Casual physics puzzle game, like I like them, but not so easy to review.
I saw basically only negative reviews on this one and yeah, I can relate. Many of the flaws that they pointed out, I experienced them myself.
And yeah, many of them revolve around the physics.
The concept of the game is very basic: you've got only mouse controls (r or spacebar to restart) and you have one screen with one or more red cubes (on a total of 90 levels, of course, cubes and difficulty will increase) that you'll need to land on a white platform.
Your cursor will be a hand with a small number on hit: that's the exact number of brown boxes you can delete.
So, by eliminating exactly the number you're allowed to, you have to think about how the red block, or blocks, will move in order to position them on the white base.
Sounds simple, but there are really many flaws.
One of them, is that while on one hand the restart function is very fast, the game is extremely slow. There are levels in which you'd be asked to wait for minutes in order to complete the physics.
And this is related to the major problem this game has: the physics and the overall mechanism of stacking, falling and positioning blocks. It's often quite luck-based or random, and it's one of those games (there are others, but at least they're free..) in which well, eliminating the same block for four consecutive times could easily give you four different results..
I don't really know how to judge everything. 3€ is really a high price, and having no trading cards (not even planned) it's a negative thing. Though, I like these games even if they're sometimes luck based.. but this is really slow!
It has got also a nice feature: the levels are all divided into stages of 10 different levels and you can play them in whichever order you want, you can pick a level and the prize for completing a 10-set is just a Steam achievement, otherwise you can play the levels you like the most.
The fact that later levels include also moving blocks and static ones, impossible to remove, adds some difficulty to the whole game and well, I'd love to write a neutral review.. but I think I'll go with a positive one, with many premises.
Even 'cos it'd be the only positive review so far for these poor developers who published only this game xD
I don't know, the slowness of the whole game and the fact that some levels are really too much luck based aren't that good, even for a person who has much patience and spare time xD
On the other hand though, I found that it's nice to have the possibility to choose from 90 levels (and some bonus ones too) the ones that you want to play, you just have to pick it from the main menu and you're good to go. And even the most difficult levels still may be luck based, but they're all short and they don't require many movements, like, 3 or 4 deletions at most and it's also nice that some blocks like the green ones will affect in different ways the number of moves (for instance, sometimes they'll disappear both from the left side of two united blocks and so on). So, being made of short and fast levels (for what concerns the number of blocks to remove and what you've got to do to get the red blocks on the highlighted platform, not for the slowness of the falling blocks unfortunately) I think that IF took on a heavy discount (90% coupon or -90% sale) this can be an entertaining, minimalistic puzzle game that will require lots of luck and restarts (which are very fast as I said).
For a full price or even a half price, of course, it's completely unworthy.
Though, I appreciated the fact that the developers actually arranged 100 different levels and made everything nice in the context of the game; if you manage to get the game for 40 cents and get into its strange slow luck-and-retry way of thinking, skipping from level to level finding the most suitable for you, it's not wasted time.
Just keep it in the wishlist and buy it or get it as a gift but only for way less than 1€/$ :)
