Mega Bloks © Kiloo Games: A game based on that thing that ripped Lego off! (0.99)

This is one of those puzzle games where you have to drag pieces of matching colours together in groups of three and then they disappear. However there is a twist; you have do to do so in a scrolling environment that goes up, down, left, and right whilst a green ooze is following your path. The object? Match up as many bricks as you can in groups of three before the level ends when all the bricks left behind are submerged in ooze. For those that don’t know, Mega Bloks is a building toy that looks and works exactly like Lego; snapping plastic bricks together to create pretty much anything you can think of. And funnily enough that’s how you have to match up the bricks together – by attaching them like Mega Bloks. Who would’ve thought?

Graphics: For a game like this, you can’t really expect much. However what this game delivers isn’t actually that horrible. The bricks are brightly coloured and are 3D, which actually looks pretty good because they sort of seem to “pop out” from the 2D background. The only thing strange about the graphics is the fact that the bricks have little squares eyes (possibly to make them seem alive? They aren’t really necessary).

Controls: Really simple controls. Bricks are lying scattered about as you can see in this picture. All you have to do is touch and drag them into groups of three. However, it really doesn’t work that perfectly because a lot
of the time the controls are sticky and unresponsive. For example, when I grab a brick and drag it up to attach it to another one it will stop halfway and just stand there and I have to drag it up again.

Gameplay: There are a few power ups namely bombs, rainbow bricks and freeze bricks. With bombs you get extra points for creating a group of three with a bomb in it plus it explodes a lot faster. One thing I like about bombs is that even if you match it up with only one brick it will still explode and give you points. Rainbow bricks, as you can probably guess, can be used in the place of a brick of any colour to complete a group of three. Moving bricks is a bit unresponsive most of the time as I mentioned earlier

Recap: This game isn’t bad but it really isn’t good either. The graphics are alright, the controls are simple and unresponsive. I didn’t really know what to expect of the gameplay and when I was playing it I didn’t feel, “Yeah! I’m playing an iPhone game!” Rather, “Here I am matching bricks together…zzzzzz”. It wouldn’t even qualify as a decent thing to pass time.

Graphics: 6/10 Controls: 5/10 Gameplay: 4/10 Overall: 5/10

Sincerely,
The Dastardly Descriptive Duck