Games I Dislike That Everybody Else Likes
I'm all for PS1 puzzle game supremacy and all, but this one - I'm disappointed to report - misses the mark, I feel. Of course it has the issue that all of them do to start with, in that it feels like a smaller mobile game rather than something you were once expected to pay full shelf price for. But this one in particular is plagued with dire collision issues in a game where precision is crucial; why are you even able to get stuck on the blocks? It always happens at the worst times, too - so get ready to die countless times at zero fault of your own. I still love this idea, and think the mechanics/rules on their own are great. I dig the digital-minimalist style, with swelling classical music playing as you navigate this short series of puzzles. Though it's almost entirely trivialized by the PS5/PS4 versions with the rewind mechanic - which I'm not against at all, especially given how brutal the original is. But it makes this lose out on some of its on-the-fly thinking.
I'm all for PS1 puzzle game supremacy and all, but this one - I'm disappointed to report - misses the mark, I feel. Of course it has the issue that all of them do to start with, in that it feels like a smaller mobile game rather than something you were once expected to pay full shelf price for. But this one in particular is plagued with dire collision issues in a game where precision is crucial; why are you even able to get stuck on the blocks? It always happens at the worst times, too - so get ready to die countless times at zero fault of your own. I still love this idea, and think the mechanics/rules on their own are great. I dig the digital-minimalist style, with swelling classical music playing as you navigate this short series of puzzles. Though it's almost entirely trivialized by the PS5/PS4 versions with the rewind mechanic - which I'm not against at all, especially given how brutal the original is. But it makes this lose out on some of its on-the-fly thinking.