In the 45 or so minutes I spent playing Faces...tris III, I found myself pretty much entirely unable to even begin to approach an understanding of, how, like, you're even supposed to play this and not just immediately top out?
Like, okay, they made a bunch of mechanics to make it seem even remotely possible, like the piece-catching on spires mechanic and the ability to flip pieces, but there's still pretty much no way to play this without just constantly generating junk and making most of your chains inaccessible.
Going for perfect faces (where all the parts of the face belong to the same face image) is nigh impossible since even in the lowest difficulties you're looking at waiting for a specific piece 4 separate times in a bag with like 20 pieces in it. And while faces with a bunch of composite parts are easier to make, they're next to useless at cleaning junk off the screen, only clearing maybe a couple lines below a completed face.
Just all around a very evil clusterfuck of a puzzle game. It's got novelty value, especially with a name like Faces...tris III and the fact that it's been abandonware for decades and can easily be found on web dosbox emulators, and the soundtrack is about as ok as you could expect (in the event that you can get it to loop lol), but, WOW i cannot imagine buying this with your own money lmao, shocking that this was apparently designed by Alexey Pajitnov
Like, okay, they made a bunch of mechanics to make it seem even remotely possible, like the piece-catching on spires mechanic and the ability to flip pieces, but there's still pretty much no way to play this without just constantly generating junk and making most of your chains inaccessible.
Going for perfect faces (where all the parts of the face belong to the same face image) is nigh impossible since even in the lowest difficulties you're looking at waiting for a specific piece 4 separate times in a bag with like 20 pieces in it. And while faces with a bunch of composite parts are easier to make, they're next to useless at cleaning junk off the screen, only clearing maybe a couple lines below a completed face.
Just all around a very evil clusterfuck of a puzzle game. It's got novelty value, especially with a name like Faces...tris III and the fact that it's been abandonware for decades and can easily be found on web dosbox emulators, and the soundtrack is about as ok as you could expect (in the event that you can get it to loop lol), but, WOW i cannot imagine buying this with your own money lmao, shocking that this was apparently designed by Alexey Pajitnov