Fighting zombies in Wizzy Animals made me wish my school were this cool

If flora versus the undead was all the rage back then, it's fauna's turn this time around, as I seem to be seeing a lot of animals fighting zombies on mobile these days. There's the vengeance-filled gosling whose mom was boiled in a pot of soup by hordes of the undead last week; then there's Wizzy Animals, in which determined students of the Magic Academy have taken it upon themselves to defend the world from zombies. They may be cute and cuddly, but they can wave a wand around like nobody's business, and I wish my school were this cool (I'm still waiting for my magic invitation to arrive via owl any time now). There's nothing mind-blowing about the gameplay loop here - you simply deploy your animal mages on a grid and wait for the hordes to come. Each enemy you eliminate earns you coins, which you can then use to summon more critters to your grid. You'll eventually fill up the very limited real estate here, but thankfully, you can merge similar units to form epic and legendary ones, then rinse and repeat. ... [MORE]