Joint Link (Neo Geo)
I recently got a copy of this decently rare neo cd title.
I must say its under rated if anything, its a pretty damn
good game.
Now with that said, you will need a reason.
Lets chop this one up piece by piece.
Gameplay-8.0 Now to me a game without gameplay is simply
not a game.
I found this to be a very enjoyable game, its like a side
ways toss in tetris.
You are given colored bubble type things, and you must match
the colors in rows of three, you can also set up a combo,
the game is alot like tetris attack a great puzzler for
the snes.
You attack your opponent, and try to block there chance
to recover by putting stoned blocks (bubble creatures) on
there side of the roster, these cannot be activated to normal
again until you put three colors in a row on the same line
as they are to bring them back.
By doing combos you attack your opponent, and if they get
fence trapped they are doomed.
Music-7.0 Not to fond of the music. Pretty good tracks,
when all is said and done they dont leave a mark in your
mind though. I would not have it any other way considering
what type of game this is in the first place, it was not
made for listeners use, kind of like grocery store music,
its just there to simply be there, nothing great.
Character Concept-8.0 I cannot help it, the characters
are great, they have a anime based appearance, and look
sweet.
They must be seen to get a personal prospective.
A character ala (like or probably him) Hanzo, appears as
well.
I like the female character's myself, they work good with
the atmosphere, as this game is a puzzler.
Replay-7.0 Hmmm... Well this is not going to be rated as
the greatest in the replay dept. The reason being is its
much more fun when playing against a friend.
While the game borrows heavily from Tetris attack it leaves
out that "going back" type feeling, as the game
itself can easily be seen as dull or under created.
Over All- On a personal perspective I reccomend this game
to people that are puzzle fans, if not I say avoid, its
got to be in your blood. I however enjoyed my time with
it, as its a cd only release, and should not be to hard
to get. I recommend it to fans of puzzlers, and semi fans
as well, I got my kicks out of it.
It could have been much better though
-LWK-