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Also, scientists tell us that most endless runners are boring as crap.

It's not unplayable, but the hardware can do so much better. The game runs at a low frame rate on my Lumia 1520. Gameloft uses the same 3D engine in all of its Windows Phone 8 games, and that engine is fairly poor. The Scrat runner mostly pays out in berries, although you can also get a few items needed to unlock new areas if you survive long enough. They enable bonuses like a berry magnet, a one-time shield, and the ability to destroy obstacles for a short time. Rescuing certain animals will cause those creatures to randomly spawn as power-ups within the Scrat game. It actually goes on forever or until you die, which is really easy to do. Instead of Sid, this version stars Scrat the Masochistic Squirrel. Each animal home produces berries over time.īack in the village, you can play an endless running minigame using tokens that you dig up from snow piles or receive from friends. You can't rescue additional animals until the first creature's home has been built – not unless you spend 50 acorns (~$3.50) for an extra nursery slot. These cost more and more shells, to the point where you'll eventually have to save up for a while just to build a new home. Failure means you have to spend acorns for more moves, or wait a few hours to try again.Īfter rescuing an animal, you'll want to return to your village and build it a home. The puzzle game is usually fair (once you fully learn the mechanics), but sometimes it just doesn't give you enough moves.

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To free these guys, you'll need to complete a match-3 minigame within a certain number of moves. Fail and you'll have to either spend acorns to continue or wait a few minutes-hours for the mini-game to open up again.Īlternately, some animals sit within circular prisons of ice. The minigame isn't really endless – you'll find the animal halfway through a level that lasts for a couple of minutes, and you win by reaching the end of it. If the animal-hosting building decides to be kind and award you the creature, you'll still have to play through an endless runner-style minigame as Sid in order to actually rescue the animal. It might take quite a few visits to get that item you're looking for, to the point that it delays progress in the game. This gets annoying when the building has an animal or item you need, because some of them have very low and unfair drop rates. You can revisit buildings to try for better prizes, but they take anywhere from ten minutes to several hours to become active again. Simply tap a building and its roulette wheel will spin and then pop out the item. The berry costs get a lot higher as you reach new islands, limiting players' ability to zoom through the game.Įach island also hosts several buildings from which you can earn various prizes, including animals, berries, shells, items, and on rare occasions, acorns (premium currency). Getting rid of stuff consumes berries, which function as energy in Ice Age Adventures. Tap one of these objects and one of your three heroes will clear it out of the way (some take two taps), gaining shells (soft currency) as a reward. When you reach one of these places, you'll find a variety of obstacles to clear, including trees, rocks, ice, enemies, mushrooms, and more. Sid and team actually get to visit new locations via ship, adding an element of exploration that you seldom see in games of this type. The story doesn't go anywhere (of course), but kids will love the many conversations between characters.Īlthough the goal of saving lots of animals is the same as in Village, the way you go about doing so differs greatly here. There are way more discussions than you'd expect, too – Gameloft went all-out with the story in order to keep players motivated. Every little exchange between characters is fully voiced-acted by very good sound-alikes of the voice actors from the films. Now, I don't care for the Ice Age movies (and I have endured several), but Ice Age Adventures' storytelling is still impressive. Soon he will recruit Manny 'Man, Ray Romano is annoying' Mammoth and Diego 'Promise you don't date my daughter Gwen' Saber-toothed Tiger, and the three will work together to find more animals. Sid 'Suffering Succotash' Sloth is charged with rescuing them. Something bad happens, and all the animals in the Ice Age entourage get separated. Ice Age Adventures starts with nearly the same premise as the last game.

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