A smash hit in my books. Even non-Klaxters should give this one a go!
The setting is four rows of conveyor belts on which tiles come rolling towards you. You must col¬lect the tiles as they approach you and sort them out in piles below. But there is limited room below so to get rid of tiles rows of three colours or more must be organised. If you miss a tile as it gets close, then a cruel death comes to the tile which costs you a miss. You are allowed to collect a maximum of just five tiles at once and you can unload tiles back on the belt. But when doing that remember that such as gravity, what goes up must come down and if you unloading well you'll just be buried in tiles. At first tiles come one at a time but things get faster and thicker. This can cause some fairly active and stressful situations.
To clear a round you must complete the goal set out by the computer. You may be asked to reach a set score, or complete a certain number of Klaxs (a set of three matching tiles in a row), or harder still, a certain number of horizontals; or diagonals! Multiple Klaxs causing double the points and more Klaxs could be formed after that.
The Master System (which hasn't been used to it's potential yet) has been used quite well in this translation with all the backdrops successfully redrawn. The music has been written amazingly well making it better than the Mega Drive version. The options will have you experimenting with it for ages to come, plus the reactions are lightning quick, making it even more playable than all other versions available. There is only one drama which is small in detail, and that is the missing speech of the original. But speech doesn't make a good game and this proves it even more so. just reading this review and seeing the screen shots, you'll probably get to think that it's too simple to be good. But play the game and you'l find it's dangerously addictive as you'l want to see how good you can get! So those who have played this on other formats or have even been privileged enough to play it at the pub (hope ya won some moola!) then you'll be pleased to know that the Master System version does deliver the goods in a darn good cart which is worth a looking for sure. A smash hit in my books. Even non-Klaxters should give this one a go!
Brian Costelloe
As printed in MEGAZONE > JUNE/JULY 1992
NOTE: This review was of the Sega Master System version. However Gamespot doesn't have it listed in their database. Having played and reviewed both SMS and GG versions I have found nil differences in the two.