This will be a brief first play thread since I've only spent half an hour or so with it, but I wanted to show some love seeing as it's been out for a few days now and no-one else seems to have chimed in (badum-tish).
Gameplay-wise it is nothing too original - there's some Tetris, a rather heavy dab-down of Lumines, and even a splash of JezzBall. In short, you have a grid and you place 5-tiled pieces onto it to fit into quads, which then get passed over by a moving line, granting you coverage of the area. Once they've been cleared off you can place new blocks on these areas, with the aim to cover as much of the grid as possible within a time limit. As with any puzzler, it sounds simple but it gets much more complex.
It's heavily music-related, with each grid having an accompanying song and the line also triggering various sound effects as it passes over certain shapes and sizes of blocks. It's got quite an impressive little list of artists in there too - I've only done 3 so far but they featured Philip Glass, Moby, and one of the lads from Orbital. I had a quick skip through the rest and thankfully it's not 'done a Lumines 2', and slipped the Black-freakin'-Eyed Peas in there.
If I've not sold you on it already, it's only 400msp and 60% of the cash goes to charity - it even gives you a 50g achievement just for buying it in recognition of this. As stated, I've not played it for long but even just 5 minutes with the demo convinced me of a purchase. Would recommend others take a look too as it's not often you see new titles going this cheap on XBLA, especially not with this level of quality.
Gameplay-wise it is nothing too original - there's some Tetris, a rather heavy dab-down of Lumines, and even a splash of JezzBall. In short, you have a grid and you place 5-tiled pieces onto it to fit into quads, which then get passed over by a moving line, granting you coverage of the area. Once they've been cleared off you can place new blocks on these areas, with the aim to cover as much of the grid as possible within a time limit. As with any puzzler, it sounds simple but it gets much more complex.
It's heavily music-related, with each grid having an accompanying song and the line also triggering various sound effects as it passes over certain shapes and sizes of blocks. It's got quite an impressive little list of artists in there too - I've only done 3 so far but they featured Philip Glass, Moby, and one of the lads from Orbital. I had a quick skip through the rest and thankfully it's not 'done a Lumines 2', and slipped the Black-freakin'-Eyed Peas in there.
If I've not sold you on it already, it's only 400msp and 60% of the cash goes to charity - it even gives you a 50g achievement just for buying it in recognition of this. As stated, I've not played it for long but even just 5 minutes with the demo convinced me of a purchase. Would recommend others take a look too as it's not often you see new titles going this cheap on XBLA, especially not with this level of quality.
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