akhliber: I recall recent talk about match 3 games... and I didn't know previously that You Must Build A Boat was a "sequel" of sorts... should the first one (a one and then a bunch of zeroes... it's late, don't make me count) be played first?
penumbren: I've played 10,000,000 (I'm not counting, either, since it's not installed on my phone anymore) and there is no story whatsoever, so I can't imagine you'd need to play it. I think Crow's been playing one or both of these, so perhaps he can weigh in, here?
I will say that I think HuniePop is funny as hell; my husband watched me play a few minutes of it, smirked at the unlocked art, and wandered away again, completely uninterested in watching his wife woo big-breasted anime women via matching symbols. Alas. *g* If you haven't watched TotalBiscuit's playthrough of it with his wife, I highly recommend it; I don't think I stopped laughing for the entire hour-plus that they played.
And on a completely different note, I'll leave you all with this lovely piece of music:
"Friends" by Miracle of Sound (a.k.a. his classic-rock-style tribute to
Guardians of the Galaxy, which sounds like it belongs on the official soundtrack).
You're right, 10,000,000 has no story unless you count "score 10,000,000 points, win game" as one. You Must Build A Boat is its own separate thing.
Would also agree with you on HuniePop. Have played a fair chunk of it today, and it does a good job of balancing match-3, timed puzzles, resource management and memory game elements.
I was going to watch that video, but didn't want spoilers, so I watched Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime instead. After doing that, I want that game.