Month: February 2019

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For this post, we are gonna review Clash of Clans. It is kinda an old video game, it is 6 or 7 years old. It is a mobile game first released for iOS on August 2, 2012. Its second release for google play was on October 23, 2013, about 1 year after iOS release. It used to be very popular a few years ago and now, im not really sure if its still widely played. I used to play it, Clash of Clans is addicting but it gets boring eventually. I think it got boring for me so I uninstalled the app.

loading screen

For those who don’t play, its a mobile game of maxing out troops, buildings, and defenses to gain more loot and win against other players. You need a good base to defend against other players who can attack you. I know there are two villages, one is home village, and the other is builder base. Home base is where you upgrade the most and attack and defend more. The builder base however is different. The builder base has only 1 builder to help you upgrade you everything, because there is only 1 builder, the time to upgrade something decreases compared to home village where you can have up to 5 builders at the same time. Another thing about the builder base is you only need to defend your base if you attack someone. This means you attack someone, they attack you, the person with most destruction dealt to one’s village gets loot.

attack example

So, in home village, people attack you offline, in builder base, you have to request to attack someone in order for them to attack you. The troops in builder base also have abilities, there is also a robot hero who can do devastating damage with a cooldown. The home base has heroes too, the only difference is the home base has more heroes than the builder base. But all heroes have abilities, home base heroes have a overall cooldown, this means you have to wait for your hero to heal after a battle to take him/her out. Home village also has spells, each spell has different purposes. Like rage spell increases troop damage and speed in a radius and duration.

so is Clash of Clans dead? well, I see fewer people playing it because there are newer and better games than Clash of Clans like brawl stars. No, Clash of Clans is not dead. I have recently uninstalled Clash of Clans because I rarely was online. Its not dead because before uninstalling it, I always get notifications that my village got raided by someone. According to this forum, most say Clash of Clans is not dead. There are just better games better than it, I think it is still doing pretty well, but I quit the game. So yeah, I wanted to talk about Clash of Clans, that’s the end of my post and peace.

Hey its hmsaiden,

For this post, I will talk about Brawl Stars. It’s a new mobile game made by Supercell that has been in progress for at least 3 years already. Its global release was December 12, 2018. So from the day, this was posted which is February 19, 2019, Brawl Stars is 3 months old. It’s a multiplayer/singleplayer game that involves violence (because brawl means fight) and unique fighters/brawlers. You need to team up or go alone to gain as much trophies and as many brawlers as you can.

logo

It’s very cartoony and animated and for most ages. Did you know Supercell made $63.4 million in the first month of global release. That’s crazy when you think of new mobile games. I know it’s very popular because when I go to McDonald’s, I see kids next to me playing it, and almost my whole class is playing it. It is very addicting and I do recommend it if you have a mobile device. As of now, there are 23 brawlers and of course, there are different rarities. In order, they are trophy road reward, common, rare, super rare, epic, mythic, and legendary brawlers. The rarity means what chance you can unlock a brawler.

gamemodes

Let’s talk about the actual game itself, there are different game modes meaning you gotta accomplish different things for rewards. There are 7 game modes and they are Gem Grab, Showdown(Like battle royale), heist, brawl ball, bounty, big games, and Robo rumble.

gem grab example

 

Gem grab is where you grab gems from fallen enemies or the gem mine and hold 10 gems total of your team for 15 seconds to win. Showdown is you and 9 other brawlers collecting power cubes to make you stronger and give you more health and place #1 by defeating everyone else. Heist is two vaults, your teams and the enemies’. Your goal is to knock the heist’s health points down first to win. Brawl ball is basically soccer, get the ball in the enemies goal 2 times first to win. Bounty is working with your team to defeat more enemies first to win. Big games are 5 brawlers vs 1 brawler, but the 1 brawler has massive health points and huge damage advantage. The 5 other brawlers have to defeat this 1 brawler in time to win. Robo rumble is like heist, except there is only 1 vault, you and 2 other brawlers need to defend your vault against robots for as long as possible, ending with you and your teammates dead, or robots destroy the vault.

In all game modes except for showdown solo, you can respawn. In showdown Duo, you are partnered with someone to dominate the game and be #1. As long as your partner is alive, you can respawn. So yeah, Brawl Stars is a really good mobile game to pass time. Very addicting and I recommend it to ages 8 and up. yeah, this is the end of my post, So if you have a mobile device like phone or tablet, then you better install Brawl stars right now. That’s it, peace.

Hey its hmsaiden,

So for this post, I am reviewing my favorite book series, Expeditionary Force. Never heard of it? Well, It’s about Earth in present time being attacked by aliens known as the Ruhar. Different nations worldwide join forces to create the United Nations Expeditionary Force, UNEF. The Main character Sergeant Joesph Bishop gets promoted to Colonel temporarily to take command of the space crew for UNEF to fight the Ruhar. The crew finds an ancient alien AI they named Skippy to help UNEF with the missions.

There are currently 7 books and an eighth book is coming out soon. Of course, it’s my favorite. It’s for those who like Science fiction and action. The names of the books (from 1st to latest) are Columbus Day, Spec-Ops, Paradise, Trouble On Paradise, Black-Ops, Zero Hour, Mavericks, and Renegades. I’m on the fourth book, Black-Ops.

There are different alien species. I’m on the fourth book, Black-Ops, it’s about a mission for the UNEF crew to determine if the Thuranin was going to send an attack ship to Earth. The crew gets distracted by planning the future of the next UNEF crew. When Colonel Joe asks the alien AI skippy if Earth was in safe hands, he replies “not so much”. The crew and Earth now have to face deadly consequences.

So some parts are complicated as you read it, but it is still a fun thing to read. There is some swearing and dark humor but that’s one part that makes the book so good, the dark humor and swearing show detail and adds spices to the story. That’s all for this post and I have nothing else to talk about for Expeditionary force. Peace