![]() ![]() Alucard, GameVortex Communications AKA Stephen Triche If you enjoy puzzles and some mild socializing, you’ll probably find you can lose quite a few hours playing in the world of Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates. Puzzle Pirates puts them together in a friendly, competitive atmosphere. You can also buy the game from a local retailer and get a free month. If you want to wear the fancier cloths or engage in some of the more advanced puzzles, you’ll have to become a subscribing customer. Puzzle Pirates is a free download and requires no subscription to get started. If you want to just try the game out, it’s easy. Ship building has you taking a grid of different types of squares and moving them around to form specific patterns. Carpentry is about taking oddly shaped pieces and filling in complicated holes, ideally never overlapping pieces. You match the colors into huge blocks and then break them to send swords at your opponent that fill up his screen. It’s basically another variation of Tetris- and Columns-type games. If you’ve ever played Puzzle Fighter, you’re already pretty familiar with the sword fighting puzzle. The diversity of puzzles is fairly impressive. For each job, you also have a title that signifies how you compare to the other players in your skill at the puzzle. After you succeed at a puzzle enough times your experience in that task goes up and you get a new title such as novice, solid, or legendary. There are other types of puzzle activities you can engage in that aren’t directly related to ship tasks such as sword fighting, drinking, alchemy, shipbuilding, and card games. Advanced pirates can engage in navigation and gunnery puzzles. If the carpenter begins botching his puzzles, the ship begins to take on more water, and the players at bilge stations will soon find themselves overrun with extremely difficult puzzles. So, for example, if the people at sailing stations are doing well, the ship goes faster. The faster/better you accomplish the puzzles, the more work you’re getting done. ![]() Each crewmember picks a station and begins a puzzle. Each station corresponds to a specific job. Just as with a real boat, there are any number of jobs that need doing such as sailing, carpentry, and bilging (bilging is getting excess water out of a boat).Įach boat has several “puzzle stations,” the exact number of which depends on the size of the ship. You can form groups (called crews) and take them out to sea on a boat for some good old fashioned pillaging. It mainly consists of cloths that change nothing but your appearance, although your sword does affect the pattern of blocks you send to your opponent when sword fighting. I was a little disappointed at the lack of some good old fashioned pirate tunes, but the game works well enough without them.Īs the name suggests, puzzles are the mainstay of Puzzle Pirates. You get a few bleeps and clicks when you select objects in the world and for events during puzzles. Plus, it’s a puzzle game fancy pseudo-3D graphics would be neat, but who really needs them? It also means the game runs on all but the oldest systems out there.Īs far as sound effects go, Puzzle Pirates uses them very sparingly. The art style used for the game works very well and even the Lego man-esque look of the player characters seems fitting within the context of the game. That’s not to say they are poor or unpleasant, but they are 2D and not very flashy. Since Puzzle Pirates was, initially, a sort of hobbyist project done in the groups’ spare time, the graphics are not state of the art. A Massively Multiplayer Online Puzzle Game, Puzzle Pirates is truly a unique experience. I’ve seen and played lots of Massively Multiplayer Online games over the last few years, but nothing is quite like Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates.
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