The old king of Barina dies leaving his youngest grand daughter in charge of the magic that protects the kingdom and its inhabitants. After several years of peaceful reign of the kingdom the Queen hears of mischief in the kingdom, the magical flowers are losing their petals. Various heroes came forward to try and restore the land to its former peace and beauty but all fail. It is up to you and your wand which controls the four winds to restore the land to it former glory and bring peace to Barina’s inhabitants once more.

This is a new twist on a basic match three puzzle game where using the wand to control the wind you match the petals to restore the magical flowers. There is a basic tutorial mode where a friendly snail called O’Reilly takes you through how to control the wind, then a story mode where you travel through your map with time deadlines and restrictions placed on you and an endless mode which is basically the same but without any limits placed on you. Each level you go through you meet a nemesis who seems bent on causing chaos and trouble for you, trying to undo the work you have done in restoring the magical flowers. The flowers tell you the position and combination of petals they need and It is up to you to use your wand to complete the sequence in the order requested. If you do

not complete the task the flowers wilt and you fail to clear the level. With each level you clear your wand becomes more powerful and lets you have finer control over the winds to complete more intricate petal combinations.

I found this game fairly basic and simple, would certainly suit a game that could be played with all the family and suitable for younger kids. The graphics are cartoony with lots of snails and bunnies, but it certainly will appeal to a younger audience and will make an enjoyable family game. What I did find really interesting was the fact that this game was created with a new in house

games engine called ChaosEngine. This game is the first to utilize this engine, although I hear on the grapevine that there are more games that use this engine in the pipeline. The ChaosEngine allows for modules that can be programed using a custom scripting language. Sounds like players will be able to make their own modules for this game or future games that use this engine. Though you don’t seem to able to make much use of this games engine in this particular title, this certainly makes future releases from Chaos Trend certainly worth watching and should make titles unique and interesting.

The sound was well suited to the graphics and general style of the game. I generally enjoy puzzle games and the match three types are included in that. This game I did find myself getting quite bored of fairly quickly... I am not really a ’Barbie pink’ kind of girlie though and as such I don’t really think I was the target market for this one. Available for download through Playfirsts website and also through www.chaostrend.com, if you have a family and a love of match 3 games it is certainly worth checking out I for one will be keeping an eye out for future releases from chaos trend, I hear they are currently working on ’sweet shop’ (working title) which should be due for release sometime in the very near future.