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Bliss Island    Pompomp Software

Platform: XBOX360 LiveArcade

Cost: 400 Microsoft Points

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...This will not be that detailed and it was only twenty minutes of playing before I decided this game sucked.

The game consists of a series of mini-games that revolve around manipulating trajectory. Yes...Manipulating Trajectory is the best term I can think of for this. In the first game you have to alter the course of falling fruit into the mouth of a creepy ground monster with a single puff of air. Simple enough, and was kinda fun. The second game had me bouncing a strange subteranean creature through a cave, using puffs of air from it's body (farts?) to propel it around and keeping it away from the ever present burning rolling on the other end of the screen, and picking up gems and extra air...because god help you if the little racoon/pikachu thing runs out of oxygen. After that, it was a THRILLING game of billiards with strange...things with face on them, and I have to knock the one's of the same color together. This one was enough to make me flip off my TV a few times because...you have three tries to knock two together or you get a strike, get three strikes and you restart the challenge, and sometimes, the odds are against you because of physics. Balls will roll where you don't want them to roll. It all came to a crash in the next challenge...falling blocks of corresponding colors...I have to make a Birdo looking creature bound a ball using it's breath to break the blocks before they reach the bottom...but they must be HAPPY blocks! If they happen to be FROWNY, I get a strike. And sometimes, the blue happy face is right next to the frowny blue face, and the game's physics bounces the ball right into the goddamn blue face. Three strikes of that, and that was more than enough for me. I had absolutely no desire to continue playing.

There are a few reasons that I did not find this collection of mini-games enjoyable. One is length. These games last entirely too long, and often remain the same throughout the increasing difficult as the game progresses. The second is...the games physics are a demon I would not wish on anyone. If your puffy racoon thing bounces off something, they will rattle around like they're full of helium.

Just...save your money...

A waist of $5 bucks. You're better playing games like Puzzlequest, Zuma, or anything they post up on Newgrounds.com, than this waist.

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