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Meteos is great. Very simple, fun and frantic. The UI of grabbing blocks with the stylus and flinging them around works well. (You can play without the stylus by moving a cursor around the playfield, but I can't imagine why you'd want to.) I can't wait to try multiplayer... unfortunately this means that I have to wait for some of y'all to go buy DSes. At least you don't have to buy Meteos; the game beams itself out to your friends' systems for multiplay, which is pretty good.
(Again, though, no Internet play. I am just gobsmacked that a system with built-in WiFi doesn't do Internet play with every single title. I am really quite looking forward to Nintendo's first Internet games later this year.)
It's funny that the "blocks falling into a well" model has remained basically unchanged for over 15 years now, though there's been no end of variations. It's too bad they sub-genre is called "puzzle games", because they're much closer to pure action games than any kind of actual puzzle. I would like to rename the whole thing "well games" or "block games"; are there any puzzle games that have a different play-model?
(Again, though, no Internet play. I am just gobsmacked that a system with built-in WiFi doesn't do Internet play with every single title. I am really quite looking forward to Nintendo's first Internet games later this year.)
It's funny that the "blocks falling into a well" model has remained basically unchanged for over 15 years now, though there's been no end of variations. It's too bad they sub-genre is called "puzzle games", because they're much closer to pure action games than any kind of actual puzzle. I would like to rename the whole thing "well games" or "block games"; are there any puzzle games that have a different play-model?