Puzzle Star Sweep Review by: kramer4077 - 2/10

Thanks for reading my review of Puzzle Star Sweep for PlayStation!  This will be a short review, since this game is not worthy of too much of my time or yours! --kramer4077

Overall:  2/10--First of all, I'm mainly writing this to warn you NOT to waste your time by trying out this game.  The game title sounds really cute and all, so that's why I tried it out.  Also the game description says it's similar to Tetris, but don't let that fool you!  I love Tetris, and this game is nothing like it!  You know those big long annoying skinny rectangles you get in Tetris that you never know where to put?...Well, those are the ONLY types of pieces in this puzzle game!  Also, when they show you the "next" piece it's actually not that piece...you have to remember the piece that was previously in that square.  It's like a horrible memory puzzle game that I do not recommend playing!

Graphics:  6/10--The colors are very nice and bright.  Everything looks fine in this PlayStation puzzle game, but nothing is too extraordinary.

Sound:  6/10--It had some decent music and sound effects playing in the background, but nothing special.

Addictiveness:  1/10--I turned this game off after about 5 minutes, so I did not find this game at all addictive.  I even tried all the modes the game had to offer.  The difficulty made this game not worth my time.

Story:  1/10--It says there is a story mode, but it just seemed like an opponent trash-talked you and then the puzzle game starts up.  I feel like that mode was falsely advertised...

Depth:  3/10--This game has lots of modes...one-player mode, story mode, vs. mode, and attack mode.  You would think with all those modes this would be a great game.  However, each mode moves right into the same tricky puzzle game.  The story mode had no real story at all, which was very disappointing.  I tried each mode of the game for a minute and ended up losing within each minute.

Difficulty:  10/10--I like a challenge as much as the next person.  Dr. Mario and Tetris are two of my favorite games and I even played both of those on the original Game Boy, so the colors were shades of gray.  I usually play puzzle games as a way to unwind from a long day, and I don't mind if they are a bit difficult. However, this game was way too challenging for a puzzle game...and I set the level to 1 on each of the different modes in the game...same thing each time...way to difficult.  Maybe the one thing this game has going for it is that it is EXTREMELY difficult!  There are some of you out there that might really enjoy this game for that purpose.  Like I previously said, all the puzzle pieces are similar to those long skinny rectangles from Tetris.  After playing for a few minutes I still could not figure out how many in a row you needed to eliminate those pieces...maybe 3...since there were lots of places I managed to get 2 touching pieces and they still wouldn't disappear from the game!  You also had to remember what they showed you in the "next piece" box since it was actually the piece you would get after two throws...very strange for a puzzle game to trick you like that!

In conclusion, I hope you at least found my review helpful if you were planning on trying this title.  There aren't too many puzzle games for PlayStation listed here on Vizzed.com so it's a shame that this one wasn't as great as I hoped it would be :(

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