Castleville Legends: A Game To Play

 Welcome to my Castleville Legends' Village!

I have been playing Castleville Legends for so long that I'm surprised that I'm STILL playing it. That's a good sign that this game is a smash! This is a free game that you can find on Facebook, Kindle and on mobile phones. I have been enjoying myself immensely with this game.

My current quest!

YEP SEA TRADING! WOOT!

You can sell any items you have in your Royal Vault, items you have made or ingredients you have collected and the ship will take it to the distant markets for you, so other people can view it and buy it if they want.

The first tab is trading with people that is not in your alliances. The second tab is trading with your Facebook Friends. And the last tab is trading with people in your alliances. Plenty of options there! You don't have to rely on your Facebook friends if you don't want to.

Castleville Legends is an spinoff of the Castleville game on Facebook, but with a few new nifty things. You are not limited on energy. I don't like games that limit you on energy. You also can trade with people that are not on your Facebook, so you don't have to harass your Facebook friends to join your game or whatever. You can also form alliances with people around the world and earn pearls to gain another hero to help you explore instances where you can earn unique drops to use in crafting things, so many things! Honestly, I think this game beats the original Castleville game in so many areas.

This is my alliance I'm currently in above. The only reason I chose it is because it's a full group which means more chances of getting good stuff in trading. As you can see there's a lot of alliances from all over the world below, it's quite easy finding one.

My favorite thing about this game is that your mobile or kindle Castleville Legends will connect to your Facebook, so if you ever switch phones or kindles or whatever, you won't ever lose the game as long as you sign in the same Facebook account. Also, the Castleville Legends game on your Facebook AND your mobile is connected, so you don't have to start over at all. You can just pick up where you left off on your phone or vice versa. This is an option I truly love. I don't like spending money on a game that is not "transferable" to other devices.

He's always hungry for stuff. This is just another way of getting more unique drops to craft for your items. Just be careful, he likes to belch loudly right after you complete his order.

Workshops are buildings where you can craft things in to sell for gold. With gold, you can purchase buildings, more plots of land and more! Below that is Resources like farms or trees that gives you ingredients. Then the third tab is decorations. But the last tab is Special Heroes! They can be used to help you explore different instances within the game.

Liang will give you his order and if you are able to complete it, you can get a random pearl that you can use towards a Special Hero purchase. Also, during Holidays, you are able to unlock a FREE Hero as long as you complete the Holiday Quests that they give you. I got a Yeti Ice Chief for Christmas and a Swiftwing Pegasus for Valentine's Day.

This is just one place where you can explore to get awesome ingredients as well as xp. Those rubies are pretty good because they can be used in the Sea Gem Chalice which goes for a lot of gold. There's four slots, so the more Heroes you add, the more XP you get. And the chances of rare ingredients dropping will rise.

And you know what's the best thing of all? I've been playing this for months and there's STILL unexplored land I have to unlock. This just tells me that this is a game that won't run out of content for MONTHS!

You can play this on Facebook at: https://apps.facebook.com/castlevillelegends

It's also available on your phone and Kindle.

Got any games you want me to try out? Just post a comment below and I'll check out your suggestions.

Crowns, Crowns, Crowns!

For the 30 lucky winners today, you can get a 2k crown code. However, let me warn you, you can only redeem up to FIVE of those codes. If you won 5 codes from me and Paige Moonshade combined already, you might have maxed out your chances. The crowns are also not transferable. So if you get a code and you can't redeem it because you maxed out... I highly encourage you to give it away to a family member, friend or heck, make your own contest! Just remember today is the last day to grab those Tribal Packs before the sale ends, so plan accordingly. :)

Concept Art From Billy George

I was searching for something else when I came across the following images. Then I realized, hey why not? It wouldn't hurt to refresh your memory about Billy George's concept art. I picked some of his to post here, but honestly he has a LOT more at his blog, http://billygeorge.blogspot.com/ Go check his blog. He's quite amazing. He does both Wizard101 and Pirate101 Concept Art.

This looks so neat and creepy which I love!

Man, he looks so much more fierce here than in-game. *backs away slowly*

I love the different looks for both. I can't even pick which's better.

Honestly I love the way Scrooge has been drawn. It's just perfect. I love the different expressions.

I find this interesting. Promotions for Handsome Dan? Awesome!

I would love to have the above furniture for my house in Pirate101.

That cat? Priceless LOL.

The first thought when I saw this was.. INDIANA JONES! But in a monkey form...

Different types of guns and swords. This is pretty cool. This way you can see the difference.

I don't recall this guy, but then my memory can be quite crappy.

Again, Billy George has a LOT more at his blog: http://billygeorge.blogspot.com/ Go check it out!

The Weekend Tapestry Giveaway!

It's the weekend!!! Let's celebrate it with a mini giveaway! Again, I wanna thank Legends of the Spiral for the Giveaway code to allow me to be able to do this for you guys. Here are 45 codes for Merle's House and Storm School Tapestries. They are mixed up. So good luck!

*CONTEST IS OVER*

We will do this again tomorrow!

Feeling Bored? There's Facebook Games!

Facebook has a major draw, its games. I play so many different kinds of games on that site. Otherwise, I'd visit it once in a blue moon. I tend to play Facebook games when Wizard101 and Pirate101 has no new content for me to play with. And hey, they're FREE! Well, you can buy some of their stuff with real money, but it's not really required. Anyway, one of the games that I truly loved and did spread the word about was "Here Be Monsters." I started tweeting about this game months and months ago.

