Huru Beach Party
Action & Arcade Games, Time Management Games May 30th, 2009
(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
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“Who are you? Who am I?” This has been the coined phrase of the popular children’s toy of late, Huru Humi. So popular that today, we get to review a casual game revolving around the character designs of these toys. Huru Beach Party is a time management game featuring a Huru Humi girl named Lindsey and her part time work in the beach.
Lindsey plays good volleyball but her best friend Chloe is her only fan. Blame it all on the absence of a proper volleyball team in Huruville High that the volleyball team can’t even compete in the championships. Another hindrance to the progress of the sport is Jake, the sports committee head, using all of the committee’s money on the football team. So now, Lindsey starts to work for Chloe’s father at the beach, as she tries to earn money into starting their very own volleyball club.
Each level of Huru Beach Party gives you a goal you need to fulfill before the level ends. After the level ends, you’ll earn stars used to buy upgrades for the beach. There’s really no time limit set on each level, but if you aim to earn more stars than possible, then you can either aim for Master time or Expert time if you yearn for more challenge.
The game follows a typical time management gameplay wherein you have to serve customers, profit from their requests and clean up after they leave all before they get impatient and you lose potential profit. Money earned will let you restock supplies, hire additional help and buy or upgrade shops to hold more products. Money is not to be confused with stars though. To put it simply, money is used during the actual time management game and stars are used during the map mode to make other upgrades available for use.
A fun feature of Huru Beach Party is how you get to play mini-game pop-ups whenever you try to serve your bustling customers. Serving juice, ice cream and the photo service are some examples of shops that toggle mini-game pop-ups. Try to serve more or serve their exact requests to earn more money. Other than this, you can also try to serve in combos of 2 or more, or pamper your customer with the beach umbrella for bonus points.
This gameplay routine makes Huru Beach Party more challenging than the typical time management game; however, it can also be pretty frustrating to play through the same mini-game over and over again as you serve more customers. Good thing that Lindsey works in the background even when you’re playing these pop-ups, so try to take advantage of the game’s wonderful queuing mechanics in order to serve more customers in the least amount of time possible.
Other bonuses include other mini-games you play between level transitions. While most of them are not unique, the purpose of these games is to unlock other upgrades you can buy with stars whenever available. The game also has a trophy system that tracks your progress and achievements as you play. This system adds a replay factor to the game, since some trophies can only be won faster if you backtrack on levels not finished within challenge time.
Huru Beach Party is very challenging that you’ll begin to feel the pressure even during the first few levels of the game. Good click management is a must that you might even find the Expert time impossible to achieve on later levels. Owe it to the game’s addictiveness that I didn’t mind it much as I played.
Overall, the game has tons of upgrades, great challenge and a fun theme. It’s definitely worth the try unless of course you hate the weird character designs of Huru Humi.
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