inferior Puzzle Bobble clone
Written: Aug 01 '02
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Pros: Cheap, works on Macs
Cons: Poor collision detection, inferior clone of the Bust-a-Move (AKA Puzzle Bobble) series
The Bottom Line: If you can play the original Bust-A-Move series, don't bother with this inferior clone.
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| hessef's Full Review: Snood for Macintosh |
If you've played the Bust-A-Move (Puzzle Bobble in Japan), you mostly know what to expect here. You fire shapes at a collection of shapes at the top, hoping to get three or more shapes of the same color to touch each other. When you do so, those shapes are eliminated. The shapes are suspended from the ceiling--if you can isolate a shape from all of the shapes that are touching the ceiling, the shapes are eliminated as the fall from the screen. The goal is to eliminate every last shape. The ceiling lowers as the game progresses and if the shapes still attached to the ceiling reach the bottom of the gamefield, you lose.
However, many things have been changed in this clone and most of them aren't for the better.
Graphics: The colored spheres of Bust-A-Move have been replaced with ugly faces. Even worse, the faces tend to do things like yawn which is distracting. It takes awhile to get used to the fact that a normal orange face and a orange face that's showing off all of it's teeth in gigantic grin are indeed matches.
Sound: Snood has no music and a sparse set of decent sound effects.
Gameplay: Bust-A-Move had solid collision detection--if a launched bubble hit a bubble on the playfield, it stuck there. In Snood, it's possible for a Snood face to go right through the edges of other Snoods or to be slightly diverted after a grazing hit. The unpredictability of Snood's collision detect makes for some extremely fustrating moments.
Bust-A-Move was filled with arcade goodness. It emphasized both speed and accuracy, had head-to-head play, and the later games of the series featured a wide variety of bubbles, blocks and even pullies.
Snood has only colored faces and faces that cannot be matched but must be knocked off of the playfield using gravity. The time limits of Bust-A-Move are gone and are replaced with the less fun emphasis of causing faces to drop off of the playfield. There's no direct head-to-head play--in a 2 player game, the second player has to wait until the first player is finished.
Granted, Snood is available on the Mac and the Bust-A-Move games were released on the PC and various consoles. If you want a decent puzzle game for the Mac, Snood is an okay choice. On the other hand, if you do have one of the Bust-A-Move games, you already have a far superior version of this game.
Recommended:
No
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