a toyota's a toyota and [b]otteretto[/b] is an endless palindrome-based score attack matching game. a valid selection would be red-green-blue-green-red, the same sequence from both ends, not necessarily in a straight line. the in-game interactive 'how to play' section explains the basics (so what I just said), a single tile also counts and gravity plays a role, stuff on top of cleared blocks falls down.
no x in nixon, but [b]taking notes is possible[/b]. you can mark sequences and only clear one by clicking a newly-appeared tick button. turning the pencil off lets you mess with other tiles but clicking a marked one turns the pencil back on and clearing marked tiles doesn't always remove the marks, they will appear over the new blocks. [b]marking multiple sequences makes the tick disappear and you either have to manually remove them until only one remains, or bring up the pause menu to remove them all[/b]. why is this so finicky? just add these buttons to the top of the screen as well.
rats live on no evil star full of senile felines, but the game is controlled with their relative, a mouse. there are some hotkeys not mentioned anywhere but the patch notes, another oversight. besides esc bringing up the pause menu, as is customary, ctrl toggles the pencil and space clears a marked sequence. moving the cursor away from the current selection unselects it, but [b]pressing right click while holding the left should clear the current selection too[/b], it's very easy to remove a single tile instead of the selection and mess things up.
do geese see god? no idea, but [b]mid-level saving and undo are available[/b], though [b]undo should have a permanent on-screen icon[/b] as well, not only accessible from the pause menu. and [b]it should be unlimited[/b], not just for a single move.
there are [b]5 game modes, no timer or move limit per se[/b], [u]classic[/u] and [u]puzzle[/u] are available from the start. the former is just making matches until the current score goal is reached, then continuing until you fail to do so. each ding adds more tiles to the bottom and trims the top. completing challenges (higher score or palindrome length, etc.) rewards stars that are used to unlock other modes.
[u]puzzle[/u] offers levels of varying difficulty that have to be cleared by making a single palindrome, so [b]it's like your average draw a single line puzzler[/b]. they're also randomly generated and returning to the main menu makes the current one go away (should be a reset option in the pause menu). not making the right move doesn't bring up a game over screen or anything, which would've been very annoying and probably require a lonely tylenol. for stars you have to clear a certain amount of levels on each difficulty.
after playing a single round, the [u]daily stack[/u] appears and offers the same level for everybody, then shows how much better other people are at this. it can be played over and over, not just once, but full leaderboards are only available outside the game, on a 3rd-party website, not very elegant. no stars to be gotten here.
[u]containment[/u] and [u]walls[/u] open after 5 and 10 stars, respectively. [b]I'd prefer lower requirements or even having them all open from the start[/b], not forcing the player to grind what's available without letting them try the other half of the game. the former wants you to keep new tiles appearing after every move under control, the other has, well, walls blocking matching from certain directions.
if I had a hi-fi, the game would probably sound better, though there's no music, only toggles for sound and ambiance and a single volume slider. there should be one for both, obviously, and they should work without issues ([b]turning down the volume doesn't get saved[/b]). no lemons, no melon, but there's windowed mode with a resizable window. it used to always start in a window with the default size but got fixed eventually. you can choose different block styles, the one with shapes can double as colorblind mode.
[b]it's very much a patient and contemplative person's game.[/b] I'm neither, but it'd be okay for killing some time, what an oozy rat in a sanitary zoo would do, but [b]with limited undo, controls and ui in need of improvement and buggy windowed mode and audio, it's best not to bother[/b]. maybe it'll be fixed one day (though the dev never actually looked into the screenshot issue either), until then, race fast safe car, and listen to [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAfIikFnvuI]weird al's bob[/url], I borrowed the palindromes from there.
