I had a play with this last night on my Intel iMac. The graphics in general are nice to look at. I tried the unlimited game mode and the mode with the levels to complete - level 1 seemed easy enough, level 2 seemed much harder and filled up the available space very quickly, then the demo timed out.
At first I found the basic play of the game to be frustrating and boring. You're given these small groups of up to 3 `cubes` with different colors. In the unlimited play mode there was nothing to tell you that you press the right mouse button to rotate the object so to me it seemed like you were stuck having to try to position this preset shape with preset colors into whatever available position you can find, which made it seem like I really had almost not input/interaction to decide how things would end up. It made it seem almomst predetermined as if it was more of a chore and that I didn't really have any say in how the game proceeds - ie that I couldn't really `play` it and therefore it seemed frustrating and boring.
BUT, when I played with the levels, and it gave the instructions to press the rmb to rotate the shape, then it became somewhat more playable, albeit at some times a little bit complicated. Because you are not only trying to position the right shape into the right place (ala Tetris) but also trying to make colors match at the same time, I found it a little bit too difficult and hard to find where to put things. It was more playable with shape rotation and the special effects were pretty decent when you triggered them - but I was not entirely clear on how you go about making that happen or why you'd want to make that happen. There was brief mention of spells but I wasn't really sure where that came into the general theme of the game, a little bit disjunct. I also found the colors and design of the moveable objects a bit bland as well. The game is obviously a puzzle challenge with a few extra bells and whistles but I didn't feel as though the whole thing quite gelled together entirely well, or that it really felt fun to play. It's not too far off from that, though. Overall my main impression was `this is nothing new`.
I sort of sound negative about it, but I hope this is helpful.
At first I found the basic play of the game to be frustrating and boring. You're given these small groups of up to 3 `cubes` with different colors. In the unlimited play mode there was nothing to tell you that you press the right mouse button to rotate the object so to me it seemed like you were stuck having to try to position this preset shape with preset colors into whatever available position you can find, which made it seem like I really had almost not input/interaction to decide how things would end up. It made it seem almomst predetermined as if it was more of a chore and that I didn't really have any say in how the game proceeds - ie that I couldn't really `play` it and therefore it seemed frustrating and boring.
BUT, when I played with the levels, and it gave the instructions to press the rmb to rotate the shape, then it became somewhat more playable, albeit at some times a little bit complicated. Because you are not only trying to position the right shape into the right place (ala Tetris) but also trying to make colors match at the same time, I found it a little bit too difficult and hard to find where to put things. It was more playable with shape rotation and the special effects were pretty decent when you triggered them - but I was not entirely clear on how you go about making that happen or why you'd want to make that happen. There was brief mention of spells but I wasn't really sure where that came into the general theme of the game, a little bit disjunct. I also found the colors and design of the moveable objects a bit bland as well. The game is obviously a puzzle challenge with a few extra bells and whistles but I didn't feel as though the whole thing quite gelled together entirely well, or that it really felt fun to play. It's not too far off from that, though. Overall my main impression was `this is nothing new`.
I sort of sound negative about it, but I hope this is helpful.