Puzzled
Today’s review is dedicated to Puzzle Games, and as such it must deal with the fact that the offer is so varied that choosing only four of them is already a difficult task. That is precisely why I decided to follow the “Top Rated” criterion in most cases: after all, those are the first games you will see when you visit the website.
SamePhysics is the first one I encountered, and I am not ashamed to admit that it took me a while to figure out what the game is all about. This is apparently based on the quite popular SameGame, a game I had never heard of (which explains my bewilderment). The premise is actually the same in both cases: you are supposed to clear the screen by clicking on the colliding color crates (colliding, not adjacent, as the intro very well explains). The twist that comes with this version is that this works with real world physics, which means there is nothing neat and structured about it: crates have the bad habit of falling in a quite inconvenient way, doing nothing to facilitate our job.
Demolition City is another game that reminds us of others we have played before. We have a certain amount of TNT to be used blowing up every single building the game presents us throughout its 20 different levels. The twist comes with the fact that we must make sure that the rubble from the explosion doesn’t exceed a certain height; otherwise the level is not completed, even if we have brought the building down to pieces. That is something that must be taken into account and which obviously requires a certain strategy and some planning. Of course, if that doesn’t work, there is always trial and error!
Perfect Balance 2 is another game combining real world physics, strategy and, well, steel nerves. Basically, you are given a number of pieces of different size and shape, which must be located on the screen, somehow, and not fall off. Pretty easy, right? Well, it’s not. There are only certain places (black spaces) on which you can place the pieces. And, in order to add more excitement to it, once you complete the level you can choose to add round pieces to your “construction”, for bonus points. Getting ambitious has never been more dangerous.
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Finally, yes ladies and gentlemen: a geek game! Max Connector is the kind of game that starts off easy but after its 24 levels it ends up as an extremely difficult, complex game. The premise is simple: link all the connectors. There is always a yellow connector, which initiates the action, so to speak, and many blue connectors that you must rotate so that they connect with each other and back with the yellow connector. Each level presents a new feature or obstacle that forces us to put our brains into the game: by toughening up, the game forces us to improve as well.
This selection is, then, a bit eclectic, but quite popular. Following the crowd apparently pays off sometimes!
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