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Xump (Puzzle) by Kedo  Xump is a solid puzzle game for the GP32. The concept itself is not new at all, but it hits the GP32 the first time. This game is based on a good old C64 classic called "Sensitive", just with tiny modifications and of course different levels. The graphics are average and do their job well, the title and ingame music (exclusivly composed by ne7) sounds a bit strange at the first impression, but friends of the chip-music genre will like it. The music is not annoying and it fits into the game rather good. This game, as you can guess from it's version number, seems to be almost complete. Your job in this game is explained fast: You are a bouncing ball and have to get trough levels which have different types of blocks in it. You have to destroy all blue and darkblue blocks by just jumping on them, but this isn't as easy as it sounds. Blue blocks can be touched once, darkblue ones can be touched twice. Now there are also stable grew colored blocks which don't disappear at all. There are also arrow block which will let you go in one or two directions only, or warp blocks. If you play the game you will figure it out yourself very fast. The start and end point of a level must be always a grew block. Another great advantage of this game is, you do not need to read a large documentation at all to understand what you have to do. The level difficulty increases each stage und some levels can keep you easily busy for over 30 minutes, considering there are 26 of them... it will take lot's of time till you can beat the whole game. Some of the levels seem to be unbeatable, but this isn't true. A few of them are really extremly tricky and will cost you lots of nerves, specially levels at stage 16 an up. The harder levels are not frustrating at all, because when you keep on trying and trying the time passes really fast, the only thing which will be damaged is your brain ;) If you are puzzle freak, give it a go... and if you beat Xump, don't forget the play the original game "Sensitive" for C64 and play it via FrodoGP :) Download Xump from PDRoms.de
Review by Melampus Nov/17/2004. |
