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By Damian Fung
Spider-Man Miles Morales is an action video game that lets you roam an open world. Spider-Man is a huge part of the Marvel Universe and now the video game developer Insomniac Games has created two recent Spider-Man games for Playstation. The first Spider-Man game for the PS4 was a big boost to the Spider-Man fanbase. This second game released for the PS5 introduced new suits, new bosses, and new bad guys. The game is action packed and the fun never ends. These two games are open world games so you have a choice if you want to complete side quests or go straight to the main mission. A downside is that it is a single player game so you can’t play this game with your friends. However, it is pretty affordable. This game only costs $30, but the ultimate edition costs $50. I recommend buying it and playing as soon as you can!
By Joyce Lu, Emily Chen 711,
Editor Credit: Derick Huang 751
Cookie Run: Kingdom Website Link
Cookie Run Kingdom is an RPG game that allows you to engage in many fun game modes involving cookies. This game is made by a company named Devsisters, released on January 19, 2021. It has a rating of 4.7 stars on the app store. The game starts off with you picking from 3 servers to play, and then it progresses into the storyline. There are currently 73 cookies with more to come, with each cookie having their own designs and skills, along with their own personalities and stories. As you level up your kingdom, you can build your cookies along the way to battle and claim new territory.
This game has many game modes, along with exploration. You can obtain powerful cookies and battle others in PVP, or go join a guild and help your guild-mates fight a dragon to get rewards every week. Besides the game modes related to battle, you can get to customize and expand your own kingdom, and get more cookies, which means more of them will be joining your kingdom and helping out with production. Another game mode known as Cookie Odyssey can be unlocked later in the game, focusing mostly on story rather than battle, and features interesting dialogue among the cookies.
In general, there is a ton you can do in this game, and it will take a long time for you to get bored of everything. This game has updates pretty frequently, so you’ll never get bored of playing. If you are interested in exciting battles, wonderful storylines, and a cookie 'gacha' system where you can pull for and get amazing Cookies, you should consider playing this game.
By Roy Zhang & Ryan Zhang
Brawl Stars: What Is It?
Brawl Stars is a multiplayer, mobile, fighting game created by Supercell. This game has many game modes such as Showdown and Brawlball. Brawl Stars has a total of 56 unique types of brawlers with different abilities. Some brawlers are long rangers, others are melee (close range) and some are normal range. Their damage and health differ significantly, normally balancing out. This game is played all across the world.
Characters
There are seven different rarities of brawlers in this game. The higher the rarity, the more difficult it is to unlock. Starting with trophy road brawlers being the most common up to legendary brawlers being the rarest. There are also five groups of brawlers, which are damage dealers, assassins, tanks, support, and hybrid. These characters are all strong in their own ways. Each brawler gets different abilities like supers, which are charged by basic attacks and gadgets. These are unlocked after level seven. There are also star powers which are passive abilities, and gears which increase the character’s power.
Ratings and Community
To increase the number of players, Supercell listens to its players and each update is greatly influenced by the player’s advice. In our opinion, Brawl Stars is a really great game since it has helpful updates and a supportive community. Brawl Stars constantly adapts to new trends, such adding a specific group of new characters. Brawl Stars has made changes to its game such making the game accessible to anyone worldwide. It has a rating of 4.8/5.0 stars in the Apple Store, and approximately 15-20 million players, which shows us how much people like this game.
Written by: Joyce Lu, Emily Chen, Ryan Zhang
Check out their Website, (Genshin Impact)! Genshin Impact is an open-world RPG game, released in late September of 2020, designed by Hoyoverse. It is playable on all devices in plenty of languages. When the game starts, it’ll take place in a world called Teyvat. After you enter, you’ll be met by your traveling companion, Paimon. As you progress through the story, you’ll soon arrive in the City of freedom, Mondstadt. The game also has many other features, like characters you can summon and also amazing graphic design, music, and more! This game can be played in single-player or multiplayer.
Characters in this game are also very well-drawn and willing to make players spend money on them. Currently, there are about 50 playable characters. They can have multiple banners in an update with new characters or reruns, so make sure to save up something called “primogems,” a currency you use to pull for characters. You can have a team of up to 4 characters. A character each has something called an elemental skill and elemental burst based on one of the 7 elements and normal attacks based on 5 types of weapons and the character’s rarity is either a 5-star or a 4-star. There are endless possibilities for what you want your character to be. If you love exploring or decent gameplay, maybe this game is right for you.
By Ryan Zhang
BTD6:What’s the Game About?
Bloons Tower Defense 6 is the newest version of the battle between the monkeys and the balloons where the balloons try to get to the end of the map and the monkeys try to defeat them. Each monkey tower can be 1 of the four categories called: Primary, Military, Magic, and Support and there are a total of 22 unique and different monkeys. There are also heroes in this game where you can only use one hero per game and it has a leveling system up to level twenty. Speaking of leveling, each monkey has 3 different paths (top, middle, and bottom) and after you get a tower to a 3rd, 4th and 5th tier, you can cross paths with another path two times. For example: if you get a 4th tier, top path dart monkey you can cross paths in the middle or bottom path either giving it camo detection and range or faster attack speed.
Gameplay:
In BTD6 there are many game modes at the time of June, 15 2022. In regular mode there is easy mode (goes up to round 40), medium (up to round 60) and hard mode (up to round 80) . Each mode has its own unique games and each mode has different qualities. For example: in easy mode it got 200 lives and bloons are 10% slower while in hard mode you only get 100 lives, bloons move 15% faster, and towers are 8% more expensive. Furthermore it also has different events you can play. There are Races (where you can send out bloon waves and you have to pop all of the waves as fast as you can to get on the leaderboards), Odyssey (where had easy, medium, and hard gamemode and you can only bring a certain about of monkey along), and lastly the newest gamemode, Boss Bloons (where you can fight bosses in certain rounds).
Players and Community
The game costs money, a total of 9.99 U.S. dollars on pc while on any other mobile services it is 4.99 U.S. dollars. It has a 97% good rating out of 160k-170k players on steam, while on the Apple Store it is 4.8 star rating out of over 200k players, and this already can tell how worth the game is if you buy it. The community of this game is really nice and they also have a twitter account too. Ninja Kiwi also has many other games like Bloon Pop, Bloons Tower Defense Battles 2 and much more (these games are free to download). Well, hopefully you learned something in this review and maybe this persuaded you to download it, have a nice day and see you :)