Had a few quick plays on this.
Concept - a digital version of the kids' toy where you turn spinning discs with holes in them to get pellets to the bottom.
The game is divided into two parts (so far) - puzzle and aquarium. Puzzle sets you a series of preset positions and you have to get the pellets into the correct disc in as few moves and as little time as possible. So far they haven't required much thought as to how to complete them, although my best is a bronze medal.
Aquarium is a bit harder to describe. There are four colours of pellets (green, red, blue and grey) which you have to drag into clusters of four (for example three blue and a red) on the touch screen. They can be very unresponsive, which I suppose is meant to simulate pulling them through water. On the top screen, a few tropical fish swim serenely in a fish tank, which seems to have no relation to what you're doing. You can do the first aquarium from the off, but after that you have to complete the puzzles (simple versions of the above-described puzzle mode) required to unlock the pellets (the game calls them atoms) to do the unresponsive dragging game.
There's also information in Japanese about tropical fish.
Apart from the fish info, what little text there is has all been in English so far. Restart, Continue, Atoms unlocked etc are all in English on my DS, which is set to English.
It's quite relaxing in short bursts, and there is some satisfaction in completing the puzzles. The aquarium tasks are hard work more than fun, but there do seem to be quite a few puzzles, and hopefully a few of them will be hard to solve. It's not exactly an adrenaline rush, this game, but if you preferred the more dry puzzle games to Tetris this might be worth a look. It's quite cheap too - retailing in Japan at 1000 yen less than full price games.
Concept - a digital version of the kids' toy where you turn spinning discs with holes in them to get pellets to the bottom.
The game is divided into two parts (so far) - puzzle and aquarium. Puzzle sets you a series of preset positions and you have to get the pellets into the correct disc in as few moves and as little time as possible. So far they haven't required much thought as to how to complete them, although my best is a bronze medal.
Aquarium is a bit harder to describe. There are four colours of pellets (green, red, blue and grey) which you have to drag into clusters of four (for example three blue and a red) on the touch screen. They can be very unresponsive, which I suppose is meant to simulate pulling them through water. On the top screen, a few tropical fish swim serenely in a fish tank, which seems to have no relation to what you're doing. You can do the first aquarium from the off, but after that you have to complete the puzzles (simple versions of the above-described puzzle mode) required to unlock the pellets (the game calls them atoms) to do the unresponsive dragging game.
There's also information in Japanese about tropical fish.
Apart from the fish info, what little text there is has all been in English so far. Restart, Continue, Atoms unlocked etc are all in English on my DS, which is set to English.
It's quite relaxing in short bursts, and there is some satisfaction in completing the puzzles. The aquarium tasks are hard work more than fun, but there do seem to be quite a few puzzles, and hopefully a few of them will be hard to solve. It's not exactly an adrenaline rush, this game, but if you preferred the more dry puzzle games to Tetris this might be worth a look. It's quite cheap too - retailing in Japan at 1000 yen less than full price games.
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