Farmer Bundle is a set of puzzle video games revealed by Silesia Video games. Nonetheless, don’t let the title deceive you; it’s not a single sport that comes with DLC or something like that. In the event you get this title, you’ll be downloading three separate video games onto your Nintendo Change: On the spot Farmer, Floating Farmer, and Island Farmer.
All three titles in Farmer Bundle are kind of the identical. Nonetheless, they do have slight variations to make every title its personal. Let me get the premise out of the way in which; all three video games are puzzles the place it’s essential to rearrange blocks so as to create a farm. Upon getting the video games, I believed I’d be attending to rearrange my very own farm, however the format is already predetermined. You gained’t be rising any crops. They’ll immediately develop while you full every stage, and then you definitely’ll transfer on to the subsequent. There’s nothing improper with this, after all, however I used to be underneath the impression this sport was half farming and half puzzle, not 100% puzzle.
Having the farm because the background for these puzzles is a pleasant thought, although. The graphics are easy, because it’s all blocks, however they’re pleasing to have a look at. Nonetheless, the theme of farming didn’t do something for me whereas enjoying every stage. It added some distinctive guidelines to unscrambling the blocks, however the puzzles themselves didn’t maintain my consideration for lengthy. One cause for that’s the puzzles have been repetitive throughout the three video games with solely slight modifications.
Now, I do know what you’re considering; puzzle video games are sometimes repetitive as a result of puzzles have a sure algorithm to finish them. The factor is, in Farmer Bundle, it’s essential to be taught the principles for your self (at the least, in On the spot Farmer you do). Every stage provides extra blocks than the earlier one, growing the issue as you go. The issue wasn’t a problem, however as a result of every puzzle had one—and just one—objective and final result, it grew uninteresting after some time.
Let’s check out every sport in Farmer Bundle. I performed On the spot Farmer first, throwing myself to the wolves. The sport consists of puzzles, and that’s it. There are not any excessive scores, no timers, no hints. It additionally doesn’t clarify what it’s essential to do, however it’s simple sufficient to determine for the reason that first stage is so small. You swap one block with one other wherever on the board till the sport tells you the extent is full. The principle level is to position soil blocks beside water blocks to assist the soil develop its crops. When all of the soil blocks are capable of develop their crops, you beat the extent.
Because the sport doesn’t clarify something to you, you may think about my confusion when sprinklers turned concerned in later ranges. I had no thought what they have been as a result of they didn’t work until they have been subsequent to a water block. It took me far too lengthy to understand I wanted the sprinkler blocks to be the connection between a water and soil block. I acquired midway by the 50 ranges earlier than I’d had sufficient and moved on to the subsequent sport.
I performed Floating Farmer subsequent. To be sincere, this was my least favourite one. After a few ranges of this explicit sport, I used to be craving to return to On the spot Farmer. In Floating Farmer, the objective is to create a path from the cattle to their pens. Additionally, the farm is floating within the air for some cause. If you full a stage, it goes again to the bottom.
Floating Farmer does clarify the controls and guidelines. Nonetheless, it does so with the title “Island Farmer.” (Spoiler alert, Island Farmer is nothing like Floating Farmer.) Fortunately, the principles have been appropriate, although the title of the sport was improper.
Nonetheless, the motion in Floating Farmer is completely different from swapping two blocks wherever on the board. You possibly can solely swap two blocks inside the similar row or column. If you do, all of the blocks in that row or column shift over. This manner of maneuvering the blocks made it a lot tougher for me. I’ll say my mind can’t comprehend that sort of motion in puzzles, which is why I by no means play them.
For sure, I acquired by the primary ten ranges out of fifty after which needed to be completed. So, I moved on to Island Farmer, which is my favourite of the three. It’s additionally the only of the three video games in Farmer Bundle.
Island Farmer is one other sport that doesn’t clarify the principles or controls to you, however it’s easy to choose up as a result of it’s simpler than the opposite two video games. The purpose of Island Farmer is to place a scrambled farm again collectively. You don’t must create paths or place sure blocks collectively to create one thing.
This title is usually a reminiscence sport. Every stage exhibits you the farm put collectively. If you’re prepared, you hit “play,” and the blocks will scramble themselves. Then, you may swap two blocks collectively from wherever on the board to place the image again collectively once more. When you had a block within the appropriate spot, it sparkled and couldn’t be moved once more. Actually, I’d have preferred it if the opposite two video games had that characteristic and even an choice to show that characteristic on or off.
I’ve at all times been an enormous fan of memory-matching video games, so Island Farmer was a breath of recent air in comparison with the opposite two video games within the bundle. Sadly, this explicit title solely has 20 ranges, versus the 50 ranges the opposite two video games every have. I acquired by all of them inside an hour.
Total, Farmer Bundle wasn’t as thrilling as I hoped it’d be. I actually solely loved one out of the three video games, and it occurred to be the shortest. I like my puzzles to be informal, so I’m not upset that there have been no timers or excessive scores. Then again, it might have been good to have one thing to work towards. For instance, it’d be attention-grabbing to know if the puzzles may very well be accomplished inside a sure variety of strikes. It’d give me an additional objective, thus including replayability.
I don’t suppose I’ll revisit any of those video games. Nonetheless, in case you take pleasure in a majority of these puzzles, then Farmer Bundle is likely to be choice to choose up and play every now and then.