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Gamers need not know the difference between a Lepidoptera and larva to have fun with Monarch the Butterfly King, the latest 3-in-a-row swapping game that challenges you to help the hapless monarch rescue his friends from the clutches of a mysterious wizard.
In this mystical adventure, you must travel across Celtic ruins to match flowers, create potions and rescue 16 butterflies -- from the Zebra Nymph to the Striking Sapphire -- throughout more than 150 unique levels.
The story, which is told through journal entries every few levels, may be a new twist for the genre, but many casual game fans will be familiar with the Monarch game-play concept. Popularized by games such as PopCap's Bejeweled, but much closer in design to Reflexive's very own Big Kahuna Reef, the goal of the game is swap adjacent tiles - in this case, flowers - so that at least three of the same tiles are aligned vertically or horizontally. Doing so causes the group to disappear, and thus allowing for more tiles to cascade onto the board. Some tiles are locked, and the only way to break them is by making a 3-in-a-row match with one of these tiles. Potion vials can be clicked on to explode surrounding titles or you can create a super explosion by creating a 3-in-a-row with an adjoining potion tile. You can also create a huge explosion with a bigger radius, ready to detonate when you need it, by making a group of five or more tiles of the same flower. Read more...
