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Mobile Game Review - Hamsters: Idle Game

Game Names = Hamsters (actual app name), Hamsters: Idle Game (store page name)

Developer = Playesta Limited

Age Rating on Google Play = Pegi 3

Star Rating on Google Play (as of this review posting date) = 4.1 out of 5 stars from 1.48k Reviews

Devices Available = Apple Store, Google Play and Andriod

Currently Available to Play (as of this review posting date) = Yes

Links = https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playesta.hamsters&hl=en_GB&pli=1

Gameplay

This game is a classic clicker game in a similar vain to cookie clicker and the like. There is a row of different hamsters with each one costing more to unlock as you go down. Each hamster has a progress bar and the more expensive, the longer time it takes to reach the end of the bar. When it reaches the end of the bar it will give you some points and the longer time it takes the bigger chunk of points it gives. You can use your points to upgrade each hamster separately to make them earn more for you and earn it faster.

After some time, you will be given the option to prestige which (in case you don't know) allows you to refresh your progress of upgrades back to zero but you will be given a multiplier so you will progress back to where you were faster and be able to go further. The rest of the game is furthering the numbers by doing this over and over.

There are also more special fantasy types of hamsters you can unlock if you earn enough special points (obtained later in game by trading lots of points for them or by watching ads).

The only issue is that this is game is rather simplistic compared to a lot of other clicker mobile games on the market right now as it is rather out dated. This means less interesting gimmicks and new content to keep your interest. The game also tends to wall you quite badly later on so only a few minutes a day is reasonable as you will need to leave it earning over night to be able to upgrade eventually.

Visuals and Audio

The visuals are a nice painted cute simplistic art style which reminds me of old European children's books like Beatrix Potter. It certainly does the job nicely and its more unique than most mobile games. The audio is mostly just music as the sound effects don't stand out too much and are quite quiet compared to the music so its mostly what you will hear. The music sounds kinda like classical with a silly upbeat tune which fits the art style nicely. The music can be annoying after a while but there is the option to turn off sounds and/or music in the app whenever you want so this is no problem. I'd say these aspects give it a rather sweet relaxing fun vibe which makes this game good to chill out to.

Functionality

This is one of the most smooth running mobile games I have ever used tbh. I have had no problems whatsoever and this is a simple game so it is probably compatible with most devices easily.

Ad Usage and Predatory Tactics

In a rare case for mobile games, this game in fact doesn't require ads to play at all. Now when I say this I don't mean in some round about way like in-between screens or something, I mean literally this entire game NEVER requires ads! This is an amazing thing as this is so rare nowadays in mobile games and is a big plus for me. Not only that but you can get pretty good rewards for choosing to watch just a few ads daily. You can even save up special coins earned from ad watching to eventually buy paid only rewards such as big point multipliers so nothing is really out of your reach in this game if you are dedicated enough and that's the way I like it. X3

Final Rating

Overall, this is a relaxing, cute and fun time for fans of hamsters and clicker games. It does have some draw backs with a lack of new content and some harsh progress walls later on but if you plan to just play this for a few minutes at a time per day to relax then it is fine little game which should do the job nicely. However, if you are looking for something more flashy and engaging in gameplay then you are looking in the wrong place.

Rating = 7/10

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Mobile Games Reviews Key

This is a guide to how I do Mobile Game reviews and what each labelled section means.

Gameplay

Here I will describe the game genre and what kind of gameplay to expect.

Visuals and Audio

Here I will describe anything interesting about the visuals and/or audio of the game.

Functionality

I have an old apple phone because I don't have enough money to buy a new one every year and I'm sure I'm not the only one. This section is to highlight any incompatibility issues which may be had from older phones trying to run the game. Basically I will tell you if my phone had any issues running the game since that's my point of reference and its hard for me to do more without buying multiple phones for only this which I'm not doing lol -v-'

Ad Usage and Predatory Tactics

Pretty self explanatory. Here I will describe exactly where and how ads are used and how frequently. I will also describe the rewards for watching ads or any slow downs of progress and tell you how this affects gameplay. Mobile games have a surprising variety of ad usage and manipulation tactics they can use and this will give you an idea of what's in here so you know if this game has something which may be a deal breaker for you.

