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Attention puzzle game gurus! Tired of taking apart videogame conundrums like so much Lego? IGS has your game. You won’t beat it any time soon. In fact, Tricky Kick’s box should wear a disclaimer: If you think you’re at all good at games, don’t play this. Your ego and sense of self worth may be smashed irreparably. Tricky Kick features six different 'themes'. NEC propaganda would have us believe that we’re playing six games for the price of one, but that’s not accurate at all. Basically, six wildly varying heroes are trapped, each in his own unique maze: the android character exists in his futuristic world, the caveman hero in his prehistoric one, and so on. The game uses an overhead view with cutesy characters and tunes, and your obstacles are mostly static animals (they look like game board pieces), each possessing one slight, looping animation. The functions in each one of the six missions is the same: kick one creature into another of its ilk, and watch the two explode when they collide. Clear the screen of creatures to move on to the next round in that particular mission. The difficulty of each round demands that you circle the game screen, keeping the time limit in mind, before you begin smashing things together. However, just in case you kick the wrong thing at the wrong time, the game allows you to reset the screen you’re on with a retry option. This feature will get a lot of use. You'll kick things off with what looks to be a simple task in the mission one, round one. Suddenly and brutally, the difficulty takes a violent upward swing. Say you employ a bit of skill, and lots of trial and error - making use of the infinite continues - to make it to mission one’s round four. You might grow frustrated when you’re inevitably met with an impasse, and you’ll try your hand at a differently themed mission, from its beginning. BAM! It’ll be like someone slamming the door in your face. Your detour won’t work. You’ll try in vain to find an approachable level to play at, but will be met at every turn with mental roadblocks. I suppose this kind of frustration leads to tremendous replay value for some folks; they’ll keep at it for a long, long time. There's little doubt that for the patient, puzzle-loving set, Tricky Kick is definitely addicting, and that’s a job well done. If it's your thing, only the repetitiveness and the lack of musical variety and graphic polish, undermine its impact. For everyone else, any compunction to stay the course for the ease of getting started and the welcoming presentation will be assassinated by a mind-numbing, better-than-thou difficulty curve. Alas, the majority of players will be turned off. I find myself to fall somewhere in between. I can take a mental butt-kicking, but not on a regular basis. Your own stomach for brain-teasing, repetitive puzzle games will decide whether or not you'll want to keep on kicking through the game, or just kick the shit out of it.Read full review
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This is a great puzzle game for the Turbographix. The graphics are decent, the music is pretty good, and the puzzles are challenging. The animations on the characters are funny as well, but maybe a little distracting. And it's still a relatively cheap game.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
This is a solid, satisfying puzzle game with cute chip cinemas and incredible design. This is the first puzzle game that made me a believer in the genre.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
One of te best puzzle games on the console.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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