This version of [i]Suika[/i] is for you if you enjoy feeling as if you're defusing a bomb every few moves in the mid-to-late game.
In all seriousness, though, there's not much to say. Presentation-wise, it's bright and colorful and has good music (which is subjective, though that was probably a given if you bought this as a fan of [i]LAiX/Gunvolt[/i] and/or its music), but it's a clear [i]Suika[/i] clone with some alterations. Anyone saying that this is cash grab for Inti Creates in-between major projects is probably right. That said, if you like playing [i]Suika[/i], then you'll enjoy this if you don't mind/like how the changes to the base formula affects how you play. And if you don't, this won't change your mind about it.
First thing to note about this game is that the pieces you're dropping - in this case Lola pod forms - are not completely round. The angular attachments and flat sides on most of the pieces mean you can't just expect them to roll neatly into place to fit and fill empty space, so you need to be even more careful about how you place new ones, all while hoping the physics doesn't shoot loose/stray pieces across the playing area and ruin whatever plans you had in your head. Otherwise, you may find your play area filled with far too many large pieces that can not possibly reach another due to how they're being blocked by the others, resulting in an early end to your run.
There's also a 12th, final piece after the watermelon-equivalent. It's notoriously hard to obtain (see the relevant Steam achievement) due to the hard-to-work-with shapes of the last few pieces before it (particularly Giga Lola), but if you're [strike]stupidly lucky[/strike] skilled enough to get it, you're rewarded with Lola's final form, which is scaled back down to the size of the early-middle stages, freeing up a lot of space on the play field and providing opportunity for some of your stray pieces to merge together, prolonging the game in much the same way as combining two watermelons does in standard [i]Suika[/i].
Some replayability is here; getting more points throughout multiple play sessions unlocks more songs you can listen to while playing, all of them being music from the [i]Luminous Avenger iX[/i] games (And no, no songs from [i]ASG2[/i], since that's bound to come up. Different singer, rights issues, etc. Same deal as [i]Gunvolt Records[/i]). After that, though, all that's left to do is to gun for the monthly and/or all-time high score rankings. Which is fine for the type of game this is and the game's price.
All in all, a pretty fun game to sink a bit of your time into. Just don't expect to use too much of it.