Final Rating

Final conclusion and verdict of the review. I will give it a score out of 10. 1 being bad and 10 being great.

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Baby Looney Tunes review - s1ep1b and ep1 song (A Secret Tweet and They Love to Sing song)

Intro stuffs

This will be a text basic description of the plot of the episode and my thoughts about certain things. Sorta a text react more like but whatever.

Baby Looney Tunes episodes are divided in double bills with a short song number in the middle counted as 1 episode all together. I put the individual section names I am covering here in the brackets above.

Song

This song is rather ironic as it is talking about the characters singing yet they never do in these song sections. Instead the characters dance around in various costumes and do little clumsy cartoon visual scits while someone elses voice sings the song. These songs are often nursery rhymes and other well known kids songs with lyrics changed to be about the Looney Tunes instead. These sections will also often have baby versions of Looney Tunes characters which are never in the normal episodes.

There often isn't much to say about these song numbers as they are pretty standard and probably what you expect with the above description. However, this pilot episode decided to do something...erm... shall we say; a little extra. There are various outfits and pop culture references in this one and then check out this screenshot.

Yep your eyes are not deceiving you, that IS a toddler dressed as a pimp. This was not a smart move especially on the FIRST EPISODE! You'd think they would check this a bit more closely being the pilot episode but nope. No fucks were given here.

Episode

This episode starts with the Looney babies playing with their toys again and Bugs apparently has a duck toy. I wonder how Daffy feels about that. Anyways, there is a joke were Daffy says he is gonna pretend to be the king and Sylvester is gonna be his knight. Then Sylvester scares Daffy with a toy robot and laughs at him. This makes no sense coz no1 why would Daffy be afraid of a toy he already knows about just being used as intended and no2 why isn't Sylvester the one being scared? Sylvester's character trait is that he is a "scaredy cat" and they use this as a joke several times later in this same episode totally confusing this supposed joke. Great start lol.

Then we get a scene where Taz interacts with a xylophone like any toddler would do. He throws it, chews on the drum stick and then smashes his fists on it. The show has no problem with this like this is normal. This is literally the opposite of the moral from the previous episode.

Then Tweety is playing with letter blocks and makes a joke about how he doesn't know his letters. Is this joke intended for the kids or the adults? I have no idea. How does he even know they are letters in the first place? Anyways, carry on.

Granny mentions how they are playing together despite them all clearly shown playing apart from each other in different parts of the room. Then she invites everyone except Tweety for a chat outside the room. Tweety investigates and it seems they are whispering about something together. Tweety asks about it but they blow him off. There is a joke about Daffy mentioning the secret isn't about him because Daffy is dumb. Hope you like this joke coz they reuse it A LOT in this show!

Then the scene changes to the kitchen where Granny is making a cake mix with Taz in the toddler chair for some reason near her. This is obviously a terrible idea as Taz eats the ingredients on the spoon the moment Granny's back is turned. He contributes nothing to the cake making. He is literally just there for this joke. Tweety then comes in and asks about what they are cooking and Granny blows him off by claiming it is a new diet food for Taz.

Then the scene changes again to Sylvester cutting shapes into paper to make a Tweety shape chain decoration. Btw the way Sylvester cuts this with his claws makes no sense. Then Tweety comes up and asks them what they are doing. This somehow scares Sylvester onto the roof and Lola blames Tweety for it and tells him to leave. This feels a little too mean spirited an excuse to get him to leave but whatever.

Then the scene changes again to Tweety finding Bugs and Daffy whispering about something. Daffy ends up laughing about how great the secret is while Bugs tries to tell him Tweety is behind him. I hope you like this joke because this one is also reused A LOT.

