Puzzle Dimension Reviews

Puzzle Dimension provides probably 100 levels of very smart and intelligent puzzle design. Because of its 3D environments you really need to plan your path well. You are a ball that rolls around pre-determined maps where you collect flowers. Once you've collected all of the flowers the end level portal opens up. Maps start out very simple where you can move from one path block to another. As you proceed further into the game you will find hidden blocks, spikes, icy blocks where you can't stop, quick sand blocks where you can only jump over another block, and more. Eventually flowers are on both sides of the playing field, meaning you need to find ways to get to the "upside down" area of the map, basically flipping the level. The trick is that gravity is still very real so jump without a block beneath you means you fall to your death, but fall just right and you may land on a block. What appears simple at first becomes quite tricky towards the end and really gives you those ah ha moments when you finally realize the path you need to take to get the last flower or to finish the level. The graphics are perfect for this type of game, and you even get to choose your type of block design. Changing it mid-game can take some getting used to as you try to figure out which ones are ice blocks and so on, but it provides some variety, but is unnecessary and does not alter the game in any way. The music and sounds are decent enough that I never got annoyed with the music, and the sounds of the ball rolling were actually pretty good as sometimes it really does sound like a metal ball rolling on hard ice. Achievements are fairly easy outside of the fact that the game itself is pretty hard, but if you can finish the levels you will get all of the achievements except for the points achievements. Points are given for collecting flowers, but blocks start out pixelated in the level. As you roll adjacent to other blocks, they are unpixelated and that counts for points. After enough points you will get combo points up to 32x, meaning each block unpixelated is 32x the point value as when you start the level from scratch. The trick here is that you need momentum to get to 32x so you have quickly get there or else a timer slowly reduces the potential for you to reach the next combo score. This is to say that some of the achievements are not easy to obtain. However, if you like leaderboards, you can pursue points for that as well outside of the goal of unlocking achievements. I'm not sure at how well the leaderboards work, but they are there none the less with not too many that appear to have cheated, but those that did are pretty obvious. If you like puzzle games I highly recommend this game. I played it a long time ago and picked it back up to finish and get 100% achievements, and I was just as entrenched in this game as I was the first time. It's quite good and again very well designed to keep you mind bending.