E3 2015 - Minions Paradise Hands On

It is rare for me to pay attention to any mobile game, not because I hate them, but I have very little free time for them. One of the games that Electronic Arts were showing off at E3 was Minions Paradise for iPad, though it is on iPhone and Android as well. Before you read on, watch the hilarious trailer that explains why they are on the deserted island.

Phil it seems is a master of disaster, a count of catastrophes and well you get the idea, no matter what he tried, he could never seem to find his groove, well it seems that discover uncharted tropical islands is one of his skills, the other is building them up to entertain all his friends. When you first land on the island, you must build the tiki bar, I mean what tropical resort getaway is complete without one? After you do that, the first few minions will wash ashore.

In order to help build your paradise, you will need to send those minions off to collect resources and as you do you can build more buildings and activities. But in order to have more minions make it ashore you need to meet their requirements and make them a welcome basket, only then will you get more minions. In order to meet the requirements you need to gather more and more resources, but as they are minions they not going to do things the normal way, they will do things their own special way.

You can send Minions out to collect ice, bamboo or even piranha so you can make sushi, all of which helps, but they are not all simple tasks. Collecting ice takes a set number of minutes to complete, of which at the end you will have the ice, you can let them proceed at their own pace, or using up some coins you can make them go faster, but if you do that, you will need to source more new minions to work on it again, which if you have none spare will pose a problem. It is a balance you need to maintain in order to make progress.

When you have all your minions working at away at tasks you can take part in some minigames, to help pass the time, such as alligator skiing, it's really simply to use and fun, as for the other games, I don’t know, I did not play them.  The only downside to the game is you must be online to play it, which is beyond sucky, but I get why they want you to be. It also contains micro transactions, which is not required to play the game, but something people either like or don’t.

My time hands on with Minions Paradise was brief, but as the game is out now and is free to start playing, it might be something I spend more time dealing with.