Togges

The block spreading mechanic is weird and I didn't get it. Dropped this game after the 1st level, I just wasn't for me. 3 / 10

It's a puzzle game with plenty to do, has an even-handed difficulty level, and it's fun once you get into it... but it has several ugly lumps of illogic* that mar the experience. It doesn't help that the game's not all that popular so there's not a pile of guides to get you through those parts. It's still possible to 100% complete, but you'll have to get past the ugly parts. The graphics are cute, and the developers have made some delightfully whimsical little worlds to explore. Overall, worth the money, but try to look past these bad parts. *: examples of the illogic (hover to read) [spoiler] Some things will give out a fruit if you cover their surface with togges... but only some things, and there's no clear indication which surfaces accept this and which don't. The game drills into you that certain blocks only stack up to a certain level, unless the wall has a particular type of decorative vegetation on it, unlike the other decorative vegetation on other walls, in which case you can keep stacking past the normal limit. It never explains this. On every level there's a keyhole-shaped thing that doesn't take a key but if you suck on it, it shows a hint to somewhere else in the level. At that somewhere else, there's an almost invisible plant, which if you suck on it [i]and press down on the joypad to pop your lid open,[/i] it will grow and when it's full size it turns into a fruit. Suckling on it alone does nothing. It never explains this. The most annoying one: on Wind Hills, there is a fruit on a floating island. You can get up there with togges, but the game just won't let you bring togges onto the floating island. This is unlike all other islands. What it wants you do do is build a stack of togges on another nearby structure and use a boomerang to get togges to land on the fruit without touching the island... but it never explains that. It looks for all the world like a game bug. All game areas (which have per-area counts of collectables so you can narrow your search) are contiguous, so you know when you've looked in every corner. Except for the one area that isn't continguous, so you'll drive yourself mad trying to find missing items, which are on plain display in another area on the other side of the map with the same name that you don't even know exists [/spoiler]