Anyway, enough with the “mushy talk” and let’s get on with the review, shall we? 😉

What I like about the game…

• like any RPG, leveling up is pretty fast (everything happens too fast also, this requires multi-processing in your brain. lol)
• there are so many ways for you to regain your stamina/energy without leaving the game at all (I call it the “side games”)
• it’s interactive in a way that sometimes you have no choice but to invite someone to join you in a multiplayer scene if none of your guild members are online (especially if you are targeting awesome prizes)
• the design of the character’s wings are absolutely enigmatic
• you easily acquire diamonds which you can use to revamp your character’s costume
• you can change your character’s name and your country (you have to wait a couple more days to change your country if you have previously selected one)
• the controls are easy and you have two modes of fighting, manual or auto fight (for someone who’s a chicken like me, the auto fight mode is perfect)

What I don’t like….

• there’s no filter for “trash” talk in the World chat (though you can minimize it, you’ll still see a line or 2)
• methinks some of the women characters are over-personified physically
• some pet characters look pretty “hell-ish” I don’t use them even if they will bring me a high BR (this is just my personal preference but let’s just assume they are enemies to extinguish 🙂 )
• the tasks can be pretty overwhelming if you’re a newbie player
• if you have a high sensitivity to light, you might need to lower down the brightness level of your screen as the light flashes during battles can be too bright

Even if I am new to this game, I’d still give it 4 stars. If you are more of an instant-gratification-kinda-gamer, this game will satisfy you since acquiring gems and gaining experience happen real quick. It’s also action-packed and if you love the effect of aurora borealis, the character’s wings have the same kind of effect. It’s actually one of the highlights of my gaming experience with Legacy. 🙂

You may download the mobile game app here: Google Play Store & Apple Store

So that’s my review of the two mobile game apps. Don’t get me wrong though, this is not the only way for me to spend my idle time. I also play the guitar or do artworks if I need some time off on any screen. 😉

How about you? What are your favorite mobile game apps before and now?

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