By Kevin "Berserker" Hall
Player(s): 1
Chicken Hunter is a small compilation of five mini games involving some cute
and lovable claymation-like chickens. The collection includes many targeting
mini games where the players shoots chickens along with two other different
titles... involving chickens of course. That's basically the game in a nutshell.
Let's go through a quick rundown of each mini game:
CLASSIC
Classic is the core mini game that the game centers around. Use your stylus to
shoot each chicken that appears on the screen. A pic of a chicken is displayed
on the top screen while the bottom screen allows the player to peck each chicken
with the stylus to shoot them. Shooting multiple chickens in a quick sequence
will help you to gain more points.
The chickens basically fly by at close range or in the background - some of
them pop up right next to the screen and a few appear near the screen. There
isn't much to do here except play until the time runs out and attempt to beat
the current high score. There is some slight fun to be had with this mini game,
but nothing that made me return that much.
WEIGHTS
You take control of a cannon in this game and have cannonballs with different
colors or some other type of icon - the cannonballs are displayed on the top
screen. Aim the cannon and fire colored cannonballs with weights attached to
them at chickens with corresponding colored clothes that fly by up above. The
weights attach to the chicken and will bring it down once it carries three
weights allowing a big score.
The controls messed up the experience of this game for me. You have to slide
the stylus toward a chicken starting from the cannon so aiming can be a bit
hard. Also the game gets repetitive very quickly.
GEMS
All chickens have different colored clothes in this mode. Tap the screen to
shoot the chickens and make them drop a colored gem that corresponds to their
outfit. There are three pipes at the bottom of the screen - shoot a chicken
while it is above a pipe to make the gem fall into the pipe then try to match up
the gems as they fall by watching the top screen and matching up rows or columns
of the same colored gem. There is a snail that can get in the way of the gems -
he can be touched to make him move.
This game holds little fun since there is no real sense of challenge. The
gems cannot overstack and the only adversary is time. Except for the time, you
can't lose! I actually got the high score by tapping each chicken as it flew
into view allowing the gems to stack up randomly in the pipes. Just by getting
random combinations, I did rather well!
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