D3monchicken's Review of Go! Puzzle

Go! Puzzle brings 3 different puzzle games with multiple modes to you for the great price of $6.00. Worth the money!

User Rating: 8.5 | Go! Puzzle PS3

By D3monchicken | Review Date: September 12, 2007

Swizzle blocks: Swizzle blocks is a game where blocks are pushed onto the playing board from the left and right sides of the screen and you have to obviously destroy them to progress through the levels. You can destroy these blocks by making at the least a square of 4 same color blocks; you can destroy as many of that color that you have connected to the square as well. You go about doing this by rotating squares of blocks. Your cursor is set in the middle of 4 square zones, depending on which button you hit (x,L1=counter clockwise o,R1=clockwise) you rotate however many blocks are within your cursors reach in the direction that you want them to go. However, you can move your cursor around to different areas of course but it's always going to be touching four zones. This game comes with a few different modes including challenge mode which is just clearing your screen before the time runs out, the only reward for doing so is going to the next level and after a few levels the higher difficulties are increased/unlocked. Another mode is battle mode, which adds power ups into the mix by the way of clearing the power up block with 3 or more others. The power up once cleared goes on to effect the enemy by either making his cursor bounce away from yours, go see through, miniaturize the blocks his cursor is over and reversing his cursor movement and i think there is one or two that i can't remember. You can do this against ai or a friend. You can also play with 3 friends in battle and coop mode. The last mode provided is puzzle mode where it counts how many swizzle's it takes you to finish a level and it times you. Unlocking gold stars on all of these becomes a hassle. Swizzle blocks is also playable online, but from my experience, no one plays it online.

Aquatica: The next game in the pack is Aquatica which is a tetris type of game with a few tricks. You also get the puzzle mode and challenge modes in this one but I'm not sure about multi-player because this is my least played of the 3. In aquatica you have your tetris style pieces that come from the top of the screen and pile up on the rigid bottom not allowing straight rows. The goal is to get 3 in a row (additionally more attached is still allowed) either diagonally, vertically or horizontally. Once again, the pieces are distinguished by colors and this is pretty challenging to beat. Puzzle mode is basically the same thing but it only gives you a few pieces to drop to the bottom and clear the level. This game is obviously the least captivating of the 3 and has no online... unless i missed that fact but i doubt anyone would want to play this thing online in any case.

Skyscraper: The last game in the pack which is also my favorite game of the 3 is called skyscraper. it is called this due to the goal the game, clearing small to large, sections of the skyscraper and progressing higher up the building until you get to the top and win. In Tower tour mode there are multiple areas filled with a few levels each, in which you only have the first level to start with and by getting the key in the level unlocks the next. There is also endurance maps in tower tour where you go as long as you can and in my experience over 100 gets you gold. There is also race mode which randomly generates towers for you and a friend or you and a computer to race to the top and win. No one plays online :( If you want to PM me. It also has a puzzle mode which is the same thing sorta, clear the levels in under a time limit and you'll get the gold and unlock the next puzzle. Now on how to play it. Like the other two, there are pieces color coded (colored tiles in this case). To progress to the right side of the screen to beat the level from the left, you have to run across matching color tiles and jump over others to stay on track. There are white tiles which no matter what you stepped on before you can start stepping on a new color, this is necessary to beat some levels where 2 complete colors need to be cleared to get to the right. There are also teleport tiles, scrolling tiles, etc. This game is insanely addicting. If you are thinking about buying a puzzle game for your play station 3 i would definitely recommend picking this pack or Super Puzzle Fighter II up. The only difference is Super Puzzle Fighter II is newer and still has online players.

Go! Puzzle

Go! Puzzle brings 3 different puzzle games with multiple modes to you for the great price of $6.00. Worth the money!

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