If you lost your job as a ghost hunter because you accidentally released all previously captured ghosts back into wild, what would you do to get back in your boss’ good graces? If you said “travel the globe re-capturing all the ghosts by matching up colored blocks and then eliminating them before running out of room in the level” then Ghost Mania is just the game for you. If you didn’t, then Ghost Mania will probably feel less like your life story and more like just another puzzler.
The story is told with colorful background graphics, character models that look like they came from an old Casper or Wendy the Witch comic (read: cute) and the tunes fit the worlds they are set in. As far as I can tell the escaped spirits are hidden in glowing blocks. You use one of the games two characters to match up same colored blocks and eliminate those collections with the glowing spirit blocks. Doing so will re-capture the ghosts, gain some favor with your former boss and brings you one step closer to regaining your old job.
"Ghost Mania is a well-presented puzzle game published by Legendo and developed by Polish game development team, Teyon. It clearly takes inspirations from modern-day puzzle games, much in the same way that Teyon's Super Swap did. It may not be totally unique, but it's still good fun for kids and older folk alike."
GameVortex - Throughout the years, I've been addicted to many different puzzle games for various periods of time. Some, like Tetris, have managed to hold my attention for years. Ghost Mania has a bit of a Tetris feel to it in that you're working with blocks that fall from the top, but that's about as far as the similarity goes. Ghost Mania is an interesting new puzzle game that stands on its own merits.
D+PAD Magazine writes:
Publishers Legendo Entertainment are probably best known to regular WiiWare gamers for the rock-hard flight title Pearl Harbour Trilogy, yet the Swedes have returned to the platform with the altogether more accessible pursuit of freeing the spirits of spectres in Ghost Mania.
