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Games I'm Playing: Batman and Zuma

    Hey, everyone. I thought I'd talk about games for a while. The river of cool games has slowed to a trickle lately, so I recently bought Batman: Arkham City Lockdown... and it drives me nuts. The graphics are great and it is a highly rated game, but swiping the screen with a finger for punches and kicks is not my thing. Let me be clear, it is not a problem with the game but it is not my type of game. I didn't even enjoy Infinity Blade for the same reasons. You may love it. I read an interesting article from a guy that said you should buy, early on, 99 cents worth of Bat Bucks (5000) for upgrades right off the 'bat' (ha,ha). This will enable you to progress to the parts of the game which are more fun. I just deleted this $2.99 game. I should have paid the same amount of 'dough' (joke) and bought the full version of Pizza vs. Skeletons. I must say that there are different 'skins' for your character, wallpapers and a batarang mini-game. I guess for the sale price of $2.99 I shouldn't complain.
     A better game for my wife and I is the game by Pop Cap called Zuma's Revenge. This is a port from the popular PC game and it is fun. To all appearances, you are a frog who spits colored marbles into the large intestines of some creature, hoping to match 3 or more of a like color before the passage is completely blocked. As you make matches the balls disappear. After clearing several levels you enter a mode in which an idol moves across the top of the screen. You have to shoot your marbles into his mouth to kill him even though you are matching colors at the same time. It sounds ridiculous, I know, but it is a good game. This second mode is extremely hard for a poor gamer like myself, so once again I am stuck on a new game. !#**?
     Zuma's Revenge is $1.99 for the regular version and $4.99 for the HD. Let me say that there is something you need to change in the options of this game. They opt you 'in' to give them game data; see the picture above. This should be a deal where you have to choose to do it, rather than choose not to do it. So, I turned my switch to off. It is none of their business when I play, how I play etc. Plus, it drains my battery when games are chatting back and forth with their masters on my device. Seems a bit shady to me. Have a great day!
     From the author's green retreat, I'm CE Wills.

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