Critter Crunch

i luv this game

小さい動物を大きい動物に食べさせて破裂させる事で除去していくパズルゲーム。アニメの動きが可愛いし連鎖消去も出来てなかなか面白い。同じ開発のGrindstoneをセール時に買おうとしたらこのゲームとのバンドルセットが格安だったので購入。Grindstoneも面白いがこちらも良いので得した。 日本語対応していないが、ストーリーモードでは探検家？の台詞が結構多いので、台詞を読みたい人はWindowTranslatorなどの翻訳ツールかスマホカメラの翻訳機能を使うと良い（台詞はボタンを押すまで消えないので翻訳しやすい）。ゲーム開始時の探検家のカットシーンは同じプロファイルだと一度見てしまうと再度見れないので、カットシーンを見返したい時は新たにプロファイルを作って新規にゲーム開始すれば見返せる。

This game is really nostalgic for me. It's a cozy, but intense puzzle game with unique mechanics.

This game was recently patched to work correctly with Windows 10, so I gave it a go. I liked the art. Very pretty graphics. It seems like the devs did care about this game. But I found the puzzle mechanics simplistic and therefore boring. The early puzzles at least could be solved at a glance, leaving me only to move the character around and go through the motions of executing the obvious solution. It's possible that they get more interesting later on, but I'll be honest: If a puzzle game bores me in the first 30 minutes, there is almost never any hope of it redeeming itself later. Good puzzles, for me, involve discovery and decision making, and that requires a solid core mechanic, well before any additional mechanics are layered on top of it. So, as beautiful as the game is, the beauty is wasted on me. Also, gamepad support is super dodgy. Buttons are labeled by number (probably the Windows identifier?), and certain menus include items that mysteriously cannot be selected by the dpad, including the "quit" item. Still, I'd have tolerated that bugginess were there a solid game underneath.

[b]Critter Crunch[/b] is kinda like a match-3... but not really. It's a match-3 with a twist that's hard to explain but instantly intuitive once you start playing. The art style is pleasant, the difficulty curve stays consistent, and there are only a handful of genuinely high-pressure moments. The story is extremely bare-bones, which is fine for a puzzle game, though it does go completely off the rails in the final moments - to the point where I had to screenshot it and send it to people because I couldn't believe what I was seeing. There's also a small set of optional challenge objectives separate from the main campaign, and they only enhance the experience. My only real gripe is that the game includes online multiplayer achievements, and at this point there are anywhere between zero and two daily players, making those achievements borderline impossible without coordinating with someone. Outside of that, it's a creative, polished, and very charming puzzle game that's absolutely worth your time.

Loved it since I got it on the PS3