Geisha: The Secret Garden

France’s Casual Box Studio makes its debut in casual game market, releasing Geisha: The Secret Garden. The game seems to be a relaxing mixture of match-3 and mahjong where players traveling through the four seasons at the side of a beautiful Japanese woman named Natsumi.

At first sight the game reminds us Bejeweled but in fact the gameplay is absolutely unique. The game field looks like a regular match-3 board, but is filled with mahjong tiles. Your goal is to clear match-3 grid and earn as many scores as you can.

Of course, the idea of Geisha: The Secret Garden may sound quite easy, but still there are some pitfalls, which mark out the game from similar titles. For example, there you can only drag the tiles horizontally, not vertically. Actually, it takes a little time to catch the main concept of this issue; however, you should use strategy to complete the level goal.

Geisha: The Secret Garden provides you with 80 incredible levels and two modes, including a relaxed mode where it’s impossible to lose. To tell you the truth, in the early levels the goals are very easy, but challenge mode difficulty will constantly increase. There are also plenty of rewards and power-ups that let you increase time, money, and free replays. 

The graphics are clear and bright, but rather uninteresting. Unfortunately, the music is ordinary, nothing special at all. But the real highlight of the game is that you may use your coins to buy elements which you are able to paint into a Japanese garden scene. So if you want to try your hands at something new, there is a reason to play this new game.

12, February 2010