Happy Street (iPhone App)

Title: Happy Street

Developers: Godzilab

Category: Games

Cost: Freemium

Rated: 4+

For more information, and to download this app, go to its iTunes Preview Page.

STEPH SAID

Rating:

Review:

Happy Street is literally the cutest, most colorful game I’ve had in my iPod. The cheerful, intriguing characters and the simplicity of the game make it entertaining.

In this game you have a street and you have to fill it with houses, shops and decorations. Each house has a different set of personalized animal tenants: from pirates to cowboys to robots. Each house comes with an accompanying set of shops to buy separately: the pirates like to buy in the bazaar, the cowboys in the saloon and the robots in the watchmaker’s. And with a birthday cake you can change the characters’ appearance.

However, Happy Street doesn’t have a full background story that keeps developing throughout the game, but it constantly gives you quests to fulfill, which develop a small standalone story.

It can be played offline! (Having an iPod instead of an iPhone makes this a big deal for me.) Nonetheless, having an internet connection when you play will give you an opportunity to accelerate your progress, and to enjoy certain parts of the game only available online. The former may be achieved by asking your Game Center friends – who also play Happy Streets— to help you by sending you stuff. Need a rope to finish a quest but don’t have the materials? Ask a friend to send you one! The latter involves visiting these friends I mentioned and constructing a Hotel so your friends’ characters may visit your street. Also, to get the daily bonus you need to be connected to the internet. These are not necessary to enjoy the game but will surely help.

What I liked the most about it (besides the availability of offline playing), is how easy you can obtain Flooz, the premium currency. Generally, freemium games give you a gem or two once you reach the next level, and that’s it. In Happy Street you will win Flooz when you reach the next level, you will get at least one in the daily bonus, you can get up to three Flooz a day by visiting your friends, you will get one almost every time you finish a quest and you can get some more in certain mini-games. One day I made 17 Flooz! So to buy the premium houses and shops you don’t need to invest money, only time. Nevertheless, this game is so beautiful, unique, original and easy to play that I will spend a few bucks in it, just for the sake of supporting the developers.