Saturday, September 19, 2009

New Game and Challenge: Extreme Faerie Cloud Racers

The newest Neopets game has come out along with the new game challenge. The new game is called Extreme Faerie Cloud Racers. It seems the biggest positive change from the original Faerie Cloud Racers is the addition of power ups. A yellow tail looking power up is called Meerca Trail and gives you a longer trail. A blue Tonu one allows you to break through other trails. The slorg slows you down. There are also daredevil bonuses based on how close you turn next to a wall and if there is another wall on the inside of that turn.

The positive changes are cool, but there is one major change that makes me really dislike this new version. It gives you a first person type view of the flying. The graphics are cool, but you do not really have a clue where the other paths are and it is not as good as the old overhead perspective. Sure, there is the radar like screen in the bottom left hand corner to give this kind of view, but it is distracting and if I try to use it I just end up doing worse.

Final thoughts are that the new version is not an overall improvement. Not all worse, but the one flaw is worse than the additions. What are your thoughts?

To get AAA's prize you must score 750. To get Abigail's prize you must score 80. As always by default you get Abigail's prize if you have not gotten it yet and first beat AAA's score. The prize for beating Abigail is Pink Mashed Potatoes. I can barely ever score more than 10 points, so I am lucky to have beaten Abigail. Too frustrating for me to even care about ever beating AAA.

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