Finn & Bones Cheats, Guides, & Tips

To the lovers of strategy games who don’t want the hassle of First Person Shooters and Role Playing Games yet want a game simple enough to be understood easily and played in real time, Finn and Bones is a perfect game for you. Though the graphics are a bit sloppy but overall the game is very interesting. It’s simple enough to be understood by any age group but at the same time, combinations of elements make it interesting enough to be played by casual gamers of any age.

Finn and Jake were at an abandoned place where Jake becomes crazy thirsty and asks Finn for water. The Underworld Sorcerer offers him water but after drinking it, they realize it was the Water of Forgetfulness. But it was too late by then and Underworld Sorcerer dives into his world with Jake in his sidearm. Due to the nature of water, Jake has forgotten everything and cannot rescue himself. It is now Finn’s responsibility to rescue Jake by defeating the Underworld Sorcerer. But first, he will have to defeat all the Underworld Sorcerer’s employees which are spread a long way across the Underworld. Long story short, it’s a long adventure.

Finn and Bones is a turn based strategy game where Finn runs along the level and automatically starts fighting the skeletons he finds. Finn attacks first and drains some of the enemy’s health. Then the enemy attacks and the process goes on unless one of them is executed (battle of death and life eh?). Except for the first and last level, there are multiple enemies in a level and you will have to defeat all of them in one go to clear the level.

Finn can have four items with him at once. A shield, a sword and two rings. They all can carry two of the four attributes: Attack, Defense, Health and Luck. Attack increases the damage done to the enemies, Defense decreases the health damage when enemies attack you, Health attribute increases your health to last longer in the battle and Luck attribute increases your chances of Critical Hits (which do almost double the damage of a normal hit) and Blocks (which completely block the enemy attack). One item can carry two attributes at max at a single time. You can save similar attribute in multiple items. Attributes also have a value and a limit to that value. When you win a level, you will win some items as loot from that level. You can pick up those items and store them into your inventory. You can then mix those items with the existing items to make powerful weapons. For example your sword carries the attack attribute and you win the Small Attack Potion at the end of the level, you can then mix those two using the “Mixer” provided at the bottom left of the game to “mix” those items to increase the attack of your sword. You can keep doing this unless the attack limit of the sword is reached after which, adding more attack items in the sword will be useless. You can, though, add an item of health/defense/luck to the sword and it will start accumulating the added attribute in it along-with the attack attribute. As said earlier, all things can hold two attributes at max.

While mixing the items, you will have to keep in mind that the sword must have the Attack attribute. The second attribute can be changed any time. Similarly, the shield must have the defense attribute, the second attribute is optional. The rings can have any of two attributes.

While putting items in the mixture, beware of the placement of items. Only the thing placed at the left side in the mixer remains at last. So if you place the potion at left and sword at right, the sword is going to vanish and without sword, you are going to have a bad time.

Mixing items can produce interesting results. For example, mixing a flame with the sword will yield a burning sword and mixing a sword with the ice-block will yield a frozen sword. Keep experimenting! But remember to put the important items at the left side.

You can also use boosts during the battle to help you defeat the enemies you otherwise won’t be able to. There appears a boost slot among the item slots during the battles where you can put the items to boost the powers of Finn for a limited time. For example, putting an attack potion in the boost slot will increase Finn’s attack damage.

The game also uses the elemental damage strategy which dictates that opposite elements do more damage to each other whereas similar elements do better defense against each other. For example an ice sword will get elemental damage against fire skeletons aka the opposite ones. On the other hand, the ice shield will give stronger defense against the icy skeletons aka the same opponents.

Boost items:

There are different boost items which can be used to enhance your item’s ability in the game. You will get different items as the game progresses. The potions become stronger, new weapons arrive which have more capacity for attributes and rings which are capable of storing more. It is a good idea to replace the old items with stronger items. It will save you a lot of time and space.

Health potions: Health potions increase the health of player when combined with the equipped items. They are usually represented by green color.

Luck potions: Luck potions are represented by yellow color and increase the chance of Critical Hits and Blocks. Lockets having charms of luck appear in the later game which increase the player’s luck significantly.

Damage Potions: Damage potions are indicated by red color and increase the damage of attacks to the enemies. Finn has a week sword in the game which is replaced by a stronger steel sword in the middle of the game having much more capacity of damage which, also, at last is replaced by Ax Bass, a red colored axe which is stronger than all previous weapons.

Sometimes, items with negative attributes also come in the loot. For example rotten apple decreases the health, wicked bone decreases the luck and poison decreases health at the cost of defense. You can throw these items in the trash bin or if you are good at mixing, you can make cool item with them which is explained in the tips section of this article.

Enemies:

Skeleton Guard: Skeleton guard is the weakest and the first enemy you will face in the game. He does not take any elemental damage. After some time in the game, you will easily be able to knock him off with your first hit.

Icy Guard: Icy skeleton is a basic enemy with the addition of a layer of ice on it’s top. He is an elemental enemy meaning if you hit him with fire sword, you will be able to do more damage. Also, if you have an ice shield, you will stop his attacks effectively.

Flame Guard: Flame guard is a basic skeleton guard who is on fire, literally. He is harder to beat than his first two companions. A good combination against him would be an icy sword and a fire shield.

