The Poptropica: Forgotten Islands iOS game has come out! In it, you must collect and exchange items (much like in normal Poptropica) to gain some important item. In this case, you must find six lost artifacts. These artifacts reveal a story about Poptropica's ancient history -- a (fictional) story of how it all began. I was a bit disappointed by the overall gameplay, though. I'm not going to post a guide for this game. I didn't like it for a few reasons:
- The quests were ridiculously easy and boring -- someone tells you to find item, walk right ten paces, collect item, return item, get 50 coins.
- It seems like almost no new artwork was created for this game. For the most part, you're just walking through scenes from popular items that have been re-arranged a bit.
- Almost no puzzles -- the ones that are there are mostly just tap the screen until something happens.
- Let's imagine this scenario: You have to break a chunk off a mountain as one of your quests.
Normal Poptropica: Find something to help you break it.
Forgotten Islands: Just go up there and break it.
You can imagine that this gets boring fast.
The story of ancient Poptropica was kind of nice, though. Basically, here's how it goes:
- Monsters fight over ancient Poptropica
- Poptropicans (the Mabaya) hide underground to avoid a "great flood"
- When they come back aboveground, they get conquered by another group of Poptropicans, which came by sea (the Trinity Syndicate).
- The Mabayas drive the Trinity Syndicate back. Syndicate goes home, but is driven away from there. Syndicate is destroyed by the great flood.
