[comments] Drop 7 review

[charlesr]

Drop 7 review

Thanks to Blair for the words.

[Brats]

Apparently it's quite possible to get around this 'flaw' and build strategies that can deal with rogue 1s when they appear.

The review criticises the game on the basis that the 'control slips from manageable into randomness' but a look at the high score tables for Chain Factor (the PC version upon which Drop 7 is based) reveal some very high scores by the same people again and again, a bit like Steve Wiebe and and Billy Mitchell on Donkey Kong. This implies that there is a high level play where skill in positioning the numbers comes into being.

http://chainfactor.com/scores/index.php?m=basic

So I'm not sure the criticism (which is written as fact) is entirely fair.

[marcus]

I cant read the review as the site is blocked at work, but whats the flaw with regards to 1s?

[charlesr]

Copy and pasted:

It is quite possible to play a perfect game, doing everything just as you should only to be cut off at the pass by a row of adjoining ‘1’ circles halfway up your grid.

[marcus]

Thanks Charles,

Im well used to that happening but I feel its just part of the game rather than a flaw, I feel there is strategy to minimise the chances of being caught out by this. This was one of the first games I bought for my IPhone, and it (Hardcore mode) still gets 95% of my gaming time today. Insanely addictive and suits the format perfectly.

[ItsThere]

It is a fantastic game.

It was only when I started thinking of it critically that I started to view it as a flaw rather than part of the game.

Here is a good example of what I mean:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9372704@N02/5014348246/

That aside I still play it for at least an hour a day to the exclusion of nearly all my other iPhone games.

[Psyduck]

yeah but did you get into that situation through sheer bad luck, or through bad play in some way? I don't know cause a) I don't know how you got there! and b) I don't know the best way to play.

Given the sort of scores people have I'm pretty sure there's ways to avoid it though. in that shot if you could get rid of the 6 and then work around underneath there is a way out..

I can certainly get 200k+ every go more or less.

[ItsThere]

My high score is about 750k.

I'm pretty sure that one was just bad luck.

Average high score 280k and ive put a lot of hours into it.

[marcus]

I dont usually play for clear screens as it always screws up the next line, but has anyone had these? Ive had two so far, you get a nice 70K (iirc) bonus for it.

My highscore is 838K, the next goes right down to 696K. The only thing I wish the game had was stats to see just how much work-time sitting on the loo Ive spent playing this