Pettington Park

Pettington Park is a new style social game in which you select one side of the two hostile factions, step into the role of a feline or canine avatar, and struggle to fight for the supremacy of the chosen species. After the character creation, you will enter the narrative story of your side and follow alongside to do various quests. Walk around and chat with NPC, buy and build a series of facilities like deco, buildings and arcade machines in the amusement park, and clear debris or trees around for more resources to build and vacancy to expand. While building the park is one primary task, it practically shifts into a series of mini-games unlocked one by one with the construction of arcade machines.

Mini-games start with Pachinko, a match-3 style that asks you to match three or more same shapes (or colors) of soccer ball against the background of a soccer field. And another is Plinko which asks you to drop acrons to reach a point zone through a series of tree branches and other obstacles; and still another is a taiko drum simulator. Near the arcade machines, you will add decorations which can offer certain bonuses to score high. All these scores you win from the mini-game will be accumulated and used as a scorecard in the Dog vs Cat competition every week.

The war between the two species offer a certain, however loose, a back story to thread the quests in park and separated mini-games in a bigger cause. Yet, it takes time and friends’ help to proceed. To complete the construction, you may lack of certain material to ask friends for it; to play the arcade games, you need to visit friends to score tokens; and to put your completed structures in function, you also need to recruit friends to fill in the slot. If you don’t want to annoy friends with the spam invitation, you can settle all down with Petty Cash, in-game premium currency, just as most Facebook games do.

Pettington Park makes a favorable impression to be different with rich contents to explore in the social network, yet soon shows its limitations originated from the difficulty of commitment due to the energy bar, spam invite and premium currency. Also, why put it in G+ rather than Facebook in the first place?