Farm Frenzy, at its best, delivers the kind of split-second timing perfect of the best arcade games, and does so within the context of the ever-appealing simulation genre.įarm Frenzy Refreshed is by no means perfect. It’s the satisfaction of achieving the maximum number of stars a second before the timer ticks over. It’s the sweating on the two-second delay between your shipment reaching town (giving you much-needed money) and the desperate need to buy some seed for the livestock right now. There are the frenetic efforts to capture the occasional bear that drops in before it can tear through your livestock (it always does so at the worst possible moment, too). A series wouldn’t last 13 years without having something going for it, and it’s the rhythms that come with understanding Farm Frenzy that does it. When it all clicks and you’re flying through levels, not missing a beat and managing time with precision – and almost without thought – there’s a rhythm to Farm Frenzy that is so appealing. When it’s at its best, though, the “Frenzy” in the title is the entirely appropriate term. The experience is no different when the characters are rendered in 3D, and if anything they’ve lost a bit of charm from the bright cartoonish characters of the earlier titles in the series. All the various critters roam around a single, oval-shaped space, and all the resources drop-down into this space for gathering up. I’m not sure what benefit that brings to the game, since the camera perspective on the action is static and single-screened. One of the key selling points in the marketing copy of Farm Frenzy Refreshed is that it takes the game into three dimensions. Thankfully levels are fairly short and there is a nice sense of closure when you do finally fully clear it, but the game has more than enough levels as it is that it didn’t need an arbitrary structure that slows and hinders progress. This is, of course, not the ideal way to structure a game. One of the unfortunate sides to Farm Frenzy is that it is free-to-play orientated, and you do need to earn resources by completing levels, upgrade buildings in the hub (so that they produce faster or more profitably), before going back to earlier levels to try to then complete them quickly enough to hit the shortest time limit. It can become quite manic, and while this game by its nature does better with mouse-and-keyboard (or touch) controls, the control stick of the PlayStation controller allows you to move the cursor around with enough agility to hit the targets that the game sets. Every production has a timer action attached to it, so achieving those big scoring results requires absolute precision in the order and process that you complete the objectives in. Then, drop these into stores and they’ll turn the raw ingredients into biscuits or bacon & eggs, and so on and so forth. Buy pigs and you’ll get bacon, and buy cows and you’ll get dairy. Things start simple enough buy ducks and make sure they’ve got food, and they’ll produce eggs. You have tasks that you need to complete to clear a level (collect X number of eggs, make Y number of cookies, earn $Z dollars), and a certain time limit to try and beat, with stars on offer based on how quickly you can achieve those objectives. I’ve enjoyed these things from way back on the PlayStation Portable (where they were PSP Minis), and while I thought this series was long done, with the last one released back in 2016, in comes Farm Frenzy Refreshed, and I’ve had the opportunity to enjoy this thing all over again.įarm Frenzy is a simple time management experience. If you think life in the big city is crazy, wait until you get a load of the wild and wacky country life in Farm Frenzy! The Frenzy goes global as you compete in fast-paced levels in places like the South Pole, Africa, Russia, the Wild West, and the untamed jungle.Ever play a game that you know isn’t all that great, but for reasons you’re not even certain of, you love it anyway? That’s my experience with the Farm Frenzy series.
Watch out for those pesky bears! It's an all-out farming assault with one of the most enjoyed series ever! Bake cakes, grow crops, and sell items at markets. Join Scarlett throughout all of her adventures in hundreds of farming challenges. Farm Frenzy is a world famous arcade time management sim franchise! Enjoy the farmhouse gems with this solid set of 12 Farm Frenzy titles!
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