Suffice it to say that patience is a must in many of Q.U.B.E.'s later puzzles. The tests are satisfying, so much so that at one point I involuntarily yelled, "I'm a genius." I was, however, driven to search the Internet for a solution just once, only to discover that I'd known what to do the entire time. start out simple, allowing you to figure out the controls and strategy entirely on your own - a mechanic I thoroughly enjoy - and get progressively more difficult. Again, we're not going to psychoanalyze anyone here (that said, Portal comparisons are inevitable, and completely fair.) Personally, this means that upon finishing a puzzle, I hear a disembodied, robotic female voice chastise me for being dumb, slow and/or fat. aside from what's filled in by the vast recesses of your own imagination. begins without preface: you're suddenly face-down on a white platform, in a white room, wearing a pair of awesome black-and-white gloves. ( Quick Understanding of Block Extrusion) joins other puzzlers as the crossword of the plugged-in generation, stimulating spatial, physics and reasoning skills in a direct way that shooters can't touch (or shoot). Instead, I spent a few hours positioning primary-colored cubes around a vast test chamber from the comfort of my own home - with full mobility of all my extremities - and I enjoyed my time immensely. Gamers who've waited for a good original puzzle game should check it out.If someone had told me I'd be spending a peaceful night this week in a stark white room playing with bright blocks, I'd have run before they could wrap the straightjacket around my shoulders and throw me into the back of a windowless van. While the graphics are nothing to write home about (being basic is one thing, but having pop-up and reflection glitches on top of that is pretty sad), and the soundtrack is made up of three repeating, though impressive, tracks, puzzle games are 99 percent gameplay, and IQ mainlines that pretty nicely. Intelligent Qube is simple, fun, and horribly addictive, just the way a good puzzle game should be. However, the two-player mode is less fun than going it solo, probably because of the nonsimultaneous play. A two-player mode also exists where gamers take on eight stages one after another, each person vying for a better rating. If you die along the way, you're given an IQ rating in correspondence to your score, which is usually totally insulting or pretty complimentary. When all nine stages are beaten, new options such as alternate characters and modes open up, and you are left to explore these and more difficult levels. When an entire stage is cleared, a 1,000-point bonus is granted for each row that's left, and you then must confront a new, more complex stage with an even wider row of blocks. If you meet the par for the section, you get a 5,000-point bonus, and if you can beat it, 10,000. If you wipe out all the blocks in a section without destroying any black blocks, you're awarded a 1,000-point bonus and an extra row to stand on. The rows fall off when you destroy the dreaded black blocks (which are hard to avoid when dealing with the green squares), let enough normal or green blocks get by, or get crushed, letting all onrushing blocks march off the edge. You can only be killed in the game by falling off the floating platform, which occurs when rows fall off from the back end, leaving you without any room to stand. The real trick to IQ is timing, as the red and green squares are set off with a different button, and the order in which you decide to activate them often leads to radically different results. If you destroy one of the special green blocks, it creates a green trap square, which, when detonated, destroys all blocks above and surrounding it. Your goal is to eliminate oncoming blocks and clear the board by setting a "red trap square" (for lack of a better term) down in front of a block's path, then setting it off when the block lands upon it. In Intelligent Qube, you are represented by a human figure poised upon a row of levitating 3D blocks. Like PaRappa the Rapper, Sony's Intelligent Qube is a highly successful Japanese title that, graphically speaking, most US gamers wouldn't look twice at, but wouldn't be able to walk away from if they so much as tried it.
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