Kuru Kuru Kururin looks like a fun enough game from a distance, but whose main appeal reveals itself once you actually start playing. It's a great arcade-style game with a single core mechanic; navigate through a variety of obstacle courses while controlling the movement of a constantly spinning rod. There's plenty of variety across the Adventure mode, which offers a lengthy series of more involved courses, and the Challenge mode which offers more bite-sized courses.

The number of interesting courses already add plenty of depth to the main mechanic, but Kuru Kuru Kururin shines when it becomes clear that each Adventure mode course and Challenge course has a time attack element to it. There are a few tiers of course times that you can aim to beat by continuously honing your skills. An addicting feedback loop emerges as you work to best the different times because of how quickly you are able to load back into a course. It becomes a hard game to put down as you keep telling yourself, "Just one more run".

But you also don't need to engage with the Time Attack elements if you don't want to! There are multiple off-ramp points for the game depending on what you find fun about it. You can work through just the Adventure mode, just the challenge mode, or progress through as much of the time attack tiers as you wish. You'll get as much out of the game as you put into it.

Favorite Tracks:

Grasslands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22j0a2dBeHU&list=PLC1B69F7C3882D9FC&index=6

Cave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSC47hGikY0&list=PLC1B69F7C3882D9FC&index=10