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Luxor: Quest for the Afterlife

Posted by Ruff on November 25th, 2008

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One of the games that made a mark in the marble popper genre is back once again with its latest installment. The Luxor: Quest for the Afterlife game from Mumbo Jumbo hails from the addictive mechanics of the original Luxor and adds further enhancements to make this sequel an unforgettable casual gaming experience for both fans and newbies alike.

The game starts after Queen Nefertiti and her husband’s tombs were desecrated by bandits and assassins, and in the process, destroyed precious artifacts adorning their resting places. These artifacts are used to help their spirits ascend to the afterlife, and thus, its destruction will mean that their spirits will remain earthbound forever. As a direct descendant of the queen, you are tasked to wield the Falcon Wing Shooter once again to recover and rebuild the stolen artifacts in order to put to rest the restless souls of Nefertiti and her husband once and for all eternity.

Just like the original game, your task in Luxor: Quest for the Afterlife is to blast away spheres from your shooter to match three or more same-colored ones as they are being pushed by scarab beetles. The main objective is to prevent the beetles from reaching the pyramids at the end of the path by destroying all their handled spheres and try to collect the falling gems and coins for later use in the game. Afterwards, it’s time for you to reap the possible reward of obtaining an artifact piece, putting you a step closer in bringing peace to Nefertiti’s wandering soul.

Of course, a marble popper game won’t be considered complete without its explosive power-ups. In the case of this game, power-ups come a-plenty as they pop out of nowhere while you’re happily making spheres explode. Catch them with your shooter and use them immediately against the scarabs. And as a unique feature in this sequel, you can now also upgrade these power-ups for better use in the store screen. Just be sure to collect enough ankh coins to bring with you to the store, because there certainly is no haggling involved in here.

Luxor: Quest for the Afterlife also features several game modes other than the straightforward marble popping gameplay. Examples include the battle mode, where you’re pit against a computer shooter as you try to win a tug-of-war-like competition involving two scarab beetles; and the river mode where a continuous stream of spheres will try to hinder you in getting rid of a single scarab beetle. All in all offering unique twists to the classic gameplay and adds a lot of addictive arcade action too, making you hooked well enough to consider buying the title.

The greatest achievement of the game though comes in its overall presentation. Unlike other marble poppers where the marble path is clearly visualized to help you determine your course of action, in this game, the path follows the background graphics of each level, which may also mean that the path may be very confusing at times. It’s not a big problem though because you’ll get used to it after a couple of levels or so, and on the other hand, it even makes the game more interesting and fun to watch, so there’s really nothing much to complain about.

One problem I had with Luxor: Quest for the Afterlife though is how you will have to play through all the previous levels when you decide to backtrack in your journey. You see, you decide in which way you want to go when there are forks in the road of your quest, and if your curiosity gets the better of you, I bet you’ll go check out where the other roads will take you. Not to worry though, because I’m sure you’ll still find it fun and fulfilling in the end. And basing from the additional features injected into this game and how you’ll look forward into each level’s experience, it seems that marble popping will never get old in many more years to come as this installment sets a higher bar for its competitors to reach for.

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Bubble Town

Posted by Ruff on November 13th, 2008

(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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Remember the bubbles you made from soap when you were a kid? It’s so much fun popping them out, and now, you get to feel the same nostalgia in the Bubble Town game from I-play. But will popping bubbles be fun to play in terms of casual gaming too? Well, that’s what we’re here to find out in this review.

The setting of Bubble Town starts in the idyllic little town of Borb Bay, where hundreds of little bubble heads called borbs live. One day, however, aliens called Lumps arrived on this quiet little town and invaded the whole of Borb Bay, leaving tons of mess around the place. You have to help the borbs get back their freedom once again, because well, they are just too lazy to do this task for themselves. And besides, what can they possibly do since they are just small heads of bubble, right?

Anyway, the game plays like the famous marble popper game known as Puzzle Bubble where you are tasked to clear all the bubbles in the game field by matching 3 or more same colored bubbles. There are no time limits in this game but for a different challenge, you’ll only have a limited number of ammunition in your arsenal to make all the borbs pop. Refill your ammo by freeing little borbs from their confinement. This means not popping them, mind, but freeing them by popping their attachments instead.

If your ammo is full, spilling borbs trying to fill it up will mean bonus points. Additional borbs will eventually replenish your ammo tube if you expend them all out while making matches; however, this also means that your playing area will shrink during every replenishment routine. And coupled with other obstacles hindering your objective, Bubble Town is really one challenging game to play.

As you go along the levels, various challenges will begin to present themselves. Sleepers that need waking up before you can match them, cloud dusts that cover up borbs and of course, your enemies, the lumps will populate the later levels more and more. To counter them all, power-ups are also available throughout the game. Bombs, Shot aimers and even Plungers will help you clear up the board. However, the problem comes when activating them, which is an added challenge because you’ll need the same colored borbs too to match them up.

Bubble Town is not that great in terms of presentation and the gameplay is not unique in itself. It is really one slow-paced game since there’s no time limit and you really want to make sure that every shot counts to clear up some borbs. I must admit though that the game is pretty challenging and cleverly designed. There’s a boss battle too from time to time which adds a little bit of action to the gameplay.

Still, trying out the game feels like a waste of precious time. But if you have nothing good to do anyways, then please feel free to give it a try.

