3rd February 2011, 7:17 PM
Game Boy
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Quarth - This is one I've been working on for several weeks. Great, great game! I'd never heard of it before picking up the cartridge, I don't believe, but I'm very glad I did, because it's a very original and fun game. Basically it's like a shmup crossed with Tetris. Blocks come down towards you, you fire up trying to make rectangles. When a rectangle is formed, the game pauses while those blocks are destroyed. If a block reaches the bottom of the screen you lose and will have to start the stage over. The game is made up of five levels, each with nine stages in it. There is a stage select, and you can start from any stage within the first three levels, but if you want to finish the game you'll have to play 3-9 and all of levels 4 and 5 without turning off the system. And starting from about 3-8, the game gets quite hard, and only gets harder from there... yeah, this was a serious challenge. It took me several days before I finally managed it, I had to leave my GBASP on and plugged in charging overnight while I kept trying to get through the game. After you beat each level you see a cinema scene that turns out to be part of the ending, but you'll only see most of it when you beat the whole thing. There are six ships to choose from, but it's just a cosmetic thing, functionally they are all identical.
Overall, it's an amazing game with addictive, fun, and original gameplay. Easily a B+ title, no question.
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Quarth - This is one I've been working on for several weeks. Great, great game! I'd never heard of it before picking up the cartridge, I don't believe, but I'm very glad I did, because it's a very original and fun game. Basically it's like a shmup crossed with Tetris. Blocks come down towards you, you fire up trying to make rectangles. When a rectangle is formed, the game pauses while those blocks are destroyed. If a block reaches the bottom of the screen you lose and will have to start the stage over. The game is made up of five levels, each with nine stages in it. There is a stage select, and you can start from any stage within the first three levels, but if you want to finish the game you'll have to play 3-9 and all of levels 4 and 5 without turning off the system. And starting from about 3-8, the game gets quite hard, and only gets harder from there... yeah, this was a serious challenge. It took me several days before I finally managed it, I had to leave my GBASP on and plugged in charging overnight while I kept trying to get through the game. After you beat each level you see a cinema scene that turns out to be part of the ending, but you'll only see most of it when you beat the whole thing. There are six ships to choose from, but it's just a cosmetic thing, functionally they are all identical.
Overall, it's an amazing game with addictive, fun, and original gameplay. Easily a B+ title, no question.