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Good puzzle game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 15 / 15
Date: January 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Ever played Wetrix on the N64 or PC or Wetrix+ for Dreamcast? Well, this is the sequel to Wetrix. Basically you are giving a square playing area and you have to build barriers using blocks so the rain and water that falls from the sky won't fall off the board. If too much water falls off the board then your game is over. The game seems easy at first but can get very challenging due to hazards such as earthquakes, the water becoming frozen or a bomb dropping. If you like puzzle games, it is worth getting.

Good game minor flaws though

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: June 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Okay first point the controls are a pain... until you get used to them. Seriously the training mode almost got me aggravated enough to find out how far the Cd could fly. (That undershoot, overshoot correct problem mentioned in another review). After I got the hang of the controls though the game became stangly addictive (I played all the way throught the first 4 stages in one night). The game is very tetris like, but the addition of water and earthquakes makes a drasticly different game (in a good way I'm sick of Tetris).

The game itself can be beaten with practice (the boss monsters aren't to hard to block once you've learned the scoring tricks), but the real challange is to improve your score enough to become "Master" in all worlds and unlock the 5th stage.

Two player mode was underdone (no computer opponent option that I found, and it takes a while to get someone used enough to the game that they can challange you, let them play a few hours first, that lineing up this is the hard part in this game).

Only other flaw was the fixed camera angle (when i built mountains to close to the screen it was hard to see the rest of my board) and no the ability to switch to a view of the litte dudes does not help (it looks nice but worthless)

Almost good

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 13
Date: March 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This could have been a decent puzzle game. The game mechanics are solid, it has a good sense of time pressure but not to the point of forcing you to plow forward without thinking, and the sound effects and graphics are adequate to the style of game.

But the controls... oh man, the controls! It is next to impossible to quickly and accurately position a piece (the game superficially looks a bit like Tetris in that you rotate and drop pieces). You always end up overshooting, correcting your overshoot, correcting your correction's overshoot, etc. And even when you have a piece where you want it, you can never be quite sure it's quite where you *need* it because the fixed camera angle obscures enough of the board that you can't always tell exactly where the piece is going to land.

If they'd done two simple things -- make the camera angle adjustable and make the directional buttons move the pieces one grid cell at a time rather than accelerating them in a particular direction -- this game would be a blast. As it is, though, it's an exercise in frustration.

Wet puzzle action

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: November 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The concept for this game is unique to Playstation. You have to build lakes and get your land to hold water until you evaporate it with fireballs to score points. I agree with most of the other posters in that the overshoot/undershoot thing is hard to get used to, and that the fixed camera angle is an issue, however the Zoom feature is helpful. Worth a rental to decide if you're going to buy it.

nice puzzle game...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: February 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

if you are into puzzle games and want to play something different from bust-a-move...then this is the game...it's a nice game to get to round out your ps2 game collection...especially for when you have your friends over...one thing...you have to pass the training mode to play the story and vs modes...which is good since it will familiarize you with the controls...but tedious for those who just want to start playing...

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