Fantasy Mosaics 18: Explore New Colors

Puzzles make us feel like we are being rewarded for our cleverness, and there’s nothing better than that when it comes to self-confidence. However, riddles that are too difficult may cause more frustration than excitement and joy, although it depends on the audience. Hence, certain games have a bigger impact than others just because they have a larger audience.

Fantasy Mosaics 18: Explore New Colors is part of the long-running series that presents you with a variety of mosaic puzzles and a new adventure involving the cute penguin family. In case you are familiar with the previous episodes, then this one should hold no surprises, given the fact that it’s just more of the same, except with a different theme and, obviously, different puzzles.

If you haven’t tried the other games in the series, you can actually start with this one as well, since there’s no actual story you are skipping over. In this episode, the penguin family is trying to have the best vacation of their life, so it’s up to you to make sure they have a nice experience during their trip. Obviously, the plot is mostly explained in between the actual puzzles, so you might even forget about it after a while.

Your task is to complete each mosaic by placing the tiles in the right spot, and you have to follow the numbers on the side in order to know which ones need to be filled. There are multiple colors to sort through, but the overall formula is one that requires you to take everything into consideration before making a move. It’s not particularly stressful, but you can only make a certain number of mistakes before the level resets.

Lastly, the graphics are probably not going to blow you away, but that’s not their purpose in any case. Thankfully, they are as colorful and as simple as they have to be in order to keep you engaged, but they can also get rather repetitive after a while. Even if you are always faced with a new mosaic, the basic shapes allow for very little variety, so you have to call on your patience reserves sometimes.

All things considered, Fantasy Mosaics 18: Explore New Colors is just more of the same, which might be a disappointment for some. However, familiarity is always a strong point in video games, and this could be exactly what the fans of the franchise are looking for.

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