Shaman Odyssey: Tropic Adventure

Would you like to try your hand at keeping some tropical island? Then play Shaman Odyssey: Tropic Adventure, from Cateia Games, and take care of a tribe, solving challenges and different dangers.

Get ready to start your work with an awkward tutorial that throws out a ton of information on you all at once. Before you had time to swallow all these instructions you had been plunged into gameplay already. It is no wonder that you will feel embarrassed some time, if not frustrated. But after a while, the game stops guiding you and you have to think for yourself to what to do and how to advance. Even so, the game hardly ever offers you any serious job. Shaman Odyssey: Tropic Adventure has common time management tasks like harvesting, building, collecting, and so on.

Actually Shaman Odyssey: Tropic Adventure is very generous since levels are not timed so you can play and think over as long as you like. Thus this title is not about strategy at all but rather about setting the chain of effective groundwork. Surely, neither repetitive gameplay nor the plain cutscenes play into title’s hand.

Nevertheless, Shaman Odyssey: Tropic Adventure can boast some unique graphical tricks, which rehabilitate the game in a way. Thanks to 3-dimensional graphics you have a great deal of control over how you can view and move around in the island. So you are able to zoom in and out, scroll to different parts of the island, and even view the places from multiple angles and perspectives. This trick let you feel as if you are actually wandering about tropical village. Well, why not see it your own eyes?     

3, February 2010