Spacebound > iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac & PC Game

Overall rating

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Help Save the Picolytes!

PostedJuly 15, 2014

mrm2006

fromBelton MO

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Skill Level:Intermediate

Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Card & Board, Mahjong

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Fun Factor

4 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

4 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

4 / 5

The Captain and his family (?) were on their space vacation, obviously from another planet, and accidentally ran into one of our satellites - sleeping at the wheel? No real mention of the satellite exploding, but somehow sleeping picolytes were released on our blue planet and being chased by scientists and nasty children. Your goal is to save the piccolytes.

To do this, you rotate the colored ...Show more

To do this, you rotate the colored blocks to make blocks of 4 or more matching colors. Those would be the ones you're saving. There are locks to break and bombs to keep from diffusing or they will up your time level. Run out of time and ... you get it.

There are several modes of play. I prefer adventure as there is always a storyline. There is also challenge and puzzle. Background music is very jazzy. Definitely outshines any sound FX.

Here's the only reason I didn't LOVE the game. WHAT exactly was I supposed to do to pass the level? I diffused every bomb and unlocked every lock but STILL ran out of time - time to do what? For this reason, and this reason, alone it is not going to be a buy for me.

I will, however, encourage everyone to try this fun little space game. Maybe you can figure out exactly what has to be done to pass the level. If so, leave a review cuz I'll be reading.

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I recommend this game!

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Overall rating

3 / 5

CAN'T HANDLE MATCH 4

PostedApril 27, 2016

arnold1049

fromApache Junction, AZ

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Skill Level:Expert

Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Match 3

Fun Factor

3 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

3 / 5

Level of Challenge

4 / 5

Storyline

3 / 5

You help Captain Bloom in rescuing his shipment of Picolytes that were ejected from his space ship when it collided with one of Earth's satellites.

Calling this a Match 3 game is a stretch of the imagination. Gameplay consists of rotating sets of 4 blocks until you get a matching block of 4 of the same color. Did you see a 3 in any of that?

There are 3 modes of play (ok, so here is a 3), ...Show more

You help Captain Bloom in rescuing his shipment of Picolytes that were ejected from his space ship when it collided with one of Earth's satellites.

Calling this a Match 3 game is a stretch of the imagination. Gameplay consists of rotating sets of 4 blocks until you get a matching block of 4 of the same color. Did you see a 3 in any of that?

There are 3 modes of play (ok, so here is a 3), timed story, timed puzzle and untimed endless. The story mode takes you from one city to another (starting with San Francisco) to make the block matches to rescue Picolytes. Each city has more than one level.

The puzzle mode, which I only played once during the demo, consists of rotating blocks of 4 until you make a batching block of 4 that contains a bomb, thus defusing the bomb. Of course, I didn't do it fast enough so the bomb exploded and I had the choice of playing it over or going back to the menu, which is what I did. This was only the first puzzle, though, and there were lots of them, so probably not all of them were the same.

I played the endless mode during the biggest majority of the demo as I dislike playing against a clock. The endless mode is untimed and all you have to do is make matching blocks of 4 until you manage to raise the level of the spaceship on the left side of the grid up to the top, at which time you have completed the level. Of course, there were various obstacles and "power ups", such as not defusing a bomb which drops the space ship all the way to the bottom. They named this mode "endless" for a good reason, because I thought I would never get that spaceship up to the top. Along the way, you rescue Picolytes and earn money, but I never got far enough into the game to know how any of this was tied into the completion of the game.

The graphics are very cartoonish and would probably appeal to kids. I actually liked the bright colors and cute Picolytes myself. There were also 4 (not 3) "awards" to win.

Maybe I'm just not good at spacial relationships, but I just could not see patterns that easily so creating sets of 4 was hard. Or maybe I'm so used to playing Match THREE games that I can't handle fours. LOL.

Big Fish, how about another choice for "Recommend This Game?" like "Not Sure" or "Ambivalent" or "Don't Want To Commit" or "Make Your Own Decision" or something similar?

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Spacebound

PostedJuly 1, 2016

andrewhow53

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Fun Factor

1 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

1 / 5

Level of Challenge

1 / 5

Storyline

1 / 5

Not one of my favourite games to play more like a kids game and I hate timers as I have mentioned in many reviews

I don't recommend this game.

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