Then the scene changes yet again to Tweety chatting with Taz. He vents about how he feels like something is wrong with his friends because they are acting weird around him and whispering secrets. Taz is fine to stay there coz he can't ruin the surprise since he can't talk lol. Taz is called away by the others and Tweety is sad and alone again.

The scene changes again to Tweety feeling sad and hearing whispering in a dark room across the hall. Tweety turns the light on saying he is sick of the secrets but it turns out it was all a surprise party. Tweety says they thought they all didn't like him but they say they do. This is a classic cut and paste cartoon episode plot which has been done a million times so there really isn't much to say about it. Boring episode.

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Baby Looney Tunes review - s1ep1a (Taz in Toyland)

Intro stuffs

Hello and welcome to my review. Just to let you know, this review is not intended for kids as it may include adult language and adult or dark discussion at times.

Now before we get to the main review, I have to explain something about the structure of what this show considers an episode. Each episode consists of 2 individual stories with a song in the middle. Despite each story having its own title, both of these stories are considered episode 1. This is why I have labelled this as episode 1a as this is a review of specifically the first story in this episode. The second story I will call 1b. It just makes this easier to understand. With that said let's begin.

Plot

First we are gonna cover the PLOT of the episode and I will go on tangents along the way. Then later, I will elaborate on some other things.

This episode starts with the baby looney's each playing with their own toys in a different area of the room. The cringe starts early as we are only half a minute in and already Tweety is shown laughing at their own reflection in a hand mirror like its the best thing ever with cheesy sound effects every time they move their head up to the mirror. Better get used to those sound effects coz they NEVER STOP!

After talking to a friend, apparently this is meant to be a joke about what canaries do which is the species of bird he is supposed to be. Yes apparently they are a he. For years I thought they were a she but oh well. -v-' Am I the only one who thought this? Anyways, that's besides the point.

What I want to mention here is wtf is the point in having a joke about the species of bird they are here? This is a pretty specific joke at the best of times let alone a show I presume is targeted to toddlers but we will speak more about the target audience later as that is its own tangent. The cat jokes for Selvester make more sense coz the first animals kids learn about is cats and dogs so they might get those but this joke is only going to make sense to someone who owns a pet bird. This is an odd choice for the FIRST joke in this show but oh well I guess we moving on.

(this screenshot is from part 2 but it shows all the characters at the same time to prove my point)

Another weird thing you might notice here is for some reason they decided that all the baby main characters would have diapers EXCEPT Tweety and Taz and I have no fucking idea why. This just confuses me coz it proves they COULD have made them all have no pants or all have diapers but instead they went with this for reasons. You'd think it might be because Tweety is the least humanoid character and they didn't want to show humanoid characters with no pants but then why no diaper at all and why not one on Taz? Do they just shit on the floor and get a pass? When you watch the intro to the show they have different characters without diapers as well and the promotional art is all over the place. Someone explain this to me please! Anyways, I am getting too hung up on general stuff here, let's move onto the actual episode shall we?

So we see all the kids playing and eventually we get to Taz who is shown playing with a toy car. He then drives it across the floor as one would expect to do with a toy car and it crashes into a large piece of furniture and breaks. This has got to be the flimsiest toy car ever. Who gives a toddler, let alone one like Taz, a toy that easy to break?

Then Taz cries like the baby he is and Granny comes in to see what's wrong. He shows her the broken off wheel of the car and she turns to see the crushed car shell as well. Taz is apparently non verbal in this show which is better than him being voiced tbf but leaves some questions I will discuss later. But instead of Granny conceding she needs to go to a better toy store she instead chastises the literal toddler for breaking all his toys. Somehow this is Taz's fault. And here we see where this episode moral is going.

Good luck teaching literal TODDLERS to be more careful with their toys! They are young enough they shouldn't even be given toys with small parts to break anyway coz they will eat them! We are off to a fucking great start when the entire premise of the very first episode makes no fucking sense and has shown terrible parenting from the parental figure in the show. Also she keeps leaving the room and leaving a room full of toddlers with toys alone is also a terrible parenting idea although at least that makes sense coz nothing would happen if they were accompanied all the time.

