

You'll do everything with the stylus, which has mixed results, often feeling somewhat unresponsive and inaccurate. There are no leaderboards, as there's no way to end the game without simply returning to the main menu, erasing your progress and any record of it completely. Unlimited is guilty of the same crime, which becomes worse as this is purportedly geared toward racking up high scores. Finishing levels without achieving the gold or silver in Career Mode keeps no record of your best time or any acknowledgement that you've accomplished anything. That's not to say that the moderate but extremely gradual challenge of Career Mode makes this game worth playing – with so few animals, so little to do with them and such uncreative level design, you'll grow weary of it all before long.Įarning medals and the 16 achievements on offer adds replay value, but the rest of the game is designed quite poorly in this regard. Once you have enough livestock and funding to meet them all when they come, the game will cycle rapidly through them until you quit, which just comes off as shoddy programming. In fact, Unlimited is so easy that you will witness its limit within an hour of playing – at one point the game goes through three objectives repeatedly. You don't have to worry nearly as much about what to sell, what to keep and what to abandon if it's not profitable enough to take up the space these are some of the only factors that keep Career Mode interesting. Before long in this mode you'll earn upgrades to your storehouse and truck, improving the space available and the speed at which your products are sold, so it's a cinch to keep up with funding. You shouldn't have much trouble completing the 60-odd levels, but that's far more challenge than you'll experience in Unlimited. The truck also takes a bit of time getting to and from town, and to earn higher ratings you'll have to manage all of this wisely. Both the storehouse and truck have a limited capacity, and you'll soon learn that wool, milk and bears take up quite a lot of room. In Career Mode, one of the biggest difficulties you'll face is space management. Unlimited mode places you within one continuous stage with access from the start to all buildings and potential for levelling up, giving you objectives that progress to the next when you complete them. Doing so within a time limit earns you a silver or gold medal, which adds an extra layer of challenge. The former has you progress from level to level, working with certain buildings and available upgrades to meet simple objectives. There are two modes, Career and Unlimited. You'll also have to ensure that grass grows by drawing water from your well and keeping it filled, lest your animals starve and die, and you can purchase cats and dogs to help you collect objects and take care of predators. Rapidly tapping to build a cage around them does the trick, and from there you can wait and allow the bear to flee or tap it once more to load it up on the truck and sell it for $100, at what must be the most terrifying market stand ever. And, of course, bears will drop from the sky to throw your animals far away. You can spend these on more animals, or on upgrades to your buildings to enable them to run more efficiently and handle more material at once. You can sell any product including in-between stages, placing them on a truck and waiting for it to go to town and return with your earnings. Geese lay eggs, which go to the egg solid plant and become powder, which goes to the bakery to become a cake, with similar processes existing for sheep and cows. The small, symbiotic playing field divides between animals, buildings and your well, storehouse and truck. But is this a prize pig or should it be put out to pasture? Such is the setting of Farm Frenzy, an agricultural time and resource management adventure. Running a farm is hard work – there are animals to feed, goose eggs to collect and bears to capture and sell to market.