Skeleton Sentinel: It is a non-elemental enemy with a stronger, bigger body and a gigantic hammer. He is a non-elemental enemy.

Blazing Sentinel: An elemental Skeleton Sentinel on fire. He is the most gorgeous character in the game with his beautiful blazing head and a giant round hammer.

Chilly Sentinel: He is a strong Skeleton Sentinel who has been chilled, severely!

Snow Sentinel: He is the side-boss of the game. This wicked looking skeleton hits hard and due to his enormous health bar, will need some serious pounding to be executed.

Underworld Sorcerer: Finally, after beating all the minions, you will be facing their king, the Underworld Sorcerer who you will find chilling on his throne. He does not bother much and stays sitting on his throne while spikey bones come out of the ground to hit you. He has health count more than 6000 and chances are that you will not be able to beat him in your first attempt. You will need to revisit many previous levels to gain enough strength to beat this underworld lord.

After the Underworld Sorcerer is defeated, Finn meets Jay and tells him he has travelled the whole Underworld to rescue him and that he can now be free as soon as he kisses the death. Jay, chilling on a tree, is perhaps totally okay with his new world and refuses to kiss a gross skeleton body. At the moment, Finn feels helpless but death intercepts right then scolding the Underworld Sorcerer for using his charms to kidnap fleshies from the real world and kisses Jake allowing them to return to their world.

Badges:

Cartoon network also uses the technique of badges to keep the players interested in the game. Badges are a mark of skill and hardwork in the game. You must be logged in the Cartoon Network website to win badges.

Rock Family Tree: Mystery Badge. Find Rocky Jr. to win this badge.
Clash of Bones: Win the first map.
Chemistry 101: Do you first mix
Mix Master: Make 100 items using mixes
Kiss of Death: This badge is won when at the end of the game, death kisses Jay to return him to the land of Ooo.

Finn & Bones Tips, Tricks and Cheats

Here are some things which I found useful while playing the game. Get advantage of my experience to beat the game easily.

Make pairs of attributes in the items. I have found it useful to pair Health with Attack and Luck with Defense. An item can hold 2 maximum attributes at a time. If you mix an item which already has 2 attributes with a new attribute, one of the former two will be gone, forever. Do not waste the attributes like this. They are already scarce. Moreover, try to keep the Luck attribute in one item only and use the additional Luck charms as boosts during the battles. It’s science! Attack and Defense are more important than Luck.

At the last levels of the game, you will find yourself out of spaces in the inventory. Try to mix the potions to make mashup potions which contain two attributes at a time. But before mixing them up, keep in mind the pairing you made with your items(sword, shield etc) and pair the same attributes in the potions as in the items.

Take advantage of the elemental damage as much as you can. Make two swords and two shields. Mix one of them with ice and the other one with fire. You can see which elemental enemies you are going to face in the coming level by going to the map and then pair yourself with the suited pair of sword and shield.

You can use boosts to turn the tables in level. If you are going short on health, give Finn a health boost and so on.

If you are unable to win a level, there is no need of trying it again and again. You can always calculate in advance whether you are going to win or not. If there is a minor difference, you can use boosts or hope for Critical Hits and Blocks but if there is a major difference, there is no need to wait. Just go back, play some previous levels, collects loot and come back stronger.

There is a book and a trash bin at the top of inventory. You can click on the book for possible mixes and throw useless items in the trash bin.

You can get rid of the negative items in the game. For example if you receive the Poison which has positive defense but negative health, you can mix it up with the shield which already has defense and Luck attributes. We know that the Defense attribute cannot be changed from the shield, so the negative health is eliminated. Viola!

Finn & Bones Review

Finn and Bones is a really interesting game despite of being simple as eating a pizza. It really has the ability to hook players for some time. Graphics are not impressive but meh… they do the job. The game is very responsive. At times, it gets very interesting to see your player fight for his (and Jay’s) life with a skeleton with crossed fingers. It somehow becomes a challenge to beat the crap out of the skeleton who did not let you win the last time. Which beautifully serves the purpose of the game.

The area where I find incompletion is variety. There is very less variety in the game. There are only two types of enemies in the game: normal and gigantic skeletons. Dip them in the ice and fire and they become six opponents (plus the boss). Moreover, there is no way you can complete the whole game in one go. The enemies become so strong they become impossible to beat without going back in the game and collecting. This makes the game sometimes boring. The game is too small to become someone’s favorite. You cannot simply not favorite a game you ended in less than 6 hours. Overall the game is fun to play but it can be improved drastically.

Rating:

Artwork: The graphics are not impressive. Animations are average. The panel of the game could be much more simple and interesting. 2.5/5

Story and Originality: The game has a very short story. Enough to keep the respective age group motivated to finish the game. Finn and Bones is not a trivial game. Most strategy games make the player wait and most real time put senses of the player to tests. This is a unique amalgam where you can get real time results without pounding your keyboard and mouse. 3.5/5

Addictiveness: I define addictiveness as the amount of time a game takes from your daily routine. Which this game is totally not capable of due to its small size. But as long as you do not finish it, it stays really interesting. 2.5/5

Overall score: 2.8/5