Pakoombo Game Review

With an unusual name, Pakoombo steps into a well loved game genre in a bright and breezy match 3 romp on a tropical island setting. Playing as Cathy, the local heroine, your task at hand is to help stop Mr. Lyar, a greedy land developer from taking and selling your fathers small seaside hotel resort, which would see you, your siblings Stewart and Leo, and your friends, dumped on the beach with no where to live. You have a map that should lead you to lost treasure, but it won't be easy as there are ancient spirits, and other unmentionable creatures, that will attempt to guard the treasure at all costs. Find the treasure and save the hotel from Mr. Lyar.

This leads you into, what is at first, a dazzling game in typical match 3 fashion. Unfortunately the longer you play the more repetitive it becomes, and you go back and forth between locations. There are 3 different game modes, Story mode, Quick Play and Boss Battle. Story mode is perhaps where you will spend most of your time, talking to a range of colorful animals, various characters and stomping through the island toward a thrilling plot to save your home from the greedy Mr. Lyar.

You work your way through the game by playing usual match 3 tile type scenarios. Swapping tiles to make matches and attempting to position tiles so you can create combos, which in turn reward you with more coins to spend on upgrades. Pakoombo has many upgrades that will help you battle "boss" enemies and there are challenges that make you plan your moves in advance to overcome obstacles. This is a nice refreshing twist to the usual repetitive match 3 game, bringing in the need to lay down strategy several moves in advance, actively involving the player in choosing powerups and laying tiles to block the opponents moves.

While graphics are cartoonish, they are very colorful and the bright and breezy music adds a tropical atmosphere to the game play. Pakoombo does have some irritating features such as the voice over yelling "Pakoombo" every so often.

Pakoombo should warm the cockles of match 3 fans hearts, but if your not a true believer, the repetitive side, and the continual looping catchy music, may test your resolved after a few hours. This is well worth downloading the demo version and giving it a trial. Pakoombo is a welcome change for us reviewers, after a run of hidden object game releases, but it is you, the paying publics opinion that counts. Give the demo a run and see if this is a match 3 made in heaven. The kids should love Pakoombo as the graphics are cartoonish and the characters look like rejects from old TV series.

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