Great Puzzle Game with lots of replayability

User Rating: 8.9 | Meteos DS
Metoes is probably the best puzzle game out there for the DS. It takes strong advantage of the stylus, though it also has controls using the D-pad. The game play is a simple modified Tetris. Blocks are falling from the sky. By moving a block up or down in its column create matched colors of 3 or more (horizontal or vertical) and the blocks will launch up, taking with them any blocks sitting on top of them.

The point of each game session is to continually reduce the number of blocks on your screen by launching the blocks far enough to get them completely offscreen. Depending on the planet you are playing on (level), the gravity will be different as will the number of colors and the width of the screen. You can create combos by attaching columns from launched portions to stationary for a short time or by making additional matches within a launched portion. Combos tend to launch the blocks higher, and may be necessarily to fully power a mass of blocks offscreen. In multiplayer modes, or agains the computer, Metoes launches offscreen turn into blocks that launch onto the other player's screen and act as nonmatchable blocks for a short time.

There is an overaching story mode you can play through and the more you play the more Metoes you capture. Captured Meteos are used to unlock planets, sounds and special weapons, which can then be used as your 'home' planet during story mode or for multiplayer competitions.

This was my third DS game and it is probably my most played. I'll bring it out for a quick 5 minute session or sit down and pound through the story mode for the nth time.