If you fail a level you'll be given an option to continue playing the level for 900 coins, and this option will give you five more additional moves, so pay up only if you're certain you can finish the level in five or fewer moves. You can collect all acorns on the board with just a rainbow blast. Shovels are the best option for your power-up purchases as they let you dig up one tile anywhere on the board and this can save you lives. You can get 1,000 free coins by simply linking the game to Facebook.As you complete the match-3 levels, you will be rewarded with stars - these stars can then be used to complete various tasks within the garden, such as planting trees and flowers, repairing fences and fountains and building new features such as a tree house and spring. Part-way through the game, you will also adopt a dog, which you can name (I named mine Rufus) who will create chaos within the garden and provide you with other things to build, such as a kennel.įor such a simple concept, Gardenscapes is actually filled to the brim with content - throughout the game you interact mainly with Austin, your butler - but as you progress, you will meet and unlock more characters who can be recruited to complete tasks within your garden. There is also a Facebook-style newsfeed app where you can read conversations between them - the posts between Austin and his parents are particularly amusing.
Unlike many match-3 games, each coloured piece is unique - made up of fruits, acorns, droplets of water and flowers - and Shelly (who is red-green colour-blind, remember) assures me she has no problems distinguishing between colours like she has done in similar games. Of course, the game is not without issues. As with many free-to-play apps, you CAN use real money to purchase in-game coins, which can be traded for lives, boosters or be used to speed up tasks taking place within the garden. You are rewarded with these coins simply by playing the game, but it's a paltry amount. For each level you complete, you'll receive 50-75 coins - but it costs 900 to refill your lives and even more to buy boosters. Once you pass level 60, the levels begin to become unforgiving - whether you can pass the level or not will be determined in your first few moves, and quite often, it's based on luck - hopefully you can start a level with the means to create bombs and rainbow blasters in your first few moves.
The game can also be linked with Facebook - to IN THEORY send and receive lives between your real-life friends - well I'm calling this feature out right now - it DOESN'T WORK. Shelly and I were constantly asking for and sending each other lives - the requests for help sent, but the actual lives we sent each other were lost in cyberspace.
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