Smurfs' Village has the right formula for ensnaring players after a new freemium management style game, but until some features are fixed you might want to hold off on purchasing additional berries. Also, push notifications are used to inform players when events have completed, however no notices were given when crops were ready, causing some to be lost needlessly. Facebook integration is used to add new friends for benefits, however at the time of this review the feature did not seem to be working.
Much like the cartoon, the visuals are vibrant and the Retina optimized graphics run smoothly even on large and complex villages crawling with busy little Smurfs. Actions are limited by your population, requiring individual Smurfs to either build or tend to fields, but players can spend 'Smurf Berries' that are earned each day, via gifts or purchased directly from the store to either speed up the process or to purchase unique buildings that provide additional benefits to your village. These range from mixing potions for Papa Smurf to helping Greedy Smurf to bake treats for your growing population of general Smurfs. Much like other freemium farm/town management style titles, you'll need to earn levels through experience earned from farming, building and in a neat twist, from playing mini-games that refresh every few hours. So, lo and behold, Capcom have created the official Smurfs' Village and all your usual Farmville-ish obsessions can now be dedicated to defending the Smurfs from their ever present nemesis, Gargamel. That said, few parents will have any residual anger for spending the money.I guess it was only a matter of time before someone realized that the Smurfs lived in a village, 'And hey! What a great idea it'd be if you could manage that little town?!'. At best, it’s an adequate cinematic babysitter. “Smurfs: The Lost Village” has the look of a film that was rushed and made on a tight budget. It doesn’t help that “Trolls” by DreamWorks Animation came out less than six months ago - a vastly superior and more creative film with similar characters and themes.
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The production design, pacing and attempts at humor all have the feel of a middling half-hour animated TV production, with by-the-numbers action sequences and underwhelming visuals. (“Smurfette can be anything she wants to be,” is one mantra.) They push the scenario created by Smurf-creating Belgian artist Peyo as far away from its sexist themes as possible, making the female characters the most capable in the film.īut good intentions are the best thing this reboot has going for it. The makers of “The Lost Village” recruited two female screenwriters, and their influence is felt. (Hashtag #FirstSmurfProblems.) She’s also a pawn in the latest Gargamel attempt to trap the little blue cartoons, but she gets some unexpected help from a neighboring tribe - including a wise old female Smurf voiced by Julia Roberts. The new film has been produced like the 1980s cartoon, existing entirely in the realm of Smurf Village, bad wizard Gargamel’s castle and a few other brightly colored detours.Īt the center is Smurfette (Demi Lovato), who was created by Gargamel to infiltrate and betray the Smurfs, and is suffering the identity crisis of the very privileged. “Smurfs: The Lost Village” has no connection to “The Smurfs” (2011) or “The Smurfs 2” (2013), both live action/animation hybrids that starred Neil Patrick Harris and took place in New York - through a portal between Smurf Village and the real world. I’ll probably forget 95 percent of “Smurfs: The Lost Village” by next Tuesday. It was a punishment endured something to bring up in all future arguments for a pay raise. “The Smurfs 2” from 2013 was one of the worst movies I’ve seen. Sadly, almost all of this goodwill is wasted on a film that simply isn’t very well-written, imaginative or memorable. Only-girl-in-the-village Smurfette is still a skirt-twirling sex object, but there’s an Imperator Furiosa turn for her in the plot as well. And this “Smurfs,” which uses for source material the most college-term-paper-ready antifeminist cartoon of its era, finally attempts to address its lack of female empowerment.
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