Hypnotic Lights (Intv) Review

Date purchased: Sept. 3, 2012
Price paid: $9.99
Dates played: Apr. 2, 2019
Playtime: ~30m
Date reviewed: Apr. 2, 2019
Date posted: Feb. 13, 2023
Rating: 4/10

Took me about 30 min to get the max score of 36 on one of the game modes.

This is an unreleased game that's a take on Rubik's Cube (because it predates Tetris by a few years). It consists of a 9x18 grid of colored blocks where you have to move the columns and rows vertically and horizontally to create 2x2 blocks of the same color. Each player has a time limit, and then it switches to the other player. It's meant to be for two-players (while it claims to be for 1- or 2-players, no game mode is 1-player), so you'd try to beat the other player for blocks made, or you can just let the 2nd player time out and try to make as many blocks as possible. Some modes allow you to move the 2x2 blocks and some don't. Even when it's impossible to make any more blocks, the game keeps going. The program notes included mention that the programmer considers it playable but far from a finished game, so I'm wondering what more would have been added for the final product.