At some point(s) in our childhood, we all dreamt of flying among the clouds and into the depths of space. Kurechii interactive rekindles that dream with a simple but engaging launching flash game, Reachin’Pichin.

In the game, you play as Pichin, a cute little creature with the power of levitation and your goal is to conquer the skies. Fly as high as you can, bouncing from out platform to another and gathering ores, Kurecoins & Growth Points (GP) along the way.

Gameplay

Reachin’Pichin is a launching game with a primary focus on upgrades.

A round starts with a click on the big red “FLY” button. This launches Pichin up into the air. To reach higher levels, you have to jump into trampolines. Scattered along your path are Ores, Kurecoins and Ores, which you can use to upgrade Pichin’s flying ability (Strength, Initial Launch Speed, Luck, Maximum Speed and Bounce). Aside from increasing these ability, you can also learn passive & active skills that you can use to even increase Pichin’s chance of flying higher.

Oh… I forgot to mention. This game is played with just your mouse. Despite the little complexity of the operation, the developers managed to make the whole game operation simple and straightforward.

Review

Game  (8/10) – Reachin’Pichin kicks ass. I completed the whole game in less than 1 hour, which makes it fall under the “casual” category. For someone with a small attention span, I was able to keep myself from not finishing the game. I guess, it has something to do with the anticipation of reaching higher heights (ohh…an awesome song by Mishka).

Controls (8/10) – The game is played with the mouse making it easy to control Pichin as he flies and jumps around. As for the game’s dashboard…it can be a little confusing at the early rounds of the game. However, as you progress, navigating between tabs and functions becomes easier.

Music (5/10) – I wasn’t a big fan of the looping background music. It became annoying after 10 minutes. As for Pichin’s cute “pewewwww”…well, it’s cute. Lol.

Graphics (7/10) – The game’s graphics are smooth, the colors are lively and I haven’t seen major defects in it. Still, I give it 7 because of the lack of originality or, maybe, just because I’m currently into those 8-bit-style graphics.

In robot land, a ‘mad scientist’ is on the verge of creating the first organic life by using the mysterious dark energy trapped within the core of the planet. Will his plan succeed?

Droid Land is a top-notch point-and-click puzzler game. The post-apocalyptic atmosphere of the game reminded me of the animated movie Wall-E. Add the strange eerie background music and you’re in for some mind-boggling experience.

If you’ve played the noir flash game Nick Bounty: A Case of Crabs, solving Droid Land will come easy. But if you’re stuck, check out this Droid Land Walkthrough.

The game is almost perfect except for its length. It’s just too short. I finished playing it in 15 minutes. A couple more levels, say 3-5 more, would have sealed made me droll over this game. Still, it’s worth playing, and knowing how most game developers operate, I wouldn’t be surprised if a sequel comes in a couple of weeks, months, or, I hope not, years!

Zombie at the Gates is an action-roleplaying game developed by ridlake.

Story

You are an old king living comfortably in your castle. One day, a gold rolled off from your coffers and into a well. Trying to keep the coin for yourself, you tried to reach for it but fell into the depths of the well.

After one day of crawling back up the well, you finally got out. But things seem different…dead men started walking. You ran as fast as you can to your castle. As more and more dead walks, you figured that the only way to survive is to leave your kingdom by building a flying castle!

Gather resources such as wood, leather and stones to build a flying machine. Just be very careful as zombies walks your land.

Gameplay

Your main goal is to collect enough resources available in the area and survive zombie attacks.  The game is spread out into multiple levels, during which the number of zombies increases as you move to higher levels.

There are various skills that you can use for offense and defense; and if you want to increase your power, you can use collected gold coins to purchase or upgrade weapons.

Review

The game has beautiful graphics, as with Ridlake’s other work Anyway Fish. It played smoothly on both my new (in high quality) and old (mid quality) computers. I just have a problem with the visibility of the player’s dashboard. At first glance, I had trouble figuring out what the buttons are for. Hell, I didn’t even notice them in the game screen. A slight change or a clearer border on the dashboards and their buttons would make them more visible. What the game lack is a good background story that can carry the game to the next releases, if the developer chooses to.

On the other hand, I had fun smashing the hell out of those freaking zombies. I personally like the idea of disabling the bow at short distance; this allows for more complication and forces the player to use an alternative weapon. Also, it makes sense.

All-in-all, the game is a fun time-waster.