Jewel Quest 2 In 1 For iTouch

Jewel Quest is the only game that I found to be unique when it comes to Bejeweled type of games. The game is pretty simple. When you make a match, the tiles where the gems are located turn to gold. Turn all tiles to gold and the level ends. As you go deeper into the game, the level requires you to match the tiles twice since the 1st match turns it to silver, then to gold.

The Jewel Quest 2 in 1 Treasure Pack contains 2 games: Jewel Quest 2 and Jewel Quest Deluxe. I had played Jewel Quest 2 before and I thought the Deluxe version is a complete new game. It has some parts where the level requires you to play against the game but other than that, the game play more or less is the same. The sad part is that the Deluxe version has less content, simpler levels and bad graphics quality.

In a way I would describe the title of this game as just Jewel Quest 2. The good side though is that you get to play more levels playing it. Plus the Deluxe version enables you to share your high scores with Facebook Connect.

Check out the following features you can expect when you play the game:

JEWEL QUEST II
Embark on a journey uncovering Africa’s hidden mysteries
• More than 50 new addictive puzzles
• Unlock magic power ups!
• Smooth touch screen controls

JEWEL QUEST DELUXE
• Experience an exotic adventure across India filled with new characters, twists and surprises
• Dozens of challenging levels
• 4 new gameplay modes
• Challenge 8 opponents in riveting battles. Try to out-wit them all!
• Share the fun and your highscores with Facebook Connect

Treasures Of Montezuma For iTouch

First things first. Before I go on describing what this game is all about, I want to give you one good advice. Read the HELP section first to understand how the game is played and what its tools (e.g. totems) can be used for. I just finished the Treasures of Montezuma for iTouch game last night. Its game play is similar to that with Bejeweled but with a twist similar to that of Jewel Quest. You move gems vertically or horizontally and try to match 3 or more. The Jewel Quest twist here is that those games with a tiny gem inside them should be included in the match because for every level you are given a number of those kind of gems to be matched. There is a timer running so you would have to finish it before time runs out or else you would have to restart the level and try your luck again.

Of course, as the game goes on and the more levels you get to play, your minimum number of these gems to match increases. Now how will you get to finish them in time right? Here is where its twist comes in. Treasures of Montezuma includes a neat feature wherein for every level (whether ordinary or special bonus level) you finish, you get to get a big gold star which you can use to upgrade a list of helpful tools to aid you in your game. Tools like totems that can increase time, blast other gems here and there, randomly paint gems into a different color and so forth. Just check the HELP section to know more details about it including how to activate a totem’s function. I thought the totems would just randomly activate on its own in a specific set of time only to find out when I was almost near the end of the game (after reading the HELP section) that the totems can be activated if you match a set of gems at least twice. I always made sure I activated the orange totem as it gives you an additional minute to your time, thereby giving you more time to finish the level. If you get to match a different color, then the totem of that color will be ready for activation if you do a match of the same color again.

Overall this is a pretty neat game. The graphics is good I pretty much enjoyed playing this game. Also, I did find a little bug (not that I would call it a bug). If say, time is over and you did not finish the level, if you are not far off from finishing it, you can quit the game and run it again. You will find out that it goes back to the last level that you played and you can try to finish the game again. This can be tiring though but if you have the patience, go for it! Otherwise, just restart the level.

Jewel Quest For iTouch

I just finished Jewel Quest yesterday after getting hooked to it after understanding how everything works. It is a good game that’s similar in standard game play like Bejeweled but having a different twist. To start off, you are presented with a board of jewels and to score and finish your goal, you would have to match 3 or more jewels horizontally and/or vertically much like how you play it in Bejeweled. Now, here’s the twist. Once you match jewels, the square area that they are placed in, turns to gold. The object of the game is to turn all squares in the board into gold and you’re off to the next round. Easy? At first, yes. But as the game goes on, new levels introduce you to new twists like coins (image on the right), which I never understood what it really does until I was almost a few levels to the end of the game. Another twist in the game is having rocks instead of jewels that show a little color at first (small image on the left). What this means is that you actually need to pair this one with the same colored jewel in order to match it. I never understood how those rocks worked until when I was almost done with the game. I’m not sure if there is a game over i this game because with the number of times that I did not clear the board, I was sure that I ran out of lives haha. You will also encounter monkey faces which means that if you match them together, if the square area is already gold, it turns back to its original color and you would have to make it gold again, delaying your goal. Both coins and monkeys disappear when they reach the bottom of the board. If you do match up coins together, you get a coin bonus which you can use to color a square area gold if you see time is running out and you cannot do any matches anywhere near the square area. The game is easy to play if only the board is proportion horizontally and vertically. Problem is, the board changes shape on each level, and your goal gets harder (photo on the right is not from the iTouch version, but you get the idea).