Acorn Assault: Rodent Revolution is where Plants Vs Zombies meets a Match 3 game.
There is not really a lot to complain about the game, despite the number of cons I will inevitably put at the end of this review. Most of them are because the game is a little price-y for only having 25 pretty short levels, which I’m sure scale in difficulty. It’s more or less nitpicking after the whole price check complaint.
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The game is simple. You are squirrels and the enemies are squirrels. The premise of the plot is really just a “The Squirrels Are Playing Human Roles; Therefore It’s A Rodent Revolution”. Place your pieces, they fire. The enemy place their pieces, they fire. Place three of the same type of piece in a particular pattern, and they evolve into a bigger, more beefy or lethal piece. It honestly Plants vs Chess vs Match 3 and is actually great for what it is… But that’s all that it is.
If this was a mini-game in a larger game, then it would definitely have me head over heels for the game. Alas, it is not, so I would recommend to thee that thee fair gamers wait until thy game has been taken down a notch in terms of coppers, before picking this game up.
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Pros:
- The game works and does not crash or have any bugs or graphical glitches.
- All music suits the theme and does not disrupt from the lore or the game itself, everything is suitable.
- Some aspects of the story are genuinely entertaining and funny at times, watching squirrels quarrel about trivial manners is really ridiculous.
- The unique take on the plants vs zombies vs chess vs match 3 fighting is actually rather refreshing. It’s almost nostalgic as it reminds me of an old game that I used to play, that I don’t have mind the name of.
- The game genuinely does not look bad at all. They are very obviously 3D models of squirrels, no realism here, but it doesn’t hurt your eyes or soul to look at, which is something I can say has happened to me before.
Cons:
- While refreshing, the plants vs zombies style battling is the only thing that happens. There is dialogue between battles, but that’s it. There are 25 levels of this which progressively gets harder, but that’s not worth the full price in my opinion.
- The squirrels have just about the same dialogue every time. I’ve only made if halfway through, but Cortex is really fixed on capturing the bandicoot.
- It teaches you early on that combining three squirrels makes a bigger and better squirrel, but it didn’t give you a little nudge for you to find that these big squirrels can combine into an even bigger squirrel. Maybe it’s expected, but my dumb face could’ve done with knowing it a little sooner.
- There’s also no way of preventing your squirrels from becoming blue eyes white dragon, perhaps I want a nice row of them, to block the incoming bullets.
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Price: £7.19
Time To Complete: N/A
Achievements: None
Cards: Yes
Worth The Money: Only When On Sale
In conclusion, it’s not the best game to ever surface upon Steam, especially for the price that is being asked of it. However, when it’s on sale, it’s a brilliant game to buy and play. An hour’s worth of playing in 5 levels, with about 25 levels in total. If you love puzzles, and match 3 stuff, then you can probably get a good number of hours out of this game.
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Zesty Rating
5 Out Of 10
A decent jab at combining elements of Match 3 and Plants Vs Zombies. Squirrels take on the affairs of humans and battle it out in cute little uniforms. Not a horrible game, and has good puzzles, but not amazing.
Please bear in mind that this is a repost. There have been slight changes to the post such as spelling and grammar fixes, images added, and things generally organised in the fashion I'd like them presented. Apart from that, the main context of the review has not changed, opinion has not been altered and everything is sacred. I look forward to writing for you all again.