So Granny says she needs to give Taz a toy that is not so easy to break. Wow fucking genius idea Granny. Maybe you should have thought of that 10 toys ago! No seriously look at the pile of broken toys he just has inexplicably lying in the corner here.

So she says she has just the thing and hands Taz a new toy. She makes Taz promise to be careful with the toy before leaving him alone again. Great idea Granny coz that worked so well the other 10 times didn't it? If you have had one of these toys before you can probably see where this is going coz it is recognizable as a specific type of toy.

So poor Taz tries really hard through the rest of the episode to keep this toy safe. He even barricades himself inside a block castle with a keep out sign. Forgetting the fact it then later mentions they don't know their letters so how the fuck did he know what the sign was for but anyways.

Then Tweety is seen playing with Selvester a game of pretend with Selvester as the baby and Tweety as the parent but they are already babies so wtf even is this? There is a joke here about baby food tasting terrible here which again makes no sense coz THEY ARE BABIES!

So Tweety forces Selvester to eat it and Selvester ends up chasing Tweety. Then Tweety is an asshole and sneaks into the castle fort despite the sign when he knows he is being chased by Selvester and so Selvester crashes into the castle and destroys it. Taz is worried about the toy but it is fine.

Then Bugs and Daffy encourage (more like demand) Taz play crash with their toy cars with his new toy inside the back of the dump truck toy Bugs has. They are literally goading him to break his new toy. When Taz says no which is fair enough they keep pressuring him so he feels forced to take action to escape the problem. Taz sees a bookshelf and decides to climb up it to escape them.

Then we have a King Kong reference coz of course. A pop culture reference so old that probably not even the parents watching the show with their kids would get it. So Taz leaves his toy up there and then climbs down again. Then Tweety crashes into Taz which bumps the bookshelf behind him and the toy falls on the ground. The toy falls into pieces.

Poor Taz tried so hard only to fail at something which wasn't even his fault in the end and was too young to be expected to deal with in the first place. He cries and Granny comes in. Granny then laughs at the toddler for being not smart enough to tell the toy isn't actually broken but its a toy which is designed to fall apart when the button at the bottom is pressed and come back together when you let go. Did any of you have one of these as a kid? I did so I know exactly what this is. They can still break it btw. I did lol. They easily get stuck in weird positions after a while and get tangled. But on another note wtf Granny?! You know Taz gets upset when toys break so you decided to give him a toy which pretends to break just to make him cry and then laugh at him later? wtf.

Yep so in summary of the plot, Taz keeps breaking his toys by playing too rough apparently so Granny gives him a toy which is designed to break and doesn't tell him but instead makes him promise to be careful and not break it. Then through no fault of his own the toy falls apart and Granny just laughs at him. The end. wtf are we supposed to learn from that?

MORALS and TARGET AUDIENCE

This show, like a lot of shows for young kids, focuses on moral problems and little life lessons which a kid might find useful so now we are going to talk about the moral of this story.

I guess the moral is supposed to be "be careful with your toys or they will break" but as I have already mentioned, the kids who would supposedly watch this show would be too young for this lesson. You really expect a kid who is young enough to need warnings of not to eat small parts on toys to be careful with their toys? No of course not.

And this outlines a big problem with this show which you might have noticed by now. Time to have a talk about the target audience of this show. I have to ask a burning question. WTF IS the target audience here?! They are babies so you would think the audience would be something similar since they often have main characters a similar age to the target audience to make them relatable to the audience. However, these "babies" don't act like babies or even toddlers at all. They instead fill all the 10 year old tropes instead. So the show is for kids of that age?