So, when I saw Spiral Radio 101's review on this game, I cheered. I felt that since I really liked this game, I wanted to expand on SpiralRadio101's awesome post and explain a bit more about this game. You know, I have been playing this game for a long time, so it has been a long journey for me. I started in London like everyone does, but now after finishing all of the London quests, I'm now in Nanjing. And that was only the second major city that I was able to unlock in this game. There's more major cities to unlock with new quests all over the world. This just goes to show how much content this game has. Because of that, I can share my own experience with this game.

So what is this game about? This game is about helping others by trapping monsters that are wrecking havoc and heal them from the corruption that's making their minds muddled. But we also focus on becoming the greatest chef in the world by learning how to make various food recipes as well as being the best trapper, fisher, alchemist, you name it! I mean that literally by the way. I am now a Junior Alchemist. And Mrs. Wong wants me to practice making hard food recipes, so I can complete in Iron Chef competition eventually. And Mrs. Wong is PICKY!!! You can earn badges for accomplishing certain tasks. Some badges are even secret badges that you gotta figure out!

You start with easy traps, but eventually you have to craft bigger, meaner, stronger traps like the one below. The Exorcist's Shrine took me a LONG time just to craft. Every monster likes certain traps and certain baits, so you have to make sure you have everything available if you want to catch a certain monster. Trapped monsters will give you ingredients. There are so many different kinds of monsters which drops their own unique ingredients and loot.

To make food recipes or bait for the monsters, you have to plant crops on your homestead and/or collect ingredients from monsters which requires you to travel all over the world and placing traps to catch them. You can literally go anywhere in the world, to Africa, America, South America, Australia, again seriously anywhere!

When you're tired of popping all over, you can take a break and fish!

You also are able to add buildings to your own homestead. At first I had a small cabin. But eventually I was able to buy a recipe for a better house and upgraded it! Now I have a decent, cute house. But someday I would like a Victorian House or something cooler. And oh did I mention that you can also own farm animals which also drops their own ingredients like milk, eggs, etc too? Well now you know!

But the best thing about this game is that you can add friends in it that are not on your Facebook list. 

This way you are not bombing your actual Facebook friends with invites and become annoying. 

My favorite things about this game is that they also tend to introduce new quests or content every two weeks. And they tend to give away free in-game stuff all of the time on their Facebook page which is pretty cool! Just make sure you like their page, so you won't miss out on their daily posts and free in-game stuff. Not only that, they also have a cool Wishing Well where you can hopefully win rare things and every week, you get a free gold coin to try your luck at it!

You can read more about this game from Spiral Radio 101 at: http://spiralradio101.com/?p=464 and you can try out this game at: https://www.facebook.com/HereBeMonstersGame?ref=br_tf

But you know I really wrote this post because I wanted to talk about other games that I also liked! 

Introducing The Tribez...

The Tribez is a cool game where you can help your friendly prehistoric tribe build up and expand. You can even hire super adorable dinosaurs to chase away the bad guys who tries to create havoc in your town.

Notice the farms, hot tubs, markets, and more!

You can see the dinosaurs roaming around to make sure the bad guys actually stay away!

This is just the FIRST world and there's still a lot of areas that I need to expand to. And I have been playing this game for months. There's plenty of content to play with! There's also plenty of quests that it's hard to run out of them! You can craft, build, mine, farm and more!

There's not just one world, but others! After playing this game for a long time, I only was able to get to the second world. Like I said, there's PLENTY of content to play with. And you can ship surplus things from one island to another using a blimp ship.

This is Marble Fjord, the second Island I was able to unlock.

This island is a bit harder than the first, but hey I'm up for the challenge!

You can play this game at: https://www.facebook.com/TheTribezCommunity?ref=br_tf

Pirates of the Caribbean: Isles of War

This week, I am trying out Pirates of the Caribbean: Isles of War. You can't go wrong with a pirate themed game, much less a POTC themed game! 

Yep, our favorite character is back!

Go forth, ship o' fleet!

WOOT! I won a ship battle and I won some booty!

Apparently you get your own island too! Time to make my island the best island out there!

 I called myself Red Handed Jill from one of the Peter Pan movies. ;)

And if you sail around, you can other players' islands as well which is pretty cool.

I even saw a Pirate Trading Post island.

So apparently my first quest line is about finding Jack! That naughty Jack stole my ship and disappeared right after "helping" me with a quest. So first I gotta build up supplies and make a new fleet of ships before going after Jack. Oh boy!

I'll keep you posted on how this game is going.

You can play this game at: https://www.facebook.com/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanIsles

Got any games you want me to try out? Let me know by leaving a comment below.

The Hoodoo Bundle Is Here!

The photo above was posted with mjziegler286's permission.

Apparently a bundle has been found in Walmart that has not been officially released yet. But it all makes sense now about Pirate101's vine video about the Witchdoctor's Lab as well as their Puppet Pirate comic on Facebook!

You can see the gear's stats and more at: http://www.pirate101central.com/forums/showthread.php?50041-New-Teaser!/page6

He's incredibly kind to post those images, so be sure to thank his posts!

Catbeard's Shame

I was working on getting Zeena, a companion, to be a part of my crew. While questing on the Zeena questline, we had to have a conversation with the Aquilan War God, Ares. Honestly, one of my favorite characters in this game is Catbeard. He's very witty and funny who makes me laugh constantly. The way he slaps his enemies with a dead fish is a hilarious thing to watch. But while chatting with Ares, it took a turn that showed me Catbeard's serious side that we rarely see. Catbeard's response to what Ares said to him just made me love him even more. I wished that I could give him a great big hug.

But you know we, the crew and especially Catbeard get to learn a very important lesson. It's never too late to try to repair the mistakes that you have caused.. It doesn't mean that you are a bad person. Without mistakes, you cannot learn to be a better person. This should be applied to real life as well.

First we helped Ratbeard redeem himself, Catbeard, but now Zeena. Who's next? We shall see.