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Jump Jump Jelly Reactor

Posted by Ruff on October 10th, 2008

(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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The Jump Jump Jelly Reactor game developed by Twilight Games is a cute approach to marble popper games involving endless supplies of sticky goop. In this game, your task is to help the Jellies, a peaceful race of slimy invertebrates, defend their reactor against the prehistoric Rockons. The starting point of this war is very much unknown though, but you don’t really need a reason helping cute little blobs, right?

Anyway, as for the mechanics of the game, all you have to do in each level is to fill the cylinder located on the left side of your screen with essence of jelly. To do that, you’ll have to combine same-colored jellies by dragging them towards each other until such a time when they get so big and heavy, and will then just fall down into the tubes connected to the cylinder. Earn combos by popping up several jellies in one go, and basically just earn as much points as you can before the reactor blows up.

Blow up?

Well, you really didn’t expect it to be that easy, right? That’s because during your task of collecting jellies, those bad Rockon guys will try all their might into destroying your reactor. You just have to smash the Rockons before they touch the reactor floor with your oversized jellies, or else they’ll hinder the path of the reactor’s electricity. Special jelly friends will sometimes help you get rid of them Rockons, but you have to clear a path for them too before expecting any activity.

All in all, while the concept of Jump Jump Jelly Reactor is quite unique in itself, the game is pretty repetitive during the whole time you’ll be playing it. However, the game does pitch in some other game modes when you buy specialized structures and buildings from your gathered points. And you get to play some challenging puzzles in frenzy mode too, just after each level you manage to survive from.

In other words, the game is definitely worth a try, but still lacks that flair you experience when playing other marble poppers.

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Camelia’s Locket

Posted by Ruff on May 20th, 2008

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The Camelia’s Locket game developed by BrandX Games tells the story of a pirate adventure as you gather treasure, engage in cannon battles and make friends along the way of your journey. And being counted into the Marble Popper genre, this game plays much like the classic casual game, Zuma as you try to blast away slow-creeping marbles before they get a chance to blow your ship up to smithereens.

Anyway, the story of Camelia’s Locket takes you to a world where treasures and adventure awaits you at your every turn. As the owner of a firepower-filled ship, it seems that your main task on this game is to fulfill quests related to the many individuals you come across during your journey. Go head-on against the challenges of other pirates and admirals, and of course, gather enough treasure and bounty along the way. Basically, this game is just as linear as most Marble Popper games but still, incorporates some unique features of its own too.

The Camelia’s Locket game, in my opinion, has nice 3D graphics and smooth game play. Even though the visuals are quite rough on some of the edges, I still liked the 3D view very much and also found no problems on mouse response during actual play. The story is very nice too, even though most of the characters will introduce quite a number of detours from your main quest, sometimes confusing me of whether the story will still develop from the previous character’s input.

Camelia’s Locket also includes many power-ups that are unique only to this game. I especially liked the “hammer” power-up where you can control a gigantic hammer to clear out most of the charging marbles. There is also a mini-game in here where you get to battle against entire fleets of ships. Not much of a challenge really, just blast them all up like you’re trained to do and you already got this game made.

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Stoneloops! of Jurassica

Posted by Ruff on April 18th, 2008

(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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Ever since Zuma started and introduced us to addictive Marble Popper adventures, we’ve seen countless others crawling out of the woodwork into making the same types of games, and the Stoneloops! of Jurassica game is no exception. However (you know that’s coming, right?), coming from the developers at Codeminion, creators of Magic Match, it’s easy to expect great things coming from Stoneloops! of Jurassica. And that’s what we’re here to find out on this review.

As was said earlier, Stoneloops! is a Marble Popper arcade game set in the prehistoric world of Jurassica. In this time, I guess that the early people are looking for places to live, so it now becomes your task to find these houses and upgrade them for suitable settlement conditions. Now, I’m not really sure if I got the plot right because in actual, there is no plot. But since your main objective on this game is to upgrade 5 houses in various exotic locations, I guess my made-up story will have to do. Maybe you play as a prehistoric interior designer, but that’s just way too weird for my taste.

About the game play, Stoneloops! really doesn’t play much like other Marble Popper games to my surprise. While most games of this type will have you spewing stones endlessly on moving marbles, this game actually employs a great bit of strategy since most of the mechanics involve relocating stones to match them up with same-colored ones. In other words, this game is harder and more dynamic. And if you’re looking for great explosions, the Stoneloops! of Jurassica game is just madness, having a total of 9 power-ups that will help you break those silly marbles to pieces.

The Review

The Stoneloops! of Jurassica game is fun because I simply love explosions and this game got lots of it. But other than that, the graphics are cleanly done, the background music blends well with the theme and the game play involves a vertical target bar that enables you to aim well with your shots. There are also 3 modes of play to choose from, thus getting you more out of this game. And didn’t I say there’re also great explosions? Oh, I already did… sorry!

I’m not sure if it’s a good thing or a bad thing but Stoneloops! can be very challenging too compared to other Marble Popper games. I think that’s why there are no “lives” system integrated into this game, because you’ll fail pretty much during the whole time you play. It’s true that it can get annoying sometimes, but what’s more annoying is the male voice-over shouting “A NEW UPGRADE” or something whenever you progress.

One thing you should remember always is to catch the power-ups and gems whenever they bounce off the screen. There’s no information about this in-game and I just figured it out through common sense. And once you catch those power-ups, remember to make marbles go BOOM, okay?

Seriously, I loved playing the Stoneloops! of Jurassica game and would gladly recommend it. Just give it a try and if you find the game play within your pace, then that’s definitely good, right? Besides, you can always opt in for some challenge and if that’s not enough, try to collect the in-game trophies too. That’s really going to give you your fill.

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