{"id":13271,"date":"2015-03-25T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=13271"},"modified":"2015-03-16T11:46:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T11:46:20","slug":"magic-cat-story-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/25\/magic-cat-story-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Cat Story (iPad)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MAGICCAT_BOX\"<\/a>Magic Cat Story is a free-to-play puzzle game downloadable for iOS and Android devices (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 In the game you help a wizard cat stop an evil magician from turning all the people into animals.\u00a0 But storylines in puzzle games really aren\u2019t that important.\u00a0 To thwart the evil wizard, you must match colored blocks to make them disappear.\u00a0 While most free-to-play puzzle games are similar to Candy Crush or Bejeweled, Magic Cat Story plays more like a falling block puzzler such as Dr. Mario or Puyo Puyo.<\/p>\n

To rotate blocks, simply tap on the screen.\u00a0 Swipe left and right to move the blocks in those directions.\u00a0 And when you\u2019re ready to place your blocks into the playfield, just swipe down to make them fall into place.\u00a0 You can take your time when deciding where to place blocks, as they don\u2019t fall down on their own like most other games of this ilk do.\u00a0 You can swipe down when you\u2019re good and ready.<\/p>\n

Blocks that match four or more of the same color will disappear, and blocks above will fall into place and can make more possible matches.\u00a0 You have a limited amount of moves for each level, so making combos is essential.\u00a0 In each level, you\u2019ll have a different mission.\u00a0 Sometimes you must clear out certain colors of blocks, fruit of the same color, break ice blocks by matching overlapping colors, or make magic books fall to the bottom.\u00a0 The game does a good job of keeping things interesting and different from level to level, introducing new gameplay mechanics or blocks to keep you on your toes.\u00a0 In later levels you\u2019ll be able to fill up a meter that you can use to make blocks clear out whole rows, and use other powers as you progress.<\/p>\n

For a free-to-play game, it has very few of the annoyances games of this ilk have.\u00a0 There are no pop-up ads and the game doesn\u2019t pressure you to buy anything too often.\u00a0 But it does do one thing that gets my goat.\u00a0 Around level 30 or so, the game gets exponentially harder and you won\u2019t get very far unless you do buy some power-ups and things.\u00a0 Another more minor problem is the controls.\u00a0 Tapping makes the blocks rotate, and sometimes when I swipe down, it\u2019ll rotate the blocks instead, which gets annoying.\u00a0 However, if you\u2019d like to try Magic Cat Story, it\u2019s free so you don\u2019t have a lot to lose!<\/p>\n

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No violence or anything objectionable here.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and parental supervision is recommended for the in-game purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Magic Cat Story is a free-to-play puzzle game downloadable for iOS and Android devices (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 In the game you help a wizard cat stop an evil magician from turning all the people into animals.\u00a0 But storylines in puzzle games really aren\u2019t that important.\u00a0 To thwart the evil wizard, you must match colored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13274,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13271\/revisions\/13274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}