Meteos - DS

[Shino]

Man, I was curious about this game b/c it was getting great reviews everywhere.

I watched some videos on Gamespot and said, "MAN that looks awesome."

So last Thursday, I did it. I went out and bought a DS for Meteos. And man I have no regrets of any type!

This game is really freakin' fun. From the screens, you may think it looks like any other Tetris type block game.

BUT IT IS NOTHING OF THE SORT!

The blocks (Meteos) fall from the sky one at a time and you have NO control overthem until they hit the ground. From there, you can move them using the touch screen up and down the column they are in. The point is to get 3 or more in a row across or up and down. When you do that, they ignite and shoot into the sky, including all the blocks that are on top of them. How far up and for how long they stay in the sky depends on the planet you are on. Gravity makes a difference, that sort of thing. You get an initial burst into the air, then, the blocks will fall back down to the ground. The gravity of hte planet you are on controls the speed of how fast they fall back down. When a block goes off the top of the screen, it is shot off into space (the top screen) and if you are battling, it gets shot to one of the opposing planets.

Sounds simple right? WRONG! This game gets quite challenging. Some of the cool stuff that you can do like igniting more meteos that are already in the air to form a combo. This usually will send the entire stack above the second ignition off the screen. If you get 3 up and down, they usually shoot of the screen right away since it's more concentrated. Another thing you can do is set up your meteos so that as soon as a set hits the ground, there is a row of 3 waiting for the ones in the air to hit. The instant the ignited set hits, it ignites again. This also usually sends all of them off the screen.

The speed of this game starts to get really really fast. I have a lot of trouble keeping up. I haven't played it enough to be a pro yet, but I'm getting the hang of it. I have yet to beat the game even on the easiest difficulty. Of course the times I have sat down to play it have been in short periods. So we will see.

You can play up to 4 players, including CPU players. I can see where this game would be a lot of fun 4 players and it would probably be really hard too.

Well, most of the puzzle games that were coming out on DS weren't to wonderful to me. Nothing really stood up to Lumines. I mean Lumines was the best puzzle game I've played since Super Puzzle Fighter! Then Meteos comes around.

I have to say, it levels the playing field for the DS vs PSP fight in the Puzzle genre.

If you have a DS, and you like puzzle games, BUY THIS. I'm having a great time playing it.

On a different note, For others that have this problem. I am partially color blind and I'm having no problem playing this game.

[Cobalt Katze]

I'm definately looking to get a DS mainly for this game.. and of course plenty of other ones like Kirby and Castlevania

[Shino]

Kirby looks interesting. That's next on my list.

Lunar and Castlevania are must haves when they come out.

Bomberman is a possibility too.

[Nogrick]

Meteos and Lumines are made by the same developer. Maybe that's why they make both systems equal in the puzzle genre.

I'm looking to pick it up sooner or later.

[Shino]

Oh wow. They are both by Q Entertainment.

I didn't even notice that

w00t!

Q Entertainment gets my vote for best maker of Puzzle Games!

[Terin]

Hey, that reminds me of an older puzzle game for PS1. Does anyone remember IQ? That game was crazy hard, bun really fun!
-T

[GD]

Yeah Meteos is the must have DS game, especially for puzzle fans. I found that I preferred it to Lumines, which takes too long to get going. You can jump right into Meteos without too much effort, and the audio and visual aspects are just as quality as the ones in Lumines. It's a solid game that came out at a great (slow) time for DS owners.