Yeah, I know I was supposed to have posted this review yesterday. And you know what? I almost did. I played the game, I had stuff to say...I was just too tired to think of a way to make it witty. And now guess what? I'm even more tired than I was before. Well, crap. I'd say I need a vacation but I'm only 2 weeks into the school year. It's gonna be a fun one.
In times like these, I need something to calm me down. A nice video game always helps. Spherious is a loyal companion always ready to be picked up and played. It's got your back when you're feeling down.
The game is a bit like Bejeweled; there are a bunch of spheres piled up on top of one another, numbered each 3-6. You can rotate any group of four spheres to try and make rows of the same number. This will upgrade the value of those spheres. So, for example. if you manage to get three 3s in a row, they will blink and transform into 4s. Get four of those in a row and they turn into 5s. Then 5s to 6s, and when you get six 6s in a row, the spheres disappear and you get points and happiness.
The first thing I noticed about the game was that the music kicks ass. Honestly, though, I don't know what to think about music in these games anymore. On the one hand I got the Astrobunny people saying they just select songs from a list, but on the other, I've got the Purge people sending me pictures of their ghetto music-recording equipment (seriously, go to the comments section of that review and check it out. It's super cool).
The game looks fine, too. Granted, it can't be too difficult to properly render spheres, but I can imagine people screwing it up way more than they did here. And yes, the game feel is fine. I wish that the sounds were a bit more enthusiastic and that the powerups were a bit more satisfying, but what are you going to do.
If you like puzzlers like you'd find on Popcap, check out Spherious. That's all I got for now. Until next time, stay super cereal.
Links
I've had enough of your sphere puns, DigiPen: https://www.digipen.edu/?id=1170&proj=449
