Arcade Paradise review friv game – Hello, is this a laundry?

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Arcade Paradise exudes 90s vibes, allows you to run two businesses at the same time, and also entertain yourself with retro arcade games. How successfully the game tries to cover everything, everywhere and at once, we tell in the review.

The protagonist of the friv game Friv2Online, nineteen-year-old Ashley, gets at her disposal a barely alive laundry, a "gift" from her father. He gave his daughter an institution in the hope that she would show herself as a person worthy to join the family business empire.

However, Ashley is not eager to vegetate washing someone else's clothes, and, having discovered a couple of old slot machines in the pantry, she lights up with the idea of ​​​​slightly repurposing the laundry, combining it with an arcade room. Moreover, there is a logical justification for this idea: while visitors are waiting by the washing machines, they will not refuse to kill time playing a game or two.

No sooner said than done: the girl clears the pantry and begins to put her plan into action. At first, of course, you will have to earn extra money on the main business : take baskets of laundry and load washing machines, then take it out and take it to dry, and then give it to customers. You can leave this routine to the visitors themselves, but in this case, the earnings will be from gulkin's nose. And without earnings, you understand, you cannot build a successful business.

Therefore, Ashley, clenching her teeth, pays attention to the hated laundry. And not only for her: in the morning it is advisable to walk around the hall, remove garbage from the floor and peel off chewing gum from the surfaces, eliminate the blockage in the toilet - boredom is mortal! Fortunately, our heroine turns any activity into a game, so every action is performed as a QTE. Original, although already boring by the twentieth time, given how often you have to deal with the routine.

But this is perceived as a necessary evil for the sake of the most important thing - the development of the arcade business! Here is a real expanse: games for every taste and color, there would be money to buy them. Over time, you can expand the room to a neon-filled hall, where machines lined up in a row lure customers with colorful lights. By the way, they bring in more revenue, so gradually the laundry becomes just a “cover”. Ashley herself is not averse to sticking into an interesting arcade , or even playing until the night, leaving visitors to self-service.

Realizing that the gamer will inevitably become torn between the desire to earn more money and play slot machines, the developers added timers to the wash. We loaded the laundry into the washing machine - wait a few minutes for the wash to finish. Don't want to stand in one place? Forward - to arcade games, the average "skating rink" will just take those same couple of minutes. The watch will carefully notify you with a signal when it's time to take things out of the washer or dryer.

Although, frankly, you don’t always want to break away from the frivgame and return to the boring laundry. More than three dozen arcade games are available here, simple but addictive. There's a match-3 RPG variation, there's a GTA/Pac-Man hybrid, there's a top-down zombie shooter , racing , beat'em'up - whatever! Not all games are equally exciting, but you are in a hurry to return to your favorites again and again. Especially if before that you turn on some cool track in the jukebox.

However, this is another cost item. While we earn money for the purchase of machines in the old fashioned way, collecting income from the laundry and the arcade hall, the currency for improvements will have to be farmed in a different way - by completing daily tasks. They can be different: for example, to score a certain number of points in one of the games or to collect a given amount of garbage. For this currency, you can buy records for the jukebox, as well as various upgrades, such as sneakers in which Ashley will finally start running, or hiring a personal assistant who will take over some of the routine work.

The problem is, it doesn't help you get rid of the things you don't feel like doing. For example, daily tasks include various arcade games, including those that are not interesting for a particular player. They will have to go through force, not getting pleasure from the process. It takes a long time to save money, and although the gamer constantly discovers something new, the gameplay turns into a “groundhog day”, and irritation is reinforced by terribly annoying music that plays in the laundry room.

On top of everything else, Arcade Paradise is rather sloppy, with localization errors, a cumbersome interface, and collision bugs that often make it impossible to pick up trash that a visitor has left under a seat in the waiting area. This is on the one hand, but on the other hand, the game has an amazing atmosphere of the 90s, which the developers captured surprisingly accurately. And don't forget to upgrade Ashley's work PC - there are a couple of pleasant surprises in store for you!

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