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hello again ladies and gentlemen i'm joe hindi the android authority app guide a lot of people don't like farmville too but a lot of people like farmville too now you can play it on android and we're gonna check it out to see if it's any good if you play farmville before then there's going to be very little about this game that you don't already know the basic gameplay elements remain pretty much the same you plant crops feed animals build things craft and sell items expand your farm complete missions and all that jazz just like you would on the desktop variant of farmville 2 there are a few things that you can do that you can't do in the desktop version like foraging for items but even those things follow a similar pattern and mechanics there are a few more differences you cannot set down plots of dirt and plant whatever you want now each plot of dirt can only grow one kind of crop at a time and you must build various plots in order to get various crops that may seem restrictive but Zynga makes up for it by removing all other restrictions and so far as I can tell water appears to be infinite and you no longer need energy to craft items the game connects to both Facebook and Google+ and it also has Google Play games achievements if you're into using those it features the similar mechanic of asking friends for various items in game so make sure you know someone else who is playing otherwise some of the missions will get really hard to complete there are also in app purchases they can get you coins keys and speed gross stuff should you want those but you can get along just fine without them perhaps the most interesting part of this game is the connectivity you can connect this new farm of yours to your existing farmville 2 account on Facebook if you have one it's a little bit of a pain to get it connected sometimes but once you do it you can actually ship items between farms and that's actually kind of cool I mean fans of the desktop version are gonna love being able to send water to their desktop farm because their water is severely limited whereas on the mobile version water is plentiful and infinite however you can only ship from farm to farm a couple of times a day so if you do intend on enjoying this gameplay mechanic make sure you take full advantage otherwise you'll have to wait several hours for your next delivery the design is nothing special for an Android title but it isn't bad either it's essentially the same graphics as the desktop variant but they are sharp and colorful which is a plus the screen is laid out in a manner that is easy to understand and getting to the various parts of the game isn't difficult or confusing at all which is also a big plus like all farmville games the long you play the more cramped your farm gets and even after just a few hours I found myself rearranging items on my farm so I didn't accidentally click the wrong thing I suppose that's unavoidable after a point and thus will be something everyone has to deal with eventually overall the design is fairly good the controls are designed in a manner that makes sense and the interface is easy to move around you really can't ask for much more than that ok so here's what we liked the ability to shift to your desktop farm is awesome especially since the mobile app gives you unlimited water and things that usually take hours to make like flour can be accomplished fairly quickly on the mobile version people who play both versions will definitely find this feature extremely useful oh and you can ship from the desktop version to the mobile version too so it does work both ways the mechanics and controls are simple to understand and easy to use things do pretty much what you expect them to do and work how you expect them to work the graphics are sharp and colourful one of the hallmarks of the farmville series is having a game that's fun to look at and the mobile version is no exception it has Google Play game services cloud saving and social media connectivity with Facebook and Google+ these are all good things lastly it doesn't have the restrictions that other games in this category have you're not bottlenecked by a lack of energy or power I played this game for several hours without being required to stop there are in-app purchases but if you use your resources wisely they're almost entirely unnecessary and here's what we didn't like so much you should probably have all of your other apps closed out before playing this game I had a bunch of apps running in the background before attempting my first time and it kind of lagged a little bit on my note 3 I can see people who multitask heavily having performance issues and people who have older phones may also have performance issues this is a farmville game and thus uses the same farmville mechanics this means there will come a point where you realize that all you're really doing is watering plants harvesting plants making things out of plants etc the repetitive nature of the title is definitely one of its biggest weaknesses lastly you will need to have friends on Facebook to unlock the full potential of this game like all farmville games Zynga really promotes that social gaming aspect of their titles so if you don't use Facebook or have Facebook friends who play you may end up getting stuck at some parts of the game you can buy your way past them using items provided in-game or eventually you may have to buy your way past them using real money and I feel like people are not gonna like that second option overall I was surprisingly impressed with farmville to the mechanics are friendly and familiar if a bit repetitive but frankly if you are interested in this game you knew that already the integration with the desktop variant brings an element of uniqueness that you simply don't see in similar titles and I like that a whole bunch that said if you don't have friends who play this game and you don't play the desktop variant the mobile game will feel a little bit lacking farmville 2 on mobile is supposed to be played with farmville 2 on desktop and with other people who play both games it is not a standalone experience but rather in addition to a much larger ecosystem and you can definitely tell so if you fall into that category you should enjoy this game quite a bit because it complements the experience you're already having if you don't you may still enjoy the game but not as much and for not as long if you didn't like farmville before watching this video you're probably not gonna like it now and you probably shouldn't play it at all here's the thing guys I am NOT a farmville fan I expected to walk into this review and say many hurtful things about xanga it was gonna be really sarcastic and I was gonna have a lot of fun with it however there is very little that is actually wrong with farmville 2 and Android and I begrudgingly give it my approval if you want to try it out the download link is below once again I'm Joe the Android authority app 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