Gincairn writes: If you’re an older gamer like myself, you may remember a game called Amidar, Amidar was a simple title where you controlled a paintbrush and had to follow set paths to complete squares, clearing all squares ended the level.
Fast forward a couple of years and the Japanese game Gal Panic was released, it was similar to Amidar but didn’t work to a grid format instead giving the player the ability to choose which paths they took, the difference being that instead of filling in squares, each successful trip in Gal panic caused a bit more of the background image to be revealed, in true Japanese fashion, the background image was a number of scantily clad anime girls, losing more clothing with each cleared level, upon beating the boss of a level the image revealed a fully naked anime character which then cross-faded back to an actual photo of the naked woman in question (The arcade machines had to get your money somehow right? What better way than softcore porn?)
Years ago, Qix was a neat puzzle game. You were on a 2D level where you had to cut out the environment while avoiding enemies. Then, years later Cubixx was released as a PSP Mini, a title that could be played on both the PSP and PS3. Cubixx was so successful that the developers were able to remake the title on the PS3 as Cubixx HD. Now, the title has been ported to Steam and it mostly holds up, but players may find the release somewhat unneeded.
A PS3 remaster of a PSP Mini makes its way to Steam with surprisingly few changes. However, whether or not that is a bad thing remains to be seen.
Defunct Games reviews Cubixx HD, out this week on Steam. This is a fun update to the Taito arcade classic Qix. Originally released on PSP in 2010, Cubixx HD finally brings the fun to Steam.
