Apr 7, 2009, 1:04pm
User review by LindaS
This is a cute and novel approach to matching tile games, with a whimsical story and cute characters. However, some oddities in the game ultimately left it feeling flat to me. First, I was surprised to find such an unforgiving timer. Although it was easy enough to finish in the allocated time, you had to concentrate and work fast, especially if you wanted to get any of the medals for that level. This disturbed the otherwise very relaxing nature of the gameplay for me. Second, although there were whimsical background drawings for each level showing your progression down the path, these wonderful backgrounds were immediately covered up with the tile board, and there was no way to view them independently. Thus, one of the nicest aspects of the game was barely visible. Third, it was easy to achieve maximum rank about a third of the way through, thus rendering gems totally obsolete, and there didn't seem to be any way of viewing your score independently from the game screens. Last, the best trick to finishing fast usually seemed to be tunneling across the narrowest points at the top, while completely ignoring any power ups. This made the gameplay very repetitious. So all in all, a great new concept, cute story and wonderful graphics, but ultimately a game that needed more testing and thought into the actual gameplay mechanisms.
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