Michal Ždanský Pexeso is a very popular game among Czech children - and it also trains their memory. But playing cards are not always at hand when your little one wants to play a game. But if you are an iPad owner, you can always have a pexe at hand.
Pexesomania is another venture of the developer company Nextwell, which has previously developed another popular game tic-tac-toe, which is currently available as a universal app for iPhone and iPad. The target group of Pexesomania is significantly different this time, and although the game is advertised for everyone between the ages of 3 and 103, it is clearly aimed primarily at children.
Even cartoon graphics look like targeting. All menus and screens are beautifully drawn, the main screen is a picture of a forest with animals, with a menu spread across the screen. If it weren't for the help, I probably wouldn't have figured out the controls right away, because the picture menu is nice and effective, but not very clear. A description of the images for the setup would definitely be something to consider.
The game offers three types of difficulty, which determines the number of cards, the minimum you can have is 12, the maximum is thirty. You can visually customize the cards. There are a total of twenty different picture themes at your disposal, so you'll find a respectable 300 hand-drawn pictures throughout the game, from animals to gnomes. If you don't want to stick to the theme, you can mix and match the cards and to top it all off, you can also choose the color of the reverse and the image of the game background.
The game offers two modes, one is classic pexeso and the other is called Hide and seek. The way hide and seek works is that you are first shown all the cards face up for a while and it is up to you to remember their location. After that, the game will always show you which card to look for in the frame. You are not limited to attempts, but points are added for each one, with the aim of the game being to collect as few points as possible. In the same way as it is with the classic pexes. Your results are then recorded in a leaderboard, where each game and each difficulty has its own table.
In classic pexes, the game works exactly as you would expect. You always click on a pair of cards and if the pictures are the same, they disappear from the board and you don't get a penalty point. In the menu, you also have the option to look at the cards for a short time, but for this benefit you will receive two penalty points, while this option is not limited in any way.
What really strikes me about Pexesomania is the complete absence of multiplayer. Considering that the pexeso is exclusively intended for two or more players, this lack seems rather absurd. After all, playing pexeso alone is not exactly the idea of a social game. It is possible to play classically and count points somewhere separately on paper, but it is not really kosher. Unfortunately, without the possibility of multiplayer, at least local, the game is half as good.
If we squint our eyes and overlook the absence of a multiplayer game, Pexesomania is a sophisticated effort with pleasant graphics intended for children. There is only a risk that the children will like the game so much that they won't put your iPad down.
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