King's replacement of Chuzzle!

[Grengoddess]

Have you VIPs played it yet? It is called Puzzle Mana. What do you think of it?

[haueb]

I just noticed it's return. I played it last week a couple of time before it disappeared. I liked it quite a bit, very glad to see it return this quick

edit: it's not very smooth sometimes, is that just me?
What scores are you studs getting? I seem to be hitting around 600k most of the time
edit2: The game lags slightly when I remove a skull on the first move, but not when it happens in a combo

[Grengoddess]

The skull thing happens to me too. The game gets extremely slow then fixes itself. I am still trying to understand how the scoring works to get those million point scores others are getting. I would think the "battle over bonus" would be largeer :/

[Kworb]

I like it, but seems so luck based. Sometimes after a level (the "Mana Attack") the chains go on forever and you get tons of points, other times you get nothing. And the only thing that matters strategy wise is to make color bombs (5+ matches).

[haueb]

I like it, but seems so luck based. Sometimes after a level (the "Mana Attack") the chains go on forever and you get tons of points, other times you get nothing. And the only thing that matters strategy wise is to make color bombs (5+ matches).

After some more plays, i completely agree with this, lots of luck in the mana attacks and color bombs are the way to go. I'm trying to figure out if it's worth to spend some time on setting up 5+ matches or not.

[zekila]

I like the game but agree that it's quite luck based. I'm still provisional but can tell that I'm improving my average scores. Usually I score some 5-600k'ish, but have reached 700k a few times.

Still haven't completed level 5, though, which bothers me a lot.

The 5+ match is tricky because you should also use the plus-signs. They add 5 extras to the mana meters, and you wouldn't want to blow those up using a color bomb.

Do you guys get to finish the game?

[Grengoddess]

I have beaten the 5th level several times and all you get is a measily 100 points for completing the battle :P

I would think it would be a 200k point bonus or something, but nope :P

[zekila]

I have beaten the 5th level several times and all you get is a measily 100 points for completing the battle :P

Oh well, too bad. But you do get an extra mana bonus round, I suppose. I'm not surprised that you've completed the game.

Do you just move as quickly as possible or do you try to build up "wisely"?

[zekila]

There IS something about this forum. I now played another game and got through all five levels.

My score was app. 20.000 lower than my highest score so far, though. But at least I can add a level five monster to that collection thing.

[Kworb]

I also just beat all five levels for the first time, and my score was only 655k! Hate the scoring, but the game is very addictive.

Nice job GG with the first place so far in the big jackpot!