Mini Me Mobile App Review

I was asked to review this game called Mini Me by Cocone.
The English version was released earlier this month almost about a week ago.

I use a Samsung Galaxy S2 so I am aware there might be hiccups since my phone is an older model. This is a pretty long review and I hope I can cover most of it. I'm sure the game will continue to be updated and things will change down the line. Anyways.....

MINI ME

The Skinny:

I played this game for about a week now.
It has a similar feel to other games like Pico Ameba, Pet Society, and Line Play. You have an avatar you can extensively customize, followed by an interior room, and then your own home planet. There's leveling, missions, energy count, cooking, planting, and slapping. (Yes, slapping!) There are a lot of things to do and the energy replenishes relatively quick. It is a social game where you can interact with other players.


How to Play:

You simply register your email or sign in with Facebook, add your birth date and you are good to go.  You then choose  your character amongst several preset avatars. I picked the girl on the right because she was the cutest to me. This is just a template and you can change your customize your character pretty extensively later for free. That is something I really like!

After picking out your character, a tutorial begins (which you can skip) to give you a quick play through of how things work. It then eases you into missions which upon completion you can obtain Donuts. Donuts are the main currency for buying clothing, furniture and supplies.

 The tutorial might have been more effective if the arrows were bigger.

Earning Donuts is pretty simple. You get them by completing missions or just doing activities such as watering your tree, watering another player's tree, take a nap, or just slap someone (haha.) The tutorial pretty much covers the basic features such as shopping and decorating. Do keep in mind that any action you do will take away 10 energy points. Your energy bar increases the more friends you have. You earn 1 - 3 donuts doing activities, but at some point you stop earning donuts.

The tutorial also shows you how to visit other player's planets and you can go into their homes. On their planet you can water tree and inside their house you can slap them. You character literally slaps a part of the players wall. I guess it's like a high five.

Like LinePlay you can feed, wash and put your character to sleep, but in this game they use the toilet too. Every activity you perform earns you medals.

This is something I am a bit unsure about. I am not sure what medals are for. I clicked the > button, but it just shows how many medals I have earned. I think they contribute to my experience bar. There are 12 missions that require 200 people of each constellations to visit your home.

Changing the clothes and changing the face of your character are 2 different options. These options are located inside the "Mini Me" button located at the center of the main screen. Your character is HIGHLY HIGHLY customizable. There are just so many combinations I cannot cover them all. You can change your whole face and you can change the colors of blush, eye color, lips and so on. It's kind of hard to click the lower buttons. They also look kinda of static and not click-able. Hairstyles are something you have to buy though.

The shop looks pretty much like the clothing changing page. There are a lot of different clothes and accessories. The prices can get kind of high. The amount of donuts I earn from missions can't pay for my expensive lifestyle.

What is a customizable game without blind items. This is pretty self explanatory. Each set is different. One for your room, your planet, or your character. You can and will get duplicates. The price is kind of high for me at the rate I'm earning donuts.

You can customize the inside of your home and the exterior! You cannot move all your furniture around. Certain items I believe are locked in place. I need more donuts.

You can cook and plant. You can use the crops you grow for cooking. You get points for cooking but I do not know what that contributes to? There's a variety of seeds you can plant that becoming fully grown  after a certain amount of time has passed. Some seeds take 5 minutes and some maybe several hours. Here you see my character in the process of cooking. You buy ingredients at the shop as well. The food you make are for energy replenishing. I have to use donuts to buy seeds in the first place. This part of the game I do not find very enticing because it does not contribute to my house or how it looks. It's a nice feature, but not for me. The cooking animation is really cute though.

Aside from missions you can also earn donuts by inviting your friends to play. If your friends use your code you get 500 additional donuts. I have yet to try this yet. I will in the near future.  My invite code is 2311196. My character's name is Ebbilin. Feel free to add me!

Places to Improve:

• I am not sure why my character has aliasing. It would be nicer if she was crisp and smooth. Maybe it's my phone?

•  The interface such as the buttons do not look consistent and the colors are not as vibrant as the Japanese version. I think the Japanese version looks aesthetically better than the English one. 

Example!

• The English font/text could look nicer? (That could be a localization issue though.)
• Rotating the game would be nice since your room is in a horizontal view. If I can turn my device to the side and play this game it would be much more pleasant.
• It's difficult click certain buttons because they are so small.
• Certain things that are click-able should look more click-able such as the selections at the bottom of  the screen for shopping.
• No clear indication that my plant is ready to be harvested.

Overall:

This game is super cute and very customizable. The animations are very nice almost like mini cut scenes. I enjoy the music very much.There's so much to do which is a good and a bad thing. There are a lot of things such as cooking and planting it kind of loses it's value? I can carry on with this game with or without cooking and planting crops. Unless it's in a mission I will probably not do it. I do like the slapping. It's funny. I plan on continuing with this game because I want to see how it will grow :D

Check it out for yourselves!
Here's a link to their Facebook Page

Insufficient Space on LINEPlay Quick Fix

I missed the Monday weekly post! I was busy drawing.
Anyways this is an all text post because I could not catch the screenshot for this problem.

So the big problem I have been coming across is the "insufficient space" message. It says something on the lines of you need to free up space to continue playing.
LINEPlay is the only app with this problem so far.

This happened 2 times since I downloaded LINEPlay.
The first time around, the application was saved to the phone. I had enough storage space so I was not sure what the problem was.
I cleared my RAM and cache and nothing happened. I even tried restarting it multiple times after each clear. Nothing worked and eventually the message crashed my game. I could no longer do anything.

So.....I just wanted to share my quick fix (not really quick) for this problem.

