ManaCollect

So, right off the bat I'll say a few things people might like to hear. First of all, I felt this game was SIGNIFICANTLY better using a controller. Second: I am a huge minesweeper fan. I play it a lot to kill the time and I'm pretty good at it. Also, bought this at -10%. So this is like minesweeper. Except you are marking the mines and then killing them whenever you like (if ever: you can complete a 'floor' without clearing and it's basically exactly like minesweeper. In the multiplayer (or vs bots) mode: There's like 8 characters. Each one has exactly one special ability. If you've played Puyo Pop: it's sort of like that. You guys are both contesting the same mapand you both want to mark and collect as many mines as possible whilst retaining your combo of selecting mines without clearing or selecting an incorrect tile. I'll be honest: the story is really bad and very stupid. The AI is not horrible and will sometimes make mistakes (this is good). The art direction is OK. It's an a...

Manacollect is competitive Minesweeper in an Anime setting. While the setting doesn't exactly execute that well and the story is meh, the puzzle battle element is done well, and is good for local multiplayer games. The minesweeper element is actually interesting, and against a human opponent, there's strategy in when to press for more points and when not to. It's tense and works pretty well. Overall, a good battler puzzle game. +: -Good puzzle action, simple yet strategy. -Good risk versus reward gameplay in battle sections. -Still has a single player minesweeper game for those who don't want to battle. -: -Story is weak. -Characters skills are imbalanced in my opinion. For more information and gameplay: http://youtu.be/cENLiQ5nCEM

This is Hexcells, but rather repetitive, and occasionally you "fight" someone else for the mines on the board until you magic them to death. Buy Hexcells instead for puzzle gaming, or any of the myriad visual novels on Steam for anime ladies of various levels of (thing you want), because as an anime game with cutscenes the story is bland, the gameplay is lame, and it really isn't amazing on any level that it tries to play on. It's so repetitive and not worth fussing with when better games for all the things it tries exist.

Lets see, the best way to describe this game is... "Anything Goes - Supercute - Minesweeper Martial Arts - Battle Arena!!!" This is why I love Japan, and more specifically, Fruitbat Factory.

Competitive minesweeper with combos and abilities mixed in. Enough content to warent the cheap asking price. Just wish it was online multiplayer :(

This is kind of a rough game to play. It´s essentially Minesweeper - you have to walk your character over a hex field trying to find mana sources based on minesweeper-esque clues. You can chain them together for more points and then attack your opponent with it who also tries to get those mana sources. Now, I am not great at minesweeper, but even on normal I got utterly destroyed in chapter 2 already. It is kind of hard to play Minesweeper while the opponent "sweeps" across the floor, claiming one source after the other. They barely ever make mistakes even on normal, while you struggle to find sources and do the minesweeper logic in your head. I am terrible at this, I know, but "Normal" shouldn´t be this hard. Aside from that, it´s just generally not very fun. The music is somewhat generic, the graphics are rough, the story is dumb; the worst part are probably the controls, though. The hex cells are tiny and you need to position your character exactly on the right cells, else you ...

The premise is excellent on paper - multiplayer competitive minesweeper. Unfortunately, all of the parts put together fail to come together to create a good game. Moreover, the game is technically poorly done - it's clearly unoptimized, and this causes issues. In the following, I do not use the game's terminology. This is because this game is clearly multiplayer competitive minesweeper. The core mechanic is the following: You control a character, you collect mines. Your character moves around a map with hexes. Each hex tells you how many mines are adjacent to it. You see the values on the hexes surrounding your character. You place a marker where there is a mine, and if you're correct, your marker is placed on the mine. Every mine you correctly place adds to your chain, and the higher your chain is the higher your score multiplier is. You can purposefully break your chain, which gives you all of the points. Alternatively, your chain is automatically broken when all of the mines have ...

[noparse] Good? : [+?] Minesweeper alike in hexe grid without bomb but with attack and defense gameplay. kinda good at first and then turn ... bad for me cus my brain cannot keepup da pace like enemy is fast at marking that I end up mashing button for special powa ... ugh not good eh... Meh: [=] The head of 2d char avatar.... well, one look like got hammered often or something... [=] When you lose, you must retry from building mana pace, at first was ok, but when I got lose very often this just boring... Bad : [-] Player and enemy AI char model hinder the hint numbers for the bomb (I mean, the mana) so yeah enemy AI stole the mana very often cus I don't want to miss the mark and redo marking. [-] Enemy very fast and 90% very accurate on finding the mana. [-] I was ok with no mouse button on interface or gameplay ... but the game does not show me what button is attacking button? defense button? cancel button? what are these button and the option menu just showing controller symbol no...

Another anime style game from Fruibat Factory. When I saw who was behind this game, it was an insta-buy. The minesweeper-esque gameplay is executed and blended with RPG-ish skills and attacks very well. Each character has a unique skill that you can use to slow down your opponent. I highly recommend the tutorials at first, even if you know how to play Minesweeper. There's actually a lot more to this game then just playing Minesweeper, especially in the 'Match' modes. My major complaint is that the opponents never miss, even on Normal difficulty. If you get to a tile before them, they just go straight to the next one. Story mode is insanely hard even on the easy difficulties (or maybe I'm just bad). The music is fantastic and very fitting for this game. Tournament mode is like a survival thing, where you must face all of the other characters in constant succession. There's also Dungeon mode, which is fun as well. At $6.99, this is a steal. Pick this up, especially if you love Fruitba...

An anime and multiplayer version of Minewsweeper that is fun and fast-paced. The story mode has no real merits other than practice, but playing with other players online with the multiplayer mode can be rewarding. A good casual game to try if you're looking for something more laid-back.