Well, if it is it fails miserably coz it is so bare bones and basically the equivalent of shaking keys at a child and that isn't enough for a kid that old. There is no way they would care about the tiny issues of the day to day lives of these babies or the moral lessons they are teaching here as they are long past those at this point and yet the lesson here is too much to expect very young kids to get anything out of either. This leaves the shows main moral completely useless. This wouldn't be too much of an issue if the show was at least harmless so it would be a worthy distraction for a young child but…

Unfortunately, the episode ends up teaching BAD lessons on top of this. Examples such as, teaching kids its ok to climb large pieces of furniture. I don't think I need to tell you why that is dangerous to teach young kids. Then there is the way Taz's supposed "friends" try to force him to do something he doesn't want to and don't respect his boundaries and wishes in any way in this episode. Maybe a little much to learn for young kids but it certainly doesn't help showing this bad behavior from these characters we are supposed to support. Let alone the actions of Granny who is supposed to the role model here, teasing the poor child for no reason and punishing him for something which isn't his fault.

This means that letting your young child watch this show would actually be MORE dangerous than not watching it. I don't think you could get any worse in a kids show than that.

One more thing of note to discuss about the target audience is how weird it is having a "baby" looney tunes show in the first place. Looney Tunes is a very old franchise so any kids or even the adults of kids this young will probably be too young to even know who any of these characters are which brings to question what even is the point in using these characters. If anything it is just confusing. Although this isn't much of an issue in this show as the origins of the characters doesn't have much relevance to anything in the show in the first place other than a few quick references here and there for no reason. It shows just how much of a cash grab this show is that you could literally replace these characters with anyone else and it wouldn't matter one bit.

Animation, Sound Design and Voice Acting etc

Now to talk about the animation, voice acting and other such junk. There isn't much to say here. The voice acting is decent for a show like this and not annoying thank goodness. I think that is to be expected tho since Warner Bros have plenty of money and resources to pull for this. I do especially like Grannies voice personally, she sounds so calm and wise like a Granny should (despite how she acts in this episode).

The animation however is as lazy as you can get. It's pretty obvious they churned this out quick with no regard to make it move nicely. However, due to it being for young kids and having slapstick style humour often considering it is using looney tunes characters; this doesn't affect the show too much tbh. There can be many animation errors tho and continuity errors considering the lack of effort tho and kids don't deserve something this lazy just because they can get away with it. There are plenty of other better animated shows for the same age range so it doesn't have much of an excuse.

The backgrounds are in a watercolour painting style which actually looks pretty nice but unfortunately this makes the plain flat coloured cartoon characters stand out even more in a jaring and garish way like they don't belong. It looks like a cheap drawing like a clip art slapped on a nice piece of artwork.

And the sound design, HO BOY the sound design! There is constant silly sound effects and it gets annoying very quick. It's understandable to some extent tho since this is again a looney tunes cartoon with slapstick humour and that is the style of that. This is also supposedly for young kids so this kinda thing will keep them engaged but yet again, just coz it is the basic way to get a kids attention doesn't mean they couldn't do better. This is the most basic ticking of the box you can get for a cartoon like this.

The music is actually not too bad. it's a shame it is hard to hear over all the silly sound effects because it goes up and down in a classic music style similar to the old looney tunes cartoons so it is fitting. It seems to be the only thing they did right here. Lord knows if anyone can get it right it should be looney tunes.

CONCLUSION

So in conclusion. What did we learn today kids? Climbing large furniture is apparently fine and dandy. Your friends are assholes and wont accept your wishes or boundaries when you want them to and Granny is also a troll. We learned nothing of value today. Fantastic. Add that to actually potentially teaching dangerous and bad habits to young kids and just the laziest animation possible and you have one of the worst kids shows I have ever seen.

Some people might think I am being too harsh and this is harmless but I have no tolerance for shows which teach bad morals to young kids. Make of it what you will.

I give this show a score of 2/10 It is not the worst I have seen but considering the young audience it isn't far from it.

Although this episode covers a lot of the show in general, you can't judge a show by just 1 episode. Especially what is technically the pilot episode of the series. So I am going to review more of this show later. However, of course, I have already covered overall things like animation and voice acting which wont change much from episode to episode so I won't mention those things again unless something changes or is relevant to that episode for some reason. With that said, I hope you enjoyed this review. Have a good day people and remember to stay hydrated and have a break from time to time :3 <3