Navbar

Reviews

Reviews written by Frontierville Express Admins of all the new game features and rated in key areas out of 5. Please add your own reviews in the comments section.

Monday, 29 August 2011

Beaver Valley Reviews

Quick Pros: Gorgeous scenery, minimal requesting

Quick Cons: Repetitive missions

Review: The first thing that strikes you as you enter Beaver Valley is the stunning graphics of the area, it's easy to say Beaver Valley may be the most beautifully designed area of Frontierville and the Pioneer Trail. As a gift on the eyes it is an excellent introduction to the Trail and for a moment you almost want to just explore and take in the skill of the art department.

Once you start playing the intro from Jack into the methodology of Trail-Play is nice and easy to follow and is a good simple entry into Beaver Valley and the Trail as a whole. Unfortunately the one thing you then get once finishing the Tutorial is a feeling you might still be in it...

Instead of a learning curve making the missions more difficult as you go along doesn't really materialise and you're left with a mild feeling of deja vu with every new mission, although a lot of this is simply down to how the Trail is put together, the limitations it has for missions.

It felt a little like... I've chopped trees 20 times with this character, now I'm chopping trees with MY character, next mission I'm chopping trees with a different character...It feels rather harsh to make this a big negative because the game is a diversion, not a game in it's own right, but even playing in short bursts it does feel slightly repetitive as you work through the main missions.

All in all it's a fun experience (when glitch free) and it felt quite enjoyable, I think coming from Frontierville it suffers slightly from not being able to adapt your surroundings and the samey nature of the missions can drag but placed alongside Homestead missions it fulfils it's purpose of a quick diversion, and a very pretty one at that.

Stability: In general the Valley was trouble free, although glitches have arisen surrounding the appearance of hidden missions.

Ratings (out of 5)

Fun:
Even with similar missions the Valley IS fun.
Spam: 
Thankfully there are VERY few missions that need requests.
Time: 
It'll probably take you some time to get all the way through.

Overall (out of 10): 
Beautifully designed and quite fun, if repetitive.

2 comments:

  1. I really liked Beaver Valley, but i felt like i had to move on to quickly, the peer pressure thing.LOL People get tired of clicking on the same things over and over if they have moved on, you know what i mean. I really like the story scrolls throughout the game. Just a bit to much monotony, just clearing. Thanks for your review, very nice!

    ReplyDelete

Enter your review here. Please no swearing and PLEASE leave a name rather than simply be anonymous, stand by your words ;)