17th June 2006, 7:09 PM
So there was this game Puzz Loop made in 1998, then some company totally stole the idea and made Zuma, and now Nintendo's setting things straight by releasing this thing.
Basically there's this weaving string of beads and you match up 3 of the same color. If you leave a gap in the string and the two strings you make have the same color bead, they attract each other, and so you can set up a chain reaction.
The game is awesome. I've been playing it all day. It may lack wifi but that's okay. It has this "Touch Generation" logo on it. I have no idea what that's supposed to mean. Probably some stupid marketting thing, considering that there have been plenty of games before this that use the touch pad, and to greater effect anyway. But anyway, yeah there's a challenge mode that is basically a single level that seems to last forever, but doesn't. Eh, the best mode so far is Quest mode. You go until the entire string is destroyed and go to a new level where the track is layed out differently. Sometimes you get more than one bead launcher, sometimes you get multiple tracks, and most of the time the track winds around to the extent that it makes it hard to target many parts as the string gets ever closer to the dreaded "end". Sometimes a rocket appears, and then the horror begins. There's plenty of other bonus beads and stuff in there too.
Anyway, very fun puzzler among a host of other very fun puzzlers on the DS.
Basically there's this weaving string of beads and you match up 3 of the same color. If you leave a gap in the string and the two strings you make have the same color bead, they attract each other, and so you can set up a chain reaction.
The game is awesome. I've been playing it all day. It may lack wifi but that's okay. It has this "Touch Generation" logo on it. I have no idea what that's supposed to mean. Probably some stupid marketting thing, considering that there have been plenty of games before this that use the touch pad, and to greater effect anyway. But anyway, yeah there's a challenge mode that is basically a single level that seems to last forever, but doesn't. Eh, the best mode so far is Quest mode. You go until the entire string is destroyed and go to a new level where the track is layed out differently. Sometimes you get more than one bead launcher, sometimes you get multiple tracks, and most of the time the track winds around to the extent that it makes it hard to target many parts as the string gets ever closer to the dreaded "end". Sometimes a rocket appears, and then the horror begins. There's plenty of other bonus beads and stuff in there too.
Anyway, very fun puzzler among a host of other very fun puzzlers on the DS.