| In the mood for a stylish logic game? Check | | | | bubbles you shoot off of walls to get better |
| out Bloxorz, an interesting and fresh foray | | | | angles for your shots as well as get combos. |
| in the puzzle genre. In it, you control a | | | | Because bubbles that aren't attached to |
| rectangular prism that needs to get inside of | | | | anything automatically disappear, building up |
| a square hole. While this premise may seem | | | | groups of bubbles that can be taken out with |
| simple, complicated terrain, varied switches, | | | | one shot is satisfying. Shooting is just as |
| collapsing blocks, and the ever-present | | | | hard as it should be, presenting an |
| threat of falling off of the board impede you | | | | experience that's easy to get into but hard |
| at every move. | | | | to master. |
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| The levels in Bloxorz start off simple and | | | | The sounds in the game are perfectly suited |
| progress into the mind-numbingly hard. The | | | | for it. There's a gratifying series of |
| fact that the block you control is a | | | | cartoonish pops when you knock out a huge |
| rectangle makes it difficult to maneuver | | | | combo and a nice "whoosh" sound for every |
| through tight spaces and you'll find yourself | | | | shot fired. Overall, Bubble Shooter is a hard |
| plummeting into the abyss quite a few times. | | | | yet fun experience, presenting something for |
| The game never feels repetitive, though, | | | | all gamers to enjoy. If you're ever in the |
| because you eventually get into the mindset | | | | need of a good time-waster, look no further: |
| that you NEED to finish the level. It's | | | | Bubble Shooter is what you need. |
| challenging but not insanely so; it gets | | | | |
| fairly easy to complete after you get the | | | | Raiden X: Based on an older series of arcade |
| hang of it. | | | | games, Raiden X is a fast-paced and frantic |
| | | | scrolling shooter. In it, you control the |
| In short, Bloxorz is a very stylish and | | | | "Raiden Supersonic Attack Fighter" whilst |
| professionally made game. Even if you don't | | | | battling hordes of enemy aircraft. Five main |
| normally like puzzles, this is something you | | | | powerups exist in the game, including various |
| need to check out, there's nothing else like | | | | kinds of lasers, missiles, and bombs. |
| it out there. A friendly warning, though: | | | | |
| don't play Bloxorz if you don't have much | | | | Gameplay consists of flying through levels |
| spare time because you're going to want to | | | | while trying to avoid death. This can be |
| ride it all the way to the end. | | | | caused by many things: kamikaze pilots, |
| | | | bullets, and running into a wide variety of |
| Bubble Shooter: Reminiscent of puzzle games | | | | other planes. Hundreds of missiles can |
| like Bejeweled, Bubble Shooter is an | | | | proliferate on the screen at once, creating a |
| interesting way to pass some time. In the | | | | frenzied atmosphere that engrosses you in the |
| game, you control (obviously) a bubble | | | | game. |
| shooter that fires different colored spheres. | | | | |
| Your goal is to destroy a wall of | | | | Your own arsenal of armaments is nothing to |
| multicolored bubbles that advance quickly | | | | laugh at either, with multiple upgrades |
| upon you by matching up groups of three | | | | available for each weapon. Another cool |
| spheres before they reach the bottom. | | | | feature of Raiden X is the boss battles at |
| | | | the end of each level. These are particularly |
| The gameplay is quite amusing and offers lots | | | | challenging and have some cool surprises and |
| of strategic options. You can bounce the | | | | twists in them that keep the game fresh. |