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[b]ruya[/b] lost the love of her life. as a result, antlers started growing on her head for some reason, sucking up her memories. she did what every responsible parent would do, abandoned the rest of her family and started meditating and traveling to other worlds in her head. escapism done right.
[b]64 levels[/b] in 8 worlds await in this matching game, both unlocked one by one. the goal is to match enough of each color by [b]creating tetris-like shapes shown on the top left[/b]. the current shape is the only valid move (directions don't matter) and [b]you can decide when and where the next piece should fall[/b], though there are slanty tiles and frozen blocks that limit (or expand) possibilities. the next piece and the one after are shown above, so you can plan ahead a bit.
there's a [b]mandatory move limit[/b], dropping a piece doesn't count, only matching. the limit can be extended by matching bubbled pieces. the [b]3-flower rating[/b] doesn't do anything, a level is complete even without getting any, but [b]you have to keep matching until all 3 flowers have randomly appeared and got matched[/b], risking running out of moves or painting yourself into a corner, and [b]reshuffling when there's no valid match costs a move and can remove flowers from the board[/b]. as usual, cute-looking game stabs you in the back. I don't recall any matching game penalizing for a reshuffle, unless there's no reshuffle at all, which is just as bad.
another less than ideal thing is how [b]rating is only shown by slightly bigger flowers among a bunch of other ones on top[/b], took me way too long to realize. there are 3 dots above the move counter, for crying out loud, why not use those? and if there are ice blocks, they have to be matched to defrost the character at the bottom, on top of creating a certain number of matches for them, but [b]it's never clear how many matches will break the ice[/b]. there's a slight difference as you keep doing it, but not distinctive enough.
other then these clarity issues [b]it's presented very nicely and the music is excellent[/b] (the theme for world 3 is my favorite), but despite all the language options and a proper intro, they opted for text-free storytelling via very short animations here and there, and as usual, they shouldn't have bothered, they add absolutely nothing. what they could've bothered with is letting people skip them, along with tutorial animations and the end-of-level celebratory stuff. resolutions and windowed mode via the unity launcher, hints toggle, audio toggles without volume settings and a hypnotic mode slider (whatever that does) make up the settings.
the store page says the game is 'calming' and 'tranquil', but [b]without a relaxed mode to remove the move limit it can be really frustrating[/b], difficulty is rollercoastery too instead of a smooth increase, so I stopped bothering with perfecting every level pretty fast. positives aside, [b]with this many questionable design decisions I can only recommend it on sale[/b].
