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Popular Computing Weekly | Home Computing Weekly |
Irritating This is not only a difficult game to classify it is also a difficult game to play. It is basically a computerised puzzle rather than an arcade game. You are presented with an interlocking maze of tracks along which a ball slowly rolls obliterating all the pieces it has passed over. You play the difficult part of a large square thing that moves around on top of the tracks and that can change the way that they interconnect at the various junctions. The idea is to rearrange the layout so that the ball never reaches the edges or hit an area that it has already wiped out. Nothing wrong with that, but it is complicated by the fact that the square thing is controlled by the cursor keys which for some reason work in the opposite directions to which they are supposed to. If this is deliberate it doesn't add to the difficulty but just makes it more irritating. I also found that it was very hard to predict or control the way the tracks are rearranged and you very easily get into a situation where there is nothing useful you can do to the ball. Basically a nice idea that doesn't quite work for me. There is also the option of having invisible tracks. However, extra bonus marks to Timeslip for some very cheerful and user friendly intro and finish screens and some very bouncy music.
Tony Kendle , Popular Computing Weekly |
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