UNINSTALL IT then reinstall it!
Do not fear losing your account, because you have to sign up with LINE Naver first anyways. This game is pretty much all server side.
Second move it to your sd card storage preferably something with more than 2GBs.

I came across this problem even after I moved the app to the sd card despite having a lot of space. I uninstalled then reinstalled it again and it worked.

That is my quick fix.
*Update*
The best solution is get a cache clearer app.
(Do not root your phone unless you know what you are doing.)

Hope this helps a bit.

LINE Play App Guide and Review

I didn't think I would make an app review, but here I am.
Earlier this month after many years I finally have a smart phone. I had the lollipop flip phone for about 2 years and the ice cream before that. I had an ipod touch though!
Anyways, I have been actively downloading and playing a lot of games.

I actually discovered this one a few days ago. It was open to international players pretty recently as well. I used Line Camera before so I am familiar with their mascots.

LINE PLAY!

More like homes to enter! Downloadable for the iOS and Android.
In order to start playing you have to download the Line Naver app. It's almost like Kakao Talk. You have a free instant message/call app which you can use to contact your friends and what not. I guess it's good for your international friends! You can also be social and play games with them, but of course you need to download each game individually.

LINE Play is very similar to Ameba Pico, TinierMe, Poupee Girl and some Facebook apps. You have your own avatar and a house to decorate. You can shop for furniture and clothes with your virtual currency known as gems.

You start out with a simple room. You have a flower pot, a table and 2 chairs. You also have a diary which keeps all your daily outfit snapshots and diary posts. Other users can comment or leave you stickers for these snapshots.

Earning gems in the beginning is easy.

You can receive gems from entering other user's invitation codes. Simply go to your settings and click Profile. Once there you will see the Invitation Code section. You will see something similar to the image on the left. You can find your code there if you click the Invite. A small screen will pop up with your code which you can copy to your clipboard. If you want random people using your invitation code write a review for the game and leave your code there! You get 1000 gems if you enter one code and if other users enter yours, you also get 1000 gems. You can earn 14,000 gems from doing this. HOWEVER, this is not something you can do daily (from what I know so far). You can only punch in 5 codes yourself and only 9 other users can put in yours. After that, that's it. You have to earn gems other ways or pay for them!

Gems are crucial!
You want your house to be super cool and cute! Of course you need your own character to match.
There's a shop for clothing, furniture and the evil GACHAs.

You can mix and match tops, bottoms and accessories. You can buy clothes in set which is a bit cheaper than buying each piece individually. You can also try on the clothes by clicking the icons. The only problems I have with this is the loading time and the scrolling.

The furniture store is set up the same way. You can preview the furniture you want by clicking on it. You can also change your wall paper and tiles. My major problem with all this is the scrolling. It takes forever if you are looking for a certain set of furniture. I'm hunting for all the Chocolate Tier furniture. Prepare to scroll and let it load.
Honestly though you mainly need a bed, a bath, some kind of chair and food to satisfy your own character's needs!

This is what drives me nuts. Gachas are addictive because the item you get is random and you want to collect them all! There's a strong feeling of satisfaction boosted by endorphins when you get something you wanted. When you get something bad or a duplicate you just want to try for something better. (Gambling is bad for you.)

That's my avatar.  I'm still working on my room haha. This game much like most apps now a days is all about being social and making friends. (Not social in a sense you need to actually talk to other users....you can though). You just have to click around a lot because that's how you earn more gems and hearts! You can invite your friends who also use Line Naver and earn 1000 gems.

How to earn more gems:

From what I know so far, you have a daily login bonus, and 3 daily tasks you can complete. You can keep track of your tasks by click on the gems in the upper right. The daily task for me resets at 4PM. I live in NY.

All you have to do is go to your friends, or other random peoples' houses and click click click. Each task gives you 10 gems. You can water their plants, clean their furniture, and give them hearts. All you have to do is click the bubbles that appear in the other user's home. You can make around 1000 gems per day. That may sound like a lot, but most furniture is about 1000 and above. You also earn gems from doing your own tasks. Once in a while your avatar will want to either sit down, sleep, eat or take a bath. If you don't have the right items in your room to complete the task, you can always use the items in other peoples' homes. You earn 5 gems for each personal task.

As you can see there's the water drop and broom icon in this house. Click the icons and both of you are happy! Hurray gems!

 

Let's say someone doesn't have a plant or a bath tub. Simply click Move then Random and you will be whisked away to another home.You can go from house to house by clicking on the Random button. This is me being a total creeper in someone's home.
20 tasks per category, 3 categories, that's a lot of clicks.

After your daily activities, it's pretty much a stand still. You can chat with people in the lounge or just keep going through houses and make friends. Look at how handsome James is. You can use the furniture in his house I guess.
You can also copy paste your invitation codes (if you have not used them all) in the lounge area titled "Beginner." There's a specific chat room for that. You can also have 1:1 chats with your friends!

 

Your game keeps track of everything you do and what other users do to you. It's all visible in the news section which you can access at the front page. Click the speech bubble icon on the upper left to see your news. You get notifications when people send you hearts, use your invite code, or leaves a message.

After finishing all the daily tasks I like to rearrange my furniture or dress my avatar up several times.

Click the menu button when you are in your room followed by Room Deco. You will see a screen like the one above.
Some furniture you can turn in all 4 directions and some only turn in 2 directions. Keep that in mind when you are furnishing your home! Don't forget to save as well.

You can change your avatar's clothes by clicking Menu then Closet while in your room. You click/check whatever you want them to wear and voila! (SAVE) It will ask you if you want to update your diary. I normally don't but do what you want!

My invite code is UM-8866-3205 (expired).
Feel free to add me. My user name is Ebbilin

Happy clicking!