Ricky Raccoon: The Amazon Treasure

Although you’d think only people have a thing for hoarding stuff, the truth is that many animals stash food or various other objects in order to use them later. As it’s only natural, they too forget where they buried some of their things, or they lose them due to heavy rains and soil movement. Hence, the art of keeping things hidden is not an easy one, despite the fact that it seems so.

Ricky Raccoon: The Amazon Treasure is a match-three game with classic gameplay mechanics in which you have to help Ricky get to the gold buried deep beneath the surface. Even if the gameplay is more or less classic for the genre, the range of objectives you have to accomplish is pretty wide, not to mention the fact that you also have to do it all with a time limit hanging over your head.

As such, you play by matching at least three jewels of the same kind, which in turn clears them from the board and affects the rest of the tiles. Matching more than three jewels at once spawns a stone with special properties, such as being able to detonate everything around it whenever you include it in a subsequent match. Other special power-ups are available as well, depending on how many you manage to match together.

As mentioned earlier, there’s a time limit that forces you to move quickly and always be in a rush, adding extra pressure and increasing the difficulty level. On the other hand, you can relax by disabling this timer entirely, although the experience might get a tad boring by doing so. Other than that, most stages challenge you to clear golden tiles, dig into the ground, or simply gather a certain amount of gold.

Over the course of the adventure you get the chance to travel to a variety of locations, each one of which provides you with new things to do and places to see. Gold is required to purchase entrance, so you are continuously spending what you earn. While the graphics are nothing to write home about, they are at least colorful enough to keep you in a light mood.

When it’s all said and done, Ricky Raccoon: The Amazon Treasure can easily occupy a few hours of your life, depending on whether you are a fan of the simple gameplay mechanics or not. Even so, it’s a great distraction and it comes with a relaxed mode, which lets you enjoy each level at your own pace.

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