This game needed to cook in the developer oven for a bit longer. But if you want something to puzzle over, try it.
User Rating: 5.9 | Smart Bomb PSP
This game is not for the hard-core graphics lovers out there. Which is a shame for the PSP, which is the main selling point for the Handheld. The game offer a great variety of puzzles, and manages to tie them all together with a very thin storyline. After playing this game for more than 15 hours now, it has come to grow on me. Its not about the graphics, althrough i would have liked to see them smoother. The puzzles are fun, and in the later levels the individual puzzles get very intense, although i think they were trying to get each bomb to be non-stop action and tension. That could have happened if it weren't for the LONG LONG load times. which leads me to my next problem with the game. The Load times i would say are the biggest down fall to it. This causes some serious battery drain because its having to spin up the UMD every level. I think the reason for the long load times is it is loading all the puzzles at once for each bomb, thats the only thing i can give to support why its that way, however, I think it could have been setup differently. The sound is pretty flat, and the only thing that doesn't sound like stock sound bits are the voicing for the thin story-line, which is pretty emotionless to me for Bomb Disposing, but again this is a game about the puzzles not about the graphics, and sound.
