Unwell Mel
Match 3 Games, Puzzle Games March 3rd, 2009
(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
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Most famous doctors in television and in games need to contend with challenging and mysterious illnesses throughout their careers. In Unwell Mel though, you get to meet a man that seems to be infested with all of the diseases known to man and beyond. This time as you play doctor, you’ll need to solve all of Mel’s hundreds of sicknesses through a wacky match-3 game that extends beyond medical reason.
Mel is a very weird man, not because of his personality, mind, but because of his unusual magnetism to illnesses. Mel currently has eleven deformities, a total of a hundred other illnesses that point to the deformities, and many more symptoms that point to each illness. In other words, Mel is definitely not feeling well, and since you’re his unfortunate doctor, it’s now up to you to cure all of Mel’s symptoms until he can face society once again.
Unwell Mel follows a traditional match-3 game play wherein you have to swap items to match them up and clear them from the board. For each level of the game representing one of Mel’s symptoms, you are given goals of clearing all gunks and bugs to progress on to the next stage. Gunks are cleared once you match items on top of gunked tiles, but for clearing bugs, you must follow various strategies.
Bugs have many types and as you get to meet a new bug, you’ll also be shown the way on how you must deal with it. For example, Virusites are bugs that when matched will go and infect other bugs near it, Grabbits tend to stick together and won’t budge when they stick, and Hemoglobins will in time produce gunks if not matched right away. Sometimes, you’ll get to take advantage of each bug’s trait but most of the time, bug traits will just provide the game with a lot of difficulty, especially on later levels where different bugs are mixed on a single game board.
Aside from gunks and bugs, Unwell Mel also includes various other obstacles to make the game harder than it looks. Aside from being timed, you’ll also have to contend with crud which encases items in some think substance, and extra thick gunk which is obviously a more annoying form of gunk. All in all these elements make the game very challenging and fun to play.
To offset the challenge, Unwell Mel will enable you to use eight types of medicines you can buy through the salesman available through the doctor’s office or whenever he pays you a visit. Medicines are charged by collecting medical supplies during the match-3 game and have various wacky effects on Mel too. Just like the leech that crawls randomly on items and the zapper which electrocutes bugs from Mel’s body.
Random power-ups appear in the game whenever you match four or more items too. Power-ups have very nice special effects and provide you with destructive power to combat bugs and gunks. Most especially the blue mega pill, which will make the game go slow motion Matrix-style whenever you activate it.
Bottom line is that Unwell Mel is a bunch of laughs. While the match-3 game play is just the same throughout the whole game, all the word puns and funny illnesses keeps the boredom at bay at most parts of the game. Graphics and sounds are nice, and even though the game play is unoriginal, it’s still very much addictive. I just hope the game progresses faster though, since it really gets tiring after hours of playing while Mel just looks like what he was before, minus just a deformity or two.
Anyway, with hundreds of levels below its belt, Unwell Mel is a definite bang for your buck.
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