Game Vortex writes: "My love of puzzle games goes all the way back to Alexey Pajitnov's little game about four-block clusters. It has survived Nintendo's fiendishly addictive Tetris Attack. I can credit Tetsuya Mizuguchi's Lumines for saving my sanity during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Every time a new puzzle game is released, I'm always interested to see what it brings to the table. Enter Roogoo: Twisted Towers. The original Roogoo was released on Xbox Live Arcade and PC some time ago, and now the series has made its way to the Wii, complete with a few Wii-specific additions. The game's occasionally repetitive nature makes it one of those "play in short bursts" games, but it's worth a look if you haven't already played the downloadable release."
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Roogoo: Twisted Towers has all the elements a good puzzler should have – building huge stacks of shapes can be fun and moving the platforms so as to have items fall correctly and adding various traps and pitfalls along the way to make things that much more difficult are great building blocks on which to put a game. However, between a camera which hurts more than it helps, a control scheme which doesn't feel natural, and not giving the player full control of the platforms, the game simply has too many stumbling blocks to ever truly be enjoyable.
