1UP writes: "Call me crazy, but octopi don't immediately spring to mind when I think of arcade puzzle games. Yet here they are, taking the place of the colored glassy bubbles we're so used to seeing in other puzzlers. The punnily named Octomania has you rotating the cutesy red, blue, yellow, green -- you get the picture -- cephalopods around a grid as more periodically drop in from above. The point is, as always, to keep your grid from filling up: Too many octopuses equal inky death (or food coma). But unlike in Puyo Puyo or Magical Drop -- or most any other ball-based arcade puzzlers, for that matter -- matching three of a kind won't get the job done.
Keeping with the flimsy marine theme -- most of the oddball characters and cartoony stages have little to nothing to do with sea creatures -- numbered nets are periodically scattered around the puzzle grid. Putting the stated number of same-colored octopi into the net turns them into a puff of smoke, giving you a short time to chain other same-colored octopi into the smoke for a combo".
The NGamer magazine has brought some interesting review scores in its latest issue. Check them out.
91?
The last review was a 94.
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Maybe it's just because I'm biased, but those seem low. Don't get me wrong, they're good scores...but the original Prime is one of the top-rated games of all time. Prime 2 was just as good, and Corruption is one of the Wii's very best.
All 3 of them for $50 in 480p widescreen with the the third game's control scheme? That's one of the best values in gaming.
I guess it didn't get a perfect score because they are re-releases, with little added graphical flare. And they were hardly perfect.
Still going to pick up a copy though. So much game play in them, and I never properly got round to finishing any of them.
Resident Evil Archives got 70... again, just re-releases of older titles... but they are well worth it, and some of the best examples of old-school Resi yet.
I wish Capcom would actually make a proper Resident Evil, 4-style, on Wii.
There are the screen caps of Other M in a first-person view, too, so I don't think they're totally leaving the flavor of Prime behind.
The game will have a hard time living up to Retro's games, but it seems like Nintendo is inclined to experiment more with Metroid than their other big series.
Do want...never picked up MP2 or 3 for whatever reason and now I can get the entire series on one DVD with improved Wii controls; pretty legit package.
metroid series is probably my favorite nintendo franchise. i wish more devs would handle their games like they did with metroid. metroid was awesome back in the day, it's awesome on handles and tributes to the classics, metroid prime series was an excellent reboot, and now the other M is looking phenomenal. i love the originality with the metroid games so much it's not funny. see, there's nothing wrong with being daring and trying something new.
WorthPlaying reports:
''Every once in a great while, a game comes along with such nuance and finesse, such a splendid and fascinating way of telling a story, that gamers young and old get drawn into the world that has been created for them. Players are drawn to the edges of their seats as they anxiously await the next development in the highly characterized game world, the true mark of literary genius that seems to call to us to reach through the screen and become embroiled in the intrigue and personality clashes that flesh out the vibrant scenes that beckon to us.
Octomania is not that game.''
Nick DiMola of Nintendo World Report reviews Octomania for the Wii.
