In the game, you control a rectangle made up of two blocks stuck together, and try to make its way toward the glowing exit on each level. Sounds simple, right? Well, it wouldn’t be any fun w/out a challenge, so rest assured it’s not going to be too easy to get to the exit on each level. The beginning levels are kinda easy, gradually sliding you into the game world of Cuboid, but soon you’ll be pulling your hair out (in a good, fun way!) as you try to finish the game by getting past the harder, more difficult levels. The game is really good at ramping up the challenge level after leve by just a little bit, enough to keep you interested and wanting to clear just one more level before going to bed.

The visuals in the game are great. They’re not the highpoint of the game (that’s the puzzles), but having something attractive to look at while you play is a good thing in my book – keeps you interested.

There is a free version of a game really, really similar to Cuboid that you can play online for free – Bloxorz anyone? You do get value, though, with being able to play it on your Playstation 3 with the addition of new puzzles and great graphics.

There is an online leaderboard that tracks the best players, but there’s a flaw in the game. Well, sort of a flaw. You can hit the pause button and stop the timer without any penalties. So…. the leaderboard might not actually contain the best players of the game.

Overall, whether you’re a puzzle game fan or not, you should check out Cuboid for the Playstation 3.

Do it now! Smile.

The original Elebits came onto the scene right after the Nintendo Wii was introduced. It’s been a while, but the sequel is finally here, although now for the Nintendo DS. The controls, of course, are a little different, but that won’t stop fans of the original Nintendo Wii game.

And there’s a time machine in the game! What game that includes a time machine could be bad?

Along with the artwork and visual design of the game, the characterization isn’t really there. Sure, your character is named Kai, but there’s not much more to it than that.

Elebits are used for energy in the game, and you have to chase them down and round them up to be able to get power to do other things. Elebits in the game have different abilities that you can use to get from level to level.

The game does have its share of flaws and things that would make it better, but it’s still a great little game for puzzle lovers of all ages.

If you played the original Elebits on the Nintendo Wii or find yourself addicted to Elebits on the Nintendo DS, we’d love to hear from you. Leave a comment below and let us know what you think.

Until next time, remember to charge the batteries on your Nintendo DS!

The players are able to alter their characters to build new objects for sharing on the online community of LittleBigPlanet. And within seconds after sharing, you can get the chance to be playing around with several hundreds of others around.  The game is similar to what physics is all about where Sackboy is being built around by having only two abilities – and that is to jump and grab!  And here in the game is where you can see the power of the two to manipulate things. You would be able to realize how jumping and grabbing enables you to pull blocks in place, or pulling over to keep items tumbling from over the top.

Gameplay

The gameplay of the LittleBigPlanet consists of several levels each drawing inspirations from gardens, cities, and deserts from the around the globe.  You need to be able to complete the levels so you would be able to advance further to unlocked levels The whole game composed eight levels and each composing three to four sub levels, thus, the whole story is built around 50 levels all in all.

During the course of the game, each levels contains a number of bubbles, which needs to be collected to increase a players’ score. You are required to look for this in hidden parts of the areas because it may able you to see new materials and objects for your own level creation.  On the other hand, each levels allows you to collect keys to unlocked a bonus mini new levels 

Pros

• It gives players creative freedom from choosing their characters on what best color and texture to give Sackboy from a wide coverage of designs and materials to choose from. Not just characters but the creative freedom to design your own levels too.
• It provides brilliant physics-based game where you are on constant thinking on how to pass each level.  It excercises your mind through the creation of your own Sackboys and your own levels. It allows you to choose and design creatively the simple or complicated levels you wish to overcome.

Cons

• Although it is good to share this game online, sometimes it seems to be overcrowded.  The four players seem to be hard to control under one pod space. 
• The game control might not be razor sharp as we felt some minor delays with the navigation and output. In other word, there is a delay of reaction between what you want your Sackboy and control to do.

In general, the game seems to be so promising and we are looking forward to the day that it will share the successes of Mario Brothers!

The 2D Boy developed game is bestowed to be the next casual gaming obsession after the Tetris era and what made it rather obsessive is the excitement it brings to players. As each level requires players to save a specified number of Goo balls to move on next round. You have to be creative in saving the Goo balls, as you do not want to do things all over again and again repeatedly.

Good

• Mind boggling puzzle game that develops players’ sense of creativity that is easy to play but hard to master. For one, when you create towers or bridges you need to make sure that it doesn’t collapse and needs to do some sort of simple calculation regarding the degrees and angles of supports.
• The game offers varied levels offering and sports different types of Goos for the different objectives – such as the Green Goo (moveable), Yellow Goo (vertical), Black Goo (rigid), and White Goo (hanging).
• The atmosphere and soundtrack is cool it does offer a well blended pop and jazz genre of music. The music automatically switches tempo as you enter another level ensuring an extremely lively and not boring game.

Bad

• A few issue with the controls such as the drag and drop mechanics may sometimes be not so responsive.
• It would have been fun if it offers a multiplayer capability, but unfortunately id doesn’t. However, the online presence such as uploading scores and showing how players built towers has compensated it.
• Visuals may not be as appealing to the naked eyes. There were many dark areas of the course of the game and it is too cartooned this normally results to some Black Goos are not clearly seen in certain levels.

In general at Videogamefreaks, we are rating this game at 8.0 since flaws are too minor. Definitely this is one of the most addictive puzzle game after the Lemmings and Tetris era!