A far off kingdom of beauty is kept above ground by a series of magical crystals but one day a dragon invades and steals one of the kingdomsA far off kingdom of beauty is kept above ground by a series of magical crystals but one day a dragon invades and steals one of the kingdoms main crystals of power. Now it’s up to you. Journey across the land to the dragon’s place of rest using your fast reflexes along to way to complete 90 levels of insane match 3 arcade action. Utilise a variety of power-ups so you can find the missing crystal and save your kingdom!
One of the few known credits by developers Argonyt casual game Sky Kingdoms (2009) is an inoffensive Puzz Loop style game where you shoot a coloured ball at other coloured balls to match them as they make their way to a gate. It must be noted the game plays more like Mumbo Jumbo’s Luxor series than any game following Mitchell Corporation’s 1998 genre starter. It’s 90 levels split into different stages. Like the Luxor series the player ball is always positioned at the bottom. Gameplay is exactly the same apart from that. Build up combos by chaining explosions and pick up as many grey tokens as you can as you can use these between levels to upgrade power-ups or buy lives. The game is a nice length and not too difficult until the last stages where the difficulty ramps up a little too fast. Still there are the usual difficulty options of Easy, Normal and Hard. The final level of each stage however is too difficult for its own good with the level over as soon as the dragon’s snake creature hits you with magic. You also get wallpaper of the places you’ve visited after completion of a stage but the quality of the images are so basic there isn’t enough going on in them you’ll want to have them on your computer for long. The game unlike the Luxor series seems to focus more on usage of power-ups so whether a good thing or a bad thing visually there’s always something exploding on screen trying to hold your interest. With most games of this type there isn’t much of a story so don’t expect an exciting narrative.
Sky Kingdoms isn’t a bad clone of the match 3 games it’s emulating and it’s not the worst by a long shot. The game plays quite nicely yet the option to play the more established Mumbo Jumbo Luxor series may make it difficult to see much originality here. What you need to know is it does the job quite nicely.